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2024-04-27, 8:43 AM |
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Chapter 37: Kes'î and Vyoma Killed and
Nârada Eulogizes Krishna's Future
(1-2) S'rî S'uka said: 'Then as sent by Kamsa [in 10.36:
20] was there Kes'î,, a
huge horse that, with his hooves ripping open the earth and with the
speed of mind scattering the clouds as well the celestial carriers of
the gods, with his manes and neighing frightened everyone. The Supreme
Lord stepped, in response to the stir of the clouds created by his tail
and his whinnying which terrified His cowherd village, thereupon
forward to fight and called for Kes'î who searching for Him was
roaring like a lion. (3) When he, hard to conquer and approach and
agressive with a mouth wide open swallowing the sky, saw Him before
him, rushed he furiously forward to attack the lotus eyed Lord with his
legs. (4) Dodging that
seized the Lord of the Beyond, alert to it, him with His arms by the
legs to whirl him around indifferently and throw him at a distance of a
hundred bow lengths, standing there just like the son of Târkshya
[Garuda] throwing a snake. (5) He regaining his consciousness rose in bitter
rage and ran, opening wide [his mouth], fast for the Lord who on His
turn with a smile put His left arm in his mouth like a snake in a hole.
(6) As
Kes'î,'s teeth came in touch with the Lord His arm fell they out
as if they had come in contact with a redhot iron and swelled the arm
of the Supreme Soul having entered his body up like a sick belly [of
dropsy] in neglect. (7) With Krishna's arm thus expanding was his
breath arrested and fell he, kicking his legs, perspiring all over,
rolling with his eyes and excreting feces, lifeless down to the ground.
(8) The Mighty-armed
One retracting His arm from the dead body that looked like a cucumber [karkathikâ],
was, as unassuming as He was in His effortlessly having killed His
enemy, from above worshiped by the gods with a rain of flowers.
(9) The devarishi [Nârada], the most
exalted devotee of the Lord, o King, said in private to Krishna who is
so effortless in His actions this: (10-11) 'Krishna, o Krishna, o Vâsudeva,
immeasurable Soul, o Lord of Yoga, o Controller of the Universe, o
shelter of each, o You master and very best of the Yadus; You alone are
the Soul of all living beings who like fire hidden in firewood resides
within the heart as the Witness, the Controller, the Supreme
Personality. (12) As the Refuge of
the Intelligence of the Spirit Soul You first produced, by Your energy,
the modes of nature and through these [then] this thruth [of the
Universe], to the drive of which You create, destroy and maintain as
the Controller. (13) You, this one [creator] Himself, has in order
to protect the saintly descended for the destruction of the demons
[Daityas], wildmen [Râkshasas] and tormentors [Pramathas] who
impose as leaders. (14) To our fortune have You sportfully killed
this demon that assumed the form of a horse of whose neighing the
vigilant gods terrified abandoned heaven. (15-20) The day after
tomorrow, will I see Cânûra, Mushthika and other wrestlers
as also the elephant [Kuvalayâpîda] and Kamsa been killed
by You, o Almighty One. Thereafter will follow [the demons] S'ankha,
[Kâla-]yavana and Mura as well as Naraka and will You steal the
pârijâta flower and defeat Indra. In Dvârakâ
will You, o Master of the Universe, be known for marrying the daughters
of the heroic [kings] with the gift of Your valor, the deliverance of
King Nriga from his curse, capturing the jewel named Syamantaka
together with a wife and presenting the dead son of a brahmin
[Sândîpani Muni] from Your abode [of death]. Next will You
kill Paundraka, burn down the city of Kâs'î [Benares] and
see to the demise of Dantavakra and the king of Cedi [S'is'upâla]
during the great sacrifice [see also: 3.2:
19, 7.1: 14-15]. About
these and other great feats that I will see performed by You as You
stay in Dvârakâ will the poets on this earth be singing. (21) Then will I see
You as the charioteer of Arjuna with whom You assume the form of Time
with the purpose of effectively bringing about the destruction of the
complete of the armed forces of this world. (22) Let me approach [You who are] this Supreme
Lord, full of the purest spiritual awareness, who in His original
identity is completely fulfilled, whose will in none of His exploits
can be thwarted and who by the power of His potency is always elevated
above the flow of the things happening with the modes of the illusory,
material energy. (23) For You, the Controller self-contained, who
by the creative potency of Your own Self has arranged for an unlimited
number of specific situations so that You could enact and now have
taken upon Yourself [the burden of] humanity divided [in warfare], I do
bow myself down, You the Greatest of the Yadus, Vrishnis and
Sâtvatas.'
(24) S'rî S'uka said: 'The most eminent sage among the
devotees thus respectfully of reverence for Krishna, the leading Yadu,
received permission to leave and went away being elated of having seen
Him. (25) And Govinda, the
Supreme Lord who in a fight had killed Kes'î, tended the animals
together with the cowherd boys who were so pleased about Him bringing
happiness to Vraja. (26) One day, when the gopas were grazing
the animals, enacted they at the hillside games of hide and seek
playing cops and robbers. (27) In that game were some the thieves, some were
the herds while others of them, o King, to that acted as the
unsuspecting sheep. (28) A son of the demon Maya named Vyoma ['the
sky'], a powerful magician, assumed the disguise of a gopa and
engaged in the game as one of the many thieves. Thus he led away almost
all the ones who acted as the sheep. (29) One by one threw the great demon them in a
mountaincave of which he blocked the entrance with a boulder so that
only four or five remained. (30) Finding out what he was doing seized Krishna,
the leader of the gopas and shelterer of the saintly, him
without mercy just like a lion would seize a wolf. (31) The demon
resuming his original form that was as big as a mountain by all means
wanted to free himself, but held tightly in His grip was he debilitated
not capable of doing so. (32) Holding him fast with His arms forced Acyuta
him to the ground and while the gods in heaven were watching killed He
him like he was a sacrificial animal [strangled him thus]. (33) Breaking through
the blocked entrance of the cave freed He the gopas out of
their awkward position and returned He, under the praises of the gopas
and the gods, to His cowherd village.'
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