​Wasn’t Krishna’s covering the sun to deceive Jayadratha wrong?

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Hare Krishna question was Krishna’s covering the sun so that Arjuna could shoot Jayadrath, wasn’t that unfair answer no, it was not unfair because Krishna did not keep the sun covered throughout Krishna covered the sun momentarily by which the Kauravas lowered their guard and after that he uncovered the sun and while the sun rays were still visible at that time Arjuna shot the arrow and Arjuna killed Jayadrath, so the point here is that the odds had been stacked heavily against Arjuna, when Arjuna had taken a vow to kill Jayadrath at that time the Kauravas practically used their whole army to stop Arjuna, so rather than having a straight fair fight between Arjuna and Jayadrath Jayadrath would have been immediately killed so the Kauravas arranged practically their whole army to protect them and Arjuna broke through their whole army and came very close to Jayadrath but at that time just with the sun nearing the horizon multiple Kaurava warriors came in the way of Arjuna and they all started showering arrows upon him it was not that one warrior was attacking him they all were attacking him and Arjuna was covered by a cloud of arrows Arjuna fought with furious speed but he could barely check the arrows that were coming against him leave alone counter any arrows or leave alone make any progress towards Jayadrath so he had fought throughout the day he had overcome so many warriors and he had come so close and yet he was so far so the Kauravas in order to check Arjuna had abandoned the principle of one to one combat and had used a similar strategy to what they had used against Abhimanyu the previous day multiple warriors attacking the same warrior at the same time so now because the Kauravas had abandoned the normal course of fighting so Krishna did something extraordinary so Krishna used Sudarshan chakra to cover the sun and by covering the sun when the darkness of sunset spread all over the battlefield the Kauravas thought that oh the sun has set and this means Arjuna’s vow has been foiled and Arjuna’s vow has been foiled means that he is going to die and we have succeeded in our mission and they started celebrating so now the war was still it was still the war field Arjuna still had his bow and arrow ready now Arjuna was rejected when he saw the sunset and he started lowering his bow but Krishna told him in an urgent tone now keep your bow upraised and put a Brahmastra on your bow and pointed towards Jaidrath Krishna, Arjuna knew that Krishna must be up to something and he did not question, he just did what Arjuna had told, what Krishna had told and then Krishna removed the Sudarshan chakra from the sun and then at that very moment what happened? He said there is the sun and there is Jaidrath, shoot him so Jaidrath had lowered his guard and all along during this period he had been covering behind his protector but now he had come out to jeer Arjuna and Arjuna seized his opportunity and shot Jaidrath so the point is that because the Pandavas had because the Kauravas had unfairly by ganging against Arjuna tried to stop him so Krishna had to use extraordinary means to counter that so it was it was not unethical it was definitely a trick but the trick was required because the Kauravas had unethically tried to gang together and stop Arjuna Thank you