BHAGHAVATHAM Avathaara of Kapila: Devahuthy ,the daughter of Manu was wedded to Rishi Kardhama.

After having nine daughters she was blessed by the rishi to have a son ,who is the avathaara of Hari himself and she was asked to perform thapasya to bear that great son.And when she became pregnant Brahma himself visited her to pay respects to the baby Hari,within her womb.Brahma being the grandfather of Kapila,was pleased to have such an offspring in his race.He told Devahuthy that the baby in her womb will be born with beautiful hairs,and golden colour ,with lotus eyes and lotus sign on his feet and will be highly compassionate and is the avathaara of Narayana to destroy the karmavaasana of people through samkhya and yoga .And he will the the Lord of all the sidha after him. According to the instruction of the Brahma,Rishi Kardhama gave his nine daughters in marriage to the great rishis of the time.Athri wedded Anasooya,Angiras wedded Sradha,Mareechi wedded Kala,Pulasthya wedded Havirbhu,Pulaha wedded Dhanyagathy,Krathu wedded Kriya,and Brighu wedded Khyaathi.Vasishta wedded Arundhathy and Atharvan wedded Saanthi. When Kapila was born Kardhama worshipping him as Narayana asked permission to take to sanyasa and leave home forever.Kapila saidI am born as your son to keep my word to you that I will be your son.My birth is to spread gnaana of Samkhya and yoga for those who are desirous of experiencing Nirvaana and sacrificing worldly life.This way of gnaana is very ancient but due to its antiquity it disappeared from earth and my mission is to reawaken that method.Father,if you so desire,you can take up sanyasa and attain amrithathwa.Visualise me as residing in the heart cave of every being and enlightened intelligence within yourself and reach the ultimate foal of nirvana without fear or sorrow.Hearing this,Kardama circumambulated his son,and taking the vow of silence went to forest .He fixed chitha in Athman and with peaceful chitha as a ocean without waves and attained the greatest state of yoga equivalent to Narayana himself ,seeing Narayana in himself. Kapila ,with compassionate heart,lived in the banks of Bindusaras,near the Saraswathy river with his mother .One day ,Devahuthy approached him and asked mokshamarga.He was happy to advice it to his mother .He said:The bondage and liberation of jeeva is due to the mind only.If chitha is attracted to sense objects,bondage happens.If chitha is attracted to God,liberation happens.When mind is free from emotions like mine,me etc and the desires ,envy,fear,greed etc which follow the selfish thoughts,it becomes very pure.And then it becomes devoid of pleasure or pain,sorrow or happiness and without dualities it become equalized and well balanced.When mind is pure,in it awaken devotion,wisdom,and vairagya and it becomes enlightened.It can then visualize as paramathma itself and see the distinction as Maaya.For this attainment of Brahma,several methods are said in the aagama.The most great and the best is the fixed devotion in the sarvaathmaa.Scholars know that sangham with worldly objects leads to bondage.But if sangham is with sajjana ,that will open up the way to loberation.Do not do anything in return even if someone hurts you .Do everything for others without any selfish motives.The sorrows of others should end,and everyone should bet bliss and happiness .With that desire alone,live as friend of every creation and without the feeling of enmity to anyone.That will make us peaceful and tranquil.Such characteristics are seen in sajjana/good people.Those people are the devotees who has fixed their heart in

me,without any selfish motives,and who has sacrificed all worldly ties and objects for me,and who is interested only in hearing and saying my stories and singing my glories.The sangha with such sajjana will lead to liberation.By sangha with them,the attachment to worldly objects will be reduced and then with my compassion one gets liberation from worldly sorrows.The people who are interested in my stories gradually become interested in the origin of this creation which is my karma and knowledge of eternal time and cyclical repetition of births and deaths and this naturally reduce love for selfish and temporary things.Thus Bhakthiyoga leads to gnaana and wisdom .Gnaana and Bhakthy are as a result of ashtanghayoga.One who follows the method of ashtangayoga merges with me ultimately . Devahuthy said.What is the nature of bhakthy which is in the form of mukthy?Especially for a woman like me which type is suitable?And how can I reach your state most easily?Explain the method you just said about attaining both bhakthy and mukthy.Though I am a woman and of lesser intelligence ,I would love to understand and enjoy this samkhyayoga which is difficult for cognition for even the great intellectuals. Kapilan said:-Bhakthy is more great than sidhi.Therefore the most accomplished yogins do not desire any intellect or sidhi and they just want to merge with me in devotion and to serve me and praise me with beautiful songs and stories.They have love for different moorthy(idols/forms)of mine and worship them happily and live.Mother,they see my smiling face,my lotus eyes,and compassionate behaviour and talk to me always with love and devotion in poetic language.My beautiful organs from head to foot,my smile,my playful leela,my looks,and my speech makes them my lovers forever and that devotion and love itself gives them liberation.They do not desire my Lakshmy,my vibhoothy or my ashtangasidhi ,yet they reach my vaikuntaloka and enjoy eternal bliss of liberation.They reach my saantha(tranquil peaceful)loka and live there forever.i am their most desired lover,friend,son,Guru,Athman and everything.I am their God and mother.My wheel of time does not touch such devotees.They do not have the feeling of minein anything that is worldly ,both gross and subtle and they consider only me as Mine.this type of Ekaanthikabhakthy gives them enlightenment and I liberate them from the sorrowful samsaara by my love for them.those who love me as everything lose fear of samsaara.It is by fear of me the sun shines,Indra rains,agni burns and vaayu moves .The people who are fixed in me by eternal love of devotion are not afraid of me and they live in me eternally. I will now tell you the lakshana (sign)of Thathwa .By that differentiate prakrithy from purusha.And also by which the bondage of heart is cut and Athman is directly perceived.That is called the gnaanayoga. In the beginning there was only the purusha which is unmanifested and without the three guna of sathwa,rajas and thamas.He in a playful mood by own will assumed the form of the prakrithy with the three guna .Prakrithy by her thriguna and its different combinations creates the praja .The jeeva seeing this wonderful prakrithy with its creative powers become attracted to her.Jeeva by projection thinks that the karma done by the thriguna are done by him and thus becomes sorrowful ,proud or happy due to the projected doership .Thus forgets his own natural state of akarthaa,free liberated ,blissful eka existence as witness of everything .For such a jeeva samsaara as bondage happen again

and again.Purusha is the ultimate cause of everything .Jeeva forgets that swaroopa and projects the qualities of prakrithy on oneself and falls into bondage of maaya. Devahoothy asked:- Hey ,Purushotham,tell me the lakshana of purusha and prakrithy with gross and subtle form and the cause of the entire universe and the parents of all living and nonliving. Sreebhagavaan said:- Prakrithy is eternal and has thriguna form and without any form,and has subtle and gross form,and sometimes depend upon special(visesha)and is the cause of everything .5,5 4 and 10 making 24 are the important thathwa according to scholars.the first five are the five elements akaasa,vaayu,agni,jhala and earth/prithwi. The second five are the thanmaathra of gandha(smell)rasa(taste),roopa(form)sparsa(touch)and sabda(sound).The 10 are the five sense organs and the five motor organs comprising ear,skin,eyes,nose,toungue and word,hands,legs,generative organs and the perineum .the four are the mind,intellect,ahamkaara,and chitha as internal organs.the function of the antha:karana(internal organs)are samkalpa(imagination)nischaya(decision)athmaabhimaana(pride of self)and chintha(thoughts).This anthakarana with four functions is one(eka)and it is divided as four due to its functional difference only .The 25th thathwa is kaala or time.Time or kaala is the manifestation of purusha and not prakrithy.Only the mad person who is afraid of maaya is afraid of kaala or time.The name of that Bhagavaan ,who makes the prakrithy function is kaala or time.Inside beings purusha functions as purusha and outside as kaala or time.It is by maaya these two are felt as two.Both are same.Once we know this we are not afraid of it,because it is purusha,our own self.Purusha himself is the lord of all loka.he himself made the prakrithis yoni fruitful and lead to creation.From the prakrithy by the nion of purusha was born the Mahath which is endless and the sprout of the universe.It destroys the darkness which covers its light .Thus it revealed itself by its own light.Mahathathwa is that saantha,nirmala and the to be known sathwaguna chitha which is called by the name of Vaasudeva .The lakshana of the chitha which is pure,movementless, and prasaantha with the early state of the first waters without any waves is explained by all scholars.From mahathathwa was born Ahankaaara with kriyaabala and having the three divisions of vikaara as raajasa and thaamasa.Sathwapradhaana is called vaikaarika,rajas is called thaijasa,and thamas is called thaamasa or sleep/darkness.From these were born mind,the sense organs,and the five mahaabhootha or elements.that with elements,mind and indriya is called sankarshana and it is always enlightened and eternal with 1000 heads .It is indivisible eka .Ahankaaralakshana is said as doership,karana(organs of doership)and karya(effect)and as santha,ghora and mooda as mental states.When sathwik ahamkara become vikritha mind is born .The sankalpa and vikalpa of mind produce kaama or desires.Kaama is worshipped as the beautiful and shyamala form and the Lord of all senses and call him Anirudha.He is internal to every being .From the vikrithy of thaijasa ahamkara was born the budhi or intellect and only with its blessings beings and their sense organs get knowledge of objects .The functions of intellect are decision,doubts,opposite intellect ,memory ,and confidence with faith .The gnanendriya and karmendriya are from raajasa ahamkaara itself.the power for karma resides in jeeva and that is cognized only by budhi.From the thaamasa ahankara was formed sound and from it aakaasa and sound is cognized with ears.the sound gives the consciousness of objects .For example if someone

says Here goes an elephant ,even withoutseeing the elephant the hearer cognizes the presence of the object elephant.the subtle form of aakaasa is sabda.The sign of aakaasa is responsible for giving inside and outside,and giving holes to everything,and gives space for praana,indriya and mind .It gives right of space for everything and hence is called akaasa .By the movement of time,the nabhas(akaasa)with vikaara ,created touch.From touch arose the winds.The touch is known by skin.The subtle form of vaayu is softness,hardness,cold,and heat .The functions of movement,synthesise and union,going near and leading and giving strength to senses are that of vaayu.From wind having the thanmathra of sparsa due to will of God originated form.From roopa was born thejas and it is cognized by eyes.Giving form to an object,have it qualities by which it can be cognized,and taking form according to the individual dravya and having energy are the functions of roopa.Revealing,drinking,cooking and digestion,swallowing ,ending sense of coldness,making thin,hunger etc are the signs of thejas or agni.From thejas which is joined with vikaara by divine will originate rasa and from it water and taste is cognized by toungue.Sweet,hot,acidic,sour and mixed are the tastes.The rasa by combinations make endless tastes .Eka is rasa and by union of objects it is made manifold.Making liquid,thin and solidification ,making life possible,making soft and reducing temperature and heat ,increase in lowlying areas etc are the signs of water.From water having vikara by the passage of time is formed the smell and nose cognizes the smell .Gandha is eka and it is made manifold by union of different objects.Good and bad smells soft and very strong smells etc are the lakshana of gandha .Their functions are helping the different moorthy for worship of Brahma,and help in creation of those idols,and exist without dependence on other elements,and become base for water etc,and be helpful as divisor for separating and defining the limit of the other elements etc. and transform in the bhootha as male and female ,etc are functions of earth with smell as primary quality.All these are due to earth.the quality of aakaasa is sound and the receiver is ears.The receiver of vaayu is skin and receiver of thejas or light is eyes,receiver of rasa is toungue and that of gandha is nose.thus in each element as the qualities increase one by one ,earth ahs 5 ,water has 4,fire has 3,vaayu has 2,and akaasa has only one quality.when the mahaththwa ,ahamkara and earth were not moving and changing position,the Iswara who is with the karma of time sleeping in the milky ocean entered them and by the entry of divine power they united and lost their separateness .From the seven objects an egg was derived and that anda which was achethana is the viratpurusha and this brahmanda which conceives the Brahman within as the seed of entire prapancha was engulfed by ten times its quantity of flood waters .It was of golden colour and holes were formed in it as organs of viratpurusha.First the hole at fore end was formed and it became the face or mouth and from it agni as vaak was generated.Then was formed the nose and and from it praana,from eyes was generated the sun .from ears was generated the directions.from skin was formed the numerous hairs and from them the oushadhi and vanspathi and the generative organ.From generative organ was formed the semen and from it water .From the opening at the hind end was generated the apaana and from it was formed death .From the arms was generated strength and from it Indra ,the king of devas.Then the legs were formed and from them gathy(movement )was created. From the feet was born the Vishnu.then the naadi were formed for the viratpurusha.From it was formed blood and from it rivers.Stomach was formed and from it hunger and thirst and from them the oceans.then heart was formed and from it mind and from it the moon and then intellect

and from it aja(the Brahmaa)..From heart was generated ahmkaara and from it rudra.from chitha was born jeeva .For these sons there was no power to awaken the virat.therefore they did tapas in their own places.Only when jeeva entered the heart ,the viratpurusha awakened as if from the milky ocean with full strength .All other organs are having no strength or power to awaken and to know without jeeva .With bhakthy,virakthy,yoga practice and intellect ,wisdom one has to try to understand the Iswara who resides in this body as the Pratyagaathman . Mokshaniroopana:-When jeeva becomes attached to prakrithy he becomes proud of doership and bondage happens.Then sorrows and happiness and dualities happen.Such a person become bounded to samsaara and liberation does not occur to him.But if one observes ashtangayoga and concentrates mind and love all elements and living things as One ,and equal and Doinf swadharma lives peacefully and blissfully alone without hurting anything ,and totally unselfish,meditating on Athman as Brahman ,then liberation happens. Devahuthy asked:Jeeva and prakrithy are always together and the five elements are common to both.then how can one get kaivalya?May be someone may get reduction of fear but the cause of samsara being eternal how can one get total liberation? Kapila said:The concentrated meditation for long periods,purity of chitha ,swadharma without desires,and hearing of my stories and my keerthana for prolonged periods generating devotion which is pure and one-pointed gives viveka,vairagya and theevrayoga and then Samadhi and all attachments are burned as if wood by fire.All avidya is thus lost.For such a person there is no rebirth.For all others recycling in the great wheel of samsara happens.when the yogin is not concerned even for sidhi,he gets liberation by my love and compassion. Vaishnavayoganiroopan:- there are two types of yoga order.According to ones own strength,ashrama dharma and varnadharma , each one should do yoga .Doing ones duties without selfish desires,one should practice simple living and serve great people and sajjana.Aiming only moksha,without interest in the other three purushartha,keeping body and mind pure ,observing silence sit in a place where no one disturbs .Yama,niyama,asana,praanaayaama etc should be done according to yoga instructions.In iswarapranidhaana ,meditate my form as the most beautiful .the face as a lotus flower beautiful and smiling,eyes as red lotus petals,body as blue lotus,four hands with conch,wheel,lotus and mace,yellow silk dress,and sreevalsa in chest,with kousthubha,and garland of flowers on which bees sing ,different types of jewels ,and crown ,peaceful and happy countenance and feet which are worshipped by even the devaas,and always youthful state,is meditated .All my activities are meditated upon with their meanings analysed for getting fixity in me.Love and devotion make one concentrated in Bhagawan.When love is perfect ,one gets certain signs like tears of joy,etc and all ego is lost and see Athman in all and all in Athman just as me and that Thanmayeebhaava makes haribhaktha liberated without effort. Devahuthy asked:When does a person become free from all attachments ?For that what one should know?I have heard that if one cognizes your Kaalaswaroopa one can achieve that state.Tell me about it. Kaalaswaroopaniroopanam:- Kapila said:The different types of Bhakthy happen due to different types of guna like sathwa,rajas,thamas and their combinations in human beings.

The one with predominance of thamoguna has himsa,ego,competitions and anger,and he has feeling of separatism from me.He meditates on me for getting wealth,women,fame and other worldly things .the one with rajoguna predominance also has separate feelings and he worships me for removal of his sins.Sathwa predominat man meditate me to dedicate all his karma to me ,or for the desire to act according to the veda injunctions which he had heard .even he can have the feeling of dwitha or separateness.By just hearing my stories and my keerthana,mind like pure ganga flows into the ocean of me naturally and merge in me.I will tell you the lakshana of nirgunabhakthiyoga. The bhakthy which has no duality between Bhaktha and Bhagwan ,and which is causeless(Ahaithuki) and does not desire anything except me,is the same as Nirvaana.My devotees does not even desire the liberation.they want me alone .that type of causeless and desireless love is nirvana . Without selfishness do swadharma.Practice perfect ahimsa of mind,word and deeds.See me in all elements and all elements in me.Respect elders and great people.Have friendship in all.Have compassion to all.Practice yama niyama always.Hear adhyathmasasthra and my keerthana.have sajjanasamgha.Speak satya and do only dharma.Do not have the misunderstanding that this physical body is the Athman.without knowing me there is no point in doing mechanical rituals.The idol worship is inferior to this.But ,it is necessary since majority of people are unable to do the concentration on absolute truth which is approachable only to the sarvagna .Among the Brahmana ,the knower of veda is great.the knower of veda with its meaning is greater than him.The man who can remove doubts is greater than who knows meaning.And among such teachers the one who does swadharma is greater.Among the doers of swadharma the one without attachment is greater.And among such people nishkaamakarmi is more great.He has equal vision in everything and respects all elements alike and loves all alike.For those who have dualities and separateness the form of Bhagavaan as Kaala is fearful.Because they see it as death.For those with samadrishti,it is most beautiful vision and not fearful.Kaala or time is cause of everything and everything merges in it.It is that Vishnu which is even the creator of creator.sun arises wind moves and agni burns for fear of him only.All elements are doing swadharma according to his law.the seasonal changes in plants and in living and nonliving things is due to that kaalaswaroopa.The rain and fertility of earth,the food,the persistence of races and the sustenance of earth for all to share its wealth,and the entire functioning of the universe is by that kaalaswaroopa.The kalpa,yuga,manuanthara,samvatsara,months and paksha ,and weeks and days and nights the stars and everything follow the laws of time and cyclically repeat as that sudarsana wheel. It is the dharmachakra of me.It is the cause of birth and death of everything and also the cause for eternity.It is cause for bondage as well as liberation. Just like the clouds moving due to powerful winds does not know the power of wind,the people who come and go does not realize the power of kaala or time.The worldly wealth accrued with effort goes and comes with time.And generates sorrow and ego and pride .With family and wealth which is not eternal,and thinking that they are eternal,and thinking that I am this body,people cry over the loss of such things.And become proud when they acquire them.They remain attached to family and wealth and other worldly things and never understand the real truth .Even a worm rejoice in the environment it is born and its food,associations,sexual life and new generations.So what is there in all these

things for a human being who considers above worms,animals and birds?Nothing at all.They do sins and gets into sorrows again and again because of attachment to this samsaara .Living in a house,enjoying the temporary relations and temporary wealth and attached to them ,and thinking that I am this body,and hurting all others except own family/community/friends/etc and creating more and more selfishness in this world people fall into hell of existence again and again.The greed for wealth makes him sinner.When old age comes and efficiency decrease man becomes aware of the fact that none of his/her family really wanted him/her as a person but as a means of pleasure and acquisition of pleasure.Even then man does not leave samsaara and stick on to attachments suffering all insults and sorrows and illnourished and illcared for ,and afraid of diseases and death .With aamadosha and indigestion and a host of other diseases ,and phlegm blocking naadi and flow of vaayu obstructed ,and with difficulty in breathing ,even in deathbed human beings are attached to samsara life.At the time of death,by two or three muhoortha ,the soul travels 9009 yojana and at that time only the human soul remembers all the folleys he /she had done .And how she/he did forget own swaroopa and forgot to recite and think that swaroopa which alone is eternal.But there is no more time left.Already the cycle of rebirth is at work.And with that ,the wisdom during the bardo state of death is also forgotten.And the cycle repeats without any control.This type of Gathi is called Thaamasagathy andis characteristic of people having Thamasic predominance. For the rajasa predominant the gathi is different.Ego and ignorance are there in raajasic people .Desires to get what they wanted increase with age,and if they dont get it they do quarrel with others and even hurt others to get it.Mine,yours and such distinctions are strong.Karma or action without knowledge leads him to dualities of Maaya.The association is with people who try to fill stomach and the yoni with blissful experiences of various sorts .Therefore the path to thamas is open for rajasic people.But if with luck and kindness of God and earlier sathkarma,such a soul gets chance to be in company of people with good qualities(sajjana) the rajasic can become sathwik in course of time. Rajasik people should be aware of bad influences of contacts with womanizers and women with loose morals,because it is the worst danger to which they will be subjected.They should avoid contact with bad people .The only being who is not desirous of beauty of women is Narayana .He was not desirous of even the beauty of Apsara. All others including ,Shiva had at least once in their life become lured by womens beauty.Maaya is sthreeroopa.With one movement of her eye she can destroy the entire world .But she is under control of Narayana alone.The rajasic one who is careful not to get lured by such temptations and who has sradha in sajjanasamsarga and in acquisition of gnaana and mukthy only will get over the temptations.For women ,the maaya appears in male roopa and for men as streeroopa.therefore avoid illicit contacts and relation with opposite sexes.Control all sense organs.God is Eka .Know him as occurring in oneself and in everything. Such people do good deeds like construction of wells ,tanks,etc for daily use of all,and do good to society in various ways.they protect nature and its life because everything is God for them.By bhakthy,nishkaamakarma and yoga ,and by vedanthic thoughts ,virakthy etc whether in samsaara or sanyasa the rajasic person can attain sathwik state in time .Then gradually he can attain the nirguna state .the saguna,nirguna,the sakaama and nishkaama

are the four types of bhakthiyoga they have in God.Becaus eof combinations of these manifold rajasic methods of worships happen. Do not advice sasthra to the cruel,proud,and to the one who pretends as good but is not actually so,to the one who is having desires,not devoted,to those who hurts the devoted,etc .Even if we advice it will not give any effect or even produce opposite effects.This has to be adviced to the one with sradha,bhakthy,vinaya,maithry,preethy in listening,purity ,athmanusandhaana ,and saanthy,and nishta in sadaachaara ,and one who is free from envy and who is compassionate and loves entire creation.It will bear fruit in such people. Hearing the words of her divine son Devahoothy became free from all sorrows.She worshipped and praised him as her Guru as well as the Paramaguru Bhagavan .She was aware of her punya in having born such a son who is Guru to entire universe ,including his own mother .hearing her sthuthy ,Bhagavan Kapila was moved by the love and devotion of his mother and he said with this unshakable love in me you will reach moksha quite easily .With her permission Kapila then left his home to perform his life mission of spreading Samkhyathathwa in the world.Devahuthy followed the ashtangayoga which her son advised .In Iswarapranidhana she meditaed upon the ishtadevatha as her own son/Guru/Paramapurusha and as kapila said she attained brahmapada easily by that devotion and love.The place where she attained Brahmapada,as mother and first disciple of Kapila became Sidhasrama and she became a river in that area . Kapila became wellknown as the first samkhya and yoga teacher and the first Avathar of Vishnu to do teaching of samkhyayoga. Before Kapila and after Kapila who were the teachers of Samkhya ,yoga and Bhagavathathathwa? It starts from the great serpent King Adisesha as Samkarshana who in yogic Samadhi see Lord Naaraayana alone .The Adisesha was sworshipped by Sanaka and sanathkumara and the other kumara by songs ordered into raaga and with great devotion and received the knowledge from him.Sanathkumara taught it to his disciple Samkhyaayana.Samkhyaayana taught it to Geeshpathy and Paraasara.Paraasara taught it to Maithreya and Vyaasa.From Maithreya Vidura got the knowledge.And from Vyasa Suka and many of his disciples received it. Krishna himself taught it to Udhava,and Arjuna and many of his devotees. Hiranyagarbha ,the first being is the originator of Yoga.Rishabha and other bhaagavatha followed this yoga .Dhruva and Prahlada ,Janaka etc were all great yogins.Pathanjali was the codifier of this yogasasthra very late in history.Budha also followed this knowledge. In some of the pictures of Pathanjali we find him as partly Naaga and partly human.And in all yogins head a serpent hood is seen.The modern historians wherever they see a serpent hood say that it is not a Hindu God but is a Jaina or Budhist idol.In fact ,the serpent hood denotes that this is a person who has been following the most ancient yoga and samkhya and Bhaagavatha dharma which originated first with Adisesha,the bed on which Vishnu has his Samadhi state of Yoganidra.Pithamaha,the Brahma,who was born in his nabhi padma,enquired Him both outside in the gross external universes and then

internal in the subtle inner world.Yoga gives us a wisdom most subtle and internal and encompassing both the gross external universe and the subtle universe both inner and outer.For this one needs Thapas for a long period.The very fact that we are given that thapas and that wisdom shows that we are loved by God.Otherwise we would not be able to have such an inclination at all. The yogins are gnaani and sarvagna but they are the most innocent people one can see on earth.We find the kumara like sanaka ,sanandana etc as five year old children ,most innocent and having no other thought except onepointed devotion in Bhagavaan. The innocence of Dhruva as a child devotee is parallel to this.When Dhruva did austerities in Madhuvana,Lord appeared before him with a love and compassion for that innocent child,and just touched his cheeks with his conch,which is sruthiroopa.Just by that loving motherly touch ,Dhruva got all gnaana .Dhruva married the daughter of Simsumaara prajaapathy(Simsumaaara is Vishnu Himself) called Brami(Revolutions)and daughter of Vaayu called Ila (Earth). In Brami (revolution)which represents Time,he had two children Kalpa and Valsara(Kalpa is a great epoch and valsara is a small epoch of an year).In Ila(Earth)which represents space he had one son The Utkala.(The present Orissa )Thus with Dhruva as the fixed polestar of earth,and the king of India residing in Uthkala ,and cause of revolutions of earth and responsible for the spacetime calculation as well as continuum was born the Bhagavathadharma in India.The period of one polestar (Dhruvathaara)for earth is 36000 years according to Bhaagavathapuraana. Dhruva was taken to Vishnuloka by Vishnupaarshada (Nanda and Sunanda) and to this day he is worshipped as our polestar.Naming a star by a name of a king is seen for the first time in Bhagavatha.After Simsumara ,the entire starscape in the form of Vishnu,Dhruva the polestar of Earth and the saptharshi nearby ,and the 27 starclusters as wives of Chandra or moon are considered important for astronomical understanding of universe ,its gathy and position. Dhruvapada is Vishnupada itself.All compassionate and nonviolent people loving all alike and hurting no being at all can reach this Vishnupada with the blessings of Hari.The story of Dhruva was sang in the sacrificial hall of Prachethas by Narada with his lyre accompanied by beautifully made keerthana and music. Utkala was a gnaani and did not get interested in empire or crown or any worldly things .Therefore Valsara was the next emperor.He had 6 sons in his wife Swarveethi(The path to heaven).Their names were Pushparna,Thigmakethu,Ishan,Oorjan,Vasu,and Jayan. Pushpaarna had two wives Prabha and Dosha.For Prabha the three sandhya (morning,noon,and evening)became children.The children in Dosha were Pradosha,Niseetha and Vyushta.Vyushta had a son Sarvathejas in wife Pushkarini.Aakoothy was wife of Sarvathejas and her son was Chakshus.He is the Chakshushaprajapathy of Chakshusha Manuanthara. He was devoid of raagadwesha and a perfect yogi and he had in his wife Nadwala ,sons who were like him,without dualities of raagadwesha.They are the famous kings called Thritha,Dyumna,Puru,Satyavaan,Kutsan,Sibi,Rithavratha,Pradyumna,Unmukha and Agnishtoma and Athirathra.Some of these are mentioned in the veda and some are having names of sacrifices. Unmukha means one with a face lifted to higher realms.He had in his wife Pushkarini(Holy lakes)6 famous sons called Angan(After him Angadesa or Orissa

became famous),Krathu,Khyathy,Gayan (After whom the sacred place Gaya is named),Angiras(The most famous vedic rishi and to whose Guruparampara Krishna belongs)and Sumanas.Anga in Suneetha had a son called Vena.Because of his bad habits Anga left the empire and went to forests.Vena was killed by the Rishis because of his adharma.And they cloned the cells from his right arm and from his thigh.From the thigh a short human race with black skin ,short limbs,heavy jawbones ,slightly flat nose,and red eyes and blond hair was born .And he was made to rule as king of mountainous tracts and forests as Nishada and Nishadavansa(to which Guha of Ramayana as well as King Nala belong) and Kiraathavansa are his descendents .See how beautifully the anthropological features of a race is picturised by Vyaaasa in his epic.The branch of anthropology started in the west only after they had contact with India .The knowledge transfer was responsible for this from east to west. From the arms were born a male and a female Prithu and Lakshmi.Prithu is considered as Avathara of Vishnu.He is the first to institute a agricultural economy with agriculture,goraksha and vaanijya (the functions of Vaisya )protected by the king (Kshathriya) so that a unified Government administration happened and India became prosperous.The forest goods and transport through forest and mountainous tracts was under the rule of his brother king Nishaada.Thus a good system of trade ,commerce and selfsustained economy established during prithus rule.He established dharma and protected dharma of all people and ruled a unified empire in India.The feat of agricultural methods to increase production of food,the finding of the different minerals and metals for various uses and the settling of people in villages and urban centers,and townplanning with trade centers an dspecialisation of various professions etc are attributed to King Prithu .(ch 18.sl 1-32 .4th sk Mahabhagavatha).If we cannot compare such statements of the epic with what archeological evidence we have right from Mehrgarh period to Harappan,IVC and Sathavaahana ,sangham,periods and beyond until the Vijayanagara period in a continuous manner,,it only shows that our views are not logical at all. Prithu was adviced the yogamathra by Sanathkumara himself. Prithu is a avathar of Vishnu .His wife was Archis .His sons are Vijithaswan,Dhoomrakesan,Harykshan,Dravinan and Vrikan.After transforming the empire into an economically selfsufficient united whole Prithu took to mokshamarga (Bhagavathadharma)and with his wife entered forest for vanaprastha and sanyasa.The austerities of Prithu were great and he first resorted to eating roots and then dry leaves alone ,and then water alone and finally avoiding even that he took to complete upavaasa.He entered Samadhi fixing chitha in Hari as Paramathmabhava and attained moksha.Archis entered agni as sathi .(The first sathi was the wife of Shiva ,but she did sathi not because of her husbands death but because of insult from her father .So this can be sonsidered as the first sathi mentioned in Bhagavatha). Vijithaswan was the next emperor.He gave east of empire to Haryaksha,south to Dhoomrakesa,west to Vrika,and north to Dravinas.And these brothers ruled empire as a whole each one looking after the affairs of the four directions.Vijithaswans wife Sikhandini had three sons who were Paavaka,pavamaana and suchi (the three agni in former janma).In another wife Nabhaswathy he had Havirdhaana.He abolished the habits of taking taxes,giving capital punishments,and giving fines etc saying that these are hurting his people.Havirdhana had 6 sons .Barhishath,Gaya,Sukla,Krishna,Sathya,and

