Bhagavatham stories part 2 Krishna

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 Lord’s dharma.
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,Poothana ,Baana,Jaraasandha etc .Because of kansa’s 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 7th 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,Saradha,Kanya,Ambika,Isaani ,Naaraayani.Samkarshana will have names of Raama and Bala .
When Yogamaya removed the 7th garbha of Devaki to Rohini ,people thought the garbha of Devaki is aborted due to fear of Kamsa.
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 Devaki’s 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 Bhagavan’s 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.
The earth then became dark at night.As if the eastern direction is brightened by fullmoon ,Krishna was born in Devaki.It was ashtami thithi,Rohini Nakshathra,midnight and sun was in Simharaasi and all graham in auspicious positions.
Lotus eyed,with four arms,wearing conch,mace,wheel and lotus,with sreevalsa,kousthubha,and yellow silk, and colour of dense blue clouds ,beautiful ornaments the newborn was seen to his parents.Vasudeva ,mentally did daaana of 10000 cows to Brahmins,He worshipped and prostrated before the child and said:-
The unmanifested and unseen one as bliss,light and truth has become seen and manifested to me.The prapancha is your creation through Maaya.Though truly nirguna you appear as saguna.Creates the brahmanda and resides in it but actually they had been within you even before creation.Your qualities are unthinkable,unspeakable .You are everything.And everythingis you.You are sarvathman.You are both inside and outside of all. The one who thinks body alone is truth is ignorant because he does not know the cause of everything.From the Nirguna ,this saguna prapancha originated.By maaya you protect this prapancha .For protection the quiet shantha white form,for creation the red rajasic form and for yogic sleep the Krishna colour is taken by you.You have now become my son for protection of dharma .
Devaki seeing all Mahapurushalakshana in her son was happy.She said:- Avyaktham,Adhyam,Brahmam,Nirgunam,nirvikaaram,nirvisesham,nireeham,jyothis,sathaamaathram-Thus veda have praised the Vishnudeva.You are that Vishnu.When the pralaya of kalpantha happens You alone will be there.As eternal sakshi of the pralaya.The kaala or time is your leela.You are Isa to all,abhaya to all,and people get solace at your feet.We are afraid of death from Kamsa to you.let yu protect us and yourself from his fear.Do not show your Vishnuroopa to the others .Kamsa should not suspect that you are born in me.I am afraid of him.
Bhagavan said:- In pastjanma you were Prisni inSwayambhuvaManuanthara.Vasudeva was Suthapas,your husband.You did great austerities with devotion to get me as your son.You didn’t ask for moksha from me but asked me to be born as your son.I was born as your son as Prisni and Suthapas.Next janma you were Adithy and Kasyapa and you asked the same boon and I was born as Vaamana .Now I showed you my own form so that you get that memory of past lives.Otherwise ,being human beings you will forget the fact that I am Vishnu bornas your son.By love to the son and by Brahmabhaavana ,now you can do daily worship of me and get moksha in the end.Take me to Gokula and keep me there near Yasodha and bring back the baby girl born to her .That baby girl is my own Yogamaya .
Thus saying Vishnu assumed the form of an ordinary human child.Maaya made all the jailors swoon and the chains and doors of the prison opened by itself.Vasudeva took his son through the flooding Yamuna neckdeep in its waters so that Yamuna could touch the feet of her lover Hari.Yamuna parted and gave way to Vasudeva and the serpent King Anantha stood as an umbrella over the infant as if over a yogin.Thus Vasudeva crossed the river ,reached Gokula and saw the sleeping Yasodha with her newborn girl.He exchanged the children and quickly returned.Yesodha in a deep swoon did not know that she had delivered a girl and when she woke up she saw a boy and thought that it was her own son and rejoiced in his birth.
Thus Krishna took avathar in Mathura in Yaduvansa and grew up in Gokula as son of Yasodha and NandaGopa.
The watchmen of the prison heard the infant’s cry and went to Kamsa and told him that the 8th child is born.When Kamsa got up from his bed in fear thinking that my end has neared,his hair became disheveled and his crown fell predicting his end by such nimitha.He reached the prison in anhurry and Devaki told him that this is not a son but a daughter and it is not fit for a bold man like Kamsa to kill a female infant .But Kamsa took the girl and struck her on the stone wall.The sister of Vishnu in one kshana became the real swaroopa and reached above in the sky and every one saw her with silk dress,divine flowery garlands,sugandhalepana,and jewellery bearing sankha,chakra,trident,sword,charma,mace,bow and arrows in her 8 hands,and surrounded by singing gandharva and kinnara .She said:-You cannot kill me.Your killer is born already .By your violence and killing of the weak you have become fallen from position.

This Devi is worshipped all over the world in several names by all people.Kamsa asked his jailors to cut the chains on Devaki and vasudeva and said :I have done a wrong thing to you,my sister and my friend .I have killed all your children thinking that your son will kill me.I have become worthy of hell due to Brahmahatya.I believed the word of a unseen power and it has become untruth.Do not grieve.This world of existence is not by the physical body.Only the physical body of your children is destroyed.The Athman is eternal and not destroyed.I am still in the ocean of samsara and is afraid of death of my physical body.My sister,Do not grieve thinking that my brother have killed all my children.Because each life is enjoying only the fruits of its karma.There is no distinction between the killer and the killed.If that distinction persists man does not attain Athmagnana.My cruelty was sorrowful to you.But forget it knowing th eAthman .Being good people you can give me pardon.
Thinking that he has become a transformed soul Devaki and vasudeva said:-The feeling of mine and yours is the cause for all dualities and hatred in the world.Pain and pleasure,greed and sorrows,hatred and love ,pride and fear all dualities has to end to see the truth as God.
Hearing these pure words Kamsa went back.Next day he convened a meeting of his ministers and wellwishers and told them the words of Yogamaya.The ministers offered to go to each village and town and find out the newborns and kill them so that killer of Kamsa is killed in bud itself.They told him that the disease has to be cured before it become severe in the early stage itself.They told him that Narayana is in the good people,Rishi and in veda and killing all good people,vedic scholars and rishis and children they can destroy Narayana in bud.
