Arjuna and Karna are two different characters but both were great when Lord Krishna gave them an order for a task.
I saw a very beautiful video where Lord Krishna ordered Arjuna to divide a mountain made of gold equally among the villagers. But before he could finish half the work, Arjuna got tired and wanted to rest. In fact, they were arguing about who was better, Arjuna or Karna, because Lord Krishna knew that although Arjuna was a brave warrior, Arjuna was nothing compared to the greatness of Karna. When the same task was given to Karna, Karna completed it differently, as he told each villager that this is the mountain of gold, divide it equally among yourselves, i.e. he distributed his responsibility among everyone. There is a lot to understand in this story, for example, if we look at the general public, there is a tendency among most people to keep authority under their control. As a result, its benefits reach the common people very late or sometimes, they do not reach them at all. In fact, this tendency among people to hold on to power or this mentality that I am the best and will have all the power and authority is the reason why human character is deteriorating.
If we thought about everything liberally, this world wouldn’t be so complicated. At least I think so. We have made simple things much more complicated. As a result, at some point we can’t get out of this complicated life. In fact, we get tangled in the thread and we get ourselves trapped in it. And when we try hard to get out of it but can’t, we blame God. We should have a mentality of taking everyone along and sharing the responsibility among the common people, only then will we live happily. As we saw Arjuna, he wasted a lot of his time and labored with his own hands and exhausted himself. But if he had shared that little responsibility with all those people, his hard work would not have been done. This is the difference in mentality between Arjuna and Lord Krishna, which was understood by Krishna correctly. We have to live with everyone and come out of the trap of authority, because authority is also one type of trap. I will keep the power in my own hands. Everyone will respect me. I am the only owner of everything in this world that is under my control. Such thoughts can give nothing but suffering to human life, but Karna was free from all this delusion and illusion. He shared his sorrows and happiness with everyone. That is why when he died on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, tears also came out of Lord Krishna’s eyes. It is because there were many warriors like Arjuna, but there was no one like Karna who had such selfless thoughts.
