The Blindfold
Gandhari had spent her entire married life blindfolded — out of devotion to her husband Dhritarashtra, who was born blind. She had refused to look at the world if he could not.
After the Kurukshetra war, she walked the battlefield.
She removed her blindfold.
She saw her 100 sons dead. She saw Duryodhana. She saw the Pandavas, alive.
She turned to Krishna.
The Accusation
"You could have stopped this," she said. "You are the Lord of the universe. You knew what was coming. You could have used your power to prevent this war. You chose not to. You watched 18 armies die. You watched my sons die."
Krishna stood and listened.
Then he said: "You are right. I could have. And I chose not to — because if I had stopped it by force, I would have denied every person in this war their karma, their choices, their consequences. Even Duryodhana had to live his choices."
Gandhari's grief did not accept this.
The Curse
She cursed Krishna: "As my sons and their wives were destroyed before my eyes, so shall your Yadavas destroy each other before your eyes. You will die alone, in a forest, like an animal, unhonored."
Krishna accepted the curse with his hands folded. He said: "Let it be so. I accept this."
Thirty-six years later, the Yadavas destroyed each other. Krishna died alone in a forest, struck by an arrow, calling no one.