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Jithavratha.Among them Barhishath became great both in administration for welfare of people,and in yoga.His wife was Sathadruthy ,daughter of the oceans.For this Pracheenabarhis,in Sathadruthi was born the sons together called Prachethas.(10 of them).All of them were yogi and wentto the ocean,their maternal home and did austerity on Hari. The West coast of India is the place described as the thpovana and the Sindhu(ocean)shore to where they went.The great lake and its fauna and flora are described in detail and it is the description of the lowlying lakes of Kerala .The fishes,birds,animals etc are given in detail.The princes heard the beautiful music accompanied by Mridanga,Panava,and other musical instruments and were totally lost in the aesthetic beauty of that music.And from that lake they saw Lord Shiva emerging .Shiva adviced the Vaasudevamanthra to the Prachethas from the lakeshore of the west coast ,near the ocean. They had darsana and blessings of Hari . The first deforestation of western coast was started by them and the forest trees (Devatha of flora )gave him their daughter Marisha for stopping the destruction according to the advice of Brahma.The famous Daksha who had Brahmasaapa in previous birth,was reborn in her as the son of Prachethas. Vasudevamanthra and the yogopadesa which Shiva gave comprises sl 32-97 of 24th ch 4th skanda of Bhagavatha. Panchamaskanda Dhruva and his chronology is given thus in detail.Dhruvas father Uthaanapaada had a brother Priyavratha.The chronology of Priyavratha is then given in 5th skanda .If this detailed chronology and important historical events and its significance is known to an ancient people and if they have been giving over that history(Ithihasa and purana) to the successors ,what should one infer ? Brahma had Swayambhuva and Satharoopa created (The Adam and Eve comparison as in Bible).And Uthanapada and Priyamvratha were their sons.We saw the branching progeny of Uthanapada and his son Dhuva.Now the branching progeny of Priyamvada is given by sage vyasa. Priyamvratha married Barhishmathy ,daughter of Viswakarma the deva architect.He had 10 sons having the names of Agni,and a beautiful energetic girl called Oorjaswathy in her. (Agneedra,Idhmajihua,yagnabahu,Medhathithy,Mahaveera,Savana,Veethihothra,Kavi,Gh rithaprishta and Hiranyarethas .Kavi,Mahaveera and Savana became paramahansa from childhood itself.They became bhaagavatha and yogins with bhakthy in Mukunda).In another wife Priyamvratha had Raivatha,Uthama and Thaamasa (3 sons).They became Manu in later manuanthara. The progeny of Priyamvratha ruled the nation for 11 arbudha time.He was a great traveler of sky and oceans and he is responsible for division of globe into seven continents and seven oceans surrounding each continents.(Vasco da gama was only a very very late comer and that too one who knew only trade and commerce and not scientific details of sea voyage ).He gave the seven continents for his seven children to

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govern and perform dharma .The daughter Oorjaswathy was married to Sage usanas or Sukra and Devayani was her daughter who later married king Yayathi .Agneedra was king of Jambudweepa the continent to which Bharathavarsha belongs.He had in the Apsara singer Poorvachithy nine children .They were Naabhi,Kimpurusha,Harivarsha,Ilavritha,Ramyaka,Hiranmaya,Bhadraswa,Kuru and Kethumaala. And they were first cousins of Dhruva .They married the daughters of Meru (Merudevi,Prathiroopa,Ugradamshtra,Latha,Ramya,Shyama,Naari,Bhadra and Devaveethi). When Nabhi ruled what is present Bharathavarsha was called Ajanaabhavarsha.Nabhi did austerities and wished for Vishnu to be born as his son.And compassionate Vishnu was pleased with his bhakthy and took avathaar in Merudevi as Rishbha .(The first Theerthankara of jaina).In Jayanthi,Daughter of Indra Rishabha had a hundred sons and the eldest one Bharatha ruled Ajanabhavarsha and after that it aquired the name of Bhaartahavarsha.(Even the history of the name of our nation is mentioned ).Nine of the sons (Ilavarthan,Malayan,Brahmavarthan,Kusavarthan,kethu,Indrasprik,keetakan and Vidarbhan )ruled over different parts of Bharathavarsha which is known by their names.Nine of the sons became famous Haribhaktha and paramabhaagavatha as navayogins (Kavi,Pippalayana,Hari,Prabudha,Dramila,Chamasa,Avirhothra and Anthariksha) and spread Haribhakthi and Bhaagavathadharma which was advised to them by their fathe Rishabha.Towards the end of his life Rishabha became an avadhootha and crossing Konkana,Dakshinakarnataka,traveled in south and in vangadesa and he was burned by forest fires while wandering in the Kudajaadri (in present Karnataka where the temple of Devi Mookambika stands .This was the ancient northern limit of Kerala ).By the birth of Vishnu as Rishabha the race of Priyavratha became pure and the descendents became great Krishnabhaktha singing and telling stories of Hari and spreading Bhagavathadharma.Rishabha demonstrated how to do naishkarmya in this birth.Whosoever heres his advices will become possesse d of Ekanthikabhakthy in Krishna. Bharatha married the daughter of Viswaroopa called Panchajani.They had five sons Sumathy,Rashtrabrith,Aavaranan,Dhoomrakethu and Sudarsanan.Nepal and the Ghandaki river in which the saalagraama are seen is described here.It is said that Bharatha wentto visit Pulaha rishi doing penance in the vicinity of this river.Pulaha was doing dhyana of Krishna when he saw the rishi. Bharatha accepted sanyasa there and while he was doing oblutions in Gndhaki river he saw a pregnant deer being killed by a hunters arrow and a small kid falling into the river from its womb and Bharatha with his compassion took up the cub and looked after it as his own son.During his moment of death ,because of attachment to the deer son,Bhartaha thought about only the deer and therefore he was born as a deer .But due to his great austerities he constantly remembered what had happened and how he was reborn as a deer.After that birth ,he was again reborn in the race of Angirasa as one of the twins (the other was a female child).Because of his former memory of attachment and its effects he was always leading a life of nonattachment and even when his father tried to teach him he could not pronounce the vedamanthra correctly.The rishi had nine children.When the rishi died and mother did sathi,the other brothers of Bharatah thought this is a mentally retarded useless one ,deaf and dumb and made him do all household duties and he did all without complaint.Outside appearance of the body was that of an ignorant unclean mentally retarded one,but he had

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an enlightened Brahmamahas within .One day ,a soodra king wanted a man of perfect proportions to sacrifice eto Bhadrakaali and his servants saw Bharatah .They bathed and cleaned him and ornamented his body and took him to the Kaali temple Bharatha was not at all afraid and he was happily following whatever they asked .But seeing a Bhaktha and Gnaani like Bharatha being taken to the altar and being sacrificed,Kaali was angered and she appeared in her true form and killed the ones who were trying to kill him.Once ,king Rahoogana who ruled Sindhusouveeradesa was traveling along river Indumathy to reach kapilasrama to learn thathwa ,and Bharatha was taken as one of the carriers of his vehicle.Bharatha who was careful not to injure any jeeva ,even an ant under his foot ,due to his Ahimsa was slow to walk did not heed to orders to walk in the same pace as the other carriers.The king insulted him in severalways.He called bharatha as dead body(jada)mad(matha)etc and said he will give treatment for these.hearing the insults and not perturbed by them the Jadabharatha repliedWhat you said is true,I agree.Though there is weight for the one who I carry,I do not have it,because I am not the body,but Athman and therefore I do not have tiredness.Only the traveler has a goal.And I should be the traveler.Only then there is travel.I am not the traveler Because I am that Chidathma filling everything and everywhere and I have no where to go or come. But I have some doubt about what you called me as obese.the obesity and thinness are only for body.Not for the Athman.therefore only ignorant will call the Athman as obese. Fatness,thinness,sorrows of mind,fears,desires,hunger and thirst ,diseases,quarrels,eros,anger,old age,sleep,pride,etc are seen in all that is born .For all wih a birth and such a life there is death also.Therefore , my body is a jada (dead one)with birth and death .Our dharma as servant and master will be there only for a temporary period.Once the period is over that dharma also naturally ends.The order and servitude are temporary like the physical objects.If I become a king ,the name servant is lost from that day.And vice versa.the relation of master-seravnt is not eternal.The special duality of I am master and you are servant is a type of intellect which is not seen in the law of God,but only in worldly views.For the worldly law I am servant and you are king the master.But for me ,who is sometimes seravant,sometimes mad,sometimes dead(jada)etc your treatment will not be of any use .And for me as the changeless Athman it is not required either.For one with a sthabda or pramathachitha no siksha or teaching will become fruitful .And for athma which knows everything ,the worldly teaching is of no use.in either way what you called me is correct. Rahoogana knew his folly in not recognizing the yogin in this praakrith man and he prostrated before the sage asked for yoga upadesha and Bharatha gave upadesha to Rahoogana.The advice of Bharatha is the ekanthika vasudeva dharma itself. The Bhagavad padi as a river flows from the feet of Vishnu with four branches arising from Meru .The four branches flow to four sides in Vardhi.They are Chakshus(present Oxus)Seetha,Alakananda,and Bhadra.Seetha falling down through the Gndamadana mountains,and the middle of Bhdrachalavarsha reaches the eastern ocean .Chaksusha through Malyavaaan mountain ,and middle of Kethumaal reaches the western ocean.Through Sringavan mountains and northen Kuru ,flowing north,Bhadra falls in the ocean.Alakananda through south of Brahma mountains through several places and Hemakoota flows through Bhaartaha bhoomi and reaches the southern ocean.Bharathabhoomi is for experience of karmaphala.In all the nine varsha and seven

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continents Hari alone lives .In Ilavritha Shiva alone is seen as male and all others are females.Shiva is the 4th Thaamasa moorthy of Vishnu .For highest Samadhi state Shiva gave the samkarshanamanthra . Ajaamilamoksham There was a Brhmin in the land called Kanyakubja(Kanouj).He was attracted to a dasi and married her.He lost all interest in vedic swadhyaya,pooja and devotion to God and became a samsaari and was immersed in worldly life.He didnt do his sandhya,did dishonest deeds life dice,thefts etc and amassed wealth for his wife and children in all bad ways.He did hurt men animals and birds just for his selfish needs.In this way he lived upto eightyeight years.During his old age he begot a child and named him Narayana.Both the parents were very fond of this infant son who was born to them in old age.Seeing his playful infancy,hearing his words,giving him food and bathing him and putting him to sleep the old man became too much attached to him.He never had loved his other children like that because he was busy making money when they were born.The child was always with the old man and every moment the father used to call him Narayana,Narayana.And he always remembered the child and his name.The time came for his death.The messengers of Dharmaraja arrived.Seeing those three Dharmapaarshada the old man was afraid and he instantly remembered his son and called outNrayana.Naraayanaa.Immeadiately four paarshada of Hari arrived .all of them with beautiful lotus eyes,yellow garments and four arms wearing conch,wheel ,padma and mace and youthful looking in all respects like Hari himself.They prevented the Yamakinkara from taking Ajamila.Yamadhootha said:-Who are you?Your light makes us blind.Why do you prevent us who are doing our dharma? The vishnuparshada said with a smile:-If you are messengers of Dharmarajan tell us the dharma with its lakshana.How is the punishment done?Which is the place where it is given?Are the people who implement the dharma also subject to such punishment?If not so,will not they become just a few among the human race? The yamadhootha replied:-Whatever is said in the veda is dharma.Whatever is not in veda must be adharma.Veda is the same as that swayambhoo Vishnu.Our Dharmadeva has told us so.Naaraayanan is that supreme Lord who have in his own swadhaama this entire prapancha with thriguna .The night,day,dharma,directions,water and other bhootha are the witness of entire jeevajaala.They know every ones dharma and give punishment for the adharma.Everyone has to suffer the punishment or reward according to their own karma.This janma is only the image of the previous one .The praanivarga are born with the tendencies of previous birth and do karma because of that.This Brahmana was a honest and vedic scholar and had controlled his senses ,but seeing a daasi who was entertaining a man ,drunk,naked and singing and dancing ,he lost all his control and becoming her servant married her.Because she didnt like his way of Brahmnic life,he sacrificed all his good ways just for pleasing her and amassed wealth in the way she suggested him to do.He became so low in his life that he forgot God and lived the life of even less than an animal.Now the time has come for us to take him to where his rightful place is.By being there and having proper punishment he will become pure again.

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Vishnuparshada said:-Even in the minds of dharma protectors adharma has entered.This man might have done a crore of sins in this janma or in pastjanmas but by calling out the name of Naraayanaa all his sins are lost and he has become purified.By calling Narayana once sins disappear.If it is repeated he is liberated.This man called out Narayana,Narayana repeating twice .You yourself said that your Dharmadeva has instructed you that Narayana himself is Veda and by doing what is in the veda is dharma.So,this janthu(jeeva)has done what is ascribed by veda by calling out Narayana and he is liberated .We have to take him to our Lords dhama.His place is there. In this way Ajamila was liberated. Prahlaaadacharitham When Jaya and Vijaya ,two of the Parshada of Vishnu were cursed by the Sanakaadi Rishi,they were born as Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu. Hiranyaksha was killed by Vishnu in his Varaha avathara.Hiranyakasyapa did severe penance and Brahmadeva gave him boons that he will not be killed by man ,animal,inside or outside ,day or night ,by weapons so that he enjoyed victory over all the worlds.He insisted that everyone should meditate on his name only .And the life became miserable for deva,rishi and good men and women on earth.They went to SriNarayana and meditated on him:Om Namo Bhagavathe Thubhyam Purushaaya Mahathmane Visudhaanubhavaananda Sandohaaya yathobhayam. Bhagavan told them that a pious son will be born to the Asura with the famous name of Prahlada and through him,the Lord himself will kill Hiranyakasipu. During a Devasurasangrama while the asura were in hiding ,Narada had helped Kayathu,wife of Hiranyakasyapa ,who was pregnant at the time ,to protect her infant embryo by giving her protection in his ashram.The infant embryo in her womblistened to Harinaama and keerthana of the great Muni ,and became a devotee of Vishnu even while he was in the womb of his mother.This child was born as Prahlada. From his infancy he showed his rare qualities.He was sathwik,and helped all with compassion,and had an equality in all living things .He worshipped Guru like God,and people were treated as if a father.He was learned in veda and sciences and had a humble demeanour and was loved by all .He always enjoyed in Harinama.His toys were not like other children.He made a idol of Krishna and played with it ,worshipping it and singing to ot.Many a time he was seen in deep meditation and Samadhi state like a yogi.Or he will be singing keerthana in a emotional ecstacy with tears of joy in eyes . Sukra was the Guru of asura race.In Hiranyakasipus palace two of the sons of Sukra(Sounda and Arka)were teaching children .Once Hiranyakasipu took Prahlada on his lap and asked what did your Guru teach you.He said:I think it is better to go forest and meditate on Narayana than living in this dark well of world where people are mistakenly identifying body as Athman and getting bound to it forever. The king thought my little son is being taught the love of Hari by Brahmins who have come specifically for that purpose.The teachers were asked to be careful .The teachers

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afraid of their plightasked the childPrahlada,Who taught you this?Is it natural in you or does any one tell you this? Prahlada said:That Iswara who makes us subjects to his Maaya of illusionary ego like mine and yours ,Tht Hari ,who is Lord of everything, Namaskaaram.When that Bhagwan is compassionate in a man,the maya of mine yours etc ends and the animal intelligence is destroyed .Even the creators of scriptures have been put under the illusion of mine and Thine.By my luck,that Lord had made my mind different from other children of his.Just like a piece of iron by a magnet,my mind is always moving to that Lord Chakrapaani.. The teachers wereafraid.They gave him several types of punishments and tried to stop him from uttering the name of Vishnu.Thay said in the vansa of sandalwood of Hiranyakasipu,such a thorny tree has been created for their destruction.The child learned Dharma,Artha,and other vidyas quickly but he never stopped uttering the name of Vishnu and the mokshamarga.Once his mother after bathing him and giving new dress sent him to see his father.The king embraced the child and putting him on his lap ,kissing and with tears of joy in his eyes asked My dear son,what good things you learned from your teachers?Tell me ,your loving father.. The child said:- The Purusha who does the navavidhabhakthy(nine types of bhakthy) like paadasevana,archana,athmanivedana,vandanam,keerthanam,sakhyam,smrithy,dasyam and hearing his naama ,and one does these with sradha and sacrifices everything in Bhagavan,the best will be to learn this marga. The lips of the cruel father twitched in anger and he was angry at the teachers.Why did you teach such things to my child?Are you a spy of my enemy? The Guruputhra said: I havent taught him these.No one else has taught him this too.This is a natural knowledge in him.Please do not be angry with us. Then th eking said to his son:-Hey,killer of ones own race,If this opposite intellect was not created in you by your teachers,from where did you derive this?Tell me the truth. The child said with folded hands:-If a person who is living in the pleasures and attachments of a home ,develops a onepointed devotion in Bhagwan,it cannot be from another ,nor is it from oneself and not by mutual help of these two.Those impure chethas or intellects who think the external objects are the truths,will never get the wisdom of Bhagvan Mukunda.They are bound in the threads of samsara made of Iswara as if a blind leading a blind forever.Until the dust from the feet of pure souls fall on their mind,their minds are not likely to enjoy the feet of Krishna That was too much for the egocentric father and he asked his soldiers to kill the child taking him to a far off place.The child is a servant of the one who killed my brother and even at the age of five he has joined the side of enemy and therefore he has to be disposed of as early as possible.The king said.He thought of his deed as a surgeon removing a organ which is harmful to the existence of the body. The soldiers did hurt the child in many ways.But the child was not shaken by the pain or injuries.He remained in Vishnu with unshakable love,devotion and faith.By fire,elephants,serpents with poison,sword,and by pushing down a high mountain,putting to jail without food or water,burying in the soil,and tieing with strong choir and then

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immersing in water The soldiers did all sorts of things to kill a five year old child.When Hiranyakasipu heard of this he became thoughtful.The child could not be killed by my strong soldiers.He has liberated himself by his own power from all such attempts.What a wonderful thing to happen!Though a small baby he is so fixed in his pure intellect .He is like Sunashepha in the veda ,who was saved from death.My son has immense power in him and is fearless and Deathless .If I am an enemy to this child of mine,Mrityu can happen to me,not to him Then according to the advice of the sons of Sukra ,Prahlada was bound by Varunapaasa and given punishment of learning what the Guru teach him in that bound state.But ,whatever they taught had duality and Prahlada did not agree to learn them.When the other children of the Guru called him to play with themPrahlada called them to his side and with a disarming smile started to give them advice.All the children forgot their toys and sat around Prahlada and learnt what he taught .The children fixed their heart and eys in this divine child and loved him .By that love Prahlada was moved and in his natural friendship and compassion he told them:The scholars should start to do Bhagavathadharma during childhood itself.It is difficult to get the human birth.But ,it also is temporary and will end.The best is to dedicate oneself at the feet of Madhava,who is the friend,God and Athman of everything.There is no point in acquisition of external wealth which will not last.It is just wasting the life.The dedication of life to feet of Vishnu gives us eternal endless bliss and that is the real wealth.Before the health dwindles by old age,the intelligent one should start aquiring this wealth as early as possible. If one has a hundred years of lifespan,half of it goes in vain for a person who is not having control of his senses(in sense pleasures).Every day ,half is lost by the sleep which is inevitable.In infancy and childhood and adolescene man wastes twenty years in useless play .For one who has not controlled senses the rest of life is wasted in desires of women,children,wealth etc.How does a Athman who is brought up in such an environment in a house ,bounded to desires of several types becomes able to free his senses and get Mukthimarga? My friends,Which is dearer than the praana? We find the thiefs and the traders and their servants trying to make money even if the praana is lost .We find men remembering the lovely women and their union in solitude and the attachment to them forever.We find the attachment to children and grandchildren and to different types of pleasures in houses, to profession,and to the world among worldly people around.The pleasures of the toungue,eyes,nose,ears,and skin and generative organ is neverending for living things.Continuing this cycles of temporary attachments people waste the entire lifespan.What they think as their wealth is not theirs at all.Even the scholars are under the influence of this misunderstanding that external objects are their wealth.Such people become powerless to know the swaswaroopa. The one who is attached to external objects is never liberated and becomes a playing monkey for vishayasukha.He becomes a chain of sons to the endless generations of samsaara.Therefore,my friends,Leave the attachment to your Daitya race and its attachment to external body and worlds and dedicate yourself to Vishnu He is mokshaswaroopa.He is in every element and everything is in him.Therefore if you pleases him,you will be liberated and saved.That Paramathman is Nitya,and

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Eka.Whatever is seen as many is actually that Eka only.Therefore be compassionate and loving to all living things.By love and compassion toall Hari is pleased.If that Bhagwan is pleased nothing more is there to be gained.We,who drink the nectar of his feet do not desire anything,not even the mukthy or nirgunabrahma state.For us dharma and athmavidya and everything is Hari alone.The logic,sciences and the several professional knowledge which people follow are only relative truths for us and absolute truth isHari who is truth of all truths.therefore dedicate everything in him.In the past Narayana ,the friend of Nara adviced this to Narada ,the Brahmarshi.This is the Aikanthikagnaana .This Bhagavathadharma and the pure Ekanthikagnana I learnt from Narada directly. The friends of Prahlada said:-Prahlada,You like us is a child.And we have been learning only under these two Guruputhra only.And how did you get the learning from Narada in the Antha:pura of your mother where fearing your father no rishi ever comes?This is unbelievable.Tell us how you saw Narada and and got his advice ? Then Prahlada tells his friends how Indra was taking his pregnant mother as prisoner to kill the child within and how Narada saved his mother saying that the child is the greatest Vishnubhaktha to be born ever and thus changing Indras mind.Narada adviced dharma,and Advaitha to the pregnant mother.My mother forgot them immeadiately .But I still remember them.For children and women if they have concentration in this knowledge,pure intellect will be attained .Therefore listen to my words. By time or kaala which is Isaswaroopa ,just like the plants get flowers and fruits by seasonal times, the body gets the six bhava like birth ,death etc.They are not of the Athman.Athman is sudha,nitya,eka,avyaya,kshethragna,and ultimate cause and nonattached and with no action,and omnipresent ,unmanifested,muktha ,and budha. .These are the 12 signs of Athman.Withthese 12 signs one should avoid,the feeling of mine,and I in this body and its enjoyments.The Athmagna ,like a expert goldsmith has to separate athman(gold)from its impurities so that it becomes worth for great karma.For this one should resort to yogathanthra.Eight prakrithy,three guna and eight vikara are that of prakrithy and Athman is Eka.The best and easiest method for concentration is to do service of a sadGuru,dedication of all,devotion,archanm of God,association with good people,sradha in stories of Isa,His gunakeerthan,meditation of his lotus feet etc.Win the desires and worldly attachments by such means and with love become one with Vaaasudeva.When the love in Vasudeva become fixed as rathi,hearing and uttering his names and stories and singing and listening to his keerthana one becomes ecstatic,with tears of joy,sometimes laughing ,sometimes crying,and dancing ,sometimes in deep mediating moods,and all the time chanting his names in mind .When this state is attained Bhagavan is pleased and all impurities of vasana are removed and one merges in bhagavan.Hari exists everywhere and in everything.Only Hari is worth attaining.Other things are of no use . The asura children heard his words with happiness and concentration and everyone of them became devoted in Ekanthikabhakthimarga.Seeing this the son of Sukra,their teacher was terror-struck.He went and complained to the king about what had happened.Prahlada was brought to his father.Seeing him in a terrible fit of anger Prahlada was not afraid and he stood there with folded arms in front of his father with a smile .

