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2024-04-25, 6:02 PM |
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Chapter 82:
All Kings
and the Inhabitants of Vrindâvana on Pilgrimage Reunite
with Krishna
(1)
S'rî
S'uka said: 'Then, as Râma and Krishna were living in
Dvârakâ, was there one day [*]
an eclipse of the sun as impressive as the end of the day of
Brahmâ. (2)
The people knowing that beforehand, o King, came from
everywhere to the field of Samanta-pañcaka ['the
five lakes' at Kurukshetra] in the hope to benefit
therefrom. (3-6)
It is the place where Lord Paras'urâma, the greatest
wielder of weapons, having rid the earth of its rulers with the
streams of blood of the kings created the great lakes [see
9.16:
18-19].
Bhagavân Paras'urâma to that was, even though He
was unaffected by karmic reactions, as the Controller to
instruct the world in general of worship there like he was
another [a common] person wishing to dispel the sin. So
came, o son of Bharata, for the occasion a great number of
people of Bhârata there on a holy pilgrimage. The
Vrishnis, including Akrûra, Vasudeva, Âhuka
[Ugrasena] and others wishing to eradicate their sins,
went all to that holy place while Gada, Pradyumna and others
with Sucandra, S'uka and Sârana and the army commander
Kritavarmâ, remained home to guard the city.
(7-8)
Like effulgent Vidyâdharas
came they in their chariots which resembled the seats of the
gods, moving in waves with horses and bellowing elephants and
masses of foot soldiers. Resplendent with their wives, with
golden necklaces, flower garlands, attire and armor, appeared
they on the road as supremely divine and majestic as the ones
traveling through the sky. (9)
The greatly pious Yâdavas bathing and fasting there, with
careful attention for the brahmins donated cows, garments,
garlands, gold and necklaces. (10)
In the lakes of Paras'urâma as prescribed once more
taking a bath [the next day to conclude their fast],
prayed the Vrishnis, to their feeding of the twiceborn
sumptuously with the finest food: 'Let there be our devotion
for Krishna.' (11)
Then ate the Vrishnis with the permission of Krishna as their
exclusive deity, comfortably sitting down in the cool shade of
the trees. (12-13)
They, having arrived there, saw their friends and relatives,
the kings of the Matsyas, Us'înaras, Kaus'alyas,
Vidarbhas, Kurus, Sriñjayas, Kâmbojas, Kaikayas,
Madras, Kuntîs, Ânartas, Keralas and others, as
also hundreds of allies and adversaries o King. They also met
their friends, the gopas and gopîs headed
by Nanda who had been anxious for so long [to see
them]. (14)
Meeting
again embraced they each other firmly experiencing the greatest
delight with streams of tears, goose-pimpels and a choked-up
voice, to which, because of the emotions, their hearts and
faces bloomed as beautiful as
lotuses. (15)
The women seeing one another, with great eyes filled with tears
of pure love, smiled with the greatest friendship and closed
each other in their arms pressing breasts to breasts that were
smeared with kunkum paste. (16)
Next proved they their respects to the elders and received they
obeisances from their younger relatives. After they had
inquired after their well-being and the comfort of their
journey proceeded they with talking amongst each other about
Krishna.
(17)
Kuntî
seeing her brothers and sisters and their children, as well as
her parents, her sisters-in-law and Mukunda, gave up her sorrow
as she talked to them. (18)
Kuntî said: 'O respectable one, o brother, I feel
frustrated in my desires because you, however saintly you are,
didn't think of what happened to me in my misfortune [see
also 1.8:
24]!
(19)
Friends, relatives - sons, brothers and parents even - easily
forget the one among them who is faring less in life.'
(20)
S'rî
Vasudeva said: 'Dearest, don't be cross with us, men are the
playthings of fate, because a person, whether he acts on his
own accord or is directed by others, is always under the
control of the Lord. (21)
Severely troubled by Kamsa we scattered in all directions
[see 10.2:
7 and
10.4];
only now have we by Divine Ordinance been restored to our
proper positions, o sister.'
(22)
S'rî
S'uka said: 'All the kings there honored by Vasudeva, Ugrasena
and the other Yâdavas, found peace in the supreme ecstacy
of seeing Acyuta. (23-26)
Bhîshma, Drona, the son of Ambikâ
[Dhritarâshthra], Gândhârî with
her sons as also the Pândavas and their wives,
Kuntî, Sañjaya, Vidura and Kripa; Kuntîbhoja
and Virâtha, Bhîshmaka, the great Nagnajit,
Purujit, Drupada, S'alya, Dhrishthaketu, and he, the king of
Kâs'i; Damaghosha, Vis'âlâksha, the
kings of Maithila, Madra and Kekaya, Yudhâmanyu and
Sus'armâ and Bâhlika and others with their sons, as
also, o best of kings, many other kings resorting under
Yudhishthhira, were all amazed to see the abode of S'rî,
the personal form of S'âuri,
along with His wives. (27)
Duely from Râma and Krishna having received proof of
respect, praised the kings on their turn filled with joy,
enthusiastically the Vrishnis, the personal associates of
Krishna: (28)
'O master of the Bhojas [Ugrasena], you've chosen a
birth worthwile among men in this world, because you repeatedly
see Krishna, who even by the yogis is rarely seen.
