How would the Kauravas being neutralized by the Pandavas further their spiritual evolution?

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Thank you How would the killing of the Pandavas further the spiritual evolution killing of the Kauravas rather further their spiritual evolution they might go to heaven at the same as their spiritual evolution being furthered answer yes and no at one level it is simply the reaction of one’s own karma coming upon someone and that reaction to karma is not necessarily in any way spiritual evolution having said that it is not intrinsically spiritual evolution but having said that everything that we experience in the material existence especially major changes that we experience they all affect our consciousness and they all shape how our consciousness gets redirected how it gets redefined and how it moves forward or backward so that is something which is very cardinal to the principles of bhakti that principles of overall spirituality that the super soul is always with the soul and the super soul does what is required for the advancement of the soul and that means that even if the soul is going to heaven it may not be intrinsically spiritual evolution but through that experience the soul learns some lessons some understanding about the nature of material reality the futility of worldly pleasures and that contributes to one’s spiritual evolution so it is not direct spiritual evolution but it is indirect because ultimately the soul has to choose to turn toward Krishna and that is the once the soul starts choosing to turn toward Krishna that is the direct or rapid spiritual evolution we could say but beyond that what makes the soul turn toward Krishna is not easy for us to know so we see that at a particular time in the cosmic history of the soul that particular time may take many lifetimes of evolution also at a particular time the soul turns toward Krishna now what exactly makes that soul turn toward Krishna at that time that is not so easy to know but the key principle here is that we need to move backwards in our spiritual life and we need to take one step at a time and as we keep taking that step and moving forward we will eventually come to a point where we will feel inspired or inclined to turn toward Krishna so that inspiration or inclination to turn toward Krishna what brings it up at that particular time that is very difficult to know so it could be at one level the merciful intervention of a devotee which makes us do that and that is true but then we see that devotees may approach so many people but few of them actually turn toward Krishna so many things contribute to why a particular person turn to Krishna at a particular time and that includes who has experienced in the recent past and in the distant past so in that sense of making the soul more amenable to the choice of turning toward Krishna all the choices that we go through all the experiences that we go through they gradually form our character our consciousness our conscience and they eventually prompt us to make that choice of turning toward Krishna so we could say that spiritual evolution happens directly when we turn toward Krishna ourselves by a conscious act of choice and spiritual evolution happens indirectly and much more gradually when we go through experiences that prepare us to eventually turn toward Krishna