The Mahabharata is one amongst the two major epics of India, the other is Ramayana. Mahabharata is an eternal learning of ethics, righteousness, virtue and goals for human race. It is essentially the struggle between two groups for the throne. Kaurvas and the Pandavas, both fight for their right on successorship of Hastinapur. It also narrates philosophical material such as the four goals of life i.e. Purushartha. It has often been the guiding principle of management students as well. The incidences in Mahabharat have management lessons hidden in it. There are instances which can be related to the contemporary period as well. There are also lessons related to the ethics and morality which are still given as examples for any situation with duality involved in it. The research paper aims at understanding the instances in Mahabharat and their impact on youth. The research is aimed at throwing light on the effect of decision making for youth. This will then help everybody to analyze their actions in the light of benchmark of Mahabharata. Research Methodology adopted for the paper is Stratified Random Sampling which gave 125 samples. The forms were distributed and data collected was analyzed with the help of Data Tabulation. The inference is then drawn with the help of series of questions falling in various criteria like, Likert scale, dichotomous and descriptive.

Keywords: Mahabharata, Purushartha, Ethics.