After Valis death why didn’t Sugriva console himself by focusing on Valis atrocities?
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So could Sugriva He could have been in good conscience And he could still have been sensitive also He could have said that I acted in good conscience See there is, when it comes to emotions The emotions that we feel They don’t always follow The rules of logic So if we see Yudhishthira Maharaj In the Bhagavatam After the whole Tumshetra war happens He feels that I caused this war For my sake this whole war Was caused only because of me Now the reality is far opposite to that Because Yudhishthira did Everything possible to avoid the war Sometimes we say I have done everything humanly possible Actually Yudhishthira has done everything Humanly possible and everything divinely possible Krishna, God himself Has gone to Shantiniketan So when we talk When we see people’s emotions Especially under moments of stress You know We should see them We can’t start analysing Why are you not thinking logically At that time We just appreciate the heart of the person If they stick to that Illogical emotion then it becomes a problem If Yudhishthira started acting on it I will not lose, I will renounce the war Let everybody object No no you can’t do that Sugriva did not do that So especially under moments of stress Our emotions may go in various ways And we are not Nobody is to be judged based on those emotions So even Krishna tells Arjuna That the wise person Does not lament at the time of death Does not lament on seeing the death of anyone But when Abhimanyu is killed Arjuna is grief struck And Krishna does not tell Arjuna You forgot Bhagavad Gita now Krishna is sensitive Krishna is gentle Krishna is consoling Krishna is encouraging So when a person Is going through a particular set of emotions At that time We have to encourage them To come back on the right track We don’t have to just Dismiss their emotions as illogical Or irrational But sensitively get them on the right track.