Why did the Dwarka Yadus kill each other?

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so what’s Krishna’s Moshan Leela by Moshan Leela you mean the Dwaraka being killed yeah Moshan Leela yeah okay something that non-believers look at so Krishna’s pastime and that is what purpose does it serve is it to remove unwanted elements or well if you understand it is like a different way the Mahabharata and the Bhagavatam which is carrying on with the incidents of the Mahabharata it is it is understood at three levels earthly level there is a cosmic level and there is a transcendental level at the earthly level there are these princes those princes a kind of a chorus fight at a cosmic level there are forces from other parts of the universe who appear over here Devatas appear as the Pandavas or there’s a virtuous people and even many of the Dwarkawasis are also at one level the eternal associate another level they are Devatas and the demons also come Duryodhana is told in the Mahabharata that he is actually a he’s actually arranged by the austerities of the Ityazana Nanavas to appear on the earth so basically this conflict the earth becomes the vortex the center point of this cosmic conflict between the higher forces and the lower forces the gods and the demons so it’s like say if a world war is happening and many times in the world war the armies from one force and other force they meet in some remote village somewhere and there then there are hundreds and hundreds of warriors who are there the whole village is practically overrun by those and then the whole battle takes place and the say the good side wins at that time for the winning of the good side all those warriors are required but after that is over then those warriors they’re present all those soldiers those warriors that whole army is present in the small village is not required there is disruption so then those soldiers leave from there they should leave other they can’t stay there because now specific mode in which they may leave that can vary they just leave from there so similarly if we consider that on the earth it’s like a small planet in the overall cosmos where the celestial and the subterranean forces they combine they come over here and they confront there’s a conflict and then Krishna arranges the Kurukshetra war Krishna arranges Krishna doesn’t cause it but Krishna arranges through the Kurukshetra war and through his own personal killing of the demons to end all of them and when they are over then this the purpose of the even the godly forces being on the earth is over so then he has to end them now why does he have to end it in a such a such a tragic kind of way there’s a fratricidal way there are multiple multiple understandings of that one is that the Mahabharata is overall candid it doesn’t depict perfect characters it depicts even glorious characters who have imperfections Yudhishthir is Dharmaraj but he has a weakness for gambling similarly the the Dwarkavasis they have a weakness for drinking and just as the whole tragedy in the gambling match happen in the assembly happens by Yudhishthir’s weakness and the Mahabharata graphically demonstrates the consequences of that similarly the consequences of drinking are demonstrated through these pastimes and even those who are great associates if they drink they will suffer by that another point there is that the Bhagavatam is very emphatic and Krishna is very very cautious that one should not offend Vaishnava, offend Brahmanas the Brahmanas of course Vaishnavas over there so when Samba does that Samba and the Vallabhacharya in his Bhagavatam commentaries says that Samba is he is anarthasuchak he always does some inauspicious things like he kidnaps Lakshmana even against her will and a big almost like a war happens between Balram and and Kauravas so he does certain things which are not very wholesome so Samba he plays that trick on the sages and says okay he acts like a pregnant woman he says you know you have a this is going to be a boy or a girl so the sages get angry and they say that you fool this the product of this will be the cause of your death so now Krishna arranges through this to demonstrate that how even his own sons and his own parents can be killed if you offend Brahmanas so we should not offend Brahmanas and of course the last reason we understood there could be many more but in this contextual analysis we are doing the reason is that also when Krishna descends to this world he reciprocates with our desires that means vityonityanam chetana chetanam ekobhavunam is one who maintains the others according to their desires but for those who want to be faithful he gives abandoned reasons for faith but for those who want to be faithless Krishna will give them reasons for that also so chetan chetan amrit in Krishna’s Kajal Goswami as well as Jiva Goswami in the Sunderbans he talks about certain pastimes as asura mohan leela These pastimes are performed primarily to delude the demoniac.
So, there can be people who can look at Krishna’s life throughout and then they can understand that actually, Krishna did so many extraordinary things. Must be God. Or somebody can look at the end and say, just see his family, God died like this.
What is this? He could not protect that. And if you see that, if somebody simply wants to use a logical perspective, a hunter hit Krishna on the leg. Now, normally a wound on the leg is not fatal.
Battle-hardened Kshatriya has fought against great, great demons. How could an arrow to the foot kill him? So, that’s simply a leela. So, there are abundant loopholes within the atheistic conclusion that they may arrive at.
But if somebody wants to arrive at, Bhagavatam says that how could that Krishna who went to hell to get back the sons of Sandipani Muni, his guru, he went to the abode of death to reclaim those who were dead. How could he be sent to the abode of death? That too by an arrow like this. Hitting on the non-fatal part of the body.
Non-fatal injury. But the whole point is that Krishna allows people who want to be faithless to be faithless. That’s our understanding of this past.