When Dhruva already had darshan of Vishnu, how could be become disproportionately angry at the Yakshas?

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question is Dhruv Maharaj’s anger when the Yakshas killed his brother was it material or spiritual as Dhruv Maharaj had already seen Vishnu how could he have thereafter not been purified enough how could he have succumbed to such disproportionate anger answer the Bhagavatam gives us the ideal and also gives us the real which it does we have Yudhishthir Maharaj who is Dharmaraj and at the same time he in the heat of the moment gambles away everything so in the fourth canto we see Dhruv Maharaj’s journey going through various phases initially he is angry because he is insulted by his father and he is unable to tolerate that anger so he goes to the forest in search of Vishnu and at that time Narad Muni appreciates just look at the glory of the Kshatriyas that they cannot tolerate dishonor normally we say that we should not bother about honor-dishonor but here it is said they cannot tolerate dishonor that is the nature of the Kshatriya you could say mind-body machine and they use that sense of deep sense of honor to act honorably and Narad Muni is appreciating Dhruva because by that Dhruva was able to determinately seek Vishnu and eventually he achieved Vishnu so Dhruva as a child is a good example of how somehow or other the fixed mind of Krishna we have all material desires and no material desires we can intensely worship the lord of Vishnu that’s what Dhruva did and he became so purified that he did not desire the kingdom even when lord Vishnu wanted to offer it to him he did not desire any vengeance towards his step-mother who had been instrumental in his insight so there we see a dramatic transformation by the process of birth but then when his brother is killed by the Yakshas he is furious he is aggrieved and he is furious and these are human emotions so we see that he gets angry and he starts killing the Yaksha indiscriminately and then Manu comes and Manu instructs him and he listens to that counsel and then he desists from the desire for revenge so we see also Krishna tells Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita that you are not the body you are the soul that this person who is spiritually realized is not attached to worldly things such as family members and Krishna specifically says that Krishna uses the word son first and then wife afterwards and yet when Abhimanyu is killed we see Arjuna is devastated first Arjuna is aggrieved and then Arjuna is angered after that Krishna doesn’t tell Arjuna you have forgotten the Bhagavad Gita why are you so attached to your son Krishna does not tell Arjuna here the way Harish Yuga the child of Chitragupta comes back which father, which mother Krishna doesn’t tell Arjuna here which son, which daughter there that anger is understandable, that anger Krishna and Arjuna together channel the energy of anger to cause the biggest reversal of the Kauravas the next day anger you could say it’s a human emotion but because it increases his devotional service to Krishna because it increases his eager to fight for Dharma also his brother has been killed unfairly Dhruva is far more valorous than his brother so he feels strongly impelled to counter that atrocious action on the part of the Akshayas and that one action of the Akshayas so of course when he started fighting it became disproportionate he feels that he is firmly determined but the world’s situations and the mind’s emotions can sometimes temporarily get the devotee to go off course inner fed inner remembrance or outer reminders in the case of Dhruva he comes back on track when a plane is flying from say New York to Los Angeles 90% of the time it is off because the pilot keeps steering it back on course it eventually reaches the destination and so the plane may because of its momentum because of the atmospheric conditions because of slight loss of trajectory the plane may go off course but it will come back on similarly we also when we are on the course to Vishnu sometimes because of our inner emotions or our outer situations then we create a force that may take us off course temporarily now it is not that Dhruva’s anger is lauded in any way Dhruva’s austerities by which he attained Vishnu is laudable it is praiseworthy but Dhruva’s anger which is Yaksha is not lauded for that in fact it is gently made firmly reprimanded for that by one, so the idea is that in this material world because this world is a place of temptation and delusion and even someone who has also get diverted but if somebody has been steadily devoted to the Lord so this particular incident of Dhruva’s anger it is not spiritual he is not angry because he is out of devotion he has some service to like Shri Hanuman had to look around his anger because of we could say his righteous concern for his brother but that anger went out of proportion he comes back on track that’s why we could say there are two broad things to learn from this that one is that as long as we are in the material world there is always some danger and even if somebody has had darshan of the Lord that doesn’t guarantee that in future there will be no danger for that person we have this example of Chitraketu becomes realized and has darshan of Sankarshan but then after that he laughs at Shiva and is cursed to become a demon so darshan of the Lord is a great blessing but that itself is no guarantor of for the rest of material existence what it is a guarantor of is that because if you have darshan of the Lord then that impression is created in the heart circumstantially the devotee gets temporarily deviated so the first lesson is that there is danger there is no guarantee that one will not get deviated on this spiritual path, second is there is guarantee if we devote ourselves sincerely to Krishna intensely practice Vakna if we internalize emotional impressions then those impressions will pull us back to Krishna even if circumstantially we are pushed away from Him