If love guides and doesnt hide then why did Narada Muni hide the news of Krishnas departure from the Pandavas?

Question from Manish Goel Pr:

We recently read about love that hides – Narada Muni hiding the news of Krishna’s departure from Pandavas. I think it is seemingly opposite of what you have presented in your Gita daily article https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/2013/05/08-15-beyond-the-love-that-hides-to-the-love-that-guides/ , can you clarify?

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Hare Krishna.
Question from Manish Koyal Prabhu. This is a comment on the Gita Daily article about the love that hides versus the love that guides. So, we recently read about the love that hides, Narada Muni hiding the news of Krishna’s departure from the Pandavas.
I think it is seemingly opposite of what you have presented. Can you clarify? Answer? There may be specific situations where not telling about certain unfortunate events may be the best way to serve a particular person. So, that doesn’t counter the principle that systematically concealing or neglecting realities of life doesn’t deal with those realities.
So, when Vidura first comes to urge Dhritarashtra to renounce the world, and then Narada Muni comes to reassure the Pandavas that Dhritarashtra has actually attained an auspicious destination, in both cases there is a primary focus. The focus is to get the attached Dhritarashtra to become detached and to not let, that was Vidura’s objective, and Narada’s objective is to not let the Pandavas become blinded by affection and stop Dhritarashtra from doing the one thing that could bring some auspiciousness in his life. Dhritarashtra because of his weakness and his attachment to Duryodhana had only done inauspicious things and had created an inauspicious future for himself.
So, in this particular situation, Narada Muni is focusing on not letting material affection for Dhritarashtra cause Yudhishtira to block Dhritarashtra’s path of redeeming himself. So, that’s why at that particular point, the purpose is specific and for that certain things are withheld. The information of Krishna having departed from the world is not exactly relevant to the purpose that Narada Muni is serving over there.
Obviously, Narada Muni at other places doesn’t hide facts. He even goes and tells Kamsa that he has heard from the demigods that they are all going to take birth and even Vishnu is going to take birth and that seems to even cause Kamsa to do greater violence in terms of killing the six children that are born from Devaki’s womb. So, there Kamsa, Narada Muni is conveying the news.
So, generally whenever there are any pastimes, we have to look at the context of the pastimes to understand why a particular action is being done. And the actions within the pastimes can also demonstrate universal principles. But the application of those universal principles can vary according to time, place, circumstance.
So, whatever is uncool to Krishna Bhakti, we do that. And whatever is pratikool, we avoid it. So, at that particular point, for Yudhishtira, it was overall uncool for the spiritual life of Dhritarashtra that Yudhishtira not obstruct him and that Yudhishtira not obstruct Gandhari also.
And that’s why Narada Muni gives him whatever information is needed so that he does the right thing at that particular time. But, on the other hand, Narada Muni gives the information to Kamsa because Narada Muni wants Krishna to appear quickly. So, the more atrocities Kamsa does, the faster Krishna will appear.
So, the underlying principle is Anukulyasya Sankalpa Pratikulyasya Varjanam. So, in this case, it is uncool for us to remember the mortality and misery that is intrinsic to the material level of existence. And by remembering it, meditating on it, we get impetus to turn towards Krishna at the spiritual level.
And hiding whatever is favorable to our devotional service, that is a disservice. And that is what this article focuses on. Thank you.