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So Narad's pitri rin was fulfilled in the Upbhrant birth? I always wondered about that. But I thought that every person had to do it within that particular lifetime, or fail in that duty. I'd say that King Chitraketu/Chandraketu got it fulfilled, but not Brahma.
And since Narad now understood the duty, where was the need to free him from that? He should have been allowed to go ahead w/ his wish. In fact, once he did fall in love w/ a princess, but she wanted Hari, and so Narad asked Vishnu for Hari-mukh, and got a monkey face, since that's also what Hari meant 😆 On another occasion, when Krishna was illustrating to him the meaning of maya, Narad did actually marry and have a family of his own, but lost all of them in a flood 😭 - which turned out to be another maya.
But more seriously, one thing that strikes me about this pitri-rin business - Narad's original statement was right. If a person gets a grandson out of son#1, then the continuation of his family is assured, assuming that that grandson goes on to grow up and have his own descendents. If son#2 refuses to marry, then that doesn't affect the dynasty of the father, but it does ensure that son#2 won't get his family tree. But he can't then complain that nobody will fulfill his pitri-rin, and chances are he won't, b'cos he voluntarily chose not to marry. Incidentally, I'm just using sons #1 & 2 as examples - the above could have been written w/ #2 marrying and #1 staying a bachelor. But the father doesn't 'suffer' as a result of that decision - only thing that happens is that the probability of his family continuing indefinitely for generations is lowered. If pitri-rin is restricted to just 1 generation, then the father has gotten it. If it's open ended, then every person would have to have a number of sons, and scatter them in different places to increase their chances of survival.
Reason I ask this - in both mythological and other history, there have been countless #men who've despite marrying, lost their sons b4 them and not had their last rites done by them. Are these sons then guilty of not fulfilling their pitri rin, if they are unmarried, or if they don't have sons? Like in the Mahabharat, the Pandavas lost all their sons (except Babhruvahana), and only Arjun had a surviving grandson. So were the other sons of theirs, such as the sons of Draupadi, who were still unmarried, guilty of not fulfilling their pitri-rin? Or do they get a pass if they die b4 they can marry and procreate?
Anyway, looks like a good episode 👍🏼 - hope to catch the repeat. Finally, back to the episode, I don't like their choice for Vishnu, but guess they can't keep someone like Gurmeet or Ankit. Conversely, in DBSK, I wish they had Adi Pachori - who played Mahadev in ASR - play the same role here.
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