(29-30)
His fame as vibrated by the Vedas, the water washing from His
feet and the words of the revealed scriptures thoroughly purify
this universe [see also B.G.
15: 15]. By the
touch of His lotus-like feet has, even though her good fortune
was ravaged by Time, the vitality of the earth awakened and
rains she in abundance rain down upon us all that we desire.
With seeing Him, touching Him and walking, conversing, lying
down, sitting, eating, being married to and being connected
with Him as a blood-relative, have you traveling the
[normally] hellish path of family life now found
Vishnu, the liberation and heaven who constitutes the cessation
[of one's search in life. See also 5.14
and 7.14
and B.G.
11: 41-42].'
(31)
S'rî
S'uka said: 'Nanda finding out that the Yadus with Krishna
going first had arrived there, went to see Him, accompanied by
the gopas with their belongings on their wagons.
(32)
Delighted to see Him sprung the Vrishnis to life as if awakened
from death and embraced they Him firmly, all exited about His
presence after so long a time. (33)
Vasudeva, beside himself of love overenjoyed embracing,
remembered the troubles created by Kamsa because of which he
had to leave his sons in Gokula [see 10.3
& 10.5].
(34)
Krishna and Râma embracing their [foster] parents
offered Their respects and said, with throats filled with tears
of love, nothing, o greatest hero of the Kurus.
(35)
Raising their sons on their laps and holding Them in their arms
gave the so very fortunate two, he and Yas'odâ, up their
sorrow [of being separated]. (36)
Rohinî and Devakî next embraced the queen of Vraja
and addressed her with their throats full of tears, remembering
what she had done [for them] in her friendship:
(37)
'What woman can forget the unceasing friendship of you and
Nanda, o queen of Vraja; not even obtaining the wealth of Indra
would do to repay you in this world. (38)
Before these Two could see their parents received They,
residing with the two of you as their [foster] parents,
the education and affection, nourishment and protection, my
good lady. In the custody of you saints, who are strange to no
one and as good of protection as eyelids to the eyes, had They
nothing to fear.'
(39)
S'rî
S'uka said: 'The gopîs after so long a time seeing
Krishna, their object of desire - for seeing whom they'd curse
the maker of their eyelids [see 10.31:
15] - all took
with their eyes Him into their hearts to embrace Him there to
their satisfaction and attained the ecstatic absorbtion that
even for the ones constantly engaged in meditation is difficult
to attain. (40)
The Supreme Lord approaching them more privately informed,
embracing them, after their health and said with a smile the
following: (41)
'Dear girlfriends, do you still remember Us, We who intent on
destroying the enemy party because of that duty stayed away so
long? (42)
Maybe you think bad of Us being afraid that We've put you out
of Our mind - but in fact is it the Supreme Lord who brings
together and separates the living beings. (43)
The way the wind brings together masses of clouds, grass,
cotton and dust, and scatters them again, is the Creator of the
living doing the same with His beings [compare
10.5:
24-25].
(44)
By the love for Me that in good fortune developed on the part
of your good selves, have you obtained Me; and indeed is it the
devotional service to Me that leads the living beings to
immortality [compare B.G. 9.33].
(45)
Like the ether, the water, the earth, the air and the fire of
material things, o ladies, am I verily inside present as well
as outside, am I the beginning as well as the end of all
created beings .
(46)
These material entities, who this way exist within the elements
of creation and as well exist as the âtmâ
[the Soul, self and person] that according its own true
nature pervades all, you should see as both being present
within Me, within the Imperishable, Supreme Truth and
siddhânta].'
(47)
S'rî
S'uka said: 'The gopîs, who with this instruction
about the âtmâ thus were instructed by
Krishna, eradicated with the help of the constant meditation on
Him the subtle covering of the soul [see linga,
7.2:
47 and
4.29]
and arrived at the full understanding of Him. (48)
They said: 'With that what You said o Lord with the Lotusnavel,
we wish that our minds, however they are engaged in household
affairs, are ever vigilant to Your lotus feet that by the great
yogis and highly learned philosophers are kept in their hearts
to meditate upon, for they are, for those who fell in the dark
well of a material existence, the only shelter for reaching the
other side.
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