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karna is a tragic hero of mahabharat and a very intriguing character and one with whom many sympathizes. he lived his life fighting misfortunes but was also on side of adharma which brought his end.
i just stumbled upon this very interesting story which seems to explain the reasons behind his misfortunes which is his bad karma or wrong doings of previous birth.
it seems after his death, he attained salvation or moksha as he had no burden of karmas. he had already suffered and punished for bad karma and had given the 'punya' of good karma (his charitable acts) to a lord krishna while dieing.
http://hindumythologyforgennext.blogspot.in/2012/09/karnas-karma.html
http://knramesh.blogspot.in/2010/03/previous-birth-of-karna.html
this story is from treta yug when nar-narayan forms of lord vishnu appeared on earth.
after reading this story, all i can say is karma never leaves anyone.
Previous birth of Karna (copy pasted from above link 😳)
i just stumbled upon this very interesting story which seems to explain the reasons behind his misfortunes which is his bad karma or wrong doings of previous birth.
it seems after his death, he attained salvation or moksha as he had no burden of karmas. he had already suffered and punished for bad karma and had given the 'punya' of good karma (his charitable acts) to a lord krishna while dieing.
http://hindumythologyforgennext.blogspot.in/2012/09/karnas-karma.html
http://knramesh.blogspot.in/2010/03/previous-birth-of-karna.html
this story is from treta yug when nar-narayan forms of lord vishnu appeared on earth.
after reading this story, all i can say is karma never leaves anyone.
Previous birth of Karna (copy pasted from above link 😳)
One thing about Karna is
that he was not given the social status like pandavas. When Karna lay
wounded on the battlefield waiting for the messengers of death, he asks
Lord Krishna the reason for suffering in his life, because Karna was
actually belongs to kshathiya clan and son of Kunti. Krishna reminds
Karna of all the evil deeds he did when he was Dambhodabhava and how he
fled from the battlefield and took refuge in Lord Surya and was destined
to be slain at the hands of Arjuna. Although Karna is partial
amsa of Sun God He faced lot of bad luck and disgrace in life due to
giving protection to a demon Dambhodabhava.
The story goes like this:
Once upon a time, there was an evil demon king Dambhodabhava, in pursuit of attaining the boon of immortality does penance and pleases the Sun God. Unfortunately for the demon, the Sun God refuses to make him immortal but grants him any other boon. So the witty demon conceives a plan and asks for such a boon that would indirectly grant him immortality. The boon he asked was to have 1000 Kavachas(armours) and it must take 1000 Years to break each Kavacha, and the one who would break a Kavacha would instantly die. Nara and Narayana was the avatar of Lord Vishnu. The twins were sons of Dharma and his wife Murti (Daughter Of Daksha) or Ahimsa. These two sages take avatars on earth for the welfare of mankind .The demon Dambhodabhava was named Sahasra Kavacha now. To fit to the boon, first Narayana pennaced for 1000 Yrs and Nara fought 1000 Years with ShahasrKavacha and after 1000 Years, Nara was able to break his one Kavacha. As Nara broke the Kavacha,he died. But Narayan due his penance of 1000 Yrs could get back life of Nara and Narayan starts fighting and Nara starts penance for the next 1000 years.Nara and Narayana alternatively penace and fight for 1000 years and the cycle continued. At last, when they both were able to break 999 Kavachas. Petrified by the very thought of death, the wicked demon fled from the battlefield seeking refuge with the Sun God who had given the boon. ShahasraKavacha hides himself behind the Surya with his last Kavacha due to fear that he would be killed by Nara and Narayana then. Both the heroes of the war, Nara and Narayana chased him and demanded Lord Surya to return the demon to them. But Lord Surya who had given Dambhodabhava the promise to protect him, refused Nara and Narayana to hand over the demon. At this time, there was Pralaya on Earth due to the change of the Yuga. Thus ShahasraKavachaescapes death. In Dwapar Yuga, amsa of Lord Surya and Dambhodabhava was reborn as Karna with Kavacha and Nar and Narayan as Arjun and Krishna respectively. Hence, Karna was affected with "split personality". Finally it was Narayana who declared that the last of the thousand kavacha's would be broken by Nara in the Dwapara Yuga when Nara would be born as Arjuna and the wicked Dambhodabhava as Karna. since ShahasraKavacha had the boon that whenever his kavach would be broken by someone, he must die. and unlike nar from nar-narayan, arjun never had the mantra to come back from death. So, Indra dev came in disguise of a sage and took away the kavach from karna before his fight with arjun.
The incarnation of Krishna was to relieve the burden of the earth. The Earth was overpowered by hosts of demon armies like Daityas and Danavas who descended to the Earth taking birth as kings in royal families although previously killed also as demons battling the demigods. In order to lessen this burden of the Earth, the Supreme Lord Krishna descended and manifested Himself in the Yadava dynasty.
knr
The story goes like this:
Once upon a time, there was an evil demon king Dambhodabhava, in pursuit of attaining the boon of immortality does penance and pleases the Sun God. Unfortunately for the demon, the Sun God refuses to make him immortal but grants him any other boon. So the witty demon conceives a plan and asks for such a boon that would indirectly grant him immortality. The boon he asked was to have 1000 Kavachas(armours) and it must take 1000 Years to break each Kavacha, and the one who would break a Kavacha would instantly die. Nara and Narayana was the avatar of Lord Vishnu. The twins were sons of Dharma and his wife Murti (Daughter Of Daksha) or Ahimsa. These two sages take avatars on earth for the welfare of mankind .The demon Dambhodabhava was named Sahasra Kavacha now. To fit to the boon, first Narayana pennaced for 1000 Yrs and Nara fought 1000 Years with ShahasrKavacha and after 1000 Years, Nara was able to break his one Kavacha. As Nara broke the Kavacha,he died. But Narayan due his penance of 1000 Yrs could get back life of Nara and Narayan starts fighting and Nara starts penance for the next 1000 years.Nara and Narayana alternatively penace and fight for 1000 years and the cycle continued. At last, when they both were able to break 999 Kavachas. Petrified by the very thought of death, the wicked demon fled from the battlefield seeking refuge with the Sun God who had given the boon. ShahasraKavacha hides himself behind the Surya with his last Kavacha due to fear that he would be killed by Nara and Narayana then. Both the heroes of the war, Nara and Narayana chased him and demanded Lord Surya to return the demon to them. But Lord Surya who had given Dambhodabhava the promise to protect him, refused Nara and Narayana to hand over the demon. At this time, there was Pralaya on Earth due to the change of the Yuga. Thus ShahasraKavachaescapes death. In Dwapar Yuga, amsa of Lord Surya and Dambhodabhava was reborn as Karna with Kavacha and Nar and Narayan as Arjun and Krishna respectively. Hence, Karna was affected with "split personality". Finally it was Narayana who declared that the last of the thousand kavacha's would be broken by Nara in the Dwapara Yuga when Nara would be born as Arjuna and the wicked Dambhodabhava as Karna. since ShahasraKavacha had the boon that whenever his kavach would be broken by someone, he must die. and unlike nar from nar-narayan, arjun never had the mantra to come back from death. So, Indra dev came in disguise of a sage and took away the kavach from karna before his fight with arjun.
The incarnation of Krishna was to relieve the burden of the earth. The Earth was overpowered by hosts of demon armies like Daityas and Danavas who descended to the Earth taking birth as kings in royal families although previously killed also as demons battling the demigods. In order to lessen this burden of the Earth, the Supreme Lord Krishna descended and manifested Himself in the Yadava dynasty.
knr
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