Mahabharata - Kunti reveals her Secret

The great war of Mahabharata is over and Pandavas had prevailed.

It was chaos everywhere on the battleground.

Pandavas saw their mother, Kunti, wandering among the dead Kauravas.

"Who are you looking for, Mother?" asked Yudhishtira.

"Karan", she said.

"Why that charioteer's son?" Asked Arjuna.

"Because he was your eldest brother, My firstborn" said Kunti.

This was the first time she was unafraid to face the truth. Her secret was open to the world now.

At first, the words did not sink in, but when they finally did, Pandavas went weak in the knees.

Arjun realized, he did not only killed Bhishma and Drona, but also Karna, who was in fact his brother.

Kunti told her sons how out of childish curiosity she had used sage Durvasa's magic formula that compelled the sun-god to give her a child. She also told them how Karna had promised never to harm any of her sons except Arjuna, so she could always tell the world 'you have five sons', he had said.

Pandavas remembered how Karna never killed them in the war despite having ample of opportunities to do so. Now only had they realized this why. This made them feel miserable. Victory came to them stained in their brother's blood.

'May no woman ever again be able to keep such secrets from the world' pronounced Yudhishtira.

"Why did you not tell us?" asked Arjuna.

To this, Krishna came to Kunti's rescue and responded: "if she did, would you have fought him? And if you would have not fought him, the Kauravas would have not been defeated and dharama would have not been established."

But, this logic of Krishna did not take away the gloom of surviving sons of Kunti.

After revealing the truth of Karna's origin, the relationship between Kunti and her sons was never the same again. They were angry with her. 

In their view, she had abandoned her own child to save her reputation. She had allowed them to hate him all the years. If she would have revealed this earlier, Karna would have not been treated so unjustly by the world.

So what comes to me is this:  

• The knowledge of the world around us is imperfect because it's based on perceptions and false information. 
• We are surrounded by Kuntis who hide the truth in fear. 
• We are surrounded by Karans, villians, who are actually brothers.