Krishna and Abhimanyu

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Namo Narayana.

 

I was recently pondering over the BG verse,

- brAhmanyan sarva Buteshu, yantrA rUDaNi mAyayA.

(pardon my transliteration, I am yet to get used to this scheme.), in

fact, He seems to do it in a way that

while he 'directs' the events in individual lives, He

is also achieving a different collective purpose.

 

Many of Krishna's 'actions' in the mahabaratha also seem to point to

this, but I was unable to understand his purpose in prematurely

terminating Abhimanyu's life. Why did he have to prevent Arjuna's

expositions beyond a certain point; is there a past history of

Abhimanyu that entitled him only to that much, if so does anyone know

the details of this story?

 

I have a question on a different topic as well.

 

To what limit is pitr vAkhya paripAlanam sanctioned by

dharma; there are verses to the effect that one may disregard one's

parents and guru if it is patently against dharma(I do not remember the

context of this injunction), while at the same time we see that

Parasurama pursued pitr vAkhya paripAlanam to the extent of beheading

his mother; sriramachandra was an epitome of both dharma and pitr

vAkhya paripalanam, would there been a conflict in such a situation for

him?

 

Pranams,

Venu.

 

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