The king thus misinformed by his foolish advisers and because he was bound by his time ,(kaalapaasa)decided to do such a heinous crime and started to execute it.

Gokula :-When Krishna was born,Nanda was happy and called Brahmins and astrologers and worshipping them and giving 2 lakhs of decorated cows ,and 7 mountains of seasame seeds covered with golden yellow silk as dakshina to them,asked:-Mahathman,By baths,keeping body and mind pure ,by time and thapas,dana and yagna and samskara everything is purified but the greatest of all is Athmavidya,so I have heard.Give me that .
And he was blessed by all good people.
The entire Gokula was in a festive mood.Brahmins,sootha and vandi,Maagadha,came and respectfully uttered auspicious vaakya.Musicians sang and bheri,dundhubhi and other musical instruments spread their naada.In the gate ,outer and inner courtyards etc people after cleaning the area thoroughly did decorations with pillars ,flags,garlands ,clothes and leafs.The cows,calfs and oxen were given bath,with oil ,manjal and manayola and decorated with peacock feathers,golden ornaments,coloured clothes and thilaka on foreheads.All citizens wearing best clothes and best jewels got ready for the festival.The Gopika came in groups with beautiful dresses and decorated with jewels and wearing anjana in eyes.With lotus flowers and Kumkum thilaka they increased their beauty.They came to see the infant child of Nand and Yasodha with gifts.With their coloured clothes,dresses and flowers and beauty the house of Nanda became akin to heaven with apsara women.They blessed :God ,Protect this child of ours forever.
They bathed in manjal and prayed to Vishnu saying that Vishnu himself has taken birth in our midst as son of Yasodha .The Gopa with butter,ghee,and milk and curds and in great pleasure did sing and dance .Nanda gave gifts to all singers,dancers and guests and gave them whatever they desired in plenty .Rohini ,respected by Nandagopa also was happy and blessed the little Krishna with her son Balarama.Gokula,by the birth of Krishna became the abode of Lakshmi,his consort.
According to custom,every year ,the Gokula gives Kamsa,the ruler of Mathura a revenew for protecting Gokula.And Nandagopa went to Mathura for paying that tribute.Hearing this,Vasudeva went to see Nandagopa.Seeing his old friend,Nandagopa got up and welcomed him and they talked happily on different matters.Then Vasudeva said:-My friend,I heard that you in your old age is blessed with a son.I am happy to hear that.The place Brihadwana where you live now ,is it good for your cows?Is there enough water and grass and green vegetation for them there? My son,Balaraman ,thinking that you are his father,and living with his mother Rohini ,in your protection –Is he happy and healthy?Is not Yasodha giving him enough love and happiness?
Nandan said:-I heard the sad news that all your children were killed by the cruel Kamsa.And that the 8th daughter escaped from him and turned out to be the devi herself.In this world the seen in unseen and unseen in seen is difficult to differentiate.All at Gokulam are fine.My friend,there is no difference between pain and pleasure for a gnani.
Vsudeva said:-You have given the annual tribute to the king.And we have met and talked.I would suggest ,you go back at the earliest to Gokula.I am afraid of bad things to befell at Gokula.Go back and protect the children and your people and cows.
Hearing this Nanda went back quickly.

Poothanaamoksham:-
Nandagopa thought.The word of Vasudeva will not be untrue.He immeadiately worshipped Vishnu in his mind .
At that time ,Poothana,the messenger of Kamsa had reached Gokula and was killing all newbornbabies in villages and settlements and cities.She took the form of a beautiful woman by her magic ,wearing garlands in her hair,and with golden jewels on her body and pure white dress and smiling face and the innocent people of Gokula did not understand her real nature.She killed all the newborns by poison besmeared on her breasts .She saw Krishna as bright as agni in the house of Nandagopa.The baby seeing her closed his eyes and thinking that the baby is asleep she took him in her hands.The two mothers,Rohini and Yasodha seeing her beauty did not know her nature as if the sharpness of a sword within a scabbard.She took the baby and started to give him her breastmilk as if in love.The baby with all its strength started to drink even her Praana and she started to cry aloud saying “stop,stop”.Her organs became weak,and sweat covered body all her praana weakened and in pain she produced a noise which was like thunder and hearing it entire Gokula was frightened.The noise echoed in the mountains and in sky.People swooned by that noise.They thought the earth is quaking.The Rakshasi took her real form,and with opened mouth she fell dead and on her breasts as if a small flower on a mountain was Krishna ,playing happy and alive.The mothers took him and with a cow’s tail did Aarathi to avoid illeffects of fear for the child.They bathed him in cows urine and applied cowdung on his body on 12 places,speaking the 12 names of Vishnu,to purify it,.The Gopikas went and took bath and did Anganyasa on their body as well as on the child’s body to protect him from all evil forces.
They said:-
Let Aja protect his feet.Let Animan protect his calf.Let Yagnan protect his thigh.Let Achyutha protect his middle.Let Hayagreeva protect his stomach.Let Kesava protect his heart.Let Inan protect his neck.Let Isan protect his breast.Let Vishnu protect his arms.Let Urukrama protect his face.Let Iswara protect his head.Let Chakri protect his front.Let Hari wearingmace protect his back.Let sides be protected by Madhusoodana who wears the bow and Ajana with the sword.
Let Urugaaya wearing the conch protect the four directions around him.Let Upendra protect his up and Haladhara his down sides.Let tharkshya protect him on earth.On all sides let Sarvantharyami Purusha protect our child from all hurts .Let hrishikesa protect his Indriya,and the Bhagavan lying on the Milky ocean his Praana.Let chitha be protected by Lord of Swethadweepa.Let mind be protected by Lord of yoga. Let Parabhagavan protect your intellect and Prisnigarbha your Athman.During your playtime let Govinda protect you.During sleep let Kootastha Madhava protect.While walking let Vaikunta protect.While sitting let Lakshmivallabha protect.While eating let the powerful sarvabhuk Yagnabhuk protect. Let all the ill spirits and evil devatha perish .They perish and leave with the utterance of Vishnunaama.
