Re: I cannot believe the audacity of humans towards the Gods
namaste everyone.
Kallol has mentioned some good points. As he has hinted, the mahAbhArata is akin to a novel where the author plays a role. This means that the author would know all the details about the characters at the macro and micro levels and yet has to play his own role as a human being.
It's a good point that an intimate devotee of a personal god can become emotional about him/her, so he/she even rebukes and curses the god for some misfortune in life, which was a result of the devotee's own karma.
On a lighter vein, here is a pointed curse given by a Tamizh film character on God, using the song penned by the famous poet KaNNaDAsan:
God, he should be born as a man!
He should love (a woman) and suffer in pain!
He should sink in the sorrow of separation,
and what a woman is, he should realize.
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
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