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2024-03-29, 7:53 PM |
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Chapter 45: Krishna Rescues His Teacher's Son
(1)
S'rî S'uka said: 'With His parents
arriving at the idea that He would be the Supreme Personality said He
to Himself: 'This should not be so', and thus expanded He the personal
illusory potency [of His yogamâyâ] which bewilders
the people. (2) Approaching
them together with His elder brother, the Greatest of the Veritable
[the Sâtvatas], said He, to gratify them, with humility bowing
down to His parents respectfully: 'Dear father and mother! (3) There has, o father [and mother] who because
of us were always in anxiety, indeed for the two of you never been
anything of the toddler-age, the boyhood and youth of your two sons [see *]. (4)
As ordained by fate could We, deprived of residing in your presence,
not experience the pampered happiness of children living at home with
their parents. (5) To the parents
from whom one is born and by whom one is maintained, is a mortal person
never, not for a lifespan of hundred years, able to repay the debt, for
they are the source of the body that is there for all goals of life [purushârthas, compare 10.32:
22]. (6) A son who, of them capable, with his
resources and wealth does not provide for their sustenance, will after
death be made to eat his own flesh [see also 5.26]. (7)
Being capable of but not maintaining one's mother and father, the
elderly, one's chaste wife, one's very young child, the spiritual
master and the learned one seeking shelter, is one dead even though one
breathes [see B.G. 11: 33]. (8) Therefore were the two of Us,
because of Kamsa who was always disturbing, with a mind motivated for
counteraction unable to honor you and have We spent these days [of
youth] without having been of any use to you. (9) Please forgive Us the fact that, o father
and mother, under the control of others from Our part not being at your
service, the hardhearted one [Kamsa] caused such a great pain.'
(10) S'rî S'uka said: 'Thus bewildered by the
deluding power of Him, the Lord and Soul of the Universe appearing as a
human being, raised they Them upon their laps to experience the joy of
closing Them in their arms. (11)
Bound by the rope of affection crying a river couldn't they say a
thing, o King, being overwhelmed with their throats full of tears. (12) The Supreme Lord, the son of Devakî,
thus consoled His parents and made His maternal grandfather Ugrasena,
King over the Yadus. (13)
He then told him: 'With Us, o great King, as your subjects please take
command, since one because of the curse of Yayâti [see 9.18: 42] being
born as a Yadu should not sit on the throne. (14) When I am present attending to you as a
servant, will the demigods and all belonging to them bow down to offer
you tribute; and what then to say of other rulers of men?'
(15-16) All His close relatives and other relations,
the Yadus, Vrishnis, Andhakas, Madhus, Dâs'ârhas, Kukuras
and other clans, who disturbed in fear of Kamsa had fled in all
directions, were honored and consoled, for living in foreign regions
had made them weary. He, the Maker of the Universe, arranged for their
homes and gratified them with valuable gifts. (17-18) Protected by the arms of Krishna and
Sankarshana enjoyed they in their homes perfectly the fulfillment of
their desires as because of Krishna and Râma the fever [of a
material life] had ceased, now that they day by day saw the loving,
always cheerful, beautiful lotuslike face of Mukunda with the merciful,
smiling glances. (19) Even the
eldest were youthful and full of strength and vitality, there [in
Mathurâ] drinking in with their eyes repeatedly the nectar of
Mukunda's lotus face. (20)
Next, o great King, were the Supreme Lord, the son of Devakî, and
Sankarshana approached by Nanda and this is what They, embracing him,
said: (21) 'O father, by the great affection and the
fondling of the two of you, have you cared for Us in a great way,
truely is for parents the love for their children greater even than the
love they have for themselves. (22)
Those persons are father and mother who nourish as their own children
the sons who were abandoned by their own family not capable of
maintaining and protecting them. (23)
Please, all of you, go to Vraja dear father, We [represented by ...]
will visit you and your kin aching of love, after We've made our
friends here happy.' (24)
Acyuta thus appeasing Nanda and the folk of Vraja, then respectfully
honored them with clothing, jewelry and pots and such.
