Jaya, meet Gāndhārī

The silliest line of an entirely silly episode was Jaya expressing faith that Śrī Kṛṣṇa would not allow any calamity (like Raghav shooting Mandar and going to prison/gallows for it) on his birthday. If she had invoked any other deity, fine, have faith, but Śrī Kṛṣṇa? Does Jaya know what happened while Śrī Kṛṣṇa was alive? There was the Mahābhārata War, in which many mothers lost their sons.

One of those mothers was known as Gāndhārī (the woman from the Gandhāra country, now part of Afghanistan), and Jaya might want to read what that grieving mother had to say to Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

tataḥ kopa-parīt'āṅgī putra-śoka-pariplutā

jagāma Śauriṃ doṣeṇa Gāndhārī vyathit'endriyā

Gāndhāry uvāca

Pāṇḍavā Dhārtarāṣṭrāś ca drugdhāḥ Kṛṣṇa parasparam

upekṣitā vinaśyantas tvayā kasmāj Janārdana

śaktena bahu-bhṛtyena vipule tiṣṭhatā bale

ubhayatra samarthena śruta-vākyena caiva ha

icchato'pekṣito nāśaḥ Kurūṇāṃ Madhu-sūdana

yasmāt tvayā mahā-bāho phalaṃ tasmād avāpnuhi

Then the woman from Gandhāra, her body filled with fury, submerged in grief for her sons, her senses distressed, found fault with Śūra's grandson. The woman from Gandhāra said: "Kṛṣṇa, the sons of Pāṇḍu and the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra made enemies of each other. Why did you ignore them as they perished, causing distress to the people? You were capable, with many servants and a vast army awaiting your command; certainly, you had influence on both sides and they listened to your advice. By choice you ignored the ruin of the Kuru family, conqueror of the Madhu family! Large-armed man, you will suffer for that."

Mahābhārata, Strīparvan, chapter 25, verses 35-38

Happy Kṛṣṇa-janmā'ṣṭamī to everybody! Let's not use God as an excuse to shirk our responsibility to comfort and guide each other.

Invoking the Divine for guidance & clarity of mind is one thing. But, putting the responsibility of a consequence of an action, undertaken wilfully on the Divine shoulders is another thing. But this is the time tested method of Indian television to show Divine presence in the midst of calamity, coming to help in the last minute, rather than taking the practical, mindful approach to sort things out step by step.

Sadly, the writers have not put in that amount of time also to script this great plan of exposure of Mandar as much as it would have taken for you to come up with this wonderful post, else the product on our screens would have been different.

Do keep writing, I really enjoy reading your perspective on different aspects.

It might just appeal to the TRP audience.

We know the papers will get destroyed in the end.

If Siccku wants to mess with the middle to get TRP let him go ahead.