Is detachment not included in 64 items of bhakti because it makes one hardhearted?

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the question is that firstly that sometimes karma is also talked about in terms of cause so when he is killed Yama Raj comes and tells his wife that he died because of his karma or even Kamsa says that Kamsa tells Devaki and Vasudeva that you are sons because of their karma so should karma not be used for talking about causation yes if you see when Suyabhya talks about when Yama Raj talks about Suyabhya Yama Raj is not saying to those women you have become widows because of your karma he is telling them that he has died by his karma he is not blaming them for that so the point is that we have to ensure that one definition of rejuvenation we should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted that means if somebody is in distress we should offer them rejuvenation and if somebody is very complacent oh I am happy in life you tell them, you call them and tell them how long your effort is going to last so we comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted but if we afflict the afflicted and comfort the comforted then we are not going preaching we are going anti-preaching so the point is they are not being blamed over there so that is being spoken to give them solace giving solace by your own karma is not a different definition now you continue with your karma why are you lamenting over there so that is a part of an overall message which is being intended to offer them relief now Kamsa Kamsa is speaking about to Devaki also that if your sons were killed by their own karma this is simply his manipulative nature so rather than Swami talks about inflation he explains that Kamsa is also a worshipper of Durga and when he saw that this 7th or 8th son has already manifested as Durgadevi and Durgadevi laughed and said his 8th son is already born and you are a fool Kamsa is sober he starts thinking Devaki must be really so that Durgadevi manifested through her body and therefore he said the 8th son will be born but the 8th son was not born also so the devatas probably lied and he basically felt that he had been completely misled and therefore he thought that Durga is born through her and she was his special source he went to ask for her but in that case he is trying to wash off his culpability by saying that it is because of their karma that is simply hypocrisy because he had knowingly and ambitiously killed them A, I go and slap someone and then, oh I am sorry you were beaten because of your own karma oh well that person who slapped me back he said you were also beaten because of your karma so in the case of Kamsa he was simply trying to whitewash himself because he had got a temporary sense of remorse on seeing Durgadevi emerge from the womb of Devata so that is not really any philosophical substance in it Kamsa is simply using the karmic philosophy to try to whitewash himself but in general as I said that a doctor also needs to point out sometimes the cause of a disease so that the patient does not repeat that particular behavior so pointing out cause using the concept of karma to talk about cause is not wrong but that should not be the central point in our preaching and that should certainly not be done in an insensitive way which afflicts people further the point is that we should be often relieved and if as a part of our relief we need to tell about karmic causality that is fine