araka Brahma wants to emancipate living beings, but only those who want liberation get liberation. When you long for liberation, the search leads you to the Sadguru. Everyone of us has a fixed role to play. You are a character in a divine drama. The composer of this drama is Taraka Brahma.
An episode in the Mahabharata is instructive in this regard: After battle, the battleground at Kurukshetra became a cremation ground. At the end of the war some people came there from the Kauravas' side. Among them were women and a few elderly men. Gandhari, mother of the Kauravas, was also there. Kunti, mother of the Pandavas, and Krishna, Pandavas' friend, were present as well, along with the visually challenged Dhritarashtra. Everyone was weeping. Gandhari had lost hundred sons in the war.
Krishna approached Gandhari and said: "Mother, why are you weeping? Death is a natural law. One who is born will die. So why cry?" Gandhari replied: "Yes Krishna, you have come here to console me, but i ask you, behind this great event whose mind was at work? Who was the author of this great plan? Was it not you?" Krishna replied: "Those who have committed injustice and sinned have been punished. What can I do about that?"
Gandhari said to Krishna: "Everything you have said up until now is quite correct. From the worldly point of view, everything that has happened until now is as it should be, because every action must have its reaction. But my point is: You yourself are Taraka Brahma; your duty is to liberate living beings. You can give liberation to whomsoever you please.
"As Taraka Brahma you can create and destroy as you wish. In this drama of yours you have created characters who are honest, ideological people. If one does virtuous deeds then one gets liberation. To teach the people you create these kinds of characters. And you also create sinful characters to show how much a person degenerates because of sinful behaviour. In this drama, you could have had my hundred sons play roles of righteousness and the Pandavas play roles of unrighteousness, if you had so wished. In that case my hundred sons would have gotten salvation. Now, after having made me cry, you come to console me!"
Taraka Brahma formulates his plan in order to create situations that lend themselves to illustrating values, to create awareness. For instance, if one engages in honest work then one moves towards eternal truth, and if one performs dishonest work then one moves towards untruth. Thereafter comes the other part of the story.
Gandhari said: "Krishna, give me permission to curse you". Krishna replied: "Okay, curse me. I give you permission". Gandhari cursed him: "Just as my entire lineage has been destroyed before my very eyes, may your Yadava lineage be destroyed before your very eyes as well". "Let it be so", Krishna replied.
Remember always that we are only actors in a universal drama. This is not our real identity. Someone may play the role of a king, but he might not even have two handfuls of rice in his house. Someone plays the role of a poor man, but in real life he may be very rich. We ought to remember that we are only playing specific roles in a cosmic drama. Act according to the role given. This is a person's duty.