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Hiranya asked:-The three worlds are afraid of just a turn of my eye.How can you be so fearless of me?Whose power is this? Prahlada said:-Father,The one who is the Lord of all worlds is my power.He protects me as well as you and all elements.Do sacrifice your aasura ego .He will protectyou with his power. Hiranya said:-You are inviting death.Fool,unlucky one,If there is such a powerful Lord to protect you where is he?You say he is everywhere.Is he in this pillar too? Prahlada prostrated before that pillar and said ,yes ,he is in this pillar too. Hiranyakasipus anger knew no bounds.He said ,let me see whether what you say is true and after that I myself will kill you.He hit on the pillar and a sound emanated from it which echoed everywhere.Hari came out of it in a wonderful form half man half lion,and killed Hiranyakasipu.Even after killinghim the rage of Narasimha did not decrease.To make him peaceful Brahma,Shiva,Indra,Rishis,Pithrus,sidha,vidhyadhara,naaga,Manus,Prajapathis,Gandharv a ,chaarana,yaksha ,kinpurusha ,vaithalika ,kinnara ,vishnuparshada sang his keerthana .But he was not appeased.Even Lakshmi was afraid of going near this samharamurthy which she was not familiar with.Prahlada slowly went up to him and did keerthana.His sthuthy made the Lord peaceful.Prahlada in his sthuthy says ten methods for moksha.They are Mouna(silence),vratha ,srutham,adhyayanam,living in a secret place away from the worldly people,doing swadharma,japa,and commenting the scriptures in different ways,Samadhi .(Do this in practical life and one will be liberated). The blessing Bhagawan gave Prahlada was ,for the past 21 generations your race has become purified by your birth in their progeny(thus giving purification to Hiranyakasipu also) and the Keekatadesa were you are born is also purified by your birth.they will not hurt any jeeva whether highborn or lowborn seeing me in all. How Prahlada learns Paramahansadharma from banks of Kavery:Once Prahlada with his trusted ministers were traveling to observe the conditions of his subjects.In the Sahyadri on the banks of the river Kaveri he saw a rishi ,who had dirtied his body lying on the ground but with a great thejas emanating from him.By form,word,action,or varnasramadharma no one could determine his race or identify him.Prahlada respected that rishi and asked:- You are seen with a fat body pointing out that you have good food by effort to aquire them.Only one who does his profession/job can get such good food.Daily good food must be the reason for your fatty body.But I see you lying on earth and very lazy and inactive.And the wealth for good food is not seen here.And desire for good bed is not seen in you.I see people engaged in aquiring money by different methods,every day.But I have not seen a person like you.Tell me your reason for such a life. The rishi smiled and said:-Man has pravrithy and nivrithy.Both has place in the center of the adhyathma eye.Seeing everything with that divine eye,You are popular and a leader among Aryajana is known to me.By the causeless devotion which arose in your interior for Hari,that Hari himself residing within you remove ignorance make it enlightened.Yet I will answer you,because for every soul which is pure,you are the worthy person to converse with.I was born in several yoni due to actions of several births.By punyakarma good janma and by paapakarma bad janmas are given by this human birth.It gives

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gnanayoga and moksha too.Seeing husbands and wives trying to obtain pleasure from samsara getting opposite effect of sorrow from it ,I decided to gat out of samsara.Bcause mind creates all union with external things,to control mind I sleep on earth.Desires in wealth and health and life people live in constant fear.Seeing this around I decided to get away from such desires.My two Guru are the honey bee and the python.From them I learned vairagya and bliss.Honeybee taught me nonattachment from desires.The one amass wealth(like honey)will be killed by another who is lazy and who wants wealth .From python which eats when something is obtained and then lazily lie down without any effort to obtain its next food unless something comes its way,I too take food that comes my way(yadrichayaa) and happily and with content lie down like this.I dont consider the taste ,quality or preparation of what I get to eat .It keeps me satisfied whatever it is .I am not eager to have a house of my own or wealth of my own and am satisfied by this earth itself to get a good sleep.I am not interested in silk,decorations or jewels to bedeck this perishable body .Whether it is dirty rags or pure silks I am equally satisfied in both.I have done chithavrithinirodha and maaya is sacrificed in satya and being self luminant I have attained my Athmadarsana in Samadhi state and live like this.My life is secret and seems to be beyond the scientific vedic injunctions but this is what is called Paramahamsadharma. (This was the dharma Jadabharatha also followed and advised to Rahoogana). Gajendramoksha The story of King Indradyumna and his rebirth as an Elephant in Dravidadesa and his liberation by the compassionate Vishnu is seen in the 8 th skanda of Bhagavatha.The 2nd chapter of this skanda begins with the description of the Thrikoota mountain on which Lanka and Southern India rests with Milky ocean around .The three peaks of gold ,silver and iron of the Thrikoota is described.There are minerals,precious stones ,various types of trees and plants with wonderful flowers and fruits,the songs of rivers and quickflowing rivers,this Mountain which is washed by ocean looks green like an emerald .In its caves the kinnar,gandharva,vidyadhara,sidha,charana,uraga(serpents),apsara live ,singing and dancing and enjoying.The echo of lions roar,the eco of lovely music,songsof birds,and smell of different flowers ,and breeze that bring it makes it beautiful.The seashores with white sand,several freshwater lakes,flowers like parijatha,chempaka etc,trees like coconut ,mango ,palms and vines of different types,plantain trees etc are all described just as exists even now in our land.The names of the fauna and flora is faithfully recorded. In a freshwater lake with lot of lotus,and with shores having ramacha,attuvanchi,kadamba,jasmine,asoka,punnaga,sireesha,sathapathra,inguda,ilanji,na aga,jaathi,kubjaka,suvarnayoothi(golden kurinji),kudajam etc a herd of elephants came to drink water and to bathe.The leader of the elephant herd was captured from underneath the lake,by a big and cruel crocodile .The other members of the herd ran away leaving him to his fate ,though they tried for some time to help him out of the clutches of the enemy.Even after they left,the elephant ,though hungry and hurt,remained unperturbed and for several days ,worshipped Purushothama with lotus flowers (in the lake)mentally praying and remembering the beautiful form and names of Lord and tears flowing from his eyes.Even the devas were astonished seeing this.He remembered the manthra which he had been doing nityajapa in his previous janma even in his animal birth and did

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maanasajapa and keerthana with flower offerings.Then Vishnu surrounded by his paraivara on his vehicle Garuda,with his sudarsana chakra in hand.The chakra killed the crocodile and liberated the elephant from his grasp. The elephant after singing the glories of Vishnu was elevated to the Gandharvaloka.His form with four arms and yellow dress and equal to Hari was seen by all devas and rishis assembled there. The elephant in his previous birth was King Indradyumna of Pandhyadesa ,in Dravidam,and was agreat devotee of Vishnu who performed severe austerities.H ewas worshipping wih ekanthikabhakthi in his thapas on the mountaintop .He was having vow of silence.Sage Agastya who came with his disciples was angry ,because in his thapas ,the king did not notice the rishi and did not say a word or do his paadapooja.The sage cursed him to become an elephant ,dumb and having elephant intelligence only.Thus he became an elephant in next janma.But since he Had not done any wrong,God gave him the memory of austerities and the manthra he was doing maanasajapa even in that animal life.And this memory of poorvajanma gave him liberation through the compassionate Vishnu. 8th skanda then proceeds with the Paalaazhimathana and the Koorma,Dhanwanthari,VishnuMohini avathara ,the story of Shiva being lured by Mohinis beauty so that his semen fell(which resulted in birth of Lord Ayyappa according to Kerala tradition),and then to story of king Mahabali and avathaar of Vaaamana ,and the story of Dravida King Satyavratha and the story of flood and avathara of Matsya .Thus the entire 8 th skanda ,from Thrikoota mountain description,and surrounding milky ocean,and the stories associated are in and around the south and central India or Deccan plateau,Sahya ,Dravida and Lanka .Mahabali ruled from Mahishmathy in the Narmada valley which is the original kingdom of yadava king Krithaveerya and after him his son who was given Kerala by Parasurama and his kingdom existed from Narmada basin to entire southern India as a single Janapada till Budha period and continued to exist until the Vijayanagara period with some degree of continuity of its lost glory is to be remembered here. It is said that the Kaisiki vrithy(music,dance and drama )as Bharathakala was originated when Mohini danced with soft music and the science of Ayurveda originated with birth od Dhanuanthari.Both these,the art of medicine and the arts of iyal,isai,natakam had been and is still a very important element in the cultural lifestyle of people of South India and of Kerala shows an element to be appreciated in Vyasas factual account.And the celebration of Onam (sravanam)in the Tamilspeaking south India during sangham period and now restricted only to Kerala is also a historical relic which connects the rule of emperor Mahabali . Story of Vaamana and Mahabali. Brighuvansa was the Guruvansa of Mahabali.They were pleased with the good administration of Mahabali,the grandson of Prahlada,and son of Virochana.They decided todo the Viswajith yagna for him so that he becomes Indra and attain swarloka.He was given a chariot with golden covers,horses equivalent to that of Indra,and flags with symbol of Lion on it,and golden divine bow with a quiver which has endless arrows and kavacha unbreakable .His grandfather Prahlada presented him with a garland which will never fade.Sukra gave a beautiful conch.He went to the Indrapura which is surrounded by

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the famous Ganga and fortified by forts and palaces.It was very prosperous and its prosperity is described by Vyasa .Indra hearing his Guru Brihaspathys words that Bali has done 100 Aswamedha and is very powerful it is better to leave the empire and go in hiding went out of that prosperous abode and left it for Mahabali . Hearing her sons plight and seeing his stste of isult,Adithy wanted to have a younger brother to Indra and she did austerity to get Mahavishnu as her son.She did payovratha to get Mhavishnu as her son. In the Month of Simha (sun in Simharasi)nakshathra Thiruvonam(sraavanam )and thithy Dwadasi,in the auspicious muhoortha of Abhijith Vishnu was born to her.All the stars and graham were in good positions denoting success and the dwadasi on which Bhagavan Vamana was brnis designated vijayadwadasi.When the son was born all the deva,gandharva and apsara sang divine music withaccompaniment of instruments and danced.All elements did keerthana of Vishnu.The boy was short in stature and shortlimbed.Kasypa did his upanayana.Surya himself adviced Gayathri ,Brihaspathy gave Brahmasoothra,Kasypa tied the katisuthra,Earth gave krishnajina to wear,Moon gave the danda(stick which Brahmachari carry),Adithy gave the koupeena,sky gave an umbrella.Saraswathy gave Akshamala,Kubera gave bhikshapathra,saptharshi gave kusa grass,Brahma gave kamandalu,Ambika herself gave bhiksha.He did homa of ghee in agni with all these signs of Brahmacharya and went to the Yagasala of Mahabali. The yagasala was on the northernbank of Narmada river,in the famous Brighukacha .Every one saw the child Vaamana with slendour of a rising sun approachingthe yaagsaala.They wondered Who is this?Is it Sanatkumara?Or Agni ?Or could it be sun itself? With his umbrella and his kamandalu the young Brahmachari entered the yagsala.Everyone got up and worshipped the young Brahmin boy ,resplendent as a second fire in the sacrificial place .Mahabali welcomed him and gave respectable seat for him to sit.He washed the Brahmins feet with devotionand respect and the theertha after washing Vishnus feet was worn by him on his head.That moment itself the great king attained mukthy. Bali saidBy having you in my home I am blessed.May I know the reason why you have come to me?Whatever you want I will give that to you.Whether it be gold,cows,dwelling places,food and drink ,chariots ,villages and horses ,elephants ,precious stones etc,tell me without hesitation.That will be yours. Hearing the honest ,truthful words of Mahabali Vishnu was pleased.He saidYour words are truth,dharma,which gives fame to your vansa.For you the brighus and your ancestor Prahlada are examples .Therefore in your race no one who is adharmic or dishonest will be born.Your grandfather is like a moon in your race.Even when the bold Hiranyaksha was won over by Hari,Hari never had an ego that I had won this bold one.When Hiranyakasipu came searching for his brothers killer to Vaikunta Vishnu with his yoga became sookshma and entered his own body .Hiranyakasipu being always external in vision did not search internally for Hari.Therefore he never saw Hari.From his interior as the rethas Hari came out as Prahlada and had to show his external manifestation as Narasimha f or his fathers emanicipation.Your father Virochana worshipped all Brahmins.Even when an enemy comes to him in the disguise of a Brahmin,knowingly Virochana gave them all they needed.You have such great ancestors in your vansa.And

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great Brighus are your teachers.You are famous for your daanaseela.I heard of that and came to ask for just three feet of bhoomi from you,measured with my own feet. Mahabali said:- Child,You are too innocent.I am the overlord of the entire earth.I can give you an entire island or several islands .But you,as if you are foolish ,is asking for just three feet ,that too with your tiny feeet.Ask for better things because a person who comes to me for a need should never go to any other person for any need. Vishnu said:-For one who has controlled his senses anything in the three world is desired.If I am not happy and contended with three feet earth,I wont be satisfied with several dweepa too.The contentment is a mental state only and do not depend upon the external wealth.The one with one island wants two ,the one with seven islands wants nine and desire increases forever.Artha and kaama makes one bound to samsara.I need only three feet and with that I am satisfied.Please do give me only that.No more.No less. Mahabali ,smiling took his waterpot to give the land (Until the British /European rule the land deed was done as Neerattiperu in Kerala just as Mahabali did during the bhagavatha days). Mahabalis Guru Sukra with his yogadrishty saw that the Brahmin boy is none other than Vishnu.He asked Mahabali not to give anything to him,because he has come to stop the yagna .But Mahabali was a truthful king and he did not go back on his word. Om is satya.Pronuoncing Pranava I had promised the Brahmachari that I will give him whatever he asked for I will not break that word.I am the grandson of Prahlada ,the greatest devotee of Bhagvan Vishnu.You are Brahmins who worship Vishnu and if you say that Vishnu is your enemy your yagna,krathu etc are not useful .I will give everything to Vishnu ,and do my dharma and protect truth .Vishnu could have killed me and takeneverything from me if he wanted.Instead he has come to me and asked me to give what I have and I give it with happiness. Sukra was unhappy and angry and cursed that honestand truthful disciple for insulting him,:-You have an ego of scholarship and has disobeyed my words and insulted me.Therefore let your Aiswarya be destroyed in this moment. Mahabali gave the land with water.His wife Vindhyavali came wearing pearl ornaments and water in a golden pot and washed Vishnus feet.King himself washed his feet and divine beings sang and played instruments with dancing and praised the great King Mhabali and his truthfulness anddharma.Vishnu then took his viswaoopa and with one feet measured the seven loka from Athala below,and the above worlds with second feet. Mahabali saw the seven underworlds in his sole of feet,earth in feet,mountains in ankles,minerals in calf,maruths in his thighs,sandhya in dress,main daithya in guhya,prajapathy in buttocks,akasa in nabhi,in stomach seven oceans,in chest the garlands of stars,dharma in hridaya,ritha and satya in breasts,moon in mind,and in the middle of chest Padmadevi wearing padma.In the neck sabda with repha,in arms Indra and other kings,in ears the devas of directions,heaven in head ,clouds in hair,praana in nose,sun in eyes,agni in mouth.In his word he saw saraswathy and veda,in toungue oceans,in the browswere vidhi and its nishedha,in eyelids were day and night,in agna (forehead)was his anger,and in lower lip greed,and in skin kaama,and in rethas waters,.In the back was adharma,in his walk was adhwara,in shadow was yama,in smile the Isamaaya,in hairs oushadi vanaspathy,and in naadi the rivers,in nails stones,in intellect Aja,and in in sense organs the deva ,rishi,and gnani,all moving and immobile elements in his body.He saw everything in that Athmaroopa .All the daityas saw that wonderful form

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of Bhagavan.They saw the great lightening of sudarsana and the sound of conch Panchajanya around and the great Sarnga bow ,mace called koumodaki,The sword called Vidyadhara with peacock eyes,and quivers of unending arrows.The entire deva with rishi and their retinue were with him along with vishnuparshada.The bright crown,kundala,kousthubha,angada,sreevalsa,golden ornaments and yellow silk dress and the beautiful flowery garland around which bees sing ,he stood there as Thrivikrama ,Urukrama.He measured earth and heavens and ten directions as well as the mahar,jana and thapoloka.There was nothing to be measured with the third feet . Seeing the feet of Vishnu measuring the created prapancha,the creator Brahma himself washed it with water of his kamandalu and the water flowed as SwarGanga from Haripaada.The asura chiefs were ready to fight with the Vishnuparshada.Remembering the curse of Sukra,Mahabali called Viprachithy and Rahu and the other chiefs and asked them to stop war.No one can win over the Iswara who is kaalaroopa and when time comes every system has to succumb to another.Army,ministers,intellect,forts,manthra and medicines are of no use when it is bad times .Only if God bless us we can win and at this hour God is not on our side .Therefore do not think that you can win by mere strength of arms. Garuda bound Mhabali with Varunapaasa ,Vaamana asked Where is the third feet which you promised me? Mahabali being sthithapragna did not feel insulted.He saidI did not say any dishonest word.You can put your feet on my head .I am not afraid of anything whether it is living in hell,loss of power,sorrow,loss of wealth,or in death from your hands.The death from your hands will be the greatest boon I can have because you are the greatest of all greats.The punishment from you is the one which one canot get even from parents .You are the paramaguru who gives shiksha to me indirectly.The asura race is naturally proud by vaasana.Yet you gave many of us that rare and sweet devotion which gave us a greatness and freedom from pride.Even those who had opposite bhakthy in you were actually given liberation by you.I was attracted by your greatness and that was the reason why I became bounded by this Varunapaasa.I am not ashamed of it and nor am I sorrowful about it.Because I am bounded by you,to you and death by your hands will be liberation to me.My grandfather Prahlada who had suffered several difficulties from his own father suffered all of them with equanimity ,by your love and devotion only.What is the use of this life and of wife and wealth which are temporary?My grandfather knowing this,was fixed in your worship and meditation and he was your great bhaktha,gnani and greatest among our race.Just like that ,I am at your feet by the grace of God.You had taught me that all wealth and power is transient . At that time,Prahlada ,like a full moon came there.Mahabali saw him as blackcoloured,lotus-eyed,wearing yellow garments and tranquil.He could not worship his grandfather properly because he was bound.He just bowed his head with tears in his eyes.Prahlada saw Bhagawan accompanied by Nanda and Sunanda the paarshada.And worshipped him. Prahlada said:-After giving the position of Aindram to my grandson,you have now taken it back.It was good for him that you did that.It is a blessing for him.The positions are

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sidhi which are hindrances to Athmaikya.And you have protected him from that danger.My namaskara to you. Brahma said:-This great man has given everything even his body to you and therefore he should not be bound like this.He worshipped you with love and devotion.He should not be bound like this.He should be liberated. Vishnu said:- When I decide to bless a person,I first take away all his riches ,because wealth makes one proud and forgetful of God.Wealth and pride makes people insult God and the world.Several janma has passed before this human birth is got to achieve the purushartha.On should not have pride in birth,actions,knowledge,youth ,beauty ,wealth,etc.Pride destroys one.If someone with all these do not have pride,it is simply because my blessings are on him.The greatest example is Prahlada,my Bhakktha who does not desire anything though he has everything mentioned above and is not proud of them.This Mahabali,his grandson is great and has aquired fame for winning my Maaya and being sthithapragna in loss of everything.He fell from position of Indra suddenlyand lost everything .The Guru himself cursed him.He did not feel disturbed by my false words of insult whichwere intended to test him.In any circumstances he did not falter from satya and dharma.I am giving him a place which even the endless,deathless deva have not achieved so far.During the Savarni Manuanthara he will be the Indra .Till that time he will live in the famous Suthala which was built by Viswakarma.It is a place where my blessing is always active,and where because of that no tiredness and weakness or hurt happen to anyone.There he will live happily with his friends and relatives and not even the eight Lokapala will disobey him.Those who do not obey him will be immeadiately destroyed by my Sudarsana.I will be protecting him there personally.He can see and visit me always there.Even the vaasana of the asura race will be destroyed in him by my constant contact and eternal darsana of me. Prahlada said:-Bhagawan,You are worshipped by deva,Brahma and Sankara.Yet you have become our Durgapaalaka(protector of fortress).Who will get such a luck except us?What did our race do to get such love from you?It is just your compassion,not our merit that gave us this blessing. Bhagavan asked Prahlada to go to Suthala with Mhabali and live there happily and that he can see Bhagvan wearing the Koumodaki mace in the door of Suthala always .Then Bhagavan asked Sage Sukra to do the rest of the yagna and fulfil the karma which had begun but obstructed and delayed. Sukra said:-Whatever obstructions happen to a karma by wrong pronounciation of swara and manthra,wrong methods of thanthra,or due to defects of kaala and desa,are removed just by the pronounciation of name of Hari.Therefore,the karma started by the bhaktha of Hari,like Mahabali ,will be done by the grace of Bhagwan himself . This is the story of Mhabali and Vamanavathara in Bhagavatha.The concept that Mhabali,the old emperor of India comes back to see his empire once a year and the day of Vamanajayanthi are together celebrated historically in all over Tamilspeaking country,and at present in Kerala which was part of Tamil-speaking Chera kingdom.

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As we have already seen the sapthamaskanda is dealing with the kings and races of the South India.The 8th Skanda continues with the successors of these kings.It is important to note that the greatest king of the Ikshwaku race,Sri Rama belongs to this race . The Satyavratha Rajarshi of Dravidadesa was born as ViavaswathaManu and Ikshwaku.was of this vansa.In this vansa were born Utkala,Gaya,Vimala,and these three became the three emperors of Dakshinaapatha . Among the sons of Vaivaswatha Manu one was Prishadra who was sent for Goraksha to forests.On one dark night he heard the cry of a cow and roar of a tiger and thinking that it is the tiger he unknowingly killed a cow in the darkness of night.Because of this himsa he became a soodra king.He became great devotee of Vishnu and a yogin .By his Ekanthikabhakthy he became a paramahansa and wandered around as gnaanathriptha .He got final liberation from a forest fire.The youngest of the brothers of Ikshwaku was Kavi.He was by birth a Bhaktha and gnani and went to forest to do austerities and dhyana of Vishnu.From one of the brothers of Ikshwaku named Kaaroosha ,the races of kings in the Northern parts who were famous for their dharma,Dwijabhakthy and purity of race were born.From another brother Drishta were born the Dhaarshtaas and this kshathriya clan became Brahmana by karma. The vansa of Nriga (another brother of Ikshawaku) is as follows:Nriga- sumathy-Amoghajyothis-vasu-Pratheekan.6th generation was children of Pratheeka Oghavan and Oghavathy. Oghavathy married a Brahmana Sudarsanan and a Brahmakshathravansa originated from them. Another brother of Ikshwaku was Narishyantha .His vansa:Narishyantha-Chithrasena-Daksha-Idwaan-Koorchan-Indrasenan-VeethihothraSatyasravas-Urusravas-Devadathan-Agnivesyan the avathaar of Agni .He is also called Kaaneena and Jaathukarna.(The great Ayrveda Acharya).The Brahmakula of Agnivesya thus originated from one of the brothers of Ikshawku. Another brother Dhishta had a son Naabhaaga-He became a vaisya because of his karma.His son is Balandana,his son Valspreethy,his son praamsu,his son is Pramathi,his son khanithra,his son Chakshusha,his son Vivimsathy,his son Rambhan,his son Khaninethran,his son Karandhaman,his son Aveekshithu and his son Maruthan.The sacrifice of Marutha with Samvarthaka son of Angirasa is a famous event in all scriptures.Son of Marutha was Daman,his son Rajyavardhanaan,his son Sudrithy,his son Naran,his son Kevalan,then Vegavan,and his son Bandhu.The son of Bandhu is Thrinabindu.Both Thrinabindu and Karandhama are names occurring in Rgveda. Thrinabindu married an apsara called Alambushadevi and had sons and a daughter called Idavida.She married Visravas and had Kubera(Vaisravana)as her son.Ravana of Ramayana fame was his stepbrother. Among the three sons of Thrinabindu ,the eldest was Vishala whobuilt the famous Vaishali .His son was Hemachandra,his son Dhoomraksha,his son Samyama,and his son Sahadeva.His son is Krisaswa,his son Somadatha,who did several yagna and by blessings of Yogesa Vishnu attained Sadgathy.The son of Somadatha was Sumathy,his son Janamejaya.All these are the races from Naabhaaga (Vaisya kings) and famous . Another brother of Ikshwaku was Saryathi and his daughter was Sukanya ,who became wife of Chyavana .Chyavana made his father-in-law do Somayaga .In that yaaga

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Chyavana,the great Brighuvansi,gave soma to Aswins (which was not usual because they had adopted the profession of Medicine considered as Neechavrithy)and Indra took his vajra to kill Chyavana.With the power of Chyavana,the hand and the vajra of Indra was made senseless and immobile. The sons of Saryathi were Uthanabarhis,Aanartha,and Bhoorishena.Revatha was son of Aanartha.He built Kusasthali in Raivathaka which is a fortified city within the sea of Aanarthadesa.It was on this city ,millennia later Srikrishna built his city of Dwaraka.Revatha ahd 100 sons together called Kukudmaas.His daughter was Revathy.23 chathuryuga after Revathakas lifetime and the founding of Kusasthali lived Balarama and Krishna and Balarama married the Revathy,daughter of Revatha. The famous Ambareesha was son of Naabhaaga ,another brother of Ikshwaku.He was paramabhagavatha and ruled the seven Dweepa as overlord .How he quenched the anger and pride of sage Durvaasa with his fixed bhakthy in Hari is wellknown.The Sudarsana wheel and its power of Vishnu is seen in that story .The vansa of Ambareesha is as follows:He had three sons.Viroopa,Kethumaan,and Sambhu. Son of Viroopa Prishadswa-Ratheerathan-Ratheerathan did not have children.Therefore the king requested sage Angiras to give him children.Thus in the wife of Ratheeratha Angiras had the famous sons called Angirasaas the vedis Rishis.They are great sages who know both Kshathriya and Brahmana dharma .They are called Brahmana with kshathradharma or Brahmakshathra . Ikshwaku vansa:Ikshwaku had 100 sons among whom Vikukshi,Nimi and Dandaka are the eldest three.25 sons of Ikshawku ruled the eastern countries outside Aryavartha.25 Ruled on western side outside Aryavartha.Three ruled in the Middle.The rest in north and south .Thus entire Bharathakhanda and outside of it was spread the race of Ikshwaku . For a sacrifice Vikukshi brought the meat of rabbit after eating himself and for that adharma he was expelled from country by his father and Kulaguru Vasishta. When the father died Vikukshi came back from forest exile and in the name of Sasaada(one who ate rabbit)started to rule.His son was Puranjaya who had synonyms of Indravaaha,Kukutsa etc.Indra took the form of a great bull and carried Puranjaya in a devasura battle to win over the asuras and therefore he had these names.Son of Puranjaya was Anenas,his son was Prithu who first made agricultural reforms and agrarian settlers economy in India.His son is Viswarandhyan,his son Chandran,his son Yuvanaswan,and Yuvanaswa built the city of Saabasthy(Sravasthy).His son was Brihadaswan,his son Kuvalayaswan.Since he killed asura Dundhu he is called Dundhumaara.His sons Dridaswa,Kapilaswa and Bhadraswa alone survived the battle with Dundhu. Haryaswa and his vansa:- Dridaswa had son Haryaswa-Nikumbha his son,BarhanaswaKrisaswa-Senajith-Yuvanaswan.-Mandhaathav( mentioned in the Rgveda) who was fed by Indra and who gave him the name of Thrasadasyu.He ruled the seven dweepa of earth.For him in the daughter of Sasabindu Indumathy ,were born three sons .Purukutsan,Ambareeshan and Muchukundan.The 50 sisters of them married Soubhari Rishi and went to Kaalindi river . Ambareesha son of Mandhatha had a son Youvanaswan,his son Haareethan.

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The Naagakanya Narmada was given in marriage to Purukutsa ,son of Mandhatha by her brothers.She took him to Naagaloka and his son is Thrasadasyu ,his son Anaranyan,his son Haryaswan,his son Arunan,his son Thribandhanan,his son is Sathyavratha commonly known as Thrisanku.He became Candaala by Gurusaapa and was protected by sage Viswamithra.He is still seen as the starcluster of Thrisanku(The southern Cross or Crux)in the sky.Harischandra was son of Thrisanku and with blessings of Varuna after several years of marriage he had a son Rohitha.Son of Rohitha is Haareetha,his son is Champan,who built the city of Champa .His son was Vasudeva,his son Vijayan ,his son Bharukan,his son Vrikan,his son Baahukan,his son Sagaran.Sagara according to the advice of Kulaguru Orvan(Sukra/Brighuvansi) defeated Ksathriya called balakhilya of eastern parts,and the terrible Yavana,saka and the Heyhaya kings ,Barbara kings etc.In his sacrifice his sons made the searoutes to all places by their shipmarks .All the sons of Sagara were killed by the gnaanadrishty of Kapila ,the avathar of Vishnu ,doing penance in eastern ocean near the mouth of Ganga.The grandson of Sagara(son of Asamanjasa and Kesni )called Amsuman saw kapila and worshipped him and pleased him and fulfilled his grandfathers sacrifice. Son of Amsuman was Dileepa.His son Bhageeratha brought Ganga down and thus Ganga got her name Bhageerathy.Son of Bhageeratha was Srutha.Srutha s son Nabhi,his son Sindhudweepan,his son Ayuthayus,his son Rithuparna who adviced Aswahridaya to Naishada king Nala,his son Sarvakaaman,his son Sudaman,his son Soudaasan.He has synonyms of Mithrasaha and Kanmashapaada and became a rakshasa eating meat due to curse of Kulaguru Vasishta.While roaming in forest as a Rakshasa he swallowed a Brahmana who was in the posture of intercourse with his wife to have a son.Due to this act he had a curse that if he touch his wife he will be dead.When he came back after 12 years of his Rakshasa life the queen Madayanthy told him of thi curse and therefore the king requested Vasishta to give him a son.Thus in Madayanthy Vasishta gave him a son named Asmaka ,because the child had to be taken out by a stone tool(a Caeserian ?).When Parasuraama was killing all the Kshthriya clan ,this boy was protected by women and therefore he is also called Nareekavachan.Since he was the only one alive after the terrible massacre of Parasurama ,for revival of his race ,he became the root of the vansa after that period and hence called Moolaka also. Moolakas son was Dasaratha ,his son Ailavilan,his son Viswasahan,his son Khatwangan who became an emperor.He fixed his mind inVishnu and was not desirous of any worldly pleasures.His son was Deerghabaahu and his son the famous Raghu,and his son Ajan,and his son king Dasarathan.The son of Dasaratha was Srirama,the avathaar of Vishnu .He was born with Anantha(Lakshmana),Panchajanya(Bharatha)and Sudarsana wheel(Sathrugna)as the son of Dasaratha in the vansa of Ikshwaku,of Raghu ,and of Dasaratha. Thus the entire Ikshwaku vansa which started from Dravidadesa and spread to all of India and beyond is described with its chronology and the great memorable events associated with the periods of each of the kings .Apart from the message of Bhakthy,gnaana ,and karma of Bhagavatha one has to appreciate the sense of history and its communication to masses which the ancient people had .Ignoring them as myth we are actually negating our own history and our own existence .

