At the end of the Mahabharatha war, the Pandavas and the Kauravas went to the Ganga to perform ablutions for their departed kinsmen. Sri Krishna, sage Daumya and other rishis consoled the grief stricken Pandava brothers and Dhritarashtra and others by saying that all created beings are subject to death which cannot be averted. Having secured the lost kingdom for Yudhisthtra and after helping him to perform Ashwameda sacrifices, Sri Krishna mounted his chariot to return to Dwaraka.
Kunti then thanked Sri Krishna and sang his glories. And she prayed to Krishna - Now listen to this prayer very carefully - Kunti’s prayer is very famous in the Bhagawatam.
She prayed to Krishna. She said, let calamities befall us every now and then. People pray - " Please free me from my calamities. Let me get a better job, let me have a house,
let me have this, let me have that. Bring me happiness". Kunti’s prayer to Krishna, let all calamities befall us every now and then. Why? So that we may have your darshan when you come to protect us. From time to time, when we are in trouble, by seeing you we can get out of the cycle of births and deaths. If we have no calamities, how will you come to save us? So bring calamities upon us - more and more.
Dangerous prayer, specially when made to Krishna directly. So this is a prayer which should only be uttered in all sincerity because if it is uttered in all sincerity really calamities will begin to befall. But one should be able to stand then on one’s feet. I always tell people who read about the lives of saints who went before the lord and say take everything away and I want only you. They said it. But if somebody without proper maturity imitates this ....then when God begins to pull things from under you then you begin to say .....enough enough!
So this is a very serious affair, Kunti was developed enough to say "Take everything away, let calamities fall so that I can see you when you come to save us. Your incarnation among men, bees and aquatic creatures is only to protect the righteousness. It is a mere sport of yours".
Krishna said,"It shall be as you desire", and smiled at Kunti, that’s all. Kunti was happy - can you imagine somebody being happy with calamities?!
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted” - says the Bible
Source : Sri M
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