Thus the Gopika who were bound to Krishna by their love protected their sonkrishn awith Vishnunaama itself.Yasodha then took him and gave him breastmilk and put him to sleep.
When nandagopa returned from mathura he saw the mountainous body of the dead Poothana and heard how she was killed by his infant son.The people of Gokula cut her body to pieces and took it away from the limits of the grama and burned it with wood .They were astonished to experience a heavenly fragrance that wafted when her body burned.It was like the smell of Akil and Chandana.Even if it was with bad intention Poothana had breastfed Krishna .By that she ahd lost all her previous sins and this miraculous fragrance came from her body.Then what will be the state of the Gopika of Nandagraama ,each of whom loved and prayed and worshipped for his protection,and fed him and gave him toys and made him happy just like his own mother?Those mothers are doubtlessly liberated from samsara and attain Vishnupada which is desired by even th erishi and deva.What would be the state of the cows,who gave milk to the infant directly from their udders whenever he was hungry and thirsty ,in love and happiness as if he was their own calf?They too attained Vishnupada even in the animal janma.All of them loved him as their own son and made him happy and attained moksha by pleasing him with love and devotion.The entire Gokula talked about the wonderful happenings and rejoiced in the baby’s escape and in his power.They had identified their saviour,Vishnu ,the Paramathman in that Jeevathma .

The child started to lie on its back on the third month.When this happens the 90th day of the child is celebrated after birth.Yasodha celebrated the 90th day of birth of the precious child.Among music and dance of the women of Gokula and the manthra of the Brahmin priests she gave an auspicious bath to the child and new clothes and jewels were wornon his body ,gave dakshina and gifts to all,and seeing that the child is sleepy and closing his eyes ,she put him in his cradle.She went to the kitchen side and welcomed all women and was engaged in the preparation of food and did not hear her son’s cry for getting milk .The child started to cry with his arms and hands and feet in air and a carriage that was nearby was broken by his feet .The wonder that a child of only 90 days old could break a cart of heavy built into several piece was noticed by all.The children playing around said we have seen him breaking it with his feet .Yasodha thought some eveil spirit had looked at her son and was afraid.She called Brahmins and made them do Swasthyayana for him.The Gopa brought akshatha,curds,darbha grass and its juice and Brahmins did bali with them and blessed the child .They chanted vedamanthra from Rk,Yajus and Saama and by purest oushada did abhisheka to the child.And homa were done for his protection.Several cows with silk and jewels on them were given to the Brahmins by Nanda .Thus the Sakataasura was destroyed by Krishna.
Another day when Yasodha was carrying Krishna on her lap she felt that the body of the child had become suddenly heavy.The weight increased every moment and she had to put him down.She meditated on Vishnu.At that time the messenger of Kamsa called Thrinavritha came as a whirlwind and took away the child.By the dust of the wind no one can see anything around and no one knew what was happening to the child.When the wind was subdued yasodha went to the place where she had put Krishna down and she could not see him there.She swooned and wailed as if a cow who had lost its calf.And all the gopa and Gopi knowing what had happened started to wail aloud,fearing the worst.
When Trinavartha rose with Krishna in his hands Krishna had increased his weight more and unable to carry him the asura tried to throw him down and smash,but Krishna grasped his neck firmly and he could not throw Krishna down.By the firm grip in his neck and by the unbearable weight the asura died and fell down and by his fall the stones around broke into several pieces.And the child was sitting on his chest without any harm.seeing this the gopas took him and happily returned to Gokula and gave him to Yasodha.All were happy and wondered about the child and his nature and the protection of him from all adversities by an unknown power.They thought about all the good deeds the race had done to get the child back safe and sound as before.
They thought:-In our previous janmas we have worshipped Hari.We had constructed wells and tanks and canals and did daana and dharma.We had done panchamahayagna.And we have been good people with equality in all.Otherwise we would not have got back our son from such great dangers .Nandagopa thought of Vasudeva’s warning words and resepected his friend more for predicting such events in advance.
One day yasodha was feeding breastmilk to the child.She made cooing sounds to him in love and the son in happy mood ,partially stopped the drinking and smiled at her. Then in a playful mood he yawned and opened his mouth to show his real nature so that she looses the fear of his death from eveil forces.
Yasodha in wonder saw earth,sky and celestial bodies and entire cosmos ,with all elements ,mountains,rivers and people including herself and the little son in thatlittle opened mouth.The mother in wonder saw the Viswaroopa of her son and then Bhagwan closed his mouth and brought her back from that natural Samadhi vision which he had given her out of love and compassion.

The Purohitha of the yadu race was Gargha.He came to Gokula .He was praised and welcomed by Nanda.He was the one who visualized the Jyothish science which is a transcendental science beyond grasp of mere sense organs.He could see the thrikala with it.Therefore he was the best person to give jaathasamskara to the two children growing up at Nanda’s residence.
Garga said that he had come to do jaathasamskra and naamakarana(naming)of the two children of Vasudeva ,being the Guru of the yadava race.But he did not want it to be publicized since it might reach ears of Kansa who is searching for son of Devaki .Therefor ein a very secret place where not even the relatives of Nanda knew that Garga has did the jaathakarma of the two ,the sacred function was done.
Garga said:-The son of Rohini with his great qualities will make all the fiends rejoice and because of that he will be known as Raama.Since he will have great strength(Bala)he will be called Baladeva and Balaraama.Since he has changeless advaitha he will be called Samkarshana.