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300 yrs before BC 3004 a line of 9 kings (that is BC 3304) Another gap. Then from Purukriya to Budha 970 yrs From Budha to Sumithra 7 generations(note that Sidharthas name is not there since he didnt sit on the throne of Kapilavasthu) 235 yrs roughly. 2600+300 is 2900 yrs before BC 3004 which will make BC 5900-6000 even if we ignore the gap in between for beginning of threthayuga .(And archeologically the Mehrgarh period is about 7000-6000 BC ).So chronology in Bhagavatha is of help in correlating our history an darcheological past. When Vyasa discuss Chandravansa he says the 5th of the lineage Purooravas made the agni ,and the Vedas in the beginning of Threthayuga.And the great lineage of Yadu and Pooru and Anu,Thurvasu etc from King Yayathi,son of Purooravas.The Yaduvans ais important because in it was born the great Krishna as son of Vasudea and Devaky.After giving the chronology of Yaduvansa Vyasa proceeds from 9th skanda to the dasamaskanda of Bhagavatha ,which is the story of Krishna in great detail. Thus there is a very definite plan and orderly way of unfolding history in Bhaagavatha and it is not a haphazard way of narrating some myth.It is with knowledge of history,and science of races and their survival,and the geographical features of the land where the races live in relation to the world around that Vyasa tells his story. Dasamaskandha starts with the analysis of why Krishna was born? What are his great deeds? How did he protect the ancestors of Pareekshith from the great ocean of army of kuru with whales and crocodiles like warriors (karma,Bheeshma,Drona,Duryodana,Dussasana etc) like a ship ?The greatest medicine for cure of all diseases of samsaara,worshipped by all desireless people,and which gives bliss when listened to is his name.How it protected the life of Pareekshith ,destined to end with the Brahmasthra of Aswathama within the womb of his mother itself?What are the worshippable karma of that kaalaswaroopa who is both mrityu and amritha ,who is inside and outside everything? How did the son of Rohini without having body relation is being called the 7th son of Devaki?Why was he taken to Gokula?What are his deeds in Gokula,Mathura and in Dwaraka ?Why did he kill his own uncle Kansa?How many years he lived on this earth?How could a yogin like him accepted Grihastha ashram and how many wives?When one hear the stories of Krishna one forgets hunger and thirst. THE STORY OF KRISHNA When adharma increases Lord Hari takes his avathar on earth.Once mother earth ,burdened by the sins of the cruel people approached Brahmadeva and requested help.he along with his deva retinue went to the shores of milky ocean and worshipped Vishnu with purushasooktha.He heard a voice from aakaaasa (akaasavaani/vaanoli)and asked the deva to act as that voice of Hari had instructed.All the devas were asked to take birth in Yadyvansa and await the avathar of Him.Naarayanan will be bornin Yadyvansa as son of Vasudeva and Devaki .Samkarshana will be born as his brother.All apsara,all rishi should go and be born on earth for welcoming this great avathara.the vaishnavimaya will be born on earth for fulfilling the Lords dharma.

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At that time king Soorasena was ruling in Mathura.He ruled over both Soorasenam and Mathura from Mathurapuri.His son was Vasudeva.When he married Devaki,daughter of Devaka,and sister of Kansa (son of Ugrasena) ,kansa due to his love for his sister became her charioteer.In a golden chariot,with 400 elephants decorated in gold,15000 horses wearing golden ornaments,1800 chariots full of wealth for the bride ,and 200 decorated daasis,the bridal journey began.Mridanga,sankha,santhurya,dundhubhi etc made music .Then a voice was heard from sky:-The 8th son of this bride will kill you. Kamsa was afraid of death.Because of his cowardice,he immeadiately took out the sword and tried to kill his newly married sister. Vasudeva said:-Death is inevitable for all born beings.How and by what cause it happens is not in our control.The voice said the 8th son will kill you and not this woman whois your own sister.Killing a woman,that too sister,in such a auspicious time as her marriage is a cowardly act and is not suited for our race or to you as a valourous man.She is too young and like a daughter to you . However much Vasudeva pleaded Kansa remained determined in killing her and finally Vasudeva said :-Alright.Only her 8th son will kill you and you are afraid of him only.When a son is born to her I will give it to you.You can take him and do what you like .But do not kill this young girl who has not known any sin. Kamsa agreed. The first son was called Keerthiman and when he was born Vasudeva took him to Kmasa .But seeing the honesty and truthfulness of Vasudeva ,Kamsa smiled and said I do not want this child.I need only your 8th son who will kill me.Then Naarada approached Kansa and told him that the yadu people are all avathara of devas and they are awaiting the coming of the divine avathara of Vishnu in the 8thson of Devaki.Then thinking that the firstborn also will help the last one in that karma,Kansa immeadiately put both Devaki and Vasudeva in jail and killed the firstborn.He knew that he had been the Asura Kaalanemi in his previousbirth and in that birth Vishnu had killed him and it will repeat again .And he hated all yaduvansi for being avathar of devas and put his own fathe rUgrasena in prison and took the Lordship of both Mathura and Soorasena. His friends were Chaanoora,Baka,Thrinavartha,Agha,Pralamba,Dhenuka,Kesi,Mushtika,Arishta,Vividha,P oothana ,Baana,Jaraasandha etc .Because of kansas constant threats and fear of him the yadava clan went and stayed secretly in Kuru,Saluva,Panchala,Kekaya ,Nishadha,Videha,Kosala ,Vidharbha etc and awaited the coming of Krishna ,their saviour . The first 6 sons of Devaki were killed by kamsa.Then Bhagavan asked his Yogamaaya.Devaki had become pregnant for the 7thtime with Anantha ,the Sheshanaag Samkarshana.Yogamaya was asked to take the praana of the 7 th garbha and put it safely in the womb of another wife of Vasudeva called Rohini who had been living in Vrajbhoomi with Yasoda and Nandagopa.And also to enter the womb of Yasodha .Bhagavan said :You will be worshiped as my sister ,and as the bestower of all desires by people forever.You will have the names of Vaishnavi,Durga,Maaya,Vijaya,Bhadrakaali,Krishna,Chandika,Madhavi,Kumuda,Saradh a,Kanya,Ambika,Isaani ,Naaraayani.Samkarshana will have names of Raama and Bala . When Yogamaya removed the 7 th garbha of Devaki to Rohini ,people thought the garbha of Devaki is aborted due to fear of Kamsa.

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Then Vishnu as the energy of Sun entered Vasudeva and Devaki internalized it as if a moon in her womb.Seeing her bright appearance and shaanthi ,Kamsa thought This is the son of her who will kill me.For the entire period of her pregnancy he thought only of Vishnu and his powers ,though with enmity.Whenever he sits,walks,sleeps,eats the king of Bhoja thought only of Vishnu.Wherever he looks he saw Hari only. Sanakaadi muni,Narada,Shiva ,Brahma came and worshipped Hari in Devakis garbha. Satya as vratha,satya as goal,cause of five elements,functioning in satya,satya of satya,with satya vaak,satyadarsana,the satya in thrikaala,the satyamoorthy ,We worship thee. Depending on Eka prakrithy,with dual fruits of sorrow and pleasure,with three roots of sathwa etc,with 4 rasa of purushartha,with 5 lakshana of 5 senses,with 6 swabhava ,and 7 skins ,and 8 branches of panchabhootha,mind ,budhi,ahamkara,9 dwara and 10 praana,two birds of Jeevathaman,Paramathman, this ancient Vriksha is eternal .This prapancha as satya has its origin,ruler and functionary as you alone.Those who are under the Maaya of you see you as aneka and as different and those who are free from Maaya see you as One .Eka.You are gnaanaswaroopa.The bliss of all good people.And the sorrow of all bad ones.You take the form of sahthwa as several avathara for the benefit of this world and for protection of its dharma.The great yogins in samdhi directly perceive you and crosses samsara ocean .Your feet as ship takes them safely beyond it.Impure hearts of people insult you and loose their high position by illluck .Those whoare your friends never ever experience such fall from position.They are protected by you and without any obstructions ,For protectionof earth you take the sudhasathwaswaroopa.By swadhyaya,karma,Samadhi etc people worship you with love .Without your blessing how can one get away from dualities?The name,karma,form etc of You are unspeakable by word,and unthinkable bythought.Yet people sing,speak and think of you and enjoy your love.By uttering your name,your deeds and remembering your forms and stories and telling them ,singing them,stimulating others to do so ,their mind is ever fixed in you.Such a devotee never experience the sorrow of samsara.The earth is your feet.Her bhaara(weight) is reduced simply by the avathara of you on her lap.We will see the sign of your feet on her and worship and enjoy it .We will directly perceive your leela(play)of life.You are birthless and deathless.This birth is only a play for you .Th ebirth etc are themaaya of you.You have protected us before by Matsya,Koorma,Varaha,Narasimha,Hayagreeva,Hansa,Parasurama,Sreerama,Vaamana etc.Now as the greatest among the yadus,You are our saviour .Mother,because of your last births punya ,Bhagavan Sri Hari is within your womb .therefore do not worry or fear about Kamsa.Your son will protect entire Yaduvansa. Then the day of Bhagavans birth came.The moon was with the star Rohini .All prakrithi was quiet,and auspicious.Earth became pure.Lotuses bloomed and flowers with different colours filled with honey.Animals and plants and humans felt a joy within.The cows let out milk as if the calf is near.Breeze with smell of chandana blew.The agni in vedic Brahmins houses became brightened.During the time of birth of the birthless ,the entire sky made music of unseen dundubhi.Gandharva and Kinnara sang happily.Sidha and chaarana repeated hymns.The women of Vidhyadhara and apsara danced.The pure at heart and the sages blessed with their mind.The ocean made a sound simulating OM.The clouds imitated that sound.

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Baalaleela:Rama and Krishna started to crawl over the floor of Gokula and they reached everywhere.Their body was covered with dust and dirt and the sound of their ornaments as they crawl was heard everywhere.When they see someone on the way,they will show fear and get back quickly to their mothers and the mothers will take them in their hands and make them smile .Then they started to walk on knees,and stand up with support and slowlywalk one step,two steps.Then they could walk without support and they will fall after two or three steps and cry and try again to walk.The bodies besmeared with dust and dirt was embraced by mothers and all the gokula people rejoiced in their plays and forgot their daily routines.When they could walk they reached every nook and corner of the

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big caravan .The armed protectors took women,children,elders,and wealth with all safety precautions.The cows walked in front.Horny instruments(Sringavadya)and Santhurya (stringed )and singing combined made the journey happy.The women wearing their ornaments ,sitting in chariots sang about Krishna and his leela.They reached Vrindavana and in a halfmoon shape they built houses there and started to live there happily.The forest of Vrindavana,river Kalindi,Mountain Govardhan were seen with wonder and pleasure by Krishna ,Rama and his friends.They took their toys and with the cows went to graze them .Playing and enacting leela,singing and dancing,and imitating monkeys and koils,and other birds and animals,and sometimes quarreling they played . Once a asura came in the shape of a calf to kill Krishna.He took it by feet and whirled and threw it away and the children saw that it was not a calf but an asura.When his body fell,the palmtree nearby was shaken and its fruits fell in plenty.The children took them. When they go for grazing they took lunch with them and eating it as a group told stories and made each other happy.Once when the cows were drinking water from a lake they saw a big crane .It was Bakasura.He took Krishna inside his beak.The children were afraid,Then as if a fire,Krishna started to burn the internal organs of the crane,and he had to bring Krishna out .And in the battle that followed Krishna opened the beaks of Baka and split them apart killing him.As if the sense organs merge in Praana,the children with Balarama went quickly to Krishna and embraced him. The children and adults of Gokula said.This child is really extraordinary.He ha snever gone to anyone to hurt them.But those who had come to hurt him,has perished through him.He is not violent.He is protector of dharma.Those cruel and mighty asuras could not hurt this soft and small child.They perished like flies approaching a fire.They knew the truth in the words of Garga and recognized him as Vishnu.Speaking and singing the leela of the Krishna and Rama gokulam forgot all its worries and became the happiest place on earth. The maaya of Brahma:After Aghaasuravadha bhagavan said :Friends, look at this beautiful bank of Yamuna.The breeze and the fragrance of lotus and space for us to play ,and the different musics of birds and bees has attracted my mind.It is noon.We will sit here and eat our lunch.Let the cows grace and drink water from here. Thus ,the children sat in a round with Krishna and facing him and saying stories and singing and sharing food and eating happily together.They looked like the red petals around the golden yellow kesara of a lotus around the yellowclad Krishna.They made plates with leafs,rinds of fruits etc and started to share food. Talking about the taste of each and praising each for its taste ,they ate with the Lord.Bhagavan had worn two pieces of clothes on his waist and in betweenwas fixed his flute in position.The horn and the stick were in the left armpit.In left hand was the ricebowl.And he was laughing and talking and eating in blissful innocence of childhood.The one who eats the yagnabhaaga in yagna,now ate the food of children as part of his baalaleelaayoga.All the divine spirits came to enjoy this rare sight.While the children were thus busy with eating,the cows seeing green grass went inside the forest. After sometime seeing that the cows are lost the children were afraid,and Krishna said ,you continue eating,I will go in search of cows and bring them back.Krishna searched in forests ,in hills and caves with a panda of rice in his right hand,which was half finished.

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Why did Kaliya come to Kalindi ?That is related to the story of Kadru and Vinatha ,the wives of sage Kasyapa.Kadru is the mother of all the naagas,and Vinatha ,mother of Garuda and Aruna.Because of the competition between serpents and Garuda ,due to their mothers competition,a decision was made that all serpents should give bali to Garuda on newmoon day every month.And one day Kaaliya due to his ego did not give it.And Garuda struck him with his wings and his sharp nails.Kaliya knew that Garuda will not enter Kalindi because of a curse from Soubhari rishi.Soubhari with his 50 wives were living in Kalindi and the Matsya were his dear friends.And Kaliya eating the Matsya from kalindi was prevented by the sage by cursing him that if you enter this part of the river you will be dead.Thus Kaliya got a place to hide from Garuda in Kalindi. After Kaliyamardhana Krishna was embraced by all and the gopas enjoyed and sang his praises and Nanda gave alms to all in gratitude for giving back his son from the grip of the monster.They spent that night in the banks of yamuna itself. At midnight ,the winds of the Greeshma season awoke a forest fire and engulfed them.All cried aloud Krishna ,Krishna,Rama,Rama.Krishna drank that forest fire within a second and protected all. When Krishna played in Gokula,even the Greeshma was felt as Vasantha for the gopa/gopikas. One day the children were playing under a Bhandeeraka tree.They started to play a duel battle.The rule was the failed one should carry the victorious one on shoulders.Sreedama ,Vrishabha and Rama were on one side.They won first.So Krishna and his friends had to carry them on their shoulders.Sreedama was carried by Krishna and Vrishaba was carried by Bhadrasena.Rama was carried by Pralambha ,an asura who had taken the form of a gopa and joined the play with intention of killingRama and Krishna.Pralamba thought.I may not be able to kill Krishna.But I will take his brother to a far off place and kill him there.The asura was seen as a dark cloud wearing the golden lightening ,carrying Balarama on his shoulder and traveling quickly in the sky.Rama knew what is happening and with his hands which are stronger than the vajra of Indra started to strike on the head of Asura.He fell down with a great noise .The devas sprinkled flowers on Rama and gopas praised him. The cows grazed far and reached a deep forest .They searched for water and entered a grassland/forest .Looking at the signs of brokengrass and the signs of the feet of cows Krishna and Rama with his friends reached the area.Krishna called in his deep soft voice the names of each of the cows and they replied in their language and came running to him.Then they saw a great forest fire approaching.They saw the dry grass being destroyed by fire around .The gopas cried aloud and asked for protection.Krishan said.Close your eyes.They obeyed.Krishna drank the fire and when the gopas opened their eyes they could not see the fire and they saw themselves sitting under the bhandeeraka tree as before.The yogamaya of Krishna had protected all.Then making melodious music with his flute Krishna entered Ambadi with his friends. Rithuvarnana:The rainy season came with parivesha and an akasa which is cloudy .Lightening,thunder,and dense blue clouds and darkness around the sky looked like Krishna himself.What wealth the sun had taken ,from the earth for the past 8 years, was about to be given back to earth.Strong winds came .And clouds gave water like

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live .Like the samsari people who are immersed in family matters does not know the decrease of lifespan .The fishes were feeling the hotness of sunrays.Like the one who has not controlled senses are heated up by the stress of samsara.The fields lost their dirt and the leafs slowly lost their greenness.Like the brave who know Athman is everything,discard the My Minefeeling in body and its vishaya.When sarath rithu came ,the ocean,the abode of Varuna became still and waveless and silent by itself,like the yogeendra who after attaining Samadhi discards even the vedic chants. Farmers built hard dams /boundaries to prevent the water from flowing out of their fields.Like yogi trying to prevent gnaana that flow out through senses ,by obstruction ,to conserve in Athman.The cold sun with his rays removed the sorrows of people like gnana does the sorrows of pride in body and Krishna does the sorrows of Gopikaas. The clean clear sky with stars of sarath kaala ,bright like revealing the meaning of Veda,and with sathwaguna shone like chitha of the yogin.The moon and stars shone without any clouds to cover tem like Krishna among the gopa and gopis.The cool breeze from gardens took away heat of people. The only people who suffered were the gopika who were having their minds attracted and stolen by Krishna In sarath even the birds,animals etc join with their pairs and become pregnant as if the karma of worship of God becomes fruitful.When king comes all except thiefs are happy.Like that when sarath came all except Gopika were happy because they alone could not share their happiness with Krishnas union. In the morning of sarath ,all flowers except the white waterlily(which bloom at night)opened and spread fragrance .And everywhere in villages,urban centers and houses and markets festivals,homa,different types of fruits ,vegetables ,etc prosperity was seen .Gokulam shone more due to the presence of Rama and Krishna.The travelers,traders and commerce people,kings,sages ,yogins,sidha people etc were seen everywhere after the rainy season(in which they were indoors).All of them did their swadharma as before . Venugaananiroopana Krishna entered Vrindavana in that Sarath season.He grazed cows in the forests with Rama and his friends.Krishna took out his flute and played different raagaas in it.Hearing that music which touches the strings of hearts the Gopika in the vrindavan forgot themselves.They started to think and speak about Krishna and his leela.When they start speakinh about his leela they were transported to another world.All of them became attracted to his beauty,music and his qualities and loved him .They could not express the extent of their love for him.It was beyond words or expressions.They spoke instead about his peacock feathers,his bluish green colour,his golden yellow silks,the karnikara garlands ,and the nectar of music from his praana flowing out through that dear flute .The gopika had no end in describing his leela and the qualities of his music.They saw their dear Krishna grazing cattle with friends ,and with flute in his mouth and with a smiling face evry moment of their existence.Krishna filled their hearts and beings every second,everywhere.They could not find any other attractive thing than his music in the three worlds.Once Krishna and Rama wearing leafs and flowers as dress,and with peacock feathers as ornaments had enacted as two actors,their musical abilities in front of the gopas on stage.The gopikas always remembered the expertise shown by Krishnas flute on that occasion.They became envious of the flute which always touches the lips of

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We do not have our own cities,our villages or a fixed place to live since we are wandering cowherds and migrate seasonally to places where we get grass and fodder and water for our cows.We live in hills,forests and are a wandering tribes in hills and forests.Therefore ,we should worship the cows,the forests and the hills which give us our livelihood.Whatever we have stored for Indrayaga can be used for this yagna.Let all the rithwiks do homa in fire made according to vedic injunctions.Let us give cows and gold to them as dakshina.Give enough food for all wandering tribals and hunters,to the downtrodden and to even the dogs and let us give enough grass for our cows and oxen.Let us worship this mountain Govardhan which give us grass for cows and all forest goods . Hearing Krishnas words Nanda and others decided to do so.They worshipped cows and forests and mountains which give them the materials for their living .They circumambulated the Govardhana mountain singing glories of Krishna.krishna taking the form of Govardhan took all the articles that the gopa gave to the mountain.Seeing that the Gopas and Gopis wondered. Indra was angry by these proceedings.He sent the samvartha clouds to Gokula and created a floods there.He himself came with his friends maruths on Airavatha.Lightening and thunder and storms raged .The rain was so heavy that each drop fell like a stone.Which is the road and which is the river was not known by people.Everyone came to Krishna for solace .Krishna,Krishna ,protect us from the angry Indra ,they cried in unison. Krishna decided to end the ego of Indra.He asked all the people and the cows to enter a cave under the mountain.And when they entered and out of the fury of the reins,he took the mountain on his little finger and stood like that for 7 days till the rains ended and Indra was pacified by his own failure.Thus by a wonderful act of wearing the mountains on his little finger and standing unmoved for 7 days and protecting all those who came to him for help Krishna subdued the ego of Indra. Seeing all this ,the elders of the Gokula came to Nanda and said:-this child of yours is no ordinary child.How could such a great soul was born in our midst is a real mystery.He is only 7 year old and he had worn the mountain on his little finger for 7 days.How could he kill a giant like Poothana when he was a newborn baby who has not even opened its eyes fully?At the age of three months by his feet a great cart was powdered to bits.At the age of one,he killed the giant Thrinavartha who carried himaway as strong wind.He fell two great trees alone.He killed Bakasura in childs play.He threw up the rakshasa who came to kill him in the shape of a calf and killed him too.He killed Dhenuka with Rama.He made Rama kill pralambasura.And protected us from forest fires.He danced on the heads of Kaliya and subdued his ego. All of us have unspeakable love in your son.He loves us too naturally.How does this love develop which is mutual between us?We have been thinking about such things for so long. Nanda said:-Do not doubt my son,my dear friends.Garga had told me before about him.He told me that this son of you will be born in the four yuga with white,red,yellow and black colours and in this yuga it is with blackcolour he has come.He is born as Vasudevas son and is called Vaasudeva.He has enedless naama due to his qualities,but no one knows him by all these names.He will give sreyas to your race and all gopa and

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gopis will be happy with him.He will liberate you from all sorrows.In his previous janmas he protected dharma from asura and rakshasa and all good people from the bad and cruel.Those who have the rare luck of being devoted to him by love ,are called the devotees of Vishnu and they are feared by all enemies and the asuras.He is equivalentto Vishnu.Do not wonder when he show such signs of fame and wealth and prowess ,because he is Vishnu himself.Protect this child and love him as if he is Vishnu. Hearing the words of Garga from Nandas words the gopa were too happy for words.They loved and worshipped him and wondered at their own luck . Indra came with bhoodevi in the form of Kamadhenu to see Krishna.He worshipped Krishna and said that he had forgotten in his ego,that it was Vishnu himself who had come to protect dharma for the deva and for the earth .Bhoodevi as kaamadhenu did abhisheka on Krishna with her own milk and Indra did abhisheka on him with waters from the Ganga,Indra said: I will be known as Indra of the Devas,Devendra,and you will be known as Indra of the cows,Govinda hereafter. Narada,thumburu and gandharva,kinnara,sidha ,charana,apsara came and praised Krishna with songs and dances .All the plants became healthy and gave enough food for all and cows gave enough milk and the earth became fertile and rich with grains,fruits,vegetables,medicinal plants,domestic animals,milk and milk products and all sorts of wealth for peoples happy living. After One Ekadasi day Nanda taking upavasa and worshipping Krishna,went to take bath in kalindi ,on Dwadasi.He entered water in the asura time of night and one of the servants of VARUNA took him to his lords abode.Krishna hearing this reached varunaloka and varuna was pleased to have his darsana.Seeing Varunas wealth and how he respected Krishna the doubts of Gopa were ended.They wanted to see the Parabrahma swaroopa of Bhagvan and Krishna showed it to him with compassion.He showed him the Vaikuta and its wealth and his own viswaroopa and made them all happy and knowers of Brahman. In sarath rithu,seeing the jasmineladen green gardens of Vrindavan,Krishna decided to play with Yogamaya.When he desired,the moon arose in the face of east ,as if the husband to reduce the pain of her separation ,anoints his lovers face with sandalpaste.The round and slightly red and white moon with its cool rays attracted the minds of all the womenin vrindavan.Then Krishna started to play his flute.The music which increased their desire filled Vrindavan and the women went in search of that naada.those who were miling the cows stopped it ,and others who were cooking wheat left it like that,and those who were giving milk to children,food to husbands ,those who were taking meals,everyone stopped what they were doing and went in search of Krishna.Some had dressed up with good dress,ornaments and anointed with chandana and kumkuma,others had partially done their decorations,and some decorated the ornaments in wrong places and some did not wait or loose time in decorating themselves at all.Even if the relatives and husbands and others obstruct their way,the women who had fixed their minds in Krishna did not take away that from him.Some women who were kept prisoners inside houses,closed eyes and meditated on Krishna and by his compassion got his union and mukthy then and there itself.All their gunakarma and its bondages were broken by devotion and love in Krishna who was paramathman itself.

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But how could that happen?They were thinking that he is their husband and did not know that he is Nirguna Parabrahman.Then how this lack of bondage from guna happened? Even if a person remember hari always with hatred,like Kamsa or Sisupala,they get union with hari.So what will be the state of women who love and dedicate everything to him as their own husband?Narayana took birth simply for giving moksha to people and people who love him unconditionally get it easily.All the Gopikas who came to him weremade happy by his music,his words and his darsana and love.He asked them what boon you want from me?Are not your relatives happy?Will they not search for you if you come like this to me?They will be afraid not seeing you in homes.Go to your relatives,husbands and children and do service to them.Do your household duties,milking of cows,cooking etc .Our duty is most important for men and women.Even if your husband is old,cruel,poor ,unlucky,or diseased,you have to be satisfied with what you got.For a lady of good kula(race)the desire to have union with a different man and the pleasure out of it is not good .The best way to love me is to do sravana,dhyana,keerthana,darsana etc ,and not by being or living with me.Therefore go back . The women being unhappy ,lowered the faces and tears rolled down their cheeks.They stood there silently .After sometime they told Krishna.:- you should not have said such cruel words to us.We have sacrificed all other vishaya from our minds and dedicated us at your feet .We are mumukshu(desirous of liberation)and is it the dharma of Adipurusha to sent away mumukshus emptyhanded?Do not discard us or punish us.What you advised us that we should follow the swadharma of serving our husbands,children,homes,relatives etc is good from your point of view as aking and it will be acceptable to your subjects because you have proven your good nature.But for every jeeva the real relative and husband and child and Guru is Athman and that is You alone.All the other relations are transcient and we need permanent liberation from samsara.Do not push us back to samsara.All our senses and organs and mind and intellect had been stolen by you and our Athman is fixed in you and therefore it cannot move away from you and hence where can we go if you discard us now?Your sight,your smile,words and that beautiful music and leela have awakened a fire in us and without your touch of compassion and love it will not be quenched.If not we will burn our bodies in our yogagni and join you.You are the dearestof the forestdwellers.And of Ramadevi.By your feet and its touch we have become your lovers,devotees.We are enmeshed in the bliss of you and we cannot live without you.The devi Mahalaxmi,for whose blessings even the devas do thapas,even after attaining you and be placed on your chest,being unsatisfied ,takes the thulasi on your feet with its dust and wear itin head,we are wearing the dust of your feet on our body and head.We have left homes and samsara and dedicated us to your service.Your beauty has attracted us so much that we want union with you. The cheeks with lighening of the kundala , Smiles and sideglances The nectar of lips The forehead covered by tiny forelocks The long hands which give abahya The chest where Lakshmi dwell always Have attracted us and we want to be your dasi. Your sweet melodies With lalitha pada and dheerghaswara

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Ithararaagavismaaranam nrinaam Vithara veera!nasthedharaamritham. 15.Atathitath bhavaanahnikaananam Thrutiryugaayathe thwaamapasyathaam Kutilakunthalam sreemukham cha the Jasa udheekshathaam pakshmakrithdrishaam 16.Pathi suthaanuanabraathrubaandhavaa-nathivilamghyathe thyachuthaagatha: Gathividhasthavolgeethamohithaam Kithava!yoshitha:ka:sthyajennisi 17.Rahasi samvidam hrischayodayam Prahasithaananam premaveekshanam Brihadura:sriyo veekshyadhaama the Muhurathisprihaa muhyathe mana: 18.Vrajanoukasaam vyakthiranga!the Vrajinahanthryayam viswamangalam Thyja manaakchanasthwalsprihaathmanaam Swajanahridrujaam yannnishoodanam 19.Yathe sujaathacharanaamburuhamhashaneshu Bheethaa:sanai:priya!dhatheemahi karkaseshu Koorpaadhibhirbramathi dheerbhavadaayushaam na: 20. Sree Suka uvaacha: Ithi Gopya:pragaayanthyaa: Pralapanthyascha chithradhaa-rurudhu:suswaram Rajan! Krishnadarsanalaalasa: 21.Thaasaamaavirabhooschouri: Smayamaanamukhambuja: Peethaambaradhara:sragwi Sakshath manmathamanmatha: On the banks of Kalindi ,the compassionate Paramapurusha tested their dedication and then made them happy with his presence,love and playful moods. By his sight alone the Hridroga of those dedicated women was cured and they made a seat for him with their own dresses to sit and asked with love and dedication:Some people love ,only those who love them.Some do just the opposite of this.Others do not love or serve these two types at all.What is the difference between such love exhibited by these thre types of people? Bhagavan said:-Those who love each other do so for selfish motives only.All dharma and love in this loukika world is for selfish motives. Those who love people who does not love back are like parents and are compassionate people.In that type of love both dharma and friendship exist simultaneously and this is exception to the rule and such people are rare and valuable. Those who do not love even the people who love them,can never love those who do not love them.

