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Originally posted by: proteeti

Yes I always feel irritated when someone says Devaki was selfish for having snet Krishna away, for she essentially endangered herself more na by doing that!

Yes 😡

Or when they use that excuse to say Devaki had no rights over her son because "she gave him away" and Yashoda is his "true" mother. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to accept that Krishna had two mothers who loved him equally, and whom he loved equally as well. Why is Devaki's love lesser than Yashoda's? Any woman who has given birth to a child should know just how difficult it is to give that child away, and they would only ever do so for the well being of that child.

The saying "the mother that raises is superior to the mother that births" is so old and not justified in every case. A lot of birth mothers give up their children because they don't have the resources to care for them. It's so very painful to do that, but that doesn't make their love any less. If those very same mothers had proper resources, they would never part with their children.

It's so tiring to see Devaki compared to Yashoda and shown as lesser than her, when Krishna himself never differentiated between them.

That's unfortunately a very popular narrative! I wish this serial gets more TRP and this narrative changes!

Originally posted by: RamKiSeeta

Made this in honor of mother's day. :)

Wow beautiful dear

Belated happy mother's Day

If it's difficult to become Yashoda then it's equally difficult to become Devaki. Both takes a lot from a woman

Krishna ji was lucky to have two moms

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

If it's difficult to become Yashoda then it's equally difficult to become Devaki. Both takes a lot from a woman

Krishna ji was lucky to have two moms

Exactly! Both of them made incredibly difficult sacrifices for their son. Devaki gave up Krishna to save his life, knowing she might never see him again , whereas Yashoda gave up Krishna for the well being of the world, knowing she couldn't tie him down to the life of a cowherd in Vrindavan when he had so much to accomplish in Aryavrat to establish Dharma.

Both of them sacrificed their happiness for lok kalyaan. How can we compare them, and degrade one of them to show the other as superior, when Krishna himself never did? Just as Ram loved and respected Kaushalya, Sumitra and Kaikeyi equally as his mothers, so did Krishna love and respect Yashoda and Devaki (and also Rohini!).

Originally posted by: proteeti

That's unfortunately a very popular narrative! I wish this serial gets more TRP and this narrative changes!

I hope so too.

RS did have one instance where Krishna says Yashoda's love is superior, during the scene when Akrur comes to Gokul and reveals the truth of Krishna's parentage to Nand and Yashoda. Akrur says something along the lines of "It's time to return to your real parents" and Krishna says, "Yashoda and Nand are my real parents as they're the ones who raised me". I'd have preferred that dialogue to have gone a different way, because the epic never has Krishna differentiating between VD and NY. But at least it was only one instance, so we can ignore it, lol.

Maybe they'll do us a favour and edit THAT one! 😆

Originally posted by: proteeti

Maybe they'll do us a favour and edit THAT one! 😆

Right??

If they need to edit something, edit those types of things which don't contribute to the storyline in any way, lol. 😆

Originally posted by: RamKiSeeta

I hope so too.

RS did have one instance where Krishna says Yashoda's love is superior, during the scene when Akrur comes to Gokul and reveals the truth of Krishna's parentage to Nand and Yashoda. Akrur says something along the lines of "It's time to return to your real parents" and Krishna says, "Yashoda and Nand are my real parents as they're the ones who raised me". I'd have preferred that dialogue to have gone a different way, because thepic never has Krishna differentiating between VD and NY. But at least it was only one instance, so we can ignore it, lol.

Think as a human (not as God because he was a human to his parents) suddenly someone comes to a boy and say packup guys time to go back they are not your parents. These are the parents you have always known, you will suddenly not feel love for your real parents then. That will take time

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

Think as a human (not as God because he was a human to his parents) suddenly someone comes to a boy and say packup guys time to go back they are not your parents. These are the parents you have always known, you will suddenly not feel love for your real parents then. That will take time

But Krishna never reacted as a normal "human boy" in this situation though. Normal human children would cry, wail and refuse to leave the only parents they ever knew. Krishna simply smiled at Akrur, accepted his words and was like "let's go!". So when Krishna always behaved more like a God than a human, his words too should be more divine, right?

I think a better way for RS to phrase Krishna's reply to Akrur would have been "Nand and Yashoda are no less my parents than Devaki and Vasudev, Akrurji. To me, all four of them are worthy of love and respect, so for you to say Devaki and Vasudev are my "true" parents is hurtful to the loving individuals who raised me as their own."