A BOY CALLED KARNA

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A BOY CALLED KARNA



Here's the link for article
http://devdutt.com/articles/mahabharata/a-boy-called-karna.html

From the article , last paragraph is something new I am reading

Why did Krishna kill Karna in such a horrible way? Scholars say this is God's way of achieving karmic balance. In his previous life, Krishna was Rama. And Rama had sided with Surgiva, monkey son of Surya, the sun-god, and shot Bali, monkey son of Indra, the rain-god, in the back. As Krishna, it was necessary to reverse the situation. God sided with Arjuna, who was the son of Indra, while shooting Karna, the son of Surya, in the back. He who is blessed with divine favors in one lifetime loses it in the next; thus are the books of karma balanced and closure achieved.

Can anyone tell me more on this?? Is it true??

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Is this already posted here and people discussed matters ??

Em I late on this??

I guess I am...

Ah thats an interesting theory..I have read another one too..After Karna's death, Krishna's friend Udhav questions his motive & asks him why he was that unfair to Karna towards the end..Especially the part where Krishna asks Karna to donate all the good karma he has accumulated till date cos all of Arjun's arrows were turning into garlands thanks to all the dharma he has done till date..And Karna gives it all without a second thought..So Udhav questions Krishna for the first time & he responds saying that Karna's ultimate aim was to attain moksha/ salvation..Right before his death, his accumulated good karma was just falling short thereby stopping him from attaining moksha..But once he gave it all away to Krishna in charity, he was finally fit enough to attain salvation..This is one theory i have read but not sure if its legit..

@RR, u have brought fresh theory in this... Its fresh for me at least..

It sounds interesting.

Both these are fresh knowledge to me!! And both are very interesting! I always wanted to know why God did this, and I want a very convincing reason!

Okay I found one more story -

an interesting story about Karna. It is said that the whole mahabharatha took place because of Karna. Karna in his previous life was a dangerous and invincible demon called 'sahasra kunchi' which means that he is the one with 1000 armours. As usual he becomes a great inconvenience to hermits, sages and rishis. To destroy him Lord Vishnu takes the avatar of twin brothers Nar-Narayan. To kill sahasra kunchi they need to tear off his armours. It was believed that it requires the efforts of both Nar and Narayan, to get the power to tear off each armour one needs to do 1000 years penance while the other is fighting with kunchi. In that process, Nar and Narayan with their combined effort tore 999 armours. Kunchi realised that he is going to be killed and their is one more armour left. He takes refuge of Sun God who was offered to kunthi, coinciding her summoning the sun god. So to kill kunchi Nar and Narayana have to take a rebirth. So, Nar takes birth as Arjuna and Narayan as Krishna. Krishna is a blessed soul and he knew everything. Though it appears that Krishna wins war with deceipt, he knew that the balance can be done only that way. He is not against Karna or Duryodhana. Before dying krishna asks for a boon, then Karna asks him another life where he is very rich and has good son who follows pitruvakparipalana and a good wife who always follows his words. After dying Karna goes to heaven and he feels very hungry there. But he is not offered any food. When he asks for food, everyone there shows him with their index figure towards treasure like diamonds and gold. This accounts to an incident in his life as Karna. Karna in his life has given all types of 'daan' except food. Once God tested him in form of hungry and poor sage. Karna instead of getting him some food, points out with his index figure to a place where he can get food. Now Karna gets every thing in heaven except food. He requests good to give him a life to sort out this balance. So he takes rebirth as a vysya who is very rich and has a good wife and good son. In this life he always fed poor people and never let anyone go out of his home without food. Then God came in form of an Agora to test him. The vysya invites him to his home to offer some food. Agora warns him saying that he can never satisfy him. But the vysya still insists him. When agora comes home, the vysya offers shakahara to him. Agora says that he never eats shakahara and he needs mamsahara. Vysya says that he do not prepare mamsahara at his house. Agora gets angry and when he is about to leave, the vysya promises him mamsahara. He gets mamsahara from the market and offers him. Agora denies it again saying by mamsahara he means human flesh. Vysya tries to offer himself. Agora again denies it saying that he and his wife are his host and therefore he cannot eat them. The vysya then calls his son and explains him about the problem. The vysya's son suggest to offer him and does it willingly. The vysya then kills his son and offers him to the God. The God assumes his true form and makes his son alive and assures 'moksh' after this life. This way karna reaches back to heaven.

This story about Karna is commonly untold. May be true or not true,this story is somewhat convincing

This is posted on the same thread mentioned above.

Originally posted by: ..dreamygatz..

Both these are fresh knowledge to me!! And both are very interesting! I always wanted to know why God did this, and I want a very convincing reason!

@RR..that somewhere makes sense to me!

Still there are lots of unanswered questions!

There are many stories on Karna and all are equally interesting.

Like you said even I had this question why God was against him??

Here many people has good knowledge about Mahabharat story and historical facts.

Hoping to read more from them. 😊