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There are four types called Athmaaraama,Aapthakaama,Krithagna,and gurudrohi who do not love even those who do love them.I am not one among these four types. I am the seat of compassion for all beings.I am the friend for all beings .To make the minds of my devotees fixed in me and in nothing else,I pretend that I dont love them and disappear from their sight and test them in certain occasions.When I do that it is for their good and wellbeing later.When a poor man gets wealth ,and then he looses it completely,his mind will never be taken away from that lost wealth .Like that once knowing my love,and then loosing it for a period,the bhaktha fix their mind only in me.They will never forget me.You have come to me discarding everything,including your homes and even the vedamarga and to see your deep love me and to enjoy it,hidden from you,I had a desire.So I disappeared for a while from you.I am unable to pay back you for such nishkaamabhakthy and love in me ,even with the lifespan of a deva.I have only a human lifespan and how can I be free from such debts from you in this life?This great karma itself has become your reward forever. Then the raasaleela of Bhagvan and Gopikas started.For each Krishna,two Gopika on either side,one on right and the other on left.Each of krishnas hands in the Gopikas shoulders/hands.In this way they stood in a circle forming a Gopikaamandalam for Krishna.Decorated by that Gopikaamandala,Krishna celebrated his rassothsava. Deva,gandharva,and apsara came to see this great dance.They sang and played accompaniments and danced tofether.The ornaments of the dancing Gopikas and Krishna made harmonious music in the Raasaleelamandala.Krishna looked like a Marathaka jewel(greenish)among several golden beads of Gopika in that circular garland .Showing mudras,and bhava,and placing feet with rhythms and dancing in the most beautiful way,singing in harmony ,and with flowers and garlands and sweatcovered foreheads the women danced with Krishna .They looked like a streak of lightening on a blue cloud. With the touch of Achyutha,their naada became perfect,and with sruthi and loudness and confidence and in happiness ,they sang swaras aloud and beautifully.The pure swaras flowed out of them with his touch.When Hari said Good to one of the bestsingers among them,and respected her for her knowledge,another one did dhruvathala for her music and got his praise for that prowess.Thus he gave praise for each one for their ability in bharathakala. One woman with loosened bangles and crushed flowers and tired in her dance,caught his shoulders and neck for support .Another with bliss caught his hand which smelled of chandan and lotus and smelt it and pressed it to her neck and kissed it.One beautiful maiden pressed her cheek to the cheek of Krishna shining with the light of his kundala,and Krishna gave his Thaamboolarasa to her.One shaking her anklets and ornaments in the waist became tired and came rushing to him and pressed is hands to her breasts. Thus getting the Ekaanthakaantha of kamala to them as husband due to bhakthy ,they embraced him and sang his glories and names in blissful mood.The dance,harmonious melodious music and the rhythms,and the perfect bharathakala with their erotic as well as spiritual mood mingled imperceptibly and Krishna was playing like a child playing with shadows or mirrorimages.Seeing his play,the apsaras swooned in desire .Moon with his nakshatragana stopped his movement and looked on with wonder.Each woman thought there was a Krishna with them .Krishna took as many forms as there were Gopika.And touched,embraced and removed the sweat from each ones face simultaneously by his many forms.He enjoyed the Haribhajans and keerthana

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He said I was the Gandharva ,called Sudarsana.Once due to my pride in my handsome body I insulted a few sages belonging to the race of Angirasa,who were extremely ugly.By their curse I was born in this janma as a sarpa.By your touch all my curses removed I got back by original body.You are the mahayogin,the refuge of all the three worlds and by your touch and vision I have been liberated. One night Krishna and Balarama were walking in the forests with the gopikas in a playful mood. Then Krishna played his music.It is described by Vyasa as beautiful music with all the 7 swara ,in arohana and avarohana and in time /rhythm and it was auspicious for all living things ,both for mind and body.The Gopikas lost the memory of their body and indriya and were transported from the loukika toaloukika state . At that time a servant of Kubera,called Sankachooda came there ,and took away the women who had lost consciousness in Krishnas music.When they knew what is happening they started to cry aloud calling Krishna and Rama.And they came after the thief,like the bold warriors after the thiefs of cattle (in Goraksha).They uprooted a palm tree each and ran behind the thief,shouting aloud to the GopikasDont be afraid,we are with you.Seeing this the thief left the women in forest and ran away.Krishna followed him and Balarama remained with the women for their protection.Hari killed him and took his choodarathna (by which he was called Samkhachooda)and came back and presented that rare jewel to his dearest brother Balarama. Gopis describe Krishnas music:When Krishna touching his left cheek with his left hand ,and moving his eyebrows,closes the seven dwara(openings)of the flute and then open them ,hearing that touching music,the apsara in the sky and the women of the gandharva stop and listen with love even if they are with their husbands ,the expert singers.They go into a swon and forget themselves. With a smile on his lips,and the lightening of his garland in his chest,and giving narma(humour)to even the sorrowful people of the earth,Hari,the ever energetic and happy one plays the flute.And the cows and other domestic animals forget to eat the grass,and to chew the cud,and with closed eyes and opened ears stand in silence as if a picture painted .Wearing peacocks,green leafs and manayola,like a malla Krishna calls with Balarama,the Gopa as well as the cows to his side .Then just like us ,who are desirous of the dust of his feet and touch of his hands,the rivers stop flowing and with love they dry up their tears . When he calls the cows grazing in the mountains withhis flute,The trees and shrubs and vines of forest with happiness become fruitful and covered by flowers and with the weight of fruits lower heads and give honey to him.In his vanamala,with the sacred smell of Thulasi,the bees come and sing his songs and to imitate that Bramarageetha,Krishna takes his flute and touches it with his lips.Then in the lakes the swans,cranes and other aquatic birds attracted to his music sit as if they are sages meditating in silence.Wearing flowers in his ears ,and with Balarama,Krishna walks in forests and mountains and fills the entire earh with happiness and when he plays the flute for this purpose,it spreads to sky and clouds of his own colour gather and try to imitate his sound by rumblings and worship him with flowers,water drops and keeps a shadowy umbrella around hs head to givehim shade from heat.

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Mother Yasodha,When your son who has learnt to play flute by himself(without a guru) joints the flute to his lips which has defeated the red fruits in colour,and plays the different swara and jathi in a wonderful manner producing melodies,all The Gods like Indra,Brahman,Shiva etc though themselves experts in melodies loose their ego and pride in their scholarship in music and shyly lower their heads.Krishna walks in this Gokula as a elephant and his feetmarks with ankusa,dwaja,padma and vajra is seen everywhere.And when he plays that melodious flute and plays his sideglances which are seats of Kaamadeva himself,on us simultaneously ,we forget our bodies,our loosened garments our decorations and everything and we become transformed to state of Sthavara(immobile/inanimate).Wearing the fragrant Thulasi garland,and putting his hands on the shoulders of his friends who are counting the number of cows carefully,Krishna plays his flute .The wifes of Krishnamriga(deers) attracted to it just like us ,the gopikas(who are also Krishnamriga wives)discard homes,husbands,children and come near him and lick and love him.The blemishless mother,when your son wearing jasmine garlands with his cowherds,to give happiness to his friends go toKalindi and do Jalakreeda in her,The cold breeze wearing fragrant smell of sandal come and embrace him in love.The upadeva who are Vandi,praise him and give him bali with vadya(accompaniments)and geetha.He in extreme love for the cows ,walks with naked feet in their paths along with them,and reaches the Ghoshta with them in twilight playing his flute for them and for entire world.With dust and sweat and the crushed garlands and tired body ,he gives happiness to all onlookers and it is for blessing all of us he is born in the womb of Devaki and came to us as Son of Yasodha.Our Krishna,the full moon for our eyes is now coming home at twilight.With moving eyes,and slightly pale face after his days jobs of grazing cows ,and with the golden hue of kundala on his cheeks like an elephant playing in his territory,he comes back to our goshta at the days end.All our sorrows ends when he comes. In this way ,the Gopikas spent their days praising Krishna and played with him at night . An asura called Arishta came in the form of a humped bull to kill Krishna.Catching him by his horns as if an elephant,Krishna threw him to 18 ft distance.Again he came back.Then a battle ensued between Krishna and the bull.When Krishna killed Arishta,Narada approached kamsa and told him.:The 8th son of Devaki and 7th son of Devaki are both alive in Gokula as Krishna and Rama ,and they are growing up bold and strong and they are your enemies.Kamsa sent Kesi to kill Krishna.He came in the shape of a horse.Kamsa convened a meeting of his friends including Mushtika,Channoora,salatha,osalaka,etc ,ministers and elephant keepers and told them that he is planning to call his enemies to Mathura and they have to kill him.Mushtika and chanura were to fight with Krishna.And the Elephant Kuvalayapeeta was to be trained to kill Krishna by the elephant keepers.He planned a bow sacrifice on Chathyrdasi day for getting blessings of Shiva.Kamsa then called Akrura and pretending friendship asked him to invite Krishna and Rama to Mathura.He said I am like Indra requesting Vishnu to do a help for him,asking you to do this help.I want to kill both of them because they are my killers.Once they are killed I will destroy all the enemies of mine including Vasudeva,my father Ugrasena,his brother Devaka etc and become emperor.My friend and guru Jarasandha,my friends Dwivida,Sambhara,Naraka,Baana,are with me.

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Akroora said:-You are planning this for your selfish motives.But whether you get the desired effect or not,is in the hands of God and therefore keep equanimity of mind in success and failure.I will obey you because the end result is not with me or you,but with God. Meditating on Govinda ,Akroora went home. Kesi came as a horse with dust everywhere in sky and earth,and with deep voices and lightening like a thunderstorm .With his tail,the clouds were dispersed.Coming in high speed ,with his hindlegs he kicked Krishna.Krishna escaped and caught both his hindlegs and revolving him above head,threw him to 100 bows distance.He went into a coma.then regained consciousness and making a terrific sound and opening his mouth like a cave came rushing towardsKrishna.Krishnas kands like a serpent entered the cave of his mouth and as if touched bya heated iron,his teeth came off.And krishnas hand within the mouth of asura became swollen.It became bigger and bigger by swelling and the asura had obstruction of his breath.Thus he fell dead.Narada came to Krishna and praised him with his devotion and keerthana.He said,I can see you killing chanura,mushtika,kuvalayapeeta,Kamsa,and also Samkha,yavana,Naraka,and other asura.I can see you going and getting paarijatha from heaven and marrying the 8 wives .And in Dwaraka I see you giving liberation to king Nriga,who had become a reptile due to a curse.Getting syamanthaka from Jmabavan,marrying Jambavathy,giving gurudakshina of the dead son back to Sandeepani,killing Poundraka,destroying kasi,and killing Dandavakthra and Sisupala during Rajasooya are all seen by me.In your Dwaraka city you will do several karma which are remembered forever.The devotees will sing of these karma forever.You will take up the position of charioteer of Arjuna in Mahabharatha war and reduce the burden of earth.I prostrate before you ,who are the avathara who came to earth for blessing all of us. Thus predicting the future,praising Krishna as Vishnu ,Narada went to his abode.Krishna again immersed in his Goraksha as swadharma and made Gokula happy.Once when the cows were grazing thechildren played the game of thief and king.Some became thiefs and others kings.The thiefs hide and kings have to find them out.Then the son of maya ,who was a magician ,called Vyomasura came and joined them as a gopabaala.He took away all the children who played the role of cows and calfs as a gopabaala playing the role of a thief.He kept them in a cave and closed the opening with a big stone.Just 4 or five remained to play .All others became prisoners of the asura.Krishna killed him and relieved the children. Akroora stayed for one day in Madhurapura.He got up in the morning and in a chariot went to Gokulam.Being a great devotee of Krishna on his way to Gokula ,Akroora thought:-I have done some good karma for getting the luck of meeting Bhagvan.It is like a soodra getting the luck of vedocharana,while many Brahmins does not get it,that I had this great luck.Because so many yogins have failed to get a glimpse of him.Yet what a low person I am.Iam going to him to call him to kamsa for executing a plan to kill him.But being able to touch hm,see him,hear him all my sins will be purified.Therefore ,eventhoughit is with opposite intention,Kmasa has actuallyblessed me with darsana of my Lord.He saw thefootprints of Krishna with its lakshana and fell on the ground of Gokula to do namaskar of those footprints.Expecting the meeting,imagining the meeting,and meditating on Krishna and his leela and on his own luck to get a chance of

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meeting Krishna ,he did not know time .When it was twilight he entered Gokula.He saw Rama and Krishna wearing blue and yellow silks and handsome like beautiful elephant calfs.Their smiles,sideglances,their dress,their every movement was touching the hearts of every onlooker.Clean after the sandhya bath,wearing vanamaala and chandan,one as a silver mountain and the other as a emerald mountain removing darkness around and from the minds of all ,as the cause of everything,and the protectors of everything,they were seen as Visnu in his leela avathara .Seeing them Akroora jumped out of the chariot and fell on their feet .Being unable to speak a word,eyes full of tears of joy,and hairs on his body erect,he stood without even able to utter his own name as introduction.But Krishna knew him and with the hand which wears Sudarsanachakra,he embraced his uncle and patted him.Rama also embraced Akroora and caught his hands and welcomed him to Gokula.Both of them took him inside the house.They gave him a seat,and worshipped him with madhuparkka,pure water and gave cows and dakshina of different types to that great guest and after paadasusroosha gave him good food and thamboola,ghanda and garlands .Nanda asked :-how do you ,good people live there when the cruel Kamsa rules Mathura? Enjoying the love and care of the children and the parents and by the gokla,Akrura did not feel the journeys tiredness .Whatever he had imagined in his chariot was happening to him and he was wondering how my sankalpa had become truth!The haribhaktha are always satyasankalpa and Hari was giving that experience to Akrura. Krishna said:we are happy to see you.We do hope that all our relatives in the race of yadu are happy and well.When the disease of ourrace,in the name of uncle Kamsa is increasing day by day ,we can imagine how the race is having healthy living too.How is our parents who are in his prison and have seen and experienced the killing of 6 children in their sight and yet live praying for our safety.May we know the cause of you sudden visit now? Akroora told him the reason for his visit.Then Krishna and Rama smiled to themselves and told Nanda what had happened.Nanda asked Gopas to take gifts and other valuable things and get ready for the journey.All the people were also asked to go with the children.Hearing the news Gopikas became very sad.They stood forgetting themselves,fixed in Krishna as great yoginis.And when the chariot moved from Gokula they came in groups and in tears to see him.Seeing them Krishna with a smile and through a messenger told that I will come back soon.On the way when Akroora went for a bath in the Yamuna and Krishna and Balarama remained in the chariot Akroora had a experience.When he did japa of the pranava and took a deep dip in the water he saw Krishna and Balarama under the water.He could not believe his eyes and when he came up and looked he saw them sitting in the cariot as before.Thinking that it was my illusion he again dipped in.Then he saw the Adiseshamurthy with Gandharva and charana singing hymns around underneath the water.He had 1000 hoods and a white body like the lotus stem and blue dress.In his lap he saw the 4 armed yellowclad blue and tranquil,peaceful Krishna .The form of beautiful Vishnu as Krishna and Adishesha as Balarama with sunand aand nanda,narada ,sanaka sanandana and othe rrishis around and praised by Shiva and Brahma in the lotus of his nabhi,Prahlada and vasu with folded hands serving him was seen clearly by him.He saw the 12

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adhistanadevatha(sree,ila,pushty,thushti,oorja,keerthi,vaani,maaya,sakthy,kaanthy,avidya ,vidya)and with flowing tears of bliss Akroora praised him . When he came up he saw the children sitting as before in the chariot.They reached Mathura by evening.Next day Krishna and Balarama went to see the city with his friends.He saw golden gates with crystal embedded,high towers,houses,and flags everywhere.The granaries were with doors having brass and copper.Around was deep waterbodies which is not easy to cross for the enemies.Beautiful gardens,upavana and forests,durbars ,several precious jewels like diamonds,blue sapphires,emeralds,perls,etc and curved valabhi(marketplaces)stages,and doves and peacocks on towers of houses freely flying,the roads wetted with sandal and other fragrant things,and plantain trees in doors with garlands and coconut fruits,lot of grains and fruits and vegetables,and butter and other dairy products.The city looked very prosperous and wealthy.To see Krishna all women of Mathura came to their terraces.They had heard of him and were seeing him for the first time and all of them were attracted by his innocence ,beauty and valourous look.He too gave them the hearty smiles.Th ewomen threw flowers at them from all the terraces.They saw a washerman bringing coloured clothes and Krishna asked him to give some clean clothes for them.He was aservant of kamsa.He insulted Krishna saying that what is the need for pwople who walk in forest and hills for the clothes of a king.Then Krishna had to kill him to get the dress he asked for.They took what dress they needed and gave the rest to the others.Then they went to a garland maker called Sudama and he respected them and gave them food and seat and also gave garlands,fragrant chandan and betel leaves.He was blessed with prosperity of his race,wealth ,devotion and compassion in all bhootha ,long life,fame and beauty. Then as they were walking along the road they saw a woman with three bends in her body coming slowly.Krishna asked Who are you ,beautiful one?To whom do you take these fragrant things?. She was the servant of Kamsa and was taking themfor his use.But she gave them to Krishna and Balarama with devotion and Krishna made her healthy and beautiful by placing his feet on her feet ,and with two fingers catching her chinand making the face look straight .The touch of Haris hands and feet made her the most beautiful woman on earth.And everybody in the street wondered seeing this healing touch and its effect.She was in love with him ,and asked him to come to her house and be her husband.Krishna looked with sideglances at Rama and his friends and smiled.He said kindlyWe have come on certain purposes to Mathura.After finishing those duties Iwill come to your house and be your guest for one day and night.The merchants and traders of Mathura city respected and welcomed Rama and Krishna.Thay gave him sandal and betel leafs.Krishna went to the place where the bow for the yajna was kept.The bow was called Aindram and was very heavy.He took it easily,and broke it in a second.The sound of the broken bow filled the atmosphere with its echo and Kamsa became afraid.The servants of Kamsa who came to kill Krishnawere killed by Krishnaand Balarama with the broken pieces of the bow itself.The people of the city watching these said:These children are not ordinary children.They are divine . Whe sun set Krishna and his retinue reached back the paalaya where the caravens stood .He washed himself and ate a dinner with milk and spent the night in that camp.How he broke the bow and killed the strong army and how he behaved in the streets were heard in detail by Kamsa and he spent a sleepless night in fear of death.He saw both in awakened

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Krishna fought with Chanura and Rama with Mushtika.Women were sorry for the young beautiful children being set against such experienced ruffians and they cursed Kamsa and his adharma.Nandagopa and yesoda were very unhappy and concerned about the outcome of the duel and they feared the worst.But in no time the children won over Chanura and Mushtika and killed them as if in childs play.The other people also were killed by the children.The vadya and ghosha praised the victory of the brothers.Everyone except Kamsa joined in the happy mood of the childrens victory.Kamsa ordered the vadya to be stopped.He ordered to expel the brothers from the city and to take away all the wealth of the gokula and kill every one them.He also ordered Vasudeva and Ugrasena to be killed immeadiately .Hearing this Krishna jumped on to the throne of kamsa.Kamsa jumped up in fear and his crown fell down the steps.He took his sword and jumped left and right .Krishna caught him easily by his hair which was hanging down without the crown,and pushed him down on the floor.And Krishna fell on his body.Krishna pulled him across the floor like a lion ,pulling his prey ,the elephant.Kamsa was already dead.And which form was remembered while awke,asleep and everytime everywhere though with fear,was seen and touched by the king in that last moment and he reached th edhama of Hari by that touch.The brothers of kamsa came to fight but they were killed in seconds by the brothers.The widows cried and the apsaras and devas played musical instruments and danced with music. Krishna consoled his aunts who were crying over their dead husband and made them do the samskara according to customary rites and with respect.The brothers went to the jail and liberated their parents from there.Krishna and Rama talked with their parents and gave them bliss untold.He also gave pleasure to Nanda and yesoda telling that the fosterparents who gave life to the children are the real parents and without them he could not have done all these.He asked them to go back to Gokula and live happily doing swadharma.He had more dharma to be done in Mathura an will come back afterwards. Vsudeva did upanayana for his two sons.The kulaguru ,Gargya was entrusted for that.They did Gayathra vratha and were sent to Sandeepani rishi,born in Kaashi,dwelling in Avanthy.There they did Gurukulavaasa just like any other children of the times.Veda,vedanga,Upanishads,nyaya,dharmasasthra,and secret dhanurveda weapons,and 6 types of laws of kings,hard logic ,etc.Whatever is heard once ,they never forgot it and the Guru was pleased with such great shishya.With 64 ahorathra ,they learned 64 vidya.Then they asked the Guru what they should give him as dakshina.He,seeing their divine powers and after consulting with his wife,asked them to give back his son whom he had lost while bathing in Prabhas theertha. Krishna asked the ocean why did you take away my Gurus son?Varuna said ,I did nt take him.There is a asura called Panchajana in the form of a conch ,travellling in the oceans.It is he who took him away.Krishna killed the asura and liberated the boy from his stomach.The conch he took for himself.This is called panchajanya.He came back blowing his divine samkha and yama gave back the dead boy .Thus Krishna gave a Gurudakshina which no one else in the world had eve given to a guru.Rama and Krishna ascended their chariots and went back home .The people rejoiced seeing them again.

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Udhava goes to Gokula:Udhava was the greatest among the race of Vrishni,and the minister,friend,and shishya of Brihaspathy and having subtle intellect and a gnanayogin.He was the bhaktha of Sreehari.Once Krishna told him ,taking both his hands in his hands .Udhava,You have to go to Gokula as my messenger.Go and make my parents happy.And give comfort to the gopikas who are unhappy with my separation.Give them my message.For them I am their jeeva and they have their jeeva in me.They have discarded al the dharmas of the body ,just to attain me.I have given them all purushartha due to their sacrifice and love in me.Since I am away from them now,they may be feeling sad due to separation .Tell them that I will come to them soon.So that they will remain alive just for that moment of reunion. Hearing this Udhava went to Gokula in his chariot.In the evening he reached Gokula with the dust of cows hoofs.He heard the sounds of the cows and calfs going back to their pens.And the sound of flutes of the cowherds,and bells of calfs mingling with the echoes and the songs of the women about Rama and Krisna and their leela.The birds and bees made accompaniments to that sweet music.Swans,waterhens,tried to sing too.Nanda seeing Udhava was happy and embraced him as if he was his own son,Krishna and gave milk and butter and good food and soft bed to sleep.He asked whether Krishna remembers the Gokula and its past in mathura.Will he come here just once so that we can see him once again.Seeing the places which he used tofrequent and remembering his words and deeds and plays we have become one with him forever .With love in Krishna ,Nanda endlessly described his childhood leela and Udhava listened .Yesoda cried and remembered him with such tenderness that Udhava felt happy by seeing such pure love in Bhagavan.Udhava said:He lives in your heart as if agni within arani.He will come soon and see you.He is sakshath parabrahman .He has no karma in the world.Yet for protection of dharma he does karma as leela.He incarnates In high,low and middle yonis or races just for this purpose.He is unborn and has no death and yet he takes up even such dharma due to compassion in the world.Just like a man with vertigo feels the earth around is whirling ,mind being doer,the ignorant thinks the akartha Athman is the Karthaa.Krishna is the son of all,and the Athman of all.He is mother and father of all.He is the Isa of all.Whatever we see and experience now,before,and hereafter are all Hari alone and nthing else exists. They spoke thus and spent the night in ecstacy .In the mrning Udhava got up hearing the songs of the gopis about Krishna while doing the household duties.The people saw the golden chariot at the gate of Nanda and thinking that Krishna had returned came running to Nandas palace.Udhava came to see the Gopikas after finishing his morning sandhya prayers. Bramarageetha:Seeing him wearing yellow silk and flowery garlands and with kundala ,Gopikas were happy since he resembled Krishna in dress and had come as his messenger.They came and stood around him.Welcomed him with respect .They asked What is the message of our dear one to us,his friends and wellwishers,his dearest lovers?We dont think that he remembers us.Probably he remembered his parents and sent you here to give them a message.Even the Brahmagna sage is bound by love of own people.The friendship of

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loukika people is seen to last only till achieving the aim.The men discard love in women after they get the union.The bees discard flowers after taking the honey.The daasi discards the poor man after taking all his wealth.The subjects discard the weak king .The disciple discard even the Guru.After getting what they want ,the people discard the giver with no concern.It is the way of the world.After getting dakshina,the rithwik discard the yajamana.The birds after eating fruit discard the tree.The guest after the sumptuous feed discard the house which gave it to him.Animals discard the burned forests when it cannot give food .The lover discards the woman after enjoying her.In this way,when Udhava came,the gopikas discarded their worldly duties and gathered round him.They sang the praise of Krishna and cried in ecstacy without shame.One among them seeing a bee ,and imagining it as the messenger of Krishna sang as follows:Bee,the friend of Krishna,the thief!You have besmeared your facial hairs with the kumkum dust of the sapathny(other wives)and are trying to touch our feet.Do not touch them.Let the husband of Madhu(Madhupathi)get prasaadafrom those yadava women themselves.(Madhu once ruled Mathura and hence Madhupathi is synonym for Mathurapathy as well as to the bee who is the ruler of sweet honey ).You,being his messenger must be equal to him in your cunning ways.He equal to you,in dress and character ,like you,by his lips drinking flowers just once,as if us,had discarded them and gone for ever.How he attracted the auspicious Lakshmy,who serve his feet always,just like that by his beautiful sweet words he might have attracted you too.Why do you come here,honeybee,in frontof these unlucky women who do not even have a house and sing about the past Vrajaraja Krishna?He is no more in vraja and he is now king of Mathura.You go and sing these praises in the ears of his wives there.Those people who enjoy his nearness,songs and love will be happy to hear it.They will give you everything just to hear this.Which woman will not love hm,with those naughty sideglances ,smiles and sweetest words and music?Even Lakshmy was attracted and made his slave .We may be poor and law,yet he,being expert in giving alms to poor should have been able to give us what we most desire just to protect daana and dharma.Bee,do not prostarte in front of my feet.I know you have learnt all his tricks directly from him.You have the ability to speak well and make us believe what you say.We know all these.We believed him and discarded our homes,relatives,family and even ourselves for his sake.And he had cheated us.Whatis the use of saying his praises to us?He had killed a monkey king as if dharmaheena hiding behind a tree before.He had cut the organs of a woman who came to him by love.Therefore I have no more attachment to this dark one,this dark bee.Yet ,his stories and songs are still honey to my ears.Waht am I to do?Even a drop of that honey ,removes all dwanda and as birds in lakhs become bhikshus ,discarding own families and homes.Just like ignorant deercubs,we hearing the music of this hunter had fallen into his treacherus claws .This is the greatest pain of love inflicted by that kaamadeva on us.Therefore say something else.Why do you come back again ,bee?Did Krishna sent you again ?We respect you as you are his messenger.Waht is your wish?If it is possible we will make your wish come true.If you have come to take us to our lover,how can we come?There are several sapathni(women )there and they are our enemies and there is the Lakshmy,the eternal Mngaladevatha too.How can we compete with them.Bee,Is our dearest Krishna happy and well there?Does he remember the vraja,his parents,we,his devoted wives and the frinds and the calfs and the days when he spent here.Does he at