About Krishna he said:-This child will take up body(avathar)in all yuga and he will take the colours of white (Brahmin)red(kshathriya)and yellow(vaisya).In this yuga he has taken the Krishna or dark colour and therefore will be called Krishna.He will be called SriVaasudeva since he was born in past as son of Vasudeva.Because of his qualities he will have innumerable names and knowing and chanting them the world will become sinless.Each name has a different form in different avathars and yugas and every form and name is only his name and form and no one can know all of them.This child will make the entire Gokula and its subjects happy and increase the sreyas of your race.He has protected the good people from bad in all yuga and protect you from all.The people who love him will never have fears from enemies.He is equivalent to Sri Narayana in all respects and therefore give him love and protection of all sorts and enjoy his presence among you as if Vishnu is with you.


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 village and caught the tails of calfs and the calfs took them to far places .The mothers were afraid.Because they could not device a method to protect them from animals with horn and teeth,serpents,fire,water,thorns etc since the children reached everywhere without fear.But nothing injured the children.They started to play with the children of Gokula and the gopika forgot themselves immersed in their Baalaleela.
Krishna went to their homes and unbound the calfs so that they get all the milk.If they scold him,he will smile and by that smile of innocence ,he attracted them and they could not scold him further.He will take curds and butter from their huts ,eat and give to other children,to cats .If they do not give him butter,he will break their pots and get it.And he will awaken small children and make them cry so that mothers will rush there ,and he can get the kitchen free for his theft of butter.He knew all the places in each house where milk,curd,butter and ghee were kept .There was no place where he did not reach.Ifit is kept at a height he will put a mortar and a seat above it,and climbing upon it reach the pot of curd.Or he will make a hole at the bottom of pot and standing below drink whatever falls out ,with his friends.Even in dark rooms he could see because of light from his ornaments.He dirtied all the homes with such naughty deeds .
The Gopika wet in a group and complained about Krishna.When Yasoda looked at Krishna ,he was standing in fear with shaky eyes filled with water and seeing his innocent face Yasodha did not scold him.She just smiled compassionately.
One day his friends came and complained that Kannan is eating mud.Yasoda came and saw what her son was doing.She was afraid that he will get some disease.So she caught his hands and asked what did you do Krishna,in anger.
He was showing fear and grief and said “Mother,I did not eat mud.Brother and friends were telling lies to you.”
Open your mouth.Let me see. Said Yasodha.
Then he opened his mouth.She saw the earth,the stars,all celestial bodies,the cosmos,and the panchabhootha,all beings of the three lokaas,the timespace,and Gokula with herself as well as the child Krishna standing with an open mouth and within that mouth again the reflections of what she saw in several multiple reflections.She thought:-Is this a dream?Or Maaya?Is it a mental illusion of mine?Or a natural sidhi in my little son?Something which is beyond mind,intellect and senses is happening .I have seen it before.(she remembered the darsana which he gave while he was a newborn infant itself).My feelings that I am the queen of Gokula,the wife of Nanda and mother of Krishna ,and I have several duties to perform and finish etc seems meaningless to me.I dedicate everything to Lord Narayana who creates,sustains and destroys everything.

Immeadiately Krishna used his Vishnumaya and made her come back and remember her as Yasodha and Krishna as her son.She took him on her lap and embraced and kissed .The Bhagavan who is praised by Aagama,Nigama,Upanishads,Yoga and Samkhya ,and Pancharathra as the Eka Purusha,the ultimate,was thought to be her son ,by her by the yogamaya.Such a great luck had been befallen on Yasodha and Nanda due to their last birth’s deeds.In previous janma they were Drona and Dhara ,and they had done austerities to get Bhagavan as their son and to increase bhakthy in him.And Brahma had given that boon.They are reborn as Nanda and Yasodha.
One day Yasodha was churning curds.She was singing songs in praise of God Vishnu and about the Leela of her son Krishna.Krishna came near and stopped her churning .And asked for breastmilk.Yasodha was feeding him.Then she remembered that she had put a pot of milk on kitchen oven and it might have spilt.She put the child down and rushed to kitchen.Krishna enraged by this,because he had to stop his feed midway,cried and with a toy smashed the pot of curds in front.And he took all butter that was left behind from yesterdays churning,and went to courtyard.Yasodha came back and saw what had happened.When she searched for him she saw him sitting on a mortar and giving butter to a monkey.She took a stick and came after him.He ran .The purusha who is unapproachable even by the greatest sages was running away in fear from the mother and her anger.She caught him.His eyes were full of tears and asking for pardon.Though angry outside ,she was soft inside ,and pretending that she is angry she decided to punish him.She threw away the stick and bound him to the mortar with a strong coir.The one who has no in and out,and past or future,the one who is unmanifest and binds everyone with his Maaya,was bound by mother’s love.
Then she found that the coir is 2 inches less to tie him.All the coir from house was brought and still 2 inches shortage remained.Seeing this all Gopikaas laughed at Yasodha and yasodha herself smiled at herself.The Lord ,just to show to the world that I am the servant and devotee of all devotees ,then allowed her to bind him.Mothe rwent back to do her work.Krishna walked with the mortar in between the two trees which were Nala and Koobara ,sons of Kubera,and gave them Moksha.They had been cursed by Narada to become trees .Krishna gave the two yakshas liberation from their tree janma .
Hearing the sound of the tres fallingdown,Nanda and others came to the spot.They saw the child in between the two trees bound to a mortar.

Krishna danced with the women of Gokula.Sometimes he will sing for them.Whatever they ask he will do it and make them happy.He will bring the pots,measuring jars,even shoes for them when they ask”Krishna,bring that”.Sometimes he will play with them.Fight with them.All the inhabitants of Gokula loved him and they could not live without him even for a second.
When a old lady selling vegetables and fruits came Krishna went to her and asked for fruits.When he took them ,being very small hands ,he could nt hold them.She will fill them again.Thus by lovingly giving everything with her to Krishna,she found that her purse was filled with priceless jewels miraculously.
When the children do not come for food ,enjoying in plays,Rohini and Yasodha called them lovingly .Today is your birthday.Your father is waiting for eating with you.Come quickly.Both of you.Take a dip and quick bath and come for lunch.Bathing themdressing them in good clothes and ornaments and feeding them and putting them to sleep the mothers were serving the Paramapurusha.
