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The Cosmic ManifestationChapter 3

 

The Lords Pastimes Outside Vrindavana

 

Chapter 3: The Lords Pastimes Outside Vrindavana

SB 3.3.1Uddhava said, thereafter Lord Krishna entered Mathura, and greeting his parents He ,along with Balarama, pulled down Kamsa off the throne of public’s scary woes

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Mastering the Vedas on hearing once from guru sandipani and rewarding him by resurrecting his children from nether world, He did sans perspiring

SB 3.3.3He stole Rukmini, and married her fooling all her avaricious suitors of the daughter of King Bhishmaka , at her request before their eyes

SB 3.3.4He married Princess Nagnajiti by taming seven wild bulls in the turf and quelled all those who opposed him without any hurts to himself

SB 3.3.5 As a husband,He brought his wife her favourite garden tree Parijatha from heaven,though unsuccessfully stalled by the henpecked Indra

SB 3.3.6 To return the Kingdom seized by Him ,Lord entered Narakasura’s house, on request by earth in favour of her defeated son, who grabbed the skies

SB 3.3.7 On seeing the Lord in the fort, the princesses kidnapped by the asura ,happened in mind to accept Him as their savior and in principle, their protector n’ husband

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Though they resided in different homes , He accepted the hands of all women simultaneously by multiplying himself and sharing his love perfectly with each woman by His divine potency

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Just to demonstrate his divinity ,as if to expand himself, Lord begat ten children in each of them ,all alike Himself

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When Kalayavana, King of Magadha and king Salva besieged Mathura he did not show any miracles,but let his men show it.

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Of S'ambara, Dvivida, Bâna, Mura, Balvala and others like Dantavakra and more , He killed some, while others He caused it as by Balarâma

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Many Kings whose chariot movements shook the earth were pitiably decimatedO Vidura, at the altar of Kurukshetra war , caused by Lord ,as the gods wanted

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As perpetrator of the war, advised by Karna n’ others, Duryodhana had the plight of lying with, broken thighs, amidst vultures, which even Lord couldn’t bear the sight

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Krishna thundered, on seeing the dead in the war , mostly millions of wicked men,“What is this ?”there is still this haughty dynasty of yadus, essentially of my own

clan

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They will vanish when, intoxicated by wine , they will quarrel with eyes sanguine as copper; there is no alternative to ensure this after I vanish on My ascension

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With this , the Lord anointed Yudhishthhira on the throne, gladdening His friends for charting the path of a great saint.

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It was only for Lords intervention that Parikshit,sired by Abhimanyu,son of Arjuna, was saved,when in the womb he was protected from the magic weapon of Drona

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And a son of Yudhishtira,following Lords advice conducted three major horse rituals and reigned over earth as a devotee of Krishna helped by his brothers

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The Supreme Lord followed the path of Sankhya philosophy, unattached Endured the ups and downs of life in Dvaraka without getting attached.

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Gentle, sweet and nectarine in words and flawless in deedsand character he was there with his aura of bliss allround

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He, specifically pleasing the Yadus, enjoyed this earth and the other worlds, in the leisure of the night in the company of friendly women in conjugal bonds.

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The Lord was thus engaged in household life for years, but at last His detachment to carnal life was fully there.

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As with Him, the sense enjoyment of living entities is controlled by the super soul in which one can put faith by joining in the service of the Lord of Yoga as one whole.

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Once,angered by the princely pastimes,descendantsOf Yadu and Bhoja royals were cursed by the sages

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A few months later the descendants of Vrishni, Bhoja and others like the sons of Andhaka, bewildered by Krishna ,in great pleasure went to the place of pilgrimage

called Prabhâsa.

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There they took a bath and paid their respects to their forefathers,

the gods and the sages n’ gave in royal charity and cows to brahmins.

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 For their livelihood the princes provided the Brahmins with gold, coins in gold bedding, clothing, seat covers, blankets, horses, chariots, elephants, girls n’ land.

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After serving with delicious food sacrificed to the Supreme Lord, , cows n’ their obeisances,as expiation , to the Brahmins they gifted