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least once speak about us and our love? Will he come at least once to touch his fragrant hand on our head. Udhava said: You are the luckiest women on earth.You have achieved what even the sages could not achieve.The fact that you could dedicate your Athman in Vaasudeva is the luckiest event in life.Krishna is parampurusha.He is Vishnu.Inhim you have Ekanthikabhakthy.Your sorrow of separation has become a bliss for me.Hear what your husband has asked me to tell you.This is his message The luckiest women,There is no separation from me in any time or space from me for you.Because I am the Athmanof all.How the panchabhootha is in all bhoothasanchaya ,I am the basic cause for all bhootha,indriya,gunaa and praana.In them by my maaya ,I crate different Athma,by Athma in Athma.And protect and destroy them too.The different states of jagrad,swapna and sushupthy makes the feeling that the Eka Athma is aneka.The jagrad state person should think of all the seen and heard indriyaprapancha as a dream only.By which one meditated on these indriyavishaya ,that mind should be wellcontrolled .For intellectuals,yoga,samkhya ,sanyasa,thapas,dama,satya are ending in control of mind(manasamyama)It is just like rivers end in ocean alone.I am your dearest one.And I am living away from you,so that you get a chance for chithavrithinirodha.Your mind have become interested and fixed in my meditation by ths separation.It is about the object that is far,the mind always thinks.The thing that is near is not thought about by women.Therefore you have discarded all other thoughts and fixed only in my thought .You will unite with me soon because of this yoga.Even the women who had not participated in the rasaleela while I was in Brindavan,will come to me and merge in me,because of constant meditation on this yoga. Hearing this message the women remembered everything about him again and in ecstacy they told him:-Now Kamsa is killed and Krishna with his friends and relatives are living happily in Mathura.Is he not happy there and are not the women in Mathura happy seeing him and enjoying his presence?That handsome one is expert in rathi and is dear to all great women .He will become the servant of those women who are his devotees.Can he remember us while seated among those urbanized women of Mathura?We are just village girls.When lilies and jasmines bloom and when fullmoon is in sky,in the kunja of vrindavan ,he sang and danced with us making the rhythmic music of his ornaments and anklets.Does he remember those beautiful nights still?Will he come to us ,like Indra with his rains to a dry forest so that life again comes back to it ?He has won over the empire,had education and married his 8 wives .Then why should he come back here to see us?What is the use of these wandering forest tribes for that great Krishna?Yet we cannot control our desire in Hari.He doesnt love her,yet the Goddess of Aiswarya does not go away from his body.Therefore will we be able to discard him from our minds?Seeing his footprints in forests,and hearing his flute in every object,and in mountains and rivers,and remembering him and his leela ,his sideglances,smiles and dances and naughty plays,,we have become immersed in the love for him.We have immersed in him.In the sorrow of his separation.Krishna,when will you come and protect us from this ocean of sorrow? Then they thought of his message and knowing that he is god himself said words of wisdom to Udhava.They sang the songs of Krishna together.Udhava stayed back in Ambadi enjoying the company of the sajjana there and imbibing their

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That lotus feet Worshipped by Indira and Shiva and Indra Was kept on these womens breasts During rasleela By Achutha. The song of these women on Krishna Has purified all the worlds alike I do prostrate The dust of their feet Always .Always. Thus he prostrated before them and he left Vrindavan after that. Nanda and the others at gokula said:-Let our chithavrithy always be in the feet of Krishna.Let our words be only for praising his names and stories. Let our bodies be just for the prostration in front of our Mukunda.We,revolving in the paths of karma by the will of God,pray that every karma we do with body,mind and words be deicated for the love of our Lord Krishna alone. Udhava went back and praised the bhakthy of people of Gokula to Krishna . Kubja,the Sairandhri of Kamsa was waiting for Krishna to come to her house.She had kept her house ready for his arrival.All auspicious things,garlands,precious jewels,flowers and cots ,beds decorated and chandan etc were ready in her house. Knowing her desire,Krishna desired to give her what she had asked for,and after Udhavas arrival and news from Gokula,he started to her house.Seeing the distinguished guest arrive,she got up in haste and with her friends came to welcome him.Udhava was also welcomed and given seats equal to Krishna but he chose to sit on the floor.Krishna entered the jewel-bedecked cot as samsarins does.Kubja after a bath,wearing her best dress and jewels and eating thamboola ,came to him in natural shyness.Her mouth smelt of the honey she had drank and her sideglances had the drunken love of Krishna.Krishna caught hold of her bangled hands and took her to his bed .She put his feet on her her eyes and breasts again and again with devotion and kissing those dear feet all her sorrows were removed.But the woman who was not aware of the fact that he is God who can give liberation from samsara asked a boon from him:-Bhagavan,Live here with me for some days and give me the pleasure of having you as my husband.He gave that boon and stayed there for a few days till she became pregnant and after that he left her house with his friend Udhava.The child begotten by her ws called Upasloka and he became the disciple of Narada and spread Bhakthiyoga.Itis interesting to note that only Udhava and Upasloka remained to spread the message of gnana and bhakthy which Krishna had given to the world.All other yadavas,Krishnas sons including were lost in the deluge and war which ensued during Krishnas death. Krishna,Balarama and Udhava then reached Akrooras house.Akroora welcomed them lovingly and took the children on his lap and embraced.You are the cause and effect of entire cosmos and there is no other except you two.All seen and unseen things are you only.By the three gunas you create,destroy and sustain universes.You do not have bondage or liberation.But due to ignorance these are being projected .For welfare of universe you had given the path of veda ,before,,and whenever it is forgotten by world

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you come again and again to protect it.You are now born in the house of Nanda to destroy the asura and kshathriya forces in several akshouhini ,so that adharma is destroyed from earth.By your feet the three worlds are purified.My house is now purified by the water of that feet.Will a intelligent person dedicate his life to any other than you?You are the one who gives all desires to your devotees including liberation,and you have no increase or decrease and is always changeless,and you are friend to all and truthful,and lover of the lovers ,and even the great yogeeswara are searching for you to attain you.The one who is unattainable even by devas has come to myhouse now .This is our luck only.Let my bondages to house,wife,sons and luxurious worlds be cut off and get liberation forever .Give me that boon. Hearing these words of Akroora Krishna said:-You are tranquil ,peaceful,my Guru and and a father figure for me.You are famous in yadava race and we are only your children.You have to protect us as your children .We as children want your blessings and protection always.The devas are selfish but you are not .The sacred waters of the rivers,the sand,stone,and the idols made of such materials become purified only after several years but good people are not like that.You are the best among the relatives of the yadava race.Therefore ,we have come to request you to go to Hastinapura .There live the sons of our fathers sister Kunthi,wife of Pandu.To know their welfare and to give them blessings ,can you go there?We heard that after Pandus death,the children and their mother were dwelling in the palace with king Dhritharashtra and he is not very kind to them.He is not impartial to his sons and his brothers sons and that is not according to the dharma of a kshathriya king.That blind king is the slave to his bad sons who are egocentric and greedy.Therefore ,please do go there and find out whether all is well with the pandava princes and their mother.After knowing the truth from you,I will act accordingly to bring them welfare. Thus Akroora went to Hastinapura and saw Dhritharastra,Vidura with subtle intelligence,Bheeshma,Kunthi,Bahleeka Gouthama with his son ,Bharadwajaputhra Aswathamaa,Pandava princes,Karna and Suyodhana.He stayed there for a few days to understand how the King with lesser intellect is behaving with partiality.The pandava princes had thejas,strength of body and mind,ojas,veerya,sourya etc by birth and good qualities like vinaya etc and people loved them better.That made the sons of Dhritharashtra envious.How they tried to kill Bheema with poison etc he heard from the people.Vidura and Kunti also gave him news about the misdeeds of children of Dritharashtra.Kunti,seeing her brother remembered her childhood days in her parents home and with tearful eyes she told her brother:-Brother,Do my mother ,father and brothers and their children remember me and my children?Does Krishna and Rama ,remember their fathers sister and her children ?I am now like a deer in the midst of wolfs.And my children are orphaned by their fathers death.Hey ,Krishna,Bhagavan ,be solace to me and my children .Except your all liberating feet I cannot see anything to depend upon in my state .You are Brahman,Yogeswara,and dharmaswaroopa and chinmaya ,paramathman .And you are my only solace. Hearing this ,Akroora talked to her kindly and made her peaceful with hope of a good future.Only if a king rules the country without partiality ,and giving all subjects love and dharma he will have sreyas and success and since Dhritharashtra is not having that dharma ,he is not likely to last long and his future as well as that of his sons is

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jeopardized by his actions in the eyes of the people who are the ultimate ones to choose their legitimate ruler.The creature is born alone and has to die alone and has to enjoy the reactions of each and every action alone and therefore each one has to do actions with dharma.No one will take up the responsibility of ones actions.The ignorant king has to eat the fruits of his adharmic action sooner or later and what he thinks is for his sons ,is not for their welfare but for their downfall .His sins will affect him and his sons as well and will bring fruits which are not the ones desired by him but just the opposite but the blind ignorant king does not understand that.When Akroora had advised king Dhritharashtra thus ,the king had told him:-Your advice is good and liberating to men but I am not satisfied with advice.Your sweet words does not stay fixed in my mind which has become fickle like lightening in the mountains, due to my love for my sons .Who can change the wish of the God who had so willed that I be created in this way?He has with the indefinable ameya sakthy of his maaya dwells as antharyami in all and plays his leela with all creatures .I do prostrate before his wish . Seeing that this is the opinion of Dhritharashtra and he is not ready to mend his adharmic ways and wants to put the blames of his actions and responsibilities on God ,Akroora had taken leave of all at Hastinapura and returned to Mathura to tell everything to Raama and Krishna. Kamsa had two wives Hasthi and Praapthy and both were daughters of Jarasandha,king of Magadha.When Kamsa was killed they went back to Magdha ,to their father.Jarasandha decided to destroy the entire yadava race along with Krishna and Rama .With 23 Akshouhini of army he encircled the city of Mathura.Krishna destroyed the army but saved life of Jarasandha thinking that he will come again with another army and then Krishna can reduce the weight of the earth by killing the army each time.Two chariots from heaven with brightness of sun came to him with charioteers and horses and with the ancient weapons in them .Seeing this Krishna addressed Raama thus:-Arya,You are the only protector of the yadava race and your chariot and weapons are ready for your use.Enter the chariot and destroy the army that has surrounded mathura.Thus with Rama ,Krishna enarmoured entered his chariot .Krishna blowed his conch and left the town with a few followers only.Seeing this Jarasandha thoughtKrishna is fleeing in fear and insulted him.Saying that I do not want to fight with a cowardly child fleeing from the army,Jarasandha fought with Balarama and his 23 akshouhini was destroyed within seconds.Daaruka,Krishnas charioteer took him away in hgh speed .Krishna said:-The really strong does not insult the enemy with words.Selfpraise is the weapon of the weak.If you are strong fight with arms not with words.When all the 23 akshouhini were lost ,and the chariot and charioteer destroyed Jarasandha had only his life to spare and Balarama caught him like a lion catching another lion.He was bound and brought to Krishna.Krishna left him free ,and he was shy of his utter failure .He went back for doing thapas .Then he went home thinking about his failure and the ways of winning over Krishna and his yadava army. The wealth and jewels accrued by the war were given to king Ugrasena by Rama and Krishna .In this way Jarasandha came and fought with Krishna 17 times with 23 akshouhini each time and all were routed by Krishna and Balarama for 17 times.When he was preparing for his 18th attack ,A great Yavana was also preparing for battle with Mathura ,by the influence of Narada ,the great sage.He had an ego that I am invincible among men .And when Narada told him that there are the Vrishnis who are equal to

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city.Therefore it must be some urgent mission.If it is not secret,tell me so that I can help you . The Brahmana said the message of Rugmani in her own words thus:The most beautiful of the entire world,Achyutha,My mind was attracted and immersed in you ,the moment I heard about your qualities and your beauty which destroy all sorrows of the people with ears and eyes to see and hear.Your blessing gives all purushartha.You give liberatin and is the greatest among all human beings on earth.Any girl who is a virgin,having good qualities and bold and aristocratic will like to have a bridegroom who is equal to her in qualities ,in race,form,sweetness,education ,wealth and strength and beauty.I have mentally married you as my husband.My Athman is dedicated to you.Come here quickly and accept me as your wife.Bless me with that compassionate gesture.Like the wolfs and jackals trying to get the Havirbhaga kept for Hari(lion /Krishna .Double meaning)Sisupala tries to touch my hand in marriage.If I have done all the vrathas with dedication and am truly dear to you,you alone can be my husband and has the right to touch my hand.Do not allow the dushtamoorthy like Sisupala to touch my body which is dedicated to you along with my Athman.Tomorrow they have decided to conduct my swayamvara.Do come and destroy those kings and take me away in the Rakshasa style .I will come to you with Veeryasulka .I will tell you a way to do this.The day before the wedding there is a custom of going to see the Kuladevatha and I will come out of my anthapura for that purpose .The dust of feet of the Devi will give me my hearts wish at that time .If you do not come ,I will destroy my body so that no body else can touch and pollute it.Even if it takes a hundred janma ,I will join only you,and no one else.There is no doubt about it. This is the secret message from the daughter of Bheeshmaka from Vidharbha.Krishna,Do think about it and do the needful immeadiately. Krishna hearing these words became happy.He told the Brahmana that he too wished to marry Rugmani but since Rugmi ,her brother is enmical to Krishna ,he did not want to create trouble in the family.Now that she herself has requested it,he will definitely take her from the enmies and bring her home with pleasure and marry her. Knowing the date of marriage of Vaidarbhi ,Krishna asked Daruka his charioteer to bring the divine chariot.That chariot had four horses called Saibhyam,Valahakam,Sugreevam and Meghapushpam.Krishna and the Brahmana ascended the chariot and by a single nights journey they reached Kundinapuri,capital of Vidarbha. Rugmani was being protected byBrahmanas singing Rk,Yajus and saamamanthra and by all auspicious rites.Homa for grahashanthy was done.For Brahmins and guest the king gave gold,cows,silver,clothes and gingili mixed with sugar/Guda,and similar rites were beingdone by Damaghosha ,king of Chedi for the sake of Sisupala ,the bridegroom.Sisupala had reached the capital of Vidarbha with his army of 4 units(horses,elephants,chariots and cavalry).Salya,Jarasandha of Magadha ,Dandavakthra,Vidooratha ,Poundraka etc who are friends of king of Chedi king were also there ,residing in palaces specially designed for each one of them.They had expected that Krishna might come and take away Rugmani and in case such a calamity happen they should fight with him and get back the girl for Sisupala.Balarama knew this and hearing that Krishna had gone alone to Vidarbha ,he took a great yadava army and reached Vidarbha too.

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A great war between them and the yadava army under Balarama ensued.Seeing that ,Rugmani looked with shyness at he rhusbands face.Seeing her fear and shyness Krishna said:-the beautiful one,dont be afraid. Rama and Gada and the others fought furiously.Jarasandha told Sisupaala not to worry .He said:There is pain and pleasure for all men on earth.The wooden female toy dances according to wish of the dancer who makes her.Similarly all animals have to dance according to will of God.With 23 akshouhini I had attacked 17 times and only after 17 failures I tasted the victory in the 18 th attempt.Therefore ,I have learned the lesson that the time should come for success and failure according to Gods plan.Now we with such a big army was routed with a small yadava army ,becaue the time is against us and for them.When our good time comes we will have victory over them. Jarasandha and Sisupala thus went home .The others followed suit.Rugmi was very angry.He followed Krishna with his army .He took an oath that without killing Krishna and taking back Rugmani ,he will not enter Kundinapuri again.He thought who is this cowherd to take awy my sister like that ?He went after Krishna shouting Stop,stop.He sent three arrows at Krishna and said :-you are disgracing the yadava race.If you are bold stand for a second in front of me.The thief,where are you going stealing my sister?It is like a crow taking away the havis that you took her.You are a magician .I will reduce your pride within a secondHe then sent 8 arrows simultaneously at Krishna.Krishna sent 6 arrows and broke his bow,and injured his body and with 8 arrows he killed charioteer of Rugmi and his horses.By three arrows Madhava cut away the flag of Rugmi.Rugmi also sent 5 arrows and it hurt Krishnas body.That bow was again destroyed by Krishna.Rugmi took a third bow,and that too was split by Krishna.He took a trident,swaod and all other weapons one by one and all were destroyed by Krishna.Whatever weapon he took Krishna broke it.Then Rugmi came towards Krishna on foot carrying a sword ,as if a fly comes to destroy the fire.Krishna caught him and was about to kill him with his sword .Seeing that Rugmini was afraid.She fell at his feet and said:-Yogeswara,Devadeva,You are of countless greatness and is the lord of the cosmos .You are auspicious and brave and ocean of compassion.Please do not kill him,because he is my brother . Seeing her trembling with fear and sorrow and pale face and weakened body and mind,with wavering words and afraid ,and prostrating in front of his feet ,Krishna with compassion did not kill Rugmi.But to teach him a lesson he bound him with his own clothes and his hairs and moustache was taken away in piecemeal and thus made him not presentable to others.The army of the yadavas did this on his command and they like elephants destroyed his army too.Balabhadra seeing Rugmi as a dead jeeva ,insulted and made unpresentable to the world ,became compassionate and asked Krishna to unbound him.Thus Krishna let him free .The punishment was even worse than killing and by that insult he had the fruits of his karma and so that Rugmini also need not feel guilty. Though Rugmi is to be killed he has become a relative to Krishna and therefore Krishna cannot kill him.But ,he has given a punishment equal to killing and with that he has also done his duty .Therefore ,according to Balarama further killing is not necessary and letting him go like that will be the best punishment for his pride and his karma.Balarama adviced both Krishna and Rugmini at length and made them peaceful and not guilty of the things that happened after their wedding.

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is not suitable for both.Rugmini,You had married me without thinking about these things and without foresight of what is your future .And thus you married me,the Nirguna,loved only by the begging Bhikshus.But it is not late.You can even now ,accept a great warrior king who can give you all your desires in this and the other worlds.Kings of Chedi,Magadha,Saluva,King Dandhavakra ,your brother Rugmi are all trying to kill me as they consider as their enemy.I had taken you away ,just to reduce their pride,not because I desired you.I am Udaaseena in puthra,kalathra,artha etc (son,wife,wealth) and am poorna with Athmalaabha which is like Jyothis .It enlightens houses,bodies and worlds but is not attached to them. Rugmini had a pride that she is the first wife and Krishna is always with him and he loves her the best .Just to reduce it Krishna said these words in playful mood.But these were words she was hearing for the first time from her husband .Her heart beat fast,she was afraid and tears rolled down her cheeks in painful thoughts.The tears fell on her breasts and spread the red kumkum and fell to the ground and she drew pictures on the floor with her beautiful toenails and stood speechless.The ornaments and the chamara fell from her hands and body.She fell down like a plantain falling in a strong wind.Seeing this the compassionate Bhagavan got up from bed ,washed her face with his own lotus hands and made her hair and did service to his dear wife.He washed her eyes and breasts wet with tears ,and embraced her ,noting that she has no sense of humour .Embracing her strongly with his strong hands he told her that the speech was meant as a humour and not to hurt her .He said:-Do not be envious of me ,Vaidarbhi.I know that you have only me as your ashraya.I just wanted to see your face in anger ,your love and your quarrels with red eyes,and wavering brows,and to hear your words in return .I am your husband and I desire to see you like that too sometimes.My words of humour was with such an intention.This type of moments of pleasure with the dearest ones gives rest to the tired minds of grihasthasramis. Hearing these words and feeling the pleasure of being embraced by him Rugmini forgot all her sorrows and she understood the streak of humour in his words .She became shy ,thinking about her lack of sense of humour and her sideglances in that mood pleased Krishna.She told him:- Lotuseyed,What you said is true.I have no equality with you who are everywhere.You are the Isa of thrimoorthi and enjoying in own Mahima all the time .Where are you such a nirguna and where is me ,who is gunaseela and always serving you as a servant ? what is the equality between two such people ? And for you there is no fear at all.You are gnana ,Athman and Abhaya and pretend that you are afraid of Guna.And thus pretending bhaya you hide inside a oceanic islnd .Though you dont like or desire bad things at all and never get attached to them ,they come and associate to you and you allow that .Your servants sacrifice even the position of emperor just to serve you.The ways of the sages who are interested only in drinking the honey of your feet ,is unknown and never cognizable to people who are leading a animal existence.Even the methods of your servants are extraordinary.So your ways should be beyond even that .The one who has nothing except him in this cosmos is definitely desireless and sinless.But what is the state of us ,who are bound by the indriya and its vishaya and the ignorance ?The ignorant does not know you as Anthaka(death)and worship you for selfish desires. You ,in compassion love even such ignorant .You are everything and every wealth.The bestower of every fruits of action.The intelligent people sacrifice everything else,desirous of you alone.For such people who desire only your

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union,this union is the most auspicious and the only desirable thing.For men and women with dualities this union is never possible and it is unsuitable for them.The ascetics who never hurt anything,know you directly and always praise you .By the movement of your brow all desires of even your son,the Brahma born of your nabhi,ends.So what to speak of me ,who is only a weak woman?I am only a ordinary animallike woman and knowing all these truth ,that I am unequal to you in every sense has desired you and you only . But I also know that ,you ,who killed all those great warriors in war and took me away in great valour from their midst ,has come here as a coward ,fearing them.That is a lie.So many emperors have sacrificed their empires and dedicated their life just to get your blessings and they were not lesser individuals and that Kshathriyamarga is not to be insulted .I have followed that marga .After getting the fragrance of your feet which is abode of all sadguna and praised by all bhaktha,which intelligent and knowledgable lady will accept any other person ?All others are cowards and you alone is Abhaya and Lokeswara .You alone live as antharyami in all.And therefore you are the greatest emperor.Thus I loved and accepted you as a worthy princess.You liberate your lovers from the illusion of body which is not true ,and protect them from samsara.Let your feet as a boat ,take me beyond the samsara.The sabha of Hara and Virincha reverberates with your stories.And a woman who had the illluck of not having heard it at least once in her life is definitely unlucky.Such a lady will accept the emperors and live in their houses like a domestic animal ,a bull,cow,dog,cat ,or an ass and as a domestic servant .She who is ignorant only will love the body which is made of skin,nails,hairs,face,etc and flesh,ligaments blood ,worms,faecal matter ,bone,wind,pitha and kapha associated .It is only a dead matter .They can love body as Jeeveswara.But Achyutha,My anuraga is in you ,the everlasting and eternal deathless Athman and give me this blessing forever.Even by a single compassionate glance from you ,we are blessed and get aananda and that bliss is not untruth but the absolute truth.Therefore I do not consider that your words are untruths.Amba,daughter of king of Kasi loved only Saluva .That type of love in one purusha I have in You .Only a woman who is prostitute can accept new men every day according to her convenience.Therefore ,do not think that I will accept any other man than you.You are Achyutha ,the one without destruction.A man who gets a wife who is a prostitute and accepts another man is a Vichyutha (destroyed one)and therefore it is impossible that you loose your Achyuthathwa and I loose my Paathivrathya. Krishna said:-This is what I wanted to hear from you,my dear! You have now given the most suitable commentary to my words suitable to a Sathi.This is truth and is befitting .To end the desire in other objects ,the deep love and ekanthikabhakthi is desired by you.And I know that you have it from the very beginning and therefore I have nothing else to give you.The love and onepointed devotion is in you.Even when I provoked you,you could give the befitting commentary and meaning to my words.And therefore your intellect is fixed in me and is pure.Those people who worship me for getting samsara and its pleasures are bound by my Maaya .They do not ask for mukthy but for bondage to samsra.After getting me who can give moksha and ,again desiring wealth of other types is ignorance.They are unlucky even after getting this great life of human beings .If desire in vishaya do not end one falls to hell of sorrows again and again.That is the easy way for all .The difficulty is to get away from samsara .For that a certain way of dedicated life is needed and You have it.Your state is not that of an ordinary woman who

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8 Bhadra:Bhadran,Praharanan,Samgramajan,Arijith,Sooran,Brihathsenan,Vaaman,Sathyakan,Jayan ,Ayus. He had Deepthiman and Thamrathapthan as grandsons in Rohinidevi and Anirudha from Rugmavathy (wives of Pradyumna).Anirudha was born in Rugmavathy,daughter of Rugmi ,Rougminis brother .Therefore Anirudha was born in her palace in Bhojakata. The sons and grandsons,great grandsons of Krishna expanded all over the land in thousands and lakhs and crores. How did Rugmi gave his daughter to his enemys son ?He had been living with a vengeance to kill Krishna in his newly built city of Bhojakhata.Though Rugmi had enmity in Krishna ,he still loved his sister and therefore when she came of age ,as custom,he gave her to his nephew.The daughter of Rugmini was Charumathy and she was married by Bali ,son of Krithavarman.Rugmi gave his sons daughter Rochana ,to the son of his daughter Anirudha in marriage .For that marriage Krishna ,Rugmini,Balabhadra ,Samba,Pradyumna etc were invited to Bhojakata and they went there in happiness .After the marriage in a playful mood the king of Kalinga asked Rugmi to win over Balaraman in dice gambling.Rama did not know much of gambling .Yet when Rugmi called he went for playing .Hundred,Thousand,Ten thousand like that the price money was lost in succession.Kalinga went on insulting Balarama at each failure of him.When Rugmi kept a lakh Rupees ,Balarama won over that price money.Then Rugmi said ,I have won ,not you.Balarama is by nature redeyed .that redness increased with anger ,and like an ocean on a full moon day his anger was awakened by these untruthful words.He kept 10 rores as price money.He won that too.Still Rugmi went on saying that it was he who won the game.Then from the sky a voice was heard that Rugmi is a lier and Rama has won the game.Rugmi ,influenced by friends like Kalinga ,insulted Balarama saying :-You are only a cowherd who knows protection of cows in forests .How can you know the game of dice which is that of kshathriyas?To play with arrows and aksha is not the job of cowherds. Insulted thus,by a iron rod ,Balarama struck Rugmi and killed him on the spot.Kalinga who had been showing all his teeth and laughing ,ran for fear.But before he reached 10 feet ,Rama caught him and with one strike all his teeth fell on ground.All the kings who insulted yadavas and Balarama fell dead at his hands .Krishna did not say anything because he loved both Balarama and Rugmini and did not want to hurt either.Anirudha and the other yadavas took the bride in chariot to Dwaraka in the confusion that was going on. Mahabali who had given earth for Bhagavan in Vaamana avathara had 100 sons ,and the eldest was Baana.He was intelligent,and a bhaktha of Shiva.He lived in the sonithapura and ruled it well.Because of his bhakthi in shiva all including devas were afraid of him and became his friends.He asked shiva when he asked for a boon,Be watchman of my city so that no one enters it.And thus even Shiva was made a servant in his city .Shiva had given a thousand hands to Bana .Once Baana in his pride asked Shiva ,I cannot find anyone except you to test the strength of my thousand hands .I want to have a good battle with you .Give me that boon. Shiva said:-You fool,The day when your flag falls ,you will get an opportunity to do battle with someone who is equal to me.That day your pride will end forever.