One day the elders of Gopa met and thought about the recent happenings in Brihadwana and decided what should be done .The oldest amomg them was Upananda .He sid :The comets which are pointing to dangers to our children are seen every day.The Poothana,Sakata,the whirlwind,the trees falling and in all this the child escaping shows Gods grace also.We will go to some other place which is more safe.There is a place called Vrindavana,which is a new forest,which will be good for Gopa,Gopi,and the cows,and it has all herbs and green leaves and grass and very good freshwater .Let us take all our possessions and in our carts and carriages,let us go with our wealth of cattle.Everyone was ahppy in the decision.Being a wandering tribe they left Gokula as a 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.
Brahma,who wanted to see Krishna’s leela more ,took away the cows and the children and hid them in a secret place.Seeing that the cows as well as the children on the banks of Yamuna are lost,Krishna searched in the forest for them. Then he knew with his inner eye,what had happened .He took the form of all the cows and the children so that the mothers,and Brahma get happiness from that form.Everything is vishnuswarropa,and as if to prove that vakya,he assumed all shapes,forms of cows and children and their dress, flutes,etc too..Leading all of them which are himself,by himself,he entered Vrindavan.All the children and cows went to their respective homes as before so that mothers did not know the loss of their cattle and children.All mothers could feed and put to sleep the Parabrahmapurusha as their own child and could serve and feed him as their own cattle.Krishna as mothercows,gave milk to calfs of the ghoshta ,licking and loving them and they enjoyed that great luck.Krishan was son of all th ewomenand mother and leader of all cows and children/calfs .That bhaava was already in them so that they didn’t notice any difference.Like this an year went by.Athmaswaroopa ,Bhagavan by Eka Athma itself played as aneka/many in that region for one year.
Balarama thought:These people and cows loved Krishna best before.Now Isee they love their children and cows better than Krishna.What happened?And he in his yogadrishty saw that it was Krishna himself who is enacting as the children and the cows.After one year,Brahma wanted to see what is happeneing,and he found that everything goes on as usual and no one has ever noticed the absence of cows or children.The one year was only a thruti for Brahma in time.He could see the hidden children and cows and the children and cows with Krishna and he could not identify which is true and which is illusion.Thus the magic he practiced on Hari,made him confused and subject to maaya.All the children were seen as Vishnu with 4 arms and the ornaments and weapons ,all cows also appeared like that.He saw innumerable Vishnuroopa which he could not understand and which made him reel in wonder.Seeing him thus,Bhagavan became compassionate and removed the covering of Maaya from his eyes.He worshipped Krishna and praised him.The real children did not know that one year has passed and they on return from forest told the parents that “Today Krishna killed a great Serpant Aghaasura”.
The two brothers had attained pubertal age.Playing the flute and grazing cattle with friends Krishna entered Vrinadavana one day.Seeing Vrindavan Krishna told Rama:
The trees with flowers,fruits,and tender leaves are worshipping your feet to remove the sins of past lives.The honeybees sing your praises.The sages worship the secret form of God here and are your people.The peacocks dancing and the deers with sideglances are the gopikas ever eager to make you pleased.The koils are singing welcome songs as you enter Vrindavan.Even the animals and birds know the dharma of athithipooja here.This bhoomi is great because it has the luck of having your feet touching it.The grass,the nikunja,the tender tendrils,rivers,mountains,birds and animals are satisfied with your coming.And by the touch of your chest which is desired even by Lakshmy,the Gopikas are happy and contented.
Sayingsuch pleasing words to his brother Krishna walked in Vrindavanwith his cows and friends.He moved with his fragrant garlands,and singing flutes ,imitating the meldies of the forest and its birds,and dancing with the peacocks,and call friends and cows by their loving names,and sometimes Rama will lie on Krishna’s lap and sleep ,sometimes Krishna will sleep on Rama’s lap,and children served Krishnaand plesed him by all means.They played and enjoyed life .When Krishna rests,the children fanned him with lotus leafs and pressed his feet and sing softly for him.Thus along with the village children,as one among them,and loving them and loved by them ,the great Avathara of Vishnu lead a common life as that of a wandering cowherd.Sreedaama,Subala,Sthokakrishna were dear friends to Rama and Krishna.They said once :-There is a great palmtree forest nearby.There are several fruits there.But because of an asura Dhenuka no one is able to taste them.He is in the shape of an ass.But is very strong.We desire to eat the fruits of that forest.The fragrance of the fruits have come to our nose and has made our toungue watering.We would like to get a few fruits from there to eat.
Thus ,hearing the desire of friends,and prompted by them Krishna an dBalarama went to the forest.Balarama with his strong hands shook the palm trees and several fruits fell down.Hearing the sound of falling fruits Dhenuka came.With his hindleg the ass kicked at Balarama’s chest.Raman took himby feet and rotated him above own head in sky and threw up .The dead body fell on a palm tree which fell on another and inthis way a series of trees with fruits fell by his body.The entire forest was like affected by a strong wind and storm.For Balarama,the Adisesha ,Anantha it was only child’s play.The entire cosmos is in him as a cloth with its woof and warp.
Seeing Dhenuka dead his friends and relatives came and quarreled with Rama and Krishna and a great battle followed.All of them went to abode of yama by the two brothers.fter that people could eat and be nourished by the fruits of the palm trees and cows could be grazed in that forest without fear.

Kaaliyamardhana.
By the presence of the poisonous serpent Kaaliya,the waters of Kalindi was poisoned and cows and birds and other animals,and humans who took water from the Kalindi river were perishing because of its poison.Even the fish could not survive in it.The first account of pollution of a river is given here by Vyasa.Kaaliya was an inhabitant of the Kaalindi from ancient times.And Krishna sent him away to Ramanaka island by his powers.The story is given as below.
