The Graduation Test
Guru Drona was the military teacher for both the Kauravas and the Pandavas. At the end of their military training came final examination time. Drona put a wooden eagle on the branch of a nearby tree. Nobody knew it was just a doll. It looked like a real eagle. To pass the graduation test, every one of the students was supposed to cut off the eagle’s head with one arrow.Guru Drona first asked Yudhishthira, the eldest of the Pandavas: “Get ready, look at the eagle, and tell me what you are seeing.”Yudhishthira replied:...