Curse & Boon : How did the Pandavas die, and how did only Yudhishthira reach heaven?

After losing the Mahabharata war, Dhritarashtra handed over the Pandavas to Hastinapur, and Yudhishthira, taking a loan from him, performed the last rites of his hundred sons. After mentioning the debt of the Pandavas in the next life, Dhritarashtra, along with his wife Gandhari and Vidura, went to live in the forest. 

After that, the Pandavas ruled in Hastinapur for thirty-six years, and after that, having handed over the throne of Hastinapur to Abhimanyu's son Parikshit, Yudhishthira set out with his brothers and Draupadi to go to the afterlife. As soon as the Pandavas set out on their journey to the afterlife, a dog began to follow them, unwilling to leave the Pandavas' side at any cost. Wherever the Pandavas went, the dog went with them. Seeing the Pandavas' distress, the king of gods, Indra, himself came to take them to heaven, but Yudhishthira refused, saying that they wanted to go to heaven on their own merits, not by someone else's patronage. 

                                                                            

They say that after several months of travel, Lord Shiva appeared to the Pandavas, who showed them the way to heaven through the path of the Himalayas. After that, Yudhishthira, along with his brothers and Draupadi, began the difficult climb of the Himalayas... However, after deciding some distance, suddenly Draupadi fell into a deep gorge and died. When Bhima asked Yudhishthira why Draupadi, who was going to heaven with us, suddenly died on the way, Yudhishthira said that there was a hidden sin in Draupadi's mind, and that sin was that even though she was the wife of all five of us brothers, she loved Arjuna the most, which is why she died. 

After that, suddenly Sahadeva also stumbled on a stone and fell down, walking away... After that, when Bhima asked his elder brother Yudhishthira the reason for Sahadeva's death, Yudhishthira said that Sahadeva always disrespected other scholars. He always maintained an arrogance that he was greater than any scholar. It was because of this one fault that he could not go with us. After some time, when Nakula also fell from the Himalayas and died, Yudhishthira told Bhima that Nakula had too much pride in his beauty. 

Because of this pride, he had hurt many people's hearts, and that's why Nakula could not become eligible to go to heaven. After some time, even Arjuna suddenly lost his balance and fell from the Himalayas and died. Bhima was surprised this time because he always lived with Krishna. He also knew about right and wrong, so how did he die? On this, Yudhishthira said that sometimes extraordinary strength and power also make a person arrogant, but he does not realize it.

 Arjuna had become proud of his strength. He started considering himself great on every occasion. He became proud that he would win the Mahabharata war in just one day. Because of this arrogance and fault, today Arjuna also left us. Then suddenly Bhima also reached the brink of death. When dying Bhima asked his brother Yudhishthira the reason for his death, then Yudhishthira told Bhima that he had always committed the sin of greedily eating the food of others. Whatever he ate or drank, he never thought about where he got the food and meal from. Due to his habit of eating excessively, many people had to die of hunger, which he considered a sin, and today he is also dying.

 After this, when Yudhishthira reached the gates of heaven with the dog, Yamaraj stopped him, saying that he cannot enter heaven with the dog. But Yudhishthira also became stubborn on this point that this dog has endured everything and reached here. Until permission is given for this dog to enter, he will also not go inside heaven. After Yudhishthira's insistence, the dog transformed into the form of Yamaraj, who revealed that he was testing Yudhishthira, who passed successfully. After this, Yudhishthira entered heaven...