The birds flying above the river fell into it and died due to environmental/air pollution from Kaliya’s poison.The winds from the river carried poisonous smokes .Krishna wanted to stop this environmental pollution.He jumped from the branch of a kadamba tree on the banks of the river into the water.He started to swim in it making sounds so that Kalaiya is enraged.As Krishna expected Kaliya came immeadiately to see who had been so bold to enter his territory .He bite Bhagavan in all his body parts so that he can kill him.Then he bound Krishna in his folds .Seeing this ,the gopa on the banks started to cry aloud.Many of them passed into a swoon.Even the cows and other animals cried aloud and showed their fear and grief at the plight of their beloved child.All stood around in the banks not taking their eyes from Bhagavanfor even a second.The left side of the Gopa children twitched and they saw comets falling from sky.A major earthquake happened .Seeing all this Gokula was afraid.Today Krishan had gone to graze cattle without Rama,They thought infear.Could something have happened to him,without Rama’s protective glance?They had dedicated praana and heart in Krishna.They did not know the greatness of Krishna ,who was protecting all the worlds.All the gopa and gopis started from Gokula and came to the shores of Yamuna in search of Krishna .Seeing this ,Rama just smiled to himself.He didn’t say a word.Because he knew the ways of Hari .
The Gopa looking for Krishna’s feetmarks with lotus,yava seed,ankusa,etc knew where he is and saw the sight of Kaliya binding Krishna and the swooned and crying friends and cows around.They too started to cry and many of them fell down in a state of coma.The Gopikas who were in love with Krishna,seeing their beloved in the grasp of a cruel serpent thought the three worlds are useless if something happens to him.They thought of his smile,his words,his flute and its melodies and the love he showed to all and meditated on him.Yasodha tried to jump into the river and end her life with her beloved son.But the other gopikas prevented her.All of them wailed and started to say his stories and looked at him with prayerful eyes and minds.They were almost dead with fear and grief.Even Nandagopa was about to jump into the river and endhis life but Balarama with presence of mind caught him in time and saved him.
Seeing the state of those who love him,Krishna within seconds became free from the grip of the serpent so that they are happy.Kaliya in pain opened his nose wide and breathed poison and becoming red as a stick of fire in anger,looking fixedly at Bhagavan ,hissing at him,approached him again.With fire of anger in eyes,with the split toungue licking his mouth,he approached .And Krishna like Garuda took him by tail and played with him.After sometime Kaliya was tired.Then Krishna jumped onto his hoods and started to dance on it.Deva,Gandharva,charana,apsara etc came and their music and musical instruments like panava,mridanka,aanaka etc accompanied the musical dance of Krishna.Flowers were thrown by Apsara and Sidha worshipped with fragrant things.All worshipped him with hymns.The 100 and odd heads of Kaliya were weakened and he started to vomit blood from each of them and became comatose.Whenever a hood arose in ego,Krishna put it down by his feet in dance,and he was the ancient Vishnu in vichithrathandava pose.Kaliya knew that this is the ancient Vishnu,the Guru of all charaachara.And remembered him and worshipped him.His wives came in fear ,with unbound hair and tears in eyes,and dedicated their self and ego and everything to Krishna and showing their children to him,asked for protection of their father .They said:-
Our husband had been doing bad karma for so long.Therefore what punishment you gave to him is only just and dharma.You have equality of mind in friends and enemies and you have punished this cruel serpent for the bad things he had done to several creatures by his poison.We know that you are doing this not for selfish motives but for the welfare of all creation.By this act you have actually blessed us.What punishment you give to the cruel is for their protection from bad actions .You allow them to stop their dushkarma.His sins have been destroyed by your punishment.This egocentric serpent had definitely done some punya in poorvajanma to get your touch.He has done some dharma in past ,to wear the dust of your feet,for which even Rama,your wife is doing tapas.The one who wears your feet and its dust is not desirous of heaven,empireship,position of birthless Brahma,or overlordship of Paathaala,or ashtasidhi and liberation.For what all those in this chakra of samsara do efforts ,that luck is now obtained for this cruel and thamasic serpent king through you.The Lord,as Krishnaroopa,who is paramathman,dweller in all bhootha,and sarvathman,We prostrate before you again and again.You are the seat of gnana and vignana.You are nirguna,nirvikara,ananthasaktha,without attachment,and the one who is the cause of functions of prakrithy.You are kaalaroopa,the basis for all sakthy or power,and witness of all parts of kaala,and you are th eviswaroopa,witness and seer of viswam,and its creator and cause.
You are th epanchabhootha,the sabdaadivishaya,the 10 indriyas of sensation and motor functions,mind,intellect,chitha,ahankara,10 praana .You are the thriguna and the pride in thriguna as well as the nirguna.Yur maaya covers your real nature.You are Eka with no divisions,you are the subtlest element.you are the center(kootastha)the allknowing,and the one who is enquired by many scinces and arguments ,and you are the vachya and vachaka.You are gnanaroopa,you are the pramana of all pramana,you are the origin of sasthra,and Lord of pravrithy and nivrithy.You are the nigamamurthy.You are Rama,Krishna,Son of Vasudeva,Pradyumna,Anirudha and the Lord of all devoted.You revealer of the gunathraya,the coverer of Athman with guna,the one known through gunavrithy,the selfrevealed,and the witness of guna ,Our namaskaram.You play with unmanifested plays.You are having manana and is silent .You know the goss and the subtle gathy of cosmos.You are viswa and beyond viswa.You are the cause ,the axis,the base,and witness of everything.Though desireless you do karma for the fulfillment of desires of the entire world.You appear to have the swabhava of the animate world by your behaviour and by wearing power of time,create guna and with them create prapancha and destroys them.Sahanthi,asanthi,moudhya of all animate world,and all living things are your bodies itself.For protection of dharma you take innumerable forms and names .Becaus eof that you have love for living things which have quiet (shantha)swabhava.But,you have a compassionate nature and forgives even the faults done by the servants like us due to our cruel nature had done unknowingly.This is your creation,your subject and like a foolish son who did not know the greatness of his father he had insulted you.But give him pardon for once,and be compassionate as a king to his subjects,as a father to his son.He is tired and weak now.He will not survive if you punish him more.We are all your devotees and servants.If you are pleased in us,the wives of this serpent,let him live for our sake and for the sake of our children.Whatever you order we will do that for this favour.Doing your orders with sradha we will get liberation from samsara.