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Krishna.Simultaneously on 500 bows he sent 1000 arrows on Krishna.Krishna ,broke all the 500 bows with a single arrow .And he killed the horse and charioteer and broke the chariot of Baana.Then mother of Baana,called Kotara, came naked with loosened hairs and stood in front of Krishna for protecting Baana.Since one should not look straight at anaked woman Hari took his eyes away .And in that moment Baana escaped to his fort.The Shivajwara with three legs and three heads which is hot and cruel came to kill Krishna and Krishna created another Jwara to kill it.The two jwaras fought .The shivajwara ,which could not get over the vishnujwara praised Vishnu and asked for mercy of Vishnu.Krishna protected it and sent it back.Bana came back for battle.All his hands were destroyed by the wheel of Krishna.Seeing this ,Shiva with compassion in his Bhaktha came to Krishna and requested :-The pure hearted see you alone everywhere.You are that Parabrahman that paramjyothis which is merged in that Naadabrahman.Whose nabhi is nabhas,whose face is agni,whose sukla is waters,whose head is the heavens,whose ears are directions,whose feet is earth,whose chitha is moon,whose eye is sun,whose arm is indra,whose stomach is ocean,whose ahamkara is Me,whose hairs are oushadi,whose hairs on head is cloud,whose intellect is Virincha,whose idea is dharma,whose medra is prajapathy,that Eka is you.You are that Viratpurusha.You took this form for protection of dharma and the jagath.Only with your blessings we protect the seven loka.You are Adya,adwaya,purusha,sudha,sakshi of avasthaathraya,kaarana of all,and who has no kaarana,who is selfrevealing,and sarvesa,and by your maaya you are also known as different from all these for the sake of fame of the guna.Sun,though covered by shadow of clouds made from his own rays ,reveals the clouds and all that is in the world .Similarly you are selfrevealing .You reveal guna as well as the guni by your light.The maaya of you makes people swim in endless ocean of samsara.The one who has not done your worship has lost his entire life.He is dishonest to his own Athman.You are Athman,friend ,Lord of all worlds.The one who discard you and go after temporary vishayasukha is like one discarding amritha for poison.I,Aja and the devaa and muni are all your kinkara only.The origin,sthithi and laya of universes are in you.You are eka,without any bheda,and shantha,and have nothing as a second.You are enjoying in the play of creation.We worship you for moksha.He is my devotee.Therefore he is to be shown compassion.I have once given him the boon of protection.Therefore ,as you protected Prahlada ,do protect him . Bhagavan said;I am happy with your words.Whatever you say is pleasing to me too.This son of Mahabali is not to be killed by me .I have given a boon to Prahlada that I will not kill your children and grandchildren.To reduce his pride I cut away his numerous arma.The remaining four arms will be ever strong and will not be affected by old age .he will become the main parshada of you and will be fearless.Thus ,Krishna won the war and taking Usha and Anirudha in his chariot returned to Dwaraka. Nrigamoksha:-Once Samba,Gada,Charubhanu,Pradyumna were playing in a garden .They saw a well nearby and feeling thirsty looked into it .There was no water but saw a creature within it .That was a chameleon with a wonderful size of a mountain(The description of a dinausaur again)and the children wondered at its size.they thought of taking it out of the well and protecting it.They made some threads and skins and made strong coirs but could not take it out.They went and told about this to Krishna.Krishna came and with his left hand took the creature up .The moment Krishna touched it it

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the yadus assemble.That sabha is free from the six waves of sorrow,thirst,moha,old age or death and everyone is happy there.Krishna is like a full moon among the stars of yadavas in that sabha.The actors,musicians,dancers,and artistic people by their arts worship Krishna there.Veena,Mridanga,murajam,venu,samkha etc and the vocal music and sounds of dancing peoples ornaments always makes it auspicious and the manthra from Brahmins echo in it.The vaadins say the stories of ancient kings who were experts in dharma.Then the gateman came and told Krishna that someone who is not seen before in Dwaraka has come to see him.He came in and with folded hands told about the sorrows of the kings who have been bound by Jarasandha,king of Magadha.There are 20000 of them who are bound in the fort of Girivraja(mountain fort).All the other kings are afraid when he will bind them too.All of them are worshipping and praying to you only with dharma .Since youalone can protect dharma and destroy adharma,everyone is depending upon you to kill jarasandha and free the kings from him.Isa,This kingly pleasures is temporary and will end one day with the hands of enemy and is always aswathanthra .Knowing this very well we are doing the rajadharma with nishkaama ,so that protection of dharma be done .We do not desire samsara or power but someone should protect dharma and the people and their belongings .That is the only reason we are continuing as kings and none of us wants power of this sort.We too desire moksha only.We have no one except you to come to .Jarasandha has strength of 10000 elephants and with the pride of that strength he is doing adharma .Just like a lion puts female goats in his custody,he has bound all kings in his jail.Do protect us from the king of Magadha .Chakrapaani,18 times he ran from your chakra after loosing all his army.Then when you sent him every time alive and pretended that he has won in the 18th time ,he became too proud.He is thus making life difficult for us,the kings ,who are your citizens ,your praja(Praja means both child as well as citizen which is used in both meanings here). At that time Narada came to the sabha.The sabha with Krishna welcomed Narada who looked like the sun itself.krishna asked Narada:-Tell me ,Maharshi,is not all the worlds happy and well?You know everything that happen in all three worlds.tell me what is the venture of the Pandava kings at this time? Narada said:-I have perceived your yogamaaya strength.I know that you know what is being done by Pandava at this time.This body is always making trouble and drawing one away from the real goal the athman .For samsarins to give compassionate help and protection you have come on earth .Yet you behave as if you are an ordinary human being.Your cousin and your greatest bhaktha,the eldest of the Pandava prince is at present thinking of doing a rajasooya yagna.He wants to worship you with rajasooya.In that yagna all the kings and famous people will assemble to see you and worship you.Therefore come for that yaaga and bless it .If someone sings or tells your stories ,or meditates on you,even if he is chandaala becomes purified.Then what if you are directly perceived and touched by some one?Your fame purifies all worlds.In heaven and earth and paathaala ,water flowing from your your feet is known as Mandakini,Ganga and Bhogavathy respectively .That is the purifier of all worlds. All the yadavas in the sabha wanted Krishna to kill Jarasandha first.then Krishna smiling ,asked Udhava his chief friend and minister and servant .:Udhava,you are learned and advices us in all matters.Tell me .What should we do ?

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Knowing everything,yet pretending that he does not know anything Krishna said tehse .And Udhava knowing his masters wish answered like this:-The king of Indraprastha is your cousin and wishes to do raajasooya and you have to be there.At the same time giving protection to the people who ask for it also is our dharma.Only a king who can do digvijaya can do Raajasoooya.Therefore if you go to Yudhishtira and help him in his raajassoya ,you can help him in winning over magadha and in this way both can be done simultaneously.By liberating the kings your fame and your protective powers will be appreciated by all kings .And in strength of 10000 elephants of Magadha king only Bheema is equal.To kill him in a duel with Bheema will be best at this time instead of waiting for his akshouhini army.There is a way for this.Jarasandha is a devotee of Brahmins.H egives whatever the Brahmins ask for.therefore let Bheema take the form of a Brahmin and request for a duel from him.In front of you,with your blessings let bheema kill jarasandha .Your leela of liberation of Seetha,of Pithru and of Gajendra is sang by us,by Gopikas and by sages forever.Like that it is sung by the wives of the bound kings in their homes every day .When children cry they sayDont cry ,my son,Madhavan will kill the cruel king and liberate your father.they put to sleep their children singing your glory only.Therefor e,it is our duty to kill jarasandha in this way and help yudhishtiras wish of doing Rajasooya. Hearing the words of Udhava ,the entire sabha,Narada and Krishna approved the logic and dharma of it and it was decided accordingly.Krishan sent news to his wives and children first so that they get ready for the journey and getting permission from Ugrasena and balarama went to Indraparstha with his chathuranga sena in his chariot drawn by Daaruka.The army and chariots and the vehicles of Krishna and his wives and children was followed by a big caraven itself.It had decorated dasis ,their dress , grass huts,and other things carried by buffaloes,oxen,ass,men and carts ,umbrellas,chamara,flags,and weapons of all kinds and crowns ,jewels etc .It looked like a wavy ocean in motion with high sounding winds.Narada went through sky by his yogasidhi.The messenger was happy to see and hear all these and went back to the kings who had sent him and told that Krishna will be instrumental in killing Jarasandha within a few days .Every one waited for the sight of Krishna and the moment when Jarasandha will be killed and the 20000 kings liberated from prison. Krishna passed through his country of Aanartah ,then Souveera and maru,and reached Kurukshethra .Passing mountainous tracts,rivers,cities and villages ,vraja,mines the army went forth.They crossed Drishadwathy and Saraswathy and crossed panchala and Matsya and reached Indraprastha.Hearing his arrival Yudhishtira came happily to receive him with his Guru and frinds and brothers.He came with geethaghosha and vedaghosha to receive Krishna .Like indriya welcoming praana the five brothers welcomed Krishna.they embraced him again and again.They forgot the world and tears of bliss flowed from their eyes seeing Krishna and embracing him.Hari also was happy and received their love with love and respected all elders and Brahmins .Kekaya,Srinjaya and Kuru elders welcomed Krishna .Gandharva,Maagadhi,Vandi musicians with instruments and vocal praised Krishna.They danced in glee .Thus Krishna entered Indraprastha with pandavas. Seeing Madhava with his wives entering Indraprastha,all people assembled on either side of streets and on the terraces of houses women of the country watched him pass with love

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in their hearts ,smile in the lips and with sideglances which showed their devotion.They thought Krishna looks like a Full moon among stars with his innumerable beautiful and lucky wives. Kunthi seeing Krishna was extremely happy.She got up from her cot and with Panchali went to welcome Krishna.She embraced and kissed him with love.Krishna worshipped his fathers sister and other elders.Subhadra and Panchali welcomed Krishna with pleasure.Asked by Kunthi,Panchali worshipped the wives of Krishna like Rugmini,Bhama,Jambavathy,Shaibya,Sathya,mithravinda ,Kalindi ,Bhadra etc.Arjuna and Krishna did Khandavadahana and through the efficient workmanship of Maya ,the architect of the Asura,Yudhishtira got the sabha which was better than that of Indra .Krishna spent his days with Arjuna during this period . One day in the sabha of Yudhishtira ,the king told Krishna in front of the entire elders and ministers and people of the sabha.:-I would like to perform a Raajasooya.By worshipping your feet forever and doing your japa with devotion,one is liberated from all bad deeds.And all his desires are fulfilled.Let the people see this with their own eyes.Let all people of Kuru and Srinjaya understand this fact .For that bless me with fulfillment of this desire. Bhagavan said;-his yaaga is for the wefare of all including the rishi and the ancestors.You have won me over by your control of senses.And your brothers are all avathara of the protectors of world.You ,being my devotees will successfully complete Rajasooya. Thus blessed by Madhava ,the four brothers of Yudhishtira went for Digvijaya.Towards the South India came Sahadeva with all chieftains of Srinjaya .To the west went Nakula with chieftains of Matsya.With Kekaya chieftains went Arjuna to the North.And with Madrakas Bheema went to conquer the east.They brought wealth from all the four sides.Only Jarasandha had to be conquered. Then remembering words of Udhava ,Krishna,Arjuna and Bheema took the form of Brahmins and went to Girivraja ,capital of Maghadha.Seeing the three distinguished Brahmin guests ,jarasandha promised them whatever they desired.Jarasandha thought:-I have seen these three people before .And though wearing Brahmin signs they have features of kshathriya .Yet ,like mahabali ,who gave everything to Vishnu taking the form of Brahmana and achieved eternal punya ,I too will grant them what they want. Krishna asked for a duel .He disclosed their identity then.Hearing the name of Krishna,his arch enemy who had made his daughters widows ,Jrasandha was angry and laughing aloud and insulting Krishna he said:-Fool!Are you a kshathriya?You are a coward running away from battles and I have seen you do that before.i dont want to fight with a coward like you.Paaarthan looks not very strong physically and also is very young to me in age .Bheema though younger to me looks to have a good physique for a duel with me.I will fight with him. He gave a mace to Bheema and took one himself and came out of the palace to a plain ground where battles are done.the great battle that ensued for 27 days and nights.At dawn they start battle.At night they go back to the palace and talk as if they are great friends .After 27 days Bheema told Krishna:- I think this king has won mrityu.I may never be able to kill such a strong man. Krishna did not say anything.He just took a leaf from a nearby tree and torn it exactly into two halves.Bheema took the hint and tore jarasandha apart catching his thighs .Thus Jarasandha was killed and his two halves with exact symmetry were seen lying dead on

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the battlefield Son of Jarasandha was Sahadeva.He was given the country and his abhisheka was done by Krishna ,Arjuna and Bheema according to tradition.All the kings bound by Jarasandha were liberated from prison.They wer 20800 in nmber .They were first fed well and then given good clothes to wear .They saw the Blue-hued Krishna as the saviour .All their sorrows and tiredness disappeared by his sight.They said:Avyaya,Devadevesa,Namaskaram.We prostrate and worship you.Protect us from the sorrows of the ocean of samsara.Madhusoodana,now all our anger and enmity to the king of maghada is quenched.Because only through his prison we had the luck of seeing you at such close quarters.Inkings who are proud of their power and lands sreyas does not last.They misunderstand that ending transient wealth as the sreyas that is eternal.It is like a child mistaking a mirage for water.Your maaya conquers those who have ego and pride in such temporary gains.We were taught this lesson by this experience.Because we were prisoners and lost all wealth we remembered you always and that opportunity was given to us by king of magadha.Give us your blessing so that we will never forget your feet. Krishna granted that boon to them.he asked the kings to go back to their respective kingdoms and protect people and land with dharma with constant remembrance of God.Krishna said:-Protect al with dharma.Have good sons and entrust the rule in them so that the dharma continues and then come to me.Fix Athman in me and attain me in the end. They were then given a royal bath and purification of body and then given dress and decorations proper for a king .Sahadeva,son of Jarasandha himself gave a good lunch to them after that .They looked like the grahas sparkling again after the rainy season in the sky.Thus the kings liberated became devotees of Krishna and friends of pandava and they lived obeying bhagavathadharma,and protected the land and people in name of God as the blessing of God and never did they became arrogant or proud or hurt the land or praja in any way.Krishna and Arjuna with Bheema returned after winning over the kingdom of Magadha to Indraprastha alias Khandavaprastha. After this when the auspicious time arrived Yudhishtira called Rithwiks who were vedagna for doing rajasooya yaaga.The Rithwiks who were called were,Gouthama,KrishnaDwaipayana,Bharadwaja,Veethihothra,Kasyapa,Chyavana,Kanw a,Vasishta,Asitha,Thritha,Madhuchandas,Pailan,Kavashan,Parasaran,Dhoumyan,Sumath y,Viswamithra,Aasuri,Jaimini,Veerasena,Krathu,Vamadeva,Vaisampayana,BhargavaRa ma,Sumanthu,Maithreya,Atharvan,Gargan and Akrithavranan. Drona with Aswathama,Kripa,Bheeshma were invited after that.Dritharashtra and his sons were invited next.Vidura and friends were invited.Brahmana,Kshathriya ,Vaisya and soodra were all invited .TheBrahmins first ploughed th eKsethra for the yajna with a golden plough and in that Dharmaputhra sat with deeksha .Like the yajna of Varuna all utensils were of gold.The Indra and other protectors o fdirections,Shiva with sons and gana,sidha,gandharva,uragasangha,vidyadhara,yaksha,rakshas,kinnara,charana,muni,Kha ga(birds),kings with wives ,saamantha,from all directions came to see the yajna of yudhishtira.Yudhishtira seemed like varuna ,Lord of oceans himself doing the yajana.On the days when soma is given ,king respectfully worshipped all Brahmins,elders and people assembled .He asked as tradition,who should be given the status of Agryapooja.The assembly was in thought .Then Sahadeva said:-The Lord of Sathwatha,Bhagavan Sree Hari is here.Wealth,time and space and everything is in him only.He is the form of yajna itself.Manthra,Ahuthy,agni,gnana,all depend on him

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only.That Eka,Adwaya ,Bhagavan Vaasudeva alone is worthy of being considered for Agryapooja in this yajna.He is Lokaswroopa and Athmasraya and creates,protects and destroys all loka.Just by his supervision every karma is done by prakrithy.When we give Agryaasana to Krishna it is equivalent of worshipping all .He is shantha,sarvantharyamin and poorna. All the sabha praised these wise words of sahadeva.They accepted Krishna and worshipped him giving Agryaasana.Dharmaputhra washed feet of hari and wore it on his own head and on heads of his brothers,wife and ministers.He decorated krishnas body with new yellow silk and new jewels and garlands and with tears of joy in his eyes praised him with sthothra . Seeing all this the king of chedi ,Sisupala became angry and envious.He got up from his seat and raising his hands started to utter insulting words against Krishna.he said:-I have heard that there is a time for everything.It is true.otherwise ,such a sabha with so many elders would never have agreed to the words of a mere child like Sahadeva.How did you,elders ,agree to sahadeva and give Krishna this agryasana?There are several great sages in this sabha who have purified themselves with Athmabodha and sidhi of Brahman,and devoid of any impurities and worshipped by even the protectors of the 8 sides.How could you ignore them and give this great place to a mere cowherd?It looks like a crow taking away the purodasa meant for deva.Krishna has no varnasramadharma,and heis not aristocratic and he is living as he pleases ,without any dharma and without any guna either.The yadava race to which Krishna belongs had been cursed by the ancestor King Yayathi to sacrifice kingship.And moreover,now the yadavas have become drunkards too.how can one who took birth in that detestable race become worshippable?He has discarded all the places which are for time immemorial occupied by Brahmarshins and went to a island in the middle of ocean without any Brahmavarchas .these people are only thiefs.they are robbing people of their rights. Hearing all these insulting remarks Krishna remained silent as if a lion hearing the cry of a jackal.The sajjana among the sabha closed their ears and saying that to hear such insulting words about God is inauspicious and they left the sabha immeadiately cursing Sisupala for uttering such words of disgrace.Pandava,Matsya,Kekaya,Srinjaya races became angry and wanted to kill king of chedi immeadiately and rose with their weapons.But Sisupaala went on uttering similar words without fear and without concern about the feelings of the others in the sabha.Then Krishna asked the others to be patient and stood up in anger and the wheel Sudarsana appeared in his hands .It took away the life of Sisupaala in a second.The army and relatives of him ran away in fear.Everyonesaw a light arising out of the king of Chedi and merging with Krishna .It looked like a comet falling onto earth .Sisupala was the third janma of one of the Vishnuparshada ,Jaya and vijaya.The dhyana of virodha gave him sarupya with Bhagavan .After the yajna Dharmaputhra gave dakshina to all .Krishna stayed back in Indraprastha for a few more months enjoying the company of Pandavas.Then somehow making Yudhishtira agree to his departure ,Krishna went back home with wives and ministers.All were happy except Duryodhana in the rajasooya of yudhishtira. In Rajasooyayajna each of the princes and relatives were given a special duty to perform.Son of Vayu ,Bheema was in charge of food and kitchen.Treasury was under

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worshipped BrighuRama .Then he took bath in the sapthaGodavari,Bheemarathi,Vena and River Pampa.Then he reached Thiruchenthur and worshipped Skanda .He went to Sreesailam where Shiva dwells and from there he saw the most sacred Venkata mountain of Dravidadesa.He saw Kancheepura ,which gives all desires,and the Kaveri which is most important among rivers,and Sreeranga with presence of Vishnu.Then he visited Vishnukshethra at Rishaba mountains and Southern Mathura .He went to the Sethu at the southern ocean which destroys all sins .There he gave 10000 cows to Brahmins .Then he went to Krithamala river and thamravarni and Malayaparvatha.He worshipped Agastya who dwells there.With his permission he proceeded to southern ocean to worship Durga as Kanyaka.Then he went to the famous Ananthapura and there he dipped in the panchapsarasa (five theertha of the 5 apsara)and gave 1000000 cows to Brahmins. From Ananthapura he went to the famous Keraladesa which is known as the thrigartha (The three great areas which are below sea level.).From there he went to Gokarna where Shivas presence is felt.He saw the Durga in the island ,and reached the Soorparakaksethra(The sopara ).Tapathi,Payoshni,Nirvindhya were seen and in all these he took sacred baths.Then he reached Dandakaaranya and Mahishmathy.He took bath in Reva which flows through Mahishmathy and then in Manutheertha .And reached back inPrabhasatheerth afrom where he had begun his sacred pilgrimage. Then he heard of the outcome of the kurukshethra war .He heard that Bheema and Duryodhana are to begin their duel and thought I should some how prevent it.Thus he proceeded from Prabhasa to Kurukshethra.Dharmaputhra,Krishna ,Arjuna came and welcomed him .They were afraid of him and did not know what he was about to say.Rama saw Bheema and Duryodhana in action and the duel had already started.Balarama said:-Both of you are of equal strength.Therefore there is no use in continuing this battle.No one will win and no onewill fail too.One has more of body strength and the other have more of practice.Stop this battle. Both of them neglected his words .Therefore Balarama thought that it is the dosha of their Kaala and I cannot help them.And he returned to Dwaraka and met Ugrasena and stayed there happily.The sages did worship of him for he had become Yajnamga with his sacred pilgrimage and looked pure as sun.He gave them power to see him in the universe and the universe in him so that they got Brahmagnana from him Doing Avabrithasnana with his wife Revathy,and with his relatives and friends around he looked like moon in the midst of the stars.The person who remembers the Adisesha as Balarama and his great deeds during sandhya will become dear to Mahavishnu. Kuchelavritham:Heart of devotee is ever thirsty to hear the stories of bhagavan.Even a person who is interested in vishayabhoga and is subject to arrows of Manmatha,will get out of that bondage by constantly hearing stories of Bhagvan. That word is word which praise Krishna. Those hands are hands which do service to Krishna. That heart alone is heart which remembers Bhagavan who fills entire cosmos. That ear alone is ear which hear the pure stories and songs of Krishna. No head is head if it does not bow at the two feet of Vishnu as the Vishnulingadwaya. That eye is not eye which does not see his signs and form.

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No organ is organ that does not reach to touch the sacred waters of feet of Hari and Haribhaktha. There was a friend of Krishna who was shantha ,and Brahmagna and who had controlled all Indriya.He was Kuchela.He spent days with what is obtained by daily bhiksa.But he was agrihastha.His wife was very thin because of constant hunger.She too was a good soul like her husband.Once due to the hunger ,and trembling of entire body by cold,that lady came to her husband and told him:-Brahman,Bhagavan,I know your friend is the husband of Lakshmi herself.And is a brahmanabhaktha too.He protects devotees and dharma.He is Bhagavan eternal .Go and meet him once.He will give you enough wealth for continuing the samsara life of a grihastha.He is adored by Vrishni,Bhoja and Andhaka races and lives now in Dwaraka.For devotees who live with memory of the paadapadma of bhagvan he gives Athman itself.Therefore that Guru can give you artha(wealth)which is not that important too. When she said this again and again ,the Brahmin thought I will go and meet my old friend .Not because he wanted wealth but because the prospect of seeing that old childhood friend filled him with bliss.He asked him to give something so that he can give a gift to his old friend. She took four handful of crushed dry paddy(which is called Aval)which was the only food that remained in the house and covered it within a torn cloth and gave it to her husband.Both the torn cloth and the aval were the only wealth in that home which shows the state of the family. Kuchela thought:-How can I get Krishnas darsana?Will he remember me after so many years? And he reached Krishnas house inDwaraka.Krishna saw him from a distance from his terrace and went down to receive him.He washed the poor Brahmins feet and wore that water on his head.Heapplied chandan,kumkum and gorochan on his thin body with swollen veins.Worshipped with lamp,fragrant dhoopa and flowers and gave thamboola.Lakshmidevi herself fanned that Brahmin wearing torn dirty cloths.Seeing Krishna and Rugmini worshipping this poor Brahmin all were astonished and some wondered who this avadhootha might be.Krishna is making him sit on his own throne and Rugmini fans him with golden handled chamara.What good deed he might have done in his past janma to get this punya.Krishna embraces him and talks with him so friendly and naturally as if he had known him all his life.They were reminiscing their childhood stories and memories. Bhagavan said:After leaving school did you marry a good wife?I know even if you are a grihastha you are not attached to kaama or wealth.Just like me you too are doing the duty without attached to my Maaya.Do you remember the days we sprnt at our Gurus house?First Guru is the father who made us possible to be born to this world.Second Guru is the one who teach us the sathwik Brahmana dharma.The Guru who gives Gnana is ,like me,sakshath Guru itself.People who knowing my advice of dharma,and cross samsara are knowers of artha or wealth who has all luxuries too.I being the internal Athman is not satisfied with Gurupooja,thapas,birth in a good family or ace or with yaga. Friend,while we were in Gurukula,Gurupathni once sent us to forest to collect fuel.At dawn a wind and rain came and we could not find our way out of the forest.Moreover all

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ditches and canals and ways were fll of water and could not be recognized.In the morning Guru Sandeepani came in search of us .Seeing us thus he said by suffering such trouble for me you have given me the best dakshina and I bless you that you will never forget the chandas,and both in this and the other worlds all your desires will be fulfilled. Kuchela said:-You are the Guru of the world.You are satyasamkalpa and gets everything just by your will.For you what is to be gained by Gurukula training? Your body is the form of veda.It is the origin of auspiciousness.You lived there just for making the world aware that it is the dharma of all who takes birth on earth. Krishna asked with a smile :-That is right.What have you brought for me as a gift ? Whatever you give from your home ,whether it is a fruit,a flower or even a drop of water given with love makes me pleased . Kuchela was shy and he lowered his face and kept silent.He could not take that small torn dirty package of aval in front of all those people and in that luxurious palace. Krishna knowing the thoughts of all ,thought:-This friend of mine did not love for wealth.He has come here not for wealth but just to see me.He came respecting his wifes words and I will give himeverything even without asking for anything. Then he caught hold of the small cloth from Kuchela saying What is this?Is this for me?And opened it.And saw what is inside.Then he said :Youknow what I like best.I love aval. He ate a handful of it.When he started to eat a second handful Rugmini caught his hand and prevented him from doing so.She said:-Lord,For this greatest Bhaktha to get all his desires in this and the next loka this is enough. That night Kuchela stayed with Krishna.He thought he was in heaven.Next day when he took leave Krishna came to the gate and embraced him and gave him leave. On his way Kuchela thought:-Krishna did not give and I did not ask either.I am in an ecstacy after seeing Krishna and with his embrace.What else doI need?The Bhagavan on whose chest the Goddess of Lakshmy is dwelling embraced this idol of poverty.He didnt give me wealh because wealth makes men forget God .Thus thinking he reached his home.He could not recognize the place.It had changed to a palace with gardens and swimming pools and with decorated servants and he felt uneasy thinking that I have lost my way in daydreams. But then he saw his wife with jewels and silk coming to welcome with servants and with musicians playing instruments to welcome him.He thought I am dreaming.She came and embraced him like a Lakshmi.He saw his home luxurious like Dwaraka and wondered how this happened.It must be the compassionate Krishnas doing .What else can do this ?I needed his love ,friendship devotion only and he has given me these also.Thus fixed in Hari ,he attained vairagya in all the luxuries and remained ever devoted to Krishna and achieved liberation in this very life. Krishna meets his friends and NandaGopa in Kurukshethra:While Krishna and Rama were happily living in Dwaraka a complete eclipse of the sun happened.It looked like the arrival of a deluge as in the end of a kalpa .When this eclipse was predicted early,all people migrated from lowlying areas to the Kshethra called Syamanthapanchaka.This was the place where after killing Kshathriyas for 21 times and

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destroying the whole race ,Parasurama bathed and got rid of his sins.Even if Krishna and Rama has no association tokarma,being Isa itself,they too went there like all human beings of that time.They too did yajna for removal of sins there to show a karmic model to humanity.People from all places of Bharathavarsha had assembled there .Akroora,Aahuka,Vasudeva and other yadava chiefs were there.Pradymna,Samba and Gada with all their brothers and cousins had come .There were only a few people in Dwaraka .Anirudha for protection of Dwaraka with suka and Saarana,and Charuchandra remained there and Krithavarma was there as their commander in chief.All the others came to Kurukshethra.All yadava with wives,with their entire army reached there for removal of sins for the predicted eclipse.They bathed ,took upavaasa,gave food to Brahmins and prayed for devotion forever in Krishna,and rested under trees .They saw all their friends there.Here Vyasa mentions the friends and relatives of Vrishnis. Matsya ,Useenara,Kekaya,Kamboja,Kosala,Kerala,Aanartha,Srinjaya,Madra,Vidarbha,Kunthi kingdoms and their kings and subjects were friends and relatives of Vrishnis.The friends of Gokula ,the Gopika and Nanda had come and Rama and Krishna saw them all.They could not speak a word by that reunion and its bliss and looked at each other with tears of joy and embraced and kissed each other .Elders were worshipped and youngsters were given blessings.Kunthi seeing all her relatives in yadava race and Krishna was very happy too.She told Vasudeva:-Arya,I am the unluckiest of the lot amongst us.You have never thought of me even in my worst days though I am your sister.But when divine grace is against me,how can anyone remember me ?Every one forgets the one who is not having grace of God. Vasudeva said:-We are only toys in the hands of God .Do not blame us.We were afraid of Kamsa and were in his jail and suffering so longso that we could not remember any other thing.Only now we have reached a safe place and a safe life with grace of God.You at least did not suffer the killings of your children by any one. Bheeshma,Drona,Dritharashtra ,Gandhari ,her sons,Droupathi and Pandavas ,vidura,Kunthibhoja who is king of Kasi ,kripacharya,King of Kekaya Damaghosha ,kings of srinjaya,The king of Mithila the handsome Bheeshmaka,Yudhamanyu,Sudharmav,king of Madra,King of balheeka with his son,and all the kings of Bharatha were assembled there .Every one had opportunity to see and talk to Krishna and all of them wondered at the beauty,knowledge and attractive behaviour of him towards all alike .The kings praised vrishnis for having the great luck of having Krishna among them as protector.They said:-You are lucky.You can see him every day .And he is the one who is unseen even by yogins.His fame is in the veda.The water which wash his feet makes all worlds purified.His words purify the sasthraa and veda.This earth gives us all our needs by the touch of his feet only.To have the luck of living with him,seeing him,touching him,talking with him,and traveling with him ,eating and sleeping with him ,and association with him and protection from him always !!You are lucky since Srihari lives in your home always. Vasudeva embraced Nanda and they remembered all the difficult times theyhad passed through for protecting this precious son of theirs from Kamsa and his cruelty.Seeing Nanda,Rama and Krishna could not speak a word due to overflowing love towards

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him.Yesodha and Nanda took them on their lap and washed them in their tears and embraced and kissed them as if they were still small children.Rohini and Devaki embraced Yesodha and talked with her with respect and love.They said:-How can we forget your friendship and love?We will not accept even heaven if it is offered in exchange for your love and friendship.My children who has never seen their father and mother grew up only with your love and compassion.By protecting them as your two eyes they became so valiant and bold and beautiful and compassionate and lovable . The Gopikas seeing Krishna after several years embraced him with their eyes and attained his bhaava in a second.When they were in Haribhaava they were embraced by Hari ,in ekantha,and smiling at them said sweet words of love. He said:-My friends!We were involved in protection of our people and in battles and duties of various types and could not come and see you for a long time.Do you still remember us,your childhood friends?Do you think that we are thankless people and enjoyed all your love there and forgotyou when we are here.Iswara has given us union and Iswara himself separates us from each other.Paraanuraaga in me for all living things gives them amritha.By luck ,you have such a deep love for me and so we are in union.This prapancha made of panchabhootha and all in it have in and out ,beginning and end and middle in me alone.Jeeva is the enjoyer and is in all panchabhootha.I am poorna and is in everything and know that there is nothing but me . Thus he gave Adhyathmavidya to Gopikajana and they permanently merged in him ,by removing the coverings of the Athman forever.That lotus feet which is dhyanagamya and meditated upon by yogheeswara and which help to cross samsara ocean enlightening their minds all the time,that was not difficult for them. While Krishna was talking with Pandavas,Krishnaa(Droupathy)was talkig with wives of Krishna.She asked:Rugmini,Bhama,Kalindi,Kousalya,Lakshmana,Mithravinda,Jambavathy,Rohini,Bhadra, and all wives of Hari ,I want to hear the story of how Hari married you from yourself. Rugmini said:-My brother and kings who are his friends decided to give me to Sisupaala and he like a Lion taking away his share from the jackals took me away .I pray that in all my janma I should be able to serve his feet. (The Vivaha with Rugmini is by force abducting a girl from relatives and hence called Rakshasavivaha.) Sathyabhama said:-My father thought Krishna had killed his brother.And to remove that rumour he searched for Syamanthaka and from Jambavan he got it and gave it back to my father.Thus my father gave me in marriage to Krishna.(This is called Prajapatya). Jambavathy said:-My father could not at first identify him as Srirama and fought in vain for a few days.Then he understood the truth and gave me to him along with the jewel and from that day I am his daasi.(This too is Prajapathya). Kaalindi said:-I had been doing thapas to get him as my husband.The all knowing Lord knew it.One day he came with his friend Arjuna and through mediation of Arjuna we united .(That is gandharva). Mithravinda said:-Krishna in my swayamvara came and conquered kings and my brothers and took me as his wife.(This is cousin marriage which was done in a rakshasa style.Being a cousin marriage it is natural love for the girl too.)

