When Krishna gave special darshan to Dhanurdas, didn’t he interfere with his free will?

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Thank you. We can all choose to laugh. First part.
Actually there are possibilities that when we are in the position of extraordinary devotees by their potency some extraordinary sarjadas of mercy may come to us. Extraordinary dosas of mercy may come to us. But you know what is special about Duryodhana? Duryodhana is not that he got a glimpse of Arjuna’s view.
That is definitely special. But what redefined his life, what radically transformed his life was what he did after he got that vision. That is important.
He could have continued on with this. I got one vision that is good. But now that view is not available to me now.
Still my prostitute’s view is still available to me. So I just look at her view. He didn’t do that.
He walked and stopped afterwards. See at his level also he was a principled person. He was just infatuated by what was the name of her? Himangi.
Himangi. But then Ramacharya asked him, I have never seen such beautiful eyes. Ramacharya asked him, if I show you more beautiful eyes what will you do? I will devote myself to your eyes.
And that is what he did afterwards. So he had the honour of this world. He had the courage of this convention.
And he walked and he stopped. So yes, some devotees may get extraordinary glimpses of mercy, some extraordinary pleasure and things like that. But what really changes their life is not just that extraordinary glimpse.
What changes their life is what they do in response to that extraordinary glimpse. They change their life completely. Now in some ways we may also get some extraordinary glimpses.
Now say when we go to Mayapurgam for the first time and we have Mangal Aarti and we see Rana Mahadev. It is such a spiritually intoxicating experience. It can life transform you.
Some devotees it does become life transforming. So we also get some special experiences of devotional joy in our life. What do we do after that? We cherish them.
This is what life can offer me. And this is what I want to live for. This is what I want to pursue in my life.
We make those experiences and we define our life accordingly. Then we can also change. And is Krishna interfering in the pre-will? No.
Krishna, he would have interfered in the pre-will if he had forced Dhanuradha to continue his service. All that he did was he just gave a darshan of his beauty and then Dhanuradha chose. So Chetan Chetan gives us an example.
Mukunda says in his prayers that there are demons also who watch Krishna’s darshan. Duryodhana watched darshan of Krishna so many times. But what happened to him? Krishna just showed the magic.
In fact the day before the war he sent Kuluka. Kuluka was the son of Shakuni. He sent a messenger to the Pandava camp as he provoked all the Pandavas.
Then he told all the Pandavas that Bhima, you think you are very powerful? Just see what was my power. I made you a plate washer in Virat’s kitchen. This is how a powerful man punishes his weak opponents who have the audacity to oppose him.
And Krishna, you think you are very powerful? You showed some forms. I can also show many forms. And all your forms showing magic will not have much use in the war.
If you have strength, let us see what happens in the war. So what basically happened is he got the darshan but he did not change his intention. That’s why in Bhakti what we should do we should not be we should not centre our Bhakti or focus our Bhakti we should not seek moments of Bhakti we should seek momentum in Bhakti.
Seek moments of Bhakti when will I get some special experience? When will I get some real experience? When will I get some experience? Now, yes, those moments will come but what we should be seeking is momentum. Keep moving forward. Keep moving forward.
And as we keep moving forward the moments will become more and more the moments will become more and more and the moments will become more and more constant. That will happen. But what we should focus on is trying to increase that momentum and getting any momentum in Bhakti.