Hearing these wise words of the Naagini wives of Kaliya Krishna left Kaliya and allowed him to live.Kaliya said:-By my nature ,as serpent I did all karma.We are by birth cruel,thamas is our guna,and are angry .Because of that natural swabhava I too did bad things.My nature also was created by you,my Father.We are unable to conquer your Maaya by our thamasic nature.You are sarvagna,sarvesa and Vishnu himself.The cause of everything.I am worshipping you and succumbing to your will.You can bless me or kill me.I accept both from your hands.
Krishna said:This river water is needed for drinking ,and bathing purposes of animals and men and for fishes and birds too.You leave this and go to Ramanaka island .And do not injure anyone who remembers this story .Whoever come to this playhouse of mine with upavaasa and does worship with water of this river their ancestors and devas ,remembering me ,that person will be liberated from all sins and from samsara.
You came here from Ramanakadweepa fearing my Garuda .He will not injure you hereafter,since the mudra of my feet is on your head .
Thus happy to get back his life and blessings from Krishna.Kaaliya with his wives worshipped him with new flowery garlands ,precious jewels and ornaments special for the naagaloka,and with fragrant incense,and blue lotuses .They went to Ramanaka island.Kalindi became purified and her water became punyatheertha.
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 mother’s 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 compassionate people give everything to others for jeevana(life).The earth had become tired by the heat of summer and when her Husband ,the raingod ,sent water as irrigation(sechana means irrigation) and she became fat,like a thin person becomes when the desired food is given.In Kali ,by sins the paaashanda shines,and veda does not shine.In twilight the light insect is shining but not the stars or planets.The silent frogs ,hearing thunder started to make their own voices in unison.It was like the students who were silent while the Guru asked them to recite manthra starts singing them aloud simultaneously .The rivers crossed their banks and filled with water flowed swiftly.The wealth of people who are not free as well as their body become thin and fat according to the master’s giving or not giving of food .
In some places green with grass,elsewhere red with worms,and some places white with fungus earth became colourful like the army of an emperor.The fields gave happiness to farmers who live by agricultural activities.Thepeople living near the waterways ,like Harisevanam became rich and fertile.The ocean looked like a yogins mind which was moved by kaama .The hills with streams and springs like Bhaktha of Hari remained motionless and fixed in Samadhi .The paths were overgrown with grasses and people could not recognize them Doubts arose whether this is the original path or not?It was like the sruthy which were not remembered and chanted by Brahmins for a long period becoming doubtful and not remembered due to disuse.The lightenings were not always seen in the clouds ,their relatives.Like women who do not really love their men they left one cloud and went to anther.The Indrachapa which is Nirguna was seen in sky.Like the Purusha in the prakrithy with guna.When clouds came peacocks spread their feathers and danced.It was like the separated lovers of Hari ,dancing when they see him again.The trees which were dried by smmer and lost water in roots ,drank water throughthem and became greenagain.Like human beings after austerities ,eat again and get back their luster.The birds of prey near the lakes assembled for their cruel sports and getting what they liked ,like villagers in their homes .In the rains ,all the dams and boundaries were broken like the veda paths in kalikala by the arguments of the Nasthika.The clouds moved by winds brought water for all like kings influenced by their Brahmin priests give everything to the subjects.Earth became wealthy by mature njaval,and eenthal fruits .The cows with heavy udders gave milk in plenty.Strems appeared in hills,their sounds were heard and nearby caves were occupied.Krishna lived in caves and in openings within treetrunks during the rainy season.He ate fruits,nuts and roots .The curds and lunchwith his friends were shared .The children sat near the riverside on stone benches and ate happily .The cows ate grass and with filled stomachs lie on the grass and chewed the cud.Krishan respected and enjoyed the love shown by his VarshaLkashmi .
Then came the sarath rithu.The water which was cloudy with dirt ,became clear and clean.The fragrant breeze came.The lotuses bloomed in plenty in lakes.The water became clean as before.It was like the Yogins who had Yogabrasht ,become pureminded after severe yoga practice again.The clouds of sky,the colours of elements,the dirts of earth and the cloudiness of water was taken away by sarath rithu like the nearness of Hari takes away all sins from the hearts of human beings.Like the sages who discard the three eshana,and destroy all sins,the clouds discarded their associated characters and became clean and bright.From hills clean water came out.In other places no water came.It was like the gnana of wise flowing out by its own to some and not to others.The fishes and other creatures living in water does not know the decrease in water level in which they 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” “Mine”feeling 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 Krishna’s 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 Krishna’s flute on that occasion.They became envious of the flute which always touches the lips of Krishna.It enjoys freely the rasa of Krishna’s praana and lips.Even the trees and lakes in vrindavana were envious of the flute .So what to say about the women of Vrindavan?
