Mr. Kishore asthana says; imagine Draupadi as the human body. The Pandavas, the five senses, are wedded to it. Their first cousins, a hundred in number, the kaurvas, are present in the form of the tendencies of mind.
Yudhister thinks that he is a good gambler and so would win over kaurvas. The senses also think that they can win over the tendencies of the mind. The pandavas keep gambling till they loose every thing, including them selves and their beloved wife, Draupadi. Like wise, we lose every thing when we gamble with our tendencies, and, like the pandavas, end up in spiritual exile. The body is demeaned, like Draupadi was, and only divine intervention can save it. However, our body doesn't abandon us, even when we lead it in to exile.
If a person has to gain enlightenment he must overcome all the tendencies of the mind, good or bad. These do not have an existence, apart from what we have given them- they are already dead. However, we keep them alive by our own acts, and, by our own acts, we can kill them all. Only then will we be free.