It is shocking where a conversation with your grandfather takes you.
As I was watching the teaser of an upcoming show about Karna, my grandfather explained to me how manipulation, a talent possessed and skillfully practiced by the shrewd ones amongst us, has always been present in our God.
Karna was the son begot by mother Kunti via a Mantra. This mantra gave Kunti the power to beget a son from any of the God. To try it out, she summons Suryadev and gives birth to Karna. But, Alas! She does so before marriage and soon realises that Karna won't be accepted by the society and abandons him.
Karna was thus an incarnation of Suryadev in the epic Mahabharat. And so was Bali, who plays a role in the epic Ramayan. In both these epics we have incarnations of Indradev as well ,namely Arjun and Sugreev.
The point to note is that though Suryadev's incarnations were stronger than Indradev's, they were always defeated by Indradev's incarnations at the end of epic. This happened because Indradev were a shrewd manipulator who changed the nature of and the events in the life of Bali and Karan in such a way that they ended up on the side of the Evil. And as it had been already decided by the three main God, the Trimurti, that the Good must prevail over the Evil, Bali and Karan ended up being defeated.
Thus, despite being stronger, Bali is defeated by Sugreev and Karan is defeated by Arjun.
At this point I asked my grandpa as to why did not Krishna, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu (one of the Trimurti), who plays a pivotal role in Mahabharat, set things right?! He was an incarnation of one of the strongest God and thus could surely make things perfect. (Same would go for Lord Ram of Ramayan.)
And thus was revealed the height of manipulation amongst our God.
He replied, 'Well, you see, Krishna was the greatest manipulator of all!'
Now, just ponder how great those manipulations might have been such that their results circled back to what Indradev wanted.;);)
information courtesy: grandparents!
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