Did Kunti do the right thing by abandoning Karna?
Hare Krishna did kunti do the right thing by abandoning karna answer if we look at kunti situation she was in a very conservative society and she was just a teenager at that time and she was not even married she had lived in her father's palace and at that time for a woman who did not have a child who was not married to have a child was scandalous even now in many conservative society it is a great scandal what to speak of thousands of years ago now in her situation it was practically impossible for her given the culture at that time to take care of the child alone and to say that she abandoned karna is actually inaccurate what did she do when she had the child then there was one trusted maid of hers and together they made a very sturdy wooden box which would float in water and then she made it very comfortably soft with pillows and blankets and cushions and then she placed the baby there and along with that she placed many precious jewels and other costly ornaments over there along with the child so that whoever found the child they would understand this is not an ordinary child this is a child who is actually born in a great family born in a prosperous family and thus they would care for that child and then eventually she herself went till the banks of the river which was close to her palace and then she hugged the baby to her heart tightly she knew this was the last time she would get to hug this baby and then she put the baby in her in the box and then she pushed the box away and she put the baby in a box at a time when the river current was flowing in such a way that the river was not too turbulent there was no risk of the box overturning and the baby drowning there was a sturdy gentle current over there and then the way she pushed it was the box was likely to go somewhere on the other side and then as the box was going along she started offering her profuse sincere fervent prayers for the well-being of the baby she started praying to the god of the waters Varuna, O child O Varuna, this child is interested in your care please ensure that he travels across you safely O wind god please blow in such a way that this child goes into loving hands and then she looked up at Surya, O Surya, this is your son please take care of this son and then she prayed to the supreme lord Vishnu, O lord Vishnu you are the protector of all living beings please protect this child so in that situation Kunti did all that she could she offered she had borne the child nursed the child initially and then she did not abandon the child somewhere in the forest but she did everything in her power physically and spiritually so that the child would come in safe hands and to say that she abandoned him is not correct because she in her circumstances did everything that she could for that child thank you.