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When Does God Perform a Miracle
“In that hall of the dice game, too, many injustices were done to the Pandavas; yet they did not let go of Dharma.”
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When the desire to destroy the unrighteousness (Adharma) that has spread through society, and to establish Dharma, takes birth in the heart of every person; when sin reaches a certain limit, then, to protect Dharma, God does indeed work wonders, my son. And to establish Dharma — when a person renounces both his selfishness and his attachment and stands ready for sacrifice, then all creation fills with wonders. It was because of the sacrifices of my mother Devaki and my mother Yashoda that the miracle came to pass in that prison cell, Vats.
Chapter 31 — When Does God Perform a Miracle
Chapter 31 of 35 — a single teaching, 3 min in total.
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Where this sits in the Mahabharata.
The Mahabharata is less a story with a moral than a very long argument about how to act. Its characters are given impossible situations and are judged not on the outcome but on the quality of their reasoning and the honesty of their motives.
Krishna's role throughout is the counsellor who refuses easy answers. He does not remove the difficulty; he changes what the person is able to bring to it.