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Sathyavathy said:-My father decided that my marriage should be after testing the strength of the bridegroom.He thus had 7 ox in our palace specially kept for the purpose.No one can ever win them over .They were so strong.But kesava came and as if a child playing with toys he won over all and won me as well .Thus with Veeryasulka ,he made me his wife and servant out of love for me .(It was a swayamvara for Krishna .He himself had gone to King of Kosala asking for Kousalya and won over the ox just for making her his wife). Bhadra said:-Krishna is my uncles son and I loved him from childhood being my bridegroom.Therefore my father gave me to him .(Cousin marriage) Lakshmana said:-Narada used to tell the stories of Krishna .Hearing them I was in love with him.I meditated o him forever and became fixed in him.My father Brihatsena decided to give me to him and for that he made a plan.No one other than Krishna should be able to win .Friend ,In your marriage your father did a Matsyayanthra so that only Arjuna should marry you.My father had made such a one .Its refletion can be seen in water.Looking at the reflection,one has to send arrow and cut the fish in the revolving matsyayanthra.Hearing this all kings and princes came .They all failed in the test.Karna,Bheema,Duryodhana,King of Magadha,Ambashta ,Chedi were all there for the test.Arjuna saw the reflection and sent arrow and it touched the fish but did not fell it.Thus Krishna came last and in childs play fell the fish .When sun was in the muhoortha called Abhijith he did this great feat.I was taken to him wearing two new cloths to cover my body and with garlands and music everywhere and I was shy.I looked at him with a side glance and a smile on my lips and my anklets making slight music walked to him slowly .I had a golden garland in hand and with a loving devoted heart I put it on his handsome neck.Then Mridanga,pataha,samkha ,bheri etc and vocal music and dance followed .The music was emotional and breaking the heart with love.When I married him thus,Droupathi,those greedy and desirous men who failed in the test came to fight with him.Hari kept me in his chariot with four horses and was ready with his sarngam bow to fight with them.That golden chariot was moved by Daruka ,and Hari took me like a lion from the onlooking jackals.Winning over the kings that followed we reached Dwarka by evening.My father gave wealth ,crowns,ornaments and cloths etc to all relatives on the occasion.Elephants,horses,chariots and deorated dasis were sent to Dwaraka as kanyasulka.Also several weapons were given toKrishna by my father.We ,eight of them,doing thapas every day and discarding all attachment to samsara thus ,became his eternal dasi and kaantha forever . The other Mahishijana said:-In Digvijaya ,Narakaasura made us prisoners in his city.We worshipped Hari for our liberation.He who knows everything ,and he who has no kaama or desire in anything came simply out of compassion for us,and killing Naraka took us as his wives and dasi.We desire just to wear the dust of his feet on our heads and worship him for ever in all janma .We do not desire empires,power,place of Indra in heaven ,the place of Virat or Parameshty or even Vishnuloka.Werespectfully wish to have the dust of his feet ,which is worn by the Gopaala,the grass of vrindavan,the Gopikas,the women of Pulindadesa etc .It is easy to get it if one gets his compassion through devotion and love . The conversation between Droupathy and wives of Krishna was listened to by Kunthi,Gandhari,Madhavi ,the Gopikas and wives of all the kings.All of them with love in Krishna shed tears of bliss hearing the stories of their love.

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The men were also having their private conversations.Rama and Krishna and the yadava chiefs and Pandavas were conversing cheerfully.The sages came to visit Krishna and Rama.They were Vyasa,Brihaspathy,Narada,Gouthama,Kousika,Kasyapa,Angiras,Athri,Devala,Yajnavalk ya,Pulastya,Brighu,Vamadeva,Sathananda,Ekatha,Son of Mrikandu,ParasuRama and his disciples,Bharadwaja,Sanaka and his brothers,Vasishta,Dyutha,Chyavana,Thritha ,Agastya and Galava. Krishna welcoming and worshipping them said;- our life has become purified by seeing the Yogeendras like you.No one withot thapas and purity can get your sight,and communication with you and we have got the luck of worshipping you too.The sand on which your feet is washed is the purest sacred theertha .By sajjanasevana we are purified.By the advice and blessing of a sajjana all sorrows are removed within a moment.This material body with thridosha of Vaatha ,pitha and sleshma is misunderstood as Athman by the ignorant and they are attached to it and to its pleasures of wife,son and wealth etc.They think that it is their own (swantham).To loose the feeling of difference in sand,stone,idol,living and nonliving things and in everything,to see God in everything is a difficult process and with darsana of yogins like you even that is possible. The sages stood silent seeing the Iswara speaking the words of a human being ,to bound them in Maaya.They knew that it is for Lokaraksha and dharmaraksha.Krishna is secretly doing his dharma and pretending that he is an ordinary human being so that the dharma that he does and spreads will be done by others.They praised him with several veda words and said:-We know that though you are so close to them and so near them your relatives,the yadus and these kings do not know you as you are! That is the bondage of Maya is blocking their view and they see you as one among them only ,as a dear relative only. When the Rishis were about to depart Vasudeva approached them and asked a way for destruction of all karma and acquisition of gnana. Narada said:- Sages,do not wonder why Vasudeva is asking us when he has Krishna as his own son nearby.This is natural .Human beings have contempt or disrespect in the nearest object due to familiarity.(This is the saying familiaritybreeds contempt).Why should one living close to the Ganga wander here and there for purification rites?Yet this happens The rishis advised Vasudeva to worship Rishikesa without desire in the fruits of action with yajna so that all karma are destroyed.The grihastha has to earn wealth only by fair means and a part of it should be given for worship of Lord and for feeding the other beings ,guests etc.The greed for wealth should not be there.The feeling that this is mine and that is somebody elses and such differentiation brings in extreme competition and thus exploitation of weak by the strong.(Therefore Individual property rights were not there in ancient India ).By swanubhava and by knowledge of sasthra and by purity of mind sacrifice the eshanathraya and go to forest after Grihasthasrama and do thapas .All human beings are born with three Rna or debts .Debts for the Deva,Rishi and Pithru.By Adhyayana or learning our debts to Rishi is over.By yajna and pooja debts to deva is over.By children the debts to ancestors is over.You have already paid back all these debts

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.Except the yajna which you could not do in the jail of kamsa.So ,do them and get liberated from the debt to deva.You had done worship of Vishnu for several janma and as a result ,to give you the fruits of that thapas ,Bhagvan is born as your son. Thus ,Vasudeva did yajna there itself with the rishis as Rithwiks. In the yagasaala the kings and yadus came with white dress wearing lotus garlands along with their wives .Mridanga etc made rhythms and actors did dances .Magadha,sootha,and gandharva women and men sang praises.Vasudeva wearing anjana in eyes and applying butter all over his body ,with his 18 wives sat for Abhisheka like Moon with stars.Rama and Krishna decorated their fathers yagasala as sun and moon.After yajna Vasudeva gave away wealth as gold ,cows and cloths and did avabritha bath.He gave food to all jeeva and even dogs were invited for the annadaana.He gave gift sto all kings.After the yajna all others left except Nanda and his family who stayed back for some more days.One day Vasudeva caught the hands of Nanda and said:-My friend,what is meant by love?It is not the blood relation alone.It is a bondage which is done by God himself.To get out of that Gods decision no yogin or warrior or even God himself is incapable.You are good people.We have been thankless to you.Yet you love us so well.This friendship even after so many years have not lost its beauty or light .We could not help you in any way in the initial period because we were also helpless at that time.Now,because of our ego and our pride in our wealth we have become blind to who is our friend in reality.If a person gets extrawealth ,he forgets even the best friends.I have been so thankless to you. Thinking about the old things and how Nanda and Yasodha helped him,Vasudeva wept like a child.Nanada stayed back for three months because he did not want to separate from his sons Rama and Krishna whom he had not seen for so long.At last he went back with his retinue ,not to Gokula but to Mathura since his group of Gopa and Gopika did not want to go back so soon .Krishna seeing that rainy season is nearing went back to his city of Dwaraka. One day ,Vasudeva asked Rama and Krishna.Both of you are Vishnus Avathara ,I have known it.You are capable of giving all desires to your devotees.You are Lords of all the prapancha.Directions,its right the aakaasa,its manifested form the Naada,Omkarasabda,the forms that separate objects and all their names ,senses and their devatha ,intellect and its consciousness ,the truth of jeeva as anusmrithy all are you only.You are Parabrahmamoorthy.Bless me so that I will never deviate from your love and devotion . Krishna said:-What you said is logical about us ,your sons.Father,You,all these people around in Dwaraka are also Parabrahmaswaroopa.Though I am ONE I manifest as Many . Thus Vasudeva became a gnani.Once Devaki heard that Krishan and Rama had shown the dead son to their Acharya as his Gurudakshina.She remembered her six sons who were killed by Kamsa in their infancy.She told them with tears in her eyes that she has a desire to see those children whom she could not even see or hold properly or give milk.She said,I know from your father you are Iswara ,the creators of the cosmos.Can you fulfill this one desire of mine? Thus dependingon Iswaramaaya,the two sons entered Suthala where Mahabali lives.He was happy to see them.He worshipped both and with the water of their feet touched his

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own head.Mediataing on Krishna and with tears in his eyes flowing out of ecstacy of devaotion he praised them. Krishna and Rama told him:-During the era of the 1st Manu ,Sage Mareechi had six sons in Urna .They saw Brahma trying to unite with his daughter and laughed at him.They were born due to this as Asuriyoni in Hiranyakasipu .These sons were born in my mothers womb in this era and were killed by Kamsa in infancy.My mother wants to see them.To reduce her sorrow we want them .After that they will be released from the curse of Brahma and reach Devaloka.Smaran,Udgeethan,Parishwangan,Ghrini,Pathanga and Kshuudrabrith are their names.All of them will be blessed by me and will get Muktthy.Thus saying ,with permission of Mahabali they took the dead children and showed them to Devakiand Vasudeva.Seeing tthem Devaki took them on her lap ,kissed and embraced and gave them milk with love.She was under the spell of delusion of Vishnmaya for some time .By that love and milk ,they had the remembrance of past janma .Thus they were liberated and worshipping mother ,father ,Krishna and Rma they left for heaven.Seeing this Devaki understood what had happened .She came back to her senses and knew that it was Vaishnavi Maaya. Subhadraaharanam:Pareekshith wanted to know how his fathers mother Subhadra,sister of Balarama and Krishna was married by his grandfather Arjuna.Hence Suka ,the son of Vyasa told him that story. When Arjuna doing a sacred pilgrimage in Bharathavarsha ,reached Prabhasatheertha he heard about the news that his uncles daughter Subhadra is getting married.He heard that Balarama wanted to give her to Suyodhana but no other yadava was agrreing to that proposal.Arjuna himself wanted to get her in marriage and so he took the disguise of a sanyasin and went to Dwarka for spending the four months of rains(Chathurmasya)there.Raama did not recognize him and gave him welcome and he saw Subhadra one day in Balaramas house.Subhadra also saw him and fell in love instantly though he was in a sanyasi disguise.Both her mind and eyes were fixed in him.Subhadra was entrusted with the pooja of the sanyasin by Balarama.But ,Arjuna hurt by arrows of Kaamadeva felt uneasy with her pooja.Krishna and the elders of Yadu race knew that it was Arjuna and they alloed him to take her away while she goes for the festival of the Paradevatha.Subhadra was his charioteer.He won over the army of Balarama and Balarama was angry like an ocean during full moon day.Krishna made him tranquil by his sweet words of wisdom.Thus Rama was pacified and agreed to the alliance and sent wealth to Hasthinapura as the dowry . Story of Sruthadevan:There was a devotee who was shantha and dharmika called Sruthadeva.He was a poet too.He lived in the Mithila city of Videha empire.He was a grihastha.He accepts only that what is required for keeping life as food .He did not have any ego that I am Haribhaktha.At that time the king was Bahulaswa,who too had no ego that I am Haribhaktha.To give darsana to both,Bhagavan went in his chariot to Mithila ,with Daruka.The sages who accompanied him were Suka,Narada,Vamadeva,Athri,Brihaspathy,BhargavaRama,Asitha,Kanua,Aaruni,Dwipay

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remember you,will not have the desire in samsara as before.this cosmos originated from Sath(truth)and becomes sath.Therefore everything is Sath and everything is you.This samsara is for the maintainance and sustenance of the races only.This cosmos was not there before creation.It will not be there after pralaya.In the middle only it is seen to exist in you.Therefore all sciences dealing with matter and its classification have decided that that one which is truth forever alone is truth and that is you.Men depend upon guna for functioning of life.Like a serpent discards its skin the wise discard maaya .Your body is indivisible and scholars divide it into 8 vibhoothy for understanding.You reside in people who are good and bad.therefore if a yogin does not discard desire,you become unattained .They are afraid of Mrityu and you who is always nearby.The one who loves you does not know any sorrow .And even vidhinishedha does not affect him.In all yuga by hearing according to sampradaya(sravanam by sampradaya or tradition)you are worn (dharanam)in hearts and for them you give moksha.Your end is not known by Indra or other devas and even by you yourself.You have no boundary.The boundaries of the several universes,and their 7 coverings internally perceived,with the kaalachakra or wheel of time revolve in spacetime as dust particles only.The boundary of you beyond all tehse Brahmandas.You are known only by negating other things as Nethi,Nethi etc.Becasue you are not perceived by word,deed or mind. Hearing this sruthigeetha which is revealing the self(Athmaprabhodhaka)Narada etc became sidha and worshipped Sanandana who adviced this in Brahmaloka.This is the essence of all veda and Upanishads.All our ancestors and nishkamayogins learned this from Sanakaadi rishi.Knowing this live in the world without any sorrow. Narayana Rishi was then worshipped by Narada thus:-To protect all bhootha from sorrows of samsara you are born from Sri Narayana.Namaskaram to that Bhagavan Madhava.Then the sage came to Vyasas ashram.He told everything that Narayana told in Badari ashram to my father Vyasa and I heard it.That is why I could answer your question.Who first created the cosmos,and protects it and destroys it during pralaya and who remains in all the thrikaala ,who controls everything and every jeeva,being their antharyamin that One is Krishna.Like a dreamer forgets own body,jeevan forgets own Athman and see illusions as Maaya and with awkening discard the maaya and see own form.The one who gives liberation from samsara and gives abhaya or fearless state to all devotees ,that NirgunaBrahman,Vishnu as Krishna is always remembered and worshipped by me. Thus said sage Suka. Kaivalya only with devotion to Mahavishnu:Those who worship Shiva become wealthy and powerful easily but devotees of Mahavishnu are poor and powerless and what is the reason for this? Mahavishnu is Nirguna .Thereofre the wealth of Gunathmaka prakrithy is not kaivalya and that of Nirguna is real wealth.To get worldly wealth is eaiser than getting eternal wealthof kaivalya.Yogin who desire kaivalya therefore do not go after the wealth of the world or after power and other sidhi. Brahman and Shiva are easily pleased even by thapas of thamasic and rajasic people but Mahavishnu is pleased only with sathwik devotion.The easily pleased deities are easily

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Hearing this the sage in devotion and bliss shed tears of joy and became silent by aanaanda and he went back and told everything to the sages in saraswathy . Shanthy and abhaya and peace and kaivalya are residing in Vishnu .Dharma and the eight vibhoothy flow from him with vairagya and gnaana and his devotee gets moksha and untold fame forever.He is the paramagathy of the sages who are always dharmic and never forsake satya and ahimsa.His three murthy are the sathika as sura and rajasa as asur and thamas as rakshasa.Of these sura murthy is more sathwik and hence more nearer to Vishnu. Santhaanagopaala:In dwaraka when a Brahmins wife delivered the child died immeadiately.This happened several times.Each time when a child dies the Brahmin will bring the dead body to gate of Dwaraka and keep it there and say that because of the adharma of the king I have lost my child.The 9th time when this occurred Arjuna was in Dwaraka ..He was surprised at this and asked why are you doing like this?He heard the Brahins complaint and said I will protect your next child and if not possible I will jump into fire and sacrifice my own body.Arjuna said with pride:Brahmin,I am not Sankarshana or Krishna.I am not Anirudha.I am son of Indra wearing the great bow called Gandeeva.Do not insult my prowess which won over even the prowess of Shiva.I will win over even Anthaka in battle to get back your child. The next delivery neared and Arjuana was ready to protect the baby with his great bow.He made a covering of divine arrows all around the house .But the child was dead as before when it was born.Brahmin went to Krishna and said several insulting words about Arjuna.I believed in the words of this Napumsaka ,he said insulting Arjuna.Arjuna went to the world of Yamadharma called samyamani but did not see the child there.He searched the abode of Indra and Agni ,Varuna,Nryathi,winds,and soma ,paathaala ,sky and earth.But not getting the child Arjuna was ready to sacrifice himself in fire.But Krishna prevented him from doing so.He asked Arjuna to enter his own divine chariot and both of them went towards the western direction.They crossed the seven islands,with seven lands in each,seven oceans around each,lokaaloka and reached the darkness beyond that.In that Thamas ,the horses could not see the way to go forward.Therefore Krishan sent his chakra in front .The wheel cutting the darkness with its light showed the way beyond that darkness into the paramjyothis and seeing that Arjuna closed both his eyes.they saw the huge waves moving in winds and in its middle the white house with jeweled pillars and luminnant .There they saw the thousandhooded Anantha with endless jewels spreading light and on that blue serpant they saw Hari with his santhabhaava reclining.Yellow silk garmets ,lotus eyes,jeweled crown and kundala,jasminelike teeth ,beautiful hair and hands reaching upto knees,kousthubha and sreevalsa ,vanamaala and retinue around the sight was incomparable.The wheel ,conch ,mace and lotus and the eight vibhoothy served the Lord..Krishna an Arjuna worshipped him.Mahavishnu said:-I had a desire to see you two who are born as Nara and Narayaana to protect dharma on earth and for that purpose I just took the children here. Uttering OM they received the children from the Lord and came back and gave to the Brahmin .

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While Krishna walked on the earth the earth gave all wealth and grains and food and rains came in time and there was wealth in entire earth and people were happy and interested in doing dharma and in pleasing him by doing dharma. Krishan lived in Dwaraka with prosperity and happiness with all his friends and relatives and people.In the homes of Dwaraka people played different arts like Panthadi dance,Bharatahnatya,chinthupaatu and melodious music and accompaniments.Woman sang and danced beautifully.Several elephants,horses,warriors ,golden chariots,always traveled in the royal paths.Beautiful gardens,forests ,flowering and fruit trees,birds singing on them ,and music of insects (with 6 feet )that sang around flowers and the beautiful retinue of 16000 women made the city always colourful .In each of the houses were tanks,wells and lotus flowers,and other water flowers ,and their fragrant pollen spread everywhere.Krishna did Jalakreeda in them with the kumkuma spreading in the waters from their bodies embracing him .Veena,panava,mridanga,Aanaka,etc were played by Gandharva,Vandi,sootha and Maaagadha and they sang according to the time of the day ,their music to make Krishna happy .The women and Krishna played with coloured water sprinkling on each other in competition .They embraced him during such playful moods and got moksha instantly from all sorrows of samsara.Krishna looked like a happy elephant king playing with his womenfolk in forests freely .He and his wives gave gifts of jewels and silks etc to dancers and musicians .With his side glances,touch,smile,music ,humour and ways of life and beauty Krishna attracted all his wives and all people alike .All his wives thought only of him and nothing else. They sang in his praise,while he was away :Chakravaaka(a bird), why do you keep awake and sing at night. Your lover is Gupthabodha .He is asleep . Are you like us,wounded by the smiles and glances of Hari? You are crying at night ,not seeing him Like us,forever his servants who cannot suffer his separation Even for a second. Do you desire to wear the garland dedicated at his feet Just like us ? Ocean,you are so deep and wide and yet without sleep Even at night in Jagrad state you make huge cries and heave Like us separated from him .You too are attaracted to Mukunda like us? Moon,grasped by the disease Kshaya (Rajayakshma) You are so weak .You have lost efficiency to remove darkness.Are you keeping silence fearing to get sorrow of disobeying the word of Krishna? He had promised to come to play with us in moonlight He didnt come.So you have lost a chance to serve him. What did we do to displease you ,wind from Malaya mountains Our minds wounded by Krishna is made Full of Manmathachintha by you! Clouds,you are friend of Krishna,we know. You meditate on him like us with sradha And remembering him shed tears of joy Hearing his stories always is bliss as well as

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Full of sorrow of separation Kokila,with sweet voice, Like Krishna with your loving music As Mrithasanjeevika you converse as a sushtu(pure soul) What we can do for you as a reward for it? Great mountains,you do not utter a word Or move.Are you thinking of the great purushartha Moksha? Just as us ,do you want to wear his feet On your breasts(the peaks)? With his separation we have become thin And like that the rivers ,wives of Sindhu, and lakes have become thin without decorations of lotus flowers. Swan,welcome.Taste the food and water and tell us stories of Madhava. Are you his messenger ? Is he well and happy? Does he remember what all he told us? His friendship is vibratory. The mean messenger,bring him to us . Kamala alone is not the only woman Who has Ekapatheevratha. We are having ekanthabhaava in Krishna ,Yogayogeswara. Thus singing in his separation,all of them reached his paramapada and mukthy.Apart from the 16000 women he had another hundred (16100)and 8 as his principal consorts (16108).Among the sucessors of Krishna 18 became Maharatha.They were, Pradyumna,anirudha,deepthiman,chithrabhanu,Brihadbhanu,Bhanu,pushkara,samba,Mad hu,Vedabahu,Nyagrodha,Sruthadeva,Viroopa,Kavi,Aruna,Vrika,Sunanda,Chithrabhanu. Anirudha is son of Pradymna in daughter of Rugmi .He married daughter of Rugmis daughter and their son was Vajra and he remained in Mousala.His son was Prathibahu and his son Subahu and his son Santhasena and Sruthasena was his son.All the people in that race was good,devoted to Brahmins,and prosperous.One cannot count the number of their successors .The Gurus who taught all these yadava children ,grandchildren and successors is about 3crore lakhs and 88 and then we can assume the number of students to be more. The race of Ugrasena 101 one races of Kasyapeya Are uncountable and belong to yadava race too. The curse of rishis in the Yadu race :By the kurukshethra war Krishna made dharma win over adharma.but by this time by the thought that Krishna is born among us and we are invincible the yadava race became too egoistic and proud.Their destruction came by that ego .It was like agni which originated in a forest of bamboo,destroys the bamboo forest itself,that a quarrel of internal strife destroyed the yadu race.

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But how did the Vrishnis who are devotees of Vishnu ,Brahmanabhaktha and daaanaseela get a curse from Brahmins? Sages like Viswamithra,Kanua,Asitha,Vasistha,Kasyapa,Vamadeva,Brighu,Durvasas,Athri,Angiras ,Narada were sent to PindarakaTheertha by Krishna.When they came ,the children of yadava race who were playing in Dwaraka thought to play a trick on them.They dressed up Sambha ,son of Jmabavathy as a girl who is pregnant .He pretended as if he is a shy pregnant young girl and others asked the sages ,whether she will deliver a male or a female?The sages who were insulted said that she will deliver a iron mace and with that your entire race will be destroyed.The childrenimmeadiately removed the cloth covering Sambhas middle and saw a iron weapon .The children brought it to the sabha of Krishna and said what had happened.All yadava chiefs were afraid.King Ugrasena said ,to escape from curse that weapon should be made into a powder and thrownin the ocean.Thus the yadavas made it powdered but a last small piece remained . That piece was eaten by a fish and the fish was caught by a fisherman.The fisherman sold the iron piece to ahunter and he made an arrow with it.The powdered iron came to shore with waves and each sprouted into sharp grass (Eraka grass)on the shores. Krishna knowing that it is time for him to depart from this world gave his message for posterity to his best friend Udhava .Udhava went to Badarikashram as asked by Krishna and meditating on Krishna and his teaching dwelled there. Pareekshith asked Suka:-How did Bhagavans body which was the center of attraction for all and which was the seat of bliss for all was lost to us?How did he sacrifice that lovely form odf his which had been the refuge of all?Which form entering heart through eyes never leaves it,which name and stories entering through ears fix in chethana forever,and by which poets and musicians were always blissful and creative ,and by which feet the earth was purified How Lord sacrificed it to go back to his dhama? Suka said:- Krishna saw the Uthpaatha or comets in earth,anthariksha and sky and knowing that the time has come for departure told people of his sabha,the sudharma.All of us should move away from Dwaraka because these bad omens portend destruction of our city in the ocean.Let all women and children leave for the Sankhodharakatheertha.We will go to Prabhasatheertha where River Saraswathy flow to the west.There we will live and take sacred baths and do good deeds and shanthikarma and give away alms to Brahmins to divert bad effects of the omens seen.Thus the men and women of Dwarakain boats and ships left Dwaraka and went to the directions they were told. The men did all ausoicious karma as Krishna told them.But after that they started to drink aliquor called Maireyaka.The proud and egocentric Yadavas with inebriation of liquor lost their swabodha and quarreled between each other.The quarrel became a war .Samba,Pradyumna,Akroora,Bhoja,Anirudha,Sathyaki,Sangramajisnu,Bhadran,Sumithra n,surathan,Darunan,Gadhan,Sahasrajith,Bhanu,Sathajith,were all in that battling crowd.Sathwatha,Vrishni,Andhaka,Dasarha,Bhoja,Madhu,Arbudha,Soorsena,Mathura,K unthi,Visarjana,Kukura,branches of yadus forgetting their friendships and relationships fought each other vigourously and when all weapons were finished they strted to pluck the strong Eraka grass on th seashore as weapons and each blade of grass converted to an iron Musala killed them instantly according to the curse of the Sages.When Krishna tried toprevent them the proud yadavas struck even him .They tried to kill Balarama thinking

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