(25) Thus addressed by the two of Them embraced
Nanda Them, engulfed by affection, with tears filling his eyes and went
he with the gopas to Vraja. (26)
Then had the son of S'ûrasena [Vasudeva], o King, by a priest and
brahmins for his sons the second-birth initiation properly
performed. (27) He donated to
them in worship, for remuneration fully decorated cows with golden
chains and ornaments complete with calves and garlands of flowers of
flax. (28) He, magnanimous, gave them in charity the
cows that were stolen away by Kamsa, the same cows he previously had
donated within his mind on the day that Krishna and Râma were
born [see 3.10: 11-12]. (29) After by
initiation having attained the twice-born status, took They, sincere in
Their vows from Garga, the preceptor of the Yadus, the vow of celibacy
[to be a student, see also gâyatrî and brahmacârya]. (30-31) As the Lords of the Universe of all being the origin and in
knowledge being omniscient did They, by their humanlike activities
concealing the impeccable knowledge that was achieved from no other
source, then desire to live at the school of the guru native to
Kâsî [Benares] named Sândîpani who dwelt in the
city of Avantî [Ujjain]. (32)
The spiritual teacher who in that circumstance was allowed to receive
Them in self-restraint, was by Them, who approached him for his service
as if he was the Lord, that way with Their devotion used to set an
irreproachable example for others. (33)
That best one of the twiceborn, satisfied as he was with Their pure
love and submissive acts, taught as Their guru Them all the Vedas with
their corollary literatures and philosophical treatises, [**] (34)
the Dhanur-veda [military science, archery] along with all its secrets
[the mantras], the dharma [codes of human conduct, the laws] and the nyâya
[the methods of logic] as also ânvîkshikîm [the knowledge of philosophical debate or tarka] and
the six aspects of râja-nîtim [political
science, see ***]. (35-36) As the best of all first class persons and of all knowledge
being the promulgators did They, o ruler of man, fixed in concentration
fully assimilate with simply having it heard once, the complete of the
sixty-four arts in as many days and nights [*4]
and offered They being satisfied their preceptor, o King, compensation [gurudakshinâ]. (37) The twiceborn man, in due consideration of
that amazing greatness of Their superhuman intelligence, o King, after
consulting with his wife, arrived at the wish to see his child back
that had perished in the ocean at Prabhâsa [see also 1.15: 49, 3.1:
20, 3.3:
25]. (38) Saying 'So be it' mounted the two great
charioteers of unlimited prowess then a chariot and walked they,
reaching there, up to the shore to sit down for a moment, upon which
the ocean in recognition brought Them offerings of tribute [compare 9.10: 13]. (39) To him said the Supreme Lord: 'At once
present Us the son of Our guru, a young boy whom by you with a mighty
wave has been seized here.'
(40) The person of the ocean said: 'It was not I
who took him away, o Lord, it was a powerful Daitya named
Pañcajana, o Krishna, a demon who roams in the water assuming
the form of a conch. (41)
By him living here has he indeed been taken away'. Hearing that hurried
the Master into the water and killed He him, but the boy He couldn't
find in his belly. (42-44) Taking the conchshell, that had grown as a part of the
demon, returned He to the chariot and left He for the beloved city of
Yamarâja [the Lord of death] known as Samyamanî [*5]. On His way being accompanied by Him who
has the Plow for His Weapon [Balarâma], blew Janârdana
loudly on the conchshell [see also B.G.
1: 15] of which the sound was
heard by Yamarâja, the restrainer of the ones born. Overflowing
with devotion performed he elaborate worship for Them and said he
humbly, bowing down to Krishna who dwells in each his heart: 'What can
I do for the two of You, o Vishnu, who appeared as human beings?'
(45)
The Supreme Lord said: 'Please bring the son
of My guru taken from here to suffer the bondage of his karma o great
King, it is My command that should be given priority.'
(46) 'Let it be so' he said and brought forth the
preceptor's son. The Best of the Yadus then gave him back to Their guru
whom They so said: 'Please make another wish'.
(47) The honorable guru said: 'I am completely
fulfilled, my Boys, by the remuneration for the guru of the two of You;
what else would there for the spiritual master of Persons like You be
left to desire? (48) Please go to
Your home, o heroes, may Your fame purify and may the words of Your
delight [the mantras, the vedic hymns] be ever fresh ['never die away'
or 'never be forgotten'] in this life and in the next!' [see also: 10.13: 2]
(49) Thus by Their guru permitted to leave, reached
They on Their chariot fast as the wind and thundering like a cloud
Their city. (50) The citizens
seeing Râma and Janârdana, not having seen Them for many
days, all rejoiced like people who having lost their wealth had
regained it.'
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