Vrindvavan became famous just by that flute and its player.Just by the dust of his feet it became the greatest sacred place of worship for all.Hearing the music flowing out of the flute,the peacocks dances in perfect bliss and all living things including plants and trees listened in perfect silence and meditation.The deers with their pairs came and looked longingly at Krishna with their long eyes and stood in bliss hearing music ,just like the cows around.The heavenly ladies (Apsara)saw the perfect blending of beauty,good qualities and perfect music the three guna which are loved most by all women(whether of earth or heaven)lost their control and their flowers fell and their dress and ornament worn in wrong places (due to lack of concentration in such external things) looked at Krishna in extreme concentration.Cows had raised earlobes,and they forgot to chew cuds and their milk overflew as if they had seen their calf and fixed their mind and gaze in Krishna alone.From those eyes tears of love and bliss flowed in ecstacy.The birds of the forest as sages,observing vow of silence and not closing their eyes ,movementless,sat on branches in ekagra Samadhi listening to the music of Krishna.River Yamuna showing her erotic love by her whirlpool and as if covering that emotion with waves,came near Krishna and touched his feet in ecstacy and devotion.Seeing that there is a hot sun above ,the dark clouds came and made an umbrella for Krishna to get shade .The forest tribe ladies seeing the kumkum of Krishna’s feet on the grass which he walked on,took it and wore it on their foreheads and breasts and became his lovers.The Govardana mountain was the best sevaka of Rama and Krishna and is happy everyday by wearing the dust of the swamins on his forehead .He welcomes the swamins and their friends and cattle with roots,fruits,and caves for rest.Krishna and rama wears different types of paasa (coirs)on their persons to bind the legs of revolting ones,to get back the lost cows,etc .The persons who hear the unmanifest soft footsteps and flute of them ,become fixed and ecstatic in devotion.By singing his glories and seeing his beauty and hearing his music the gopikas of Vrindavan became fixed in bhakthy in paramathma and their love for Krishna was unshakable.

Karthyayanivratha:-
In the first month of Hemantha rithu ,the women of Vrindavan took the vratha of Devi Karthyayani to get Krishna as their husband.They took bath in Klaindi in the early hours of the morning and made a clay image of Devi from the sand on the riverbank.With chandan,garlands,dhoopa,deepa,and other gifts they worshipped devi .
They sang:
Katyayani Mahaamaye
Mahayoginyadheeswari
Nandagopasutham Devi
Pathim me kuruthe Nama:
With this manthra they worshipped Gouri.For one month imagining Krishna as their husband ,they worshipped Devi ,with whose blessings alone one can reach Krishna.They got up early and singing glories of Krishna went to bathing ghat .They removed their clothes and took a dip in the river.In the river they did dance and sing about Krishna himself .Yogesa Krishna knowing their secret vow,came there with his friends to give them blessings.He took away the dress which were kept on the banks of the river and hid them on a treetop.When they finished bathing the women saw their dress missing.Krishna smiled at them and said those who want the dress back can come and collect it from me.You can come alone or in groups and identify your clothes and take them.
The women though they loved him were shy .They smiled at each other but did not come out of water.
They pleaded with him.The water is cold and we feel shivering.Please do not play tricks like this to us ,who love you as our own praana.If you don’t give dress ,we will complain to your father.Tell us whatever you want.We are your servants.We will obeythat.But do not keep our dresses and play with us like this.
Krishna said:-If you love me and are my servants and will obeymy words ,then why don’t you come and get the dress?
The women shivering with the cold ,but shy ,covered their parts with their hands and came out reluctantly .
Then Krishna said:-You were following a vratha which is pure.But you had broken it by entering the river as naked.For the destruction of that sin which is equal to insult of the devas ,you have to keep your hands on head and bow and then only I will give you the dress.
Knowing that bathing without dress is vrathabhanga and since they did not want to commmint vrathabhanga ,the women did as they were told and Krishna gave them back the dress.
He had cheated them,laughed at them,made them shy by his insulting words and looks,and had made them like toys in his mercy ,and took away their dress and still the women could not hate him or find fault with him ,because their love was too deep .They wore their dress and with loving eyes looked at him longingly.Krishna knew their wish and he said:I know that you want my touch on you.I am happy with your devotion and love in me.Therefore your wish has to be made true.The people who have fixed mind in me will get out of external kaama /erotic love etc.Once matured and burned by the fire of my love,the sprout of kaama will never appear again.Therefore go back to your homes now.I will make your wish come true in the coming nights for which you had done the karathyayanivratha.
The women meditating on his feet went back.
During greeshma rithu Bhagavan went to the forests and seeing the trees which though suffering the heat rays of the sun,gives shadow to all told his friends:
Look Amsu,Thejaswin,Vishalaksha,Devaprastha,Sthokakrishan,Subalarjuna,Varoothava, see these trees.They live for others only.They suffer heat,cold,ice,rain etc and protects others from them.Just like a good person,the tree never sends a person in need without giving what they need.Leaf,flowers,fruits,seeds,tender leafs,branches,main trunk,pith,milk,smell,cinders,everything is given to others by trees.The people should learn from them how to give prana,intellect,mind,words,deeds and thoughts and wealth and everything for the needy .That alone gives meaning to ones life.
Saying such good and thought provoking words Krishna walked through the forest and reached the banks of river Yamuna.Cows were allowed to drink the pure water.the children and Krishna also drank water of yamuna.They sat on its banks and cows grazed around in the green grass.The hungry friends approached Rama and Krishna and told them to give something to eat.
Krishna said:-Nearby a few Brahmins are doing the yagna called Angirasa.They are doing to get swarloka.You can go to them and ask for food.Tell that I and my brother have sent you there.
The children went and asked for food as told by Krishna.The Brahmins who thought themselves to be great scholars did not pay heed to them.Krishana is timespace,manthra and thanthra and everything that is made of panchabhootha,and is dharma and adwara and vedaswaroopa .But the ignorant Brahmins who thought that they are great scholars could not realize this.They did not say “Om”as positive response.They did not say “Nasthi”as negative response either.They just ignored the children.They came back in a depressed mood and told Krishna what had happened.
Krishna smiled and asked them to go to the wives of the Brahmins and say what they told the Brahmins and see the response.
They went to the Brahmanapathni and said:-Mothers,We came with the message from Krishna.Rama and Krishna had come here grazing their cows.We are all hungry.Can we have some food?”
Hearing that Krishna is nearby the womenwanted to see him immeadiately.They took food in the best pots available and even when the husbands,friends and sons prevented them from going,went along to meet Krishna.They looked like rivers flowing quickly toreach the ocean.They saw Krishna and Rama in the banks of Yamuna wearing tender asoka flowers .The colour of dark cloud and the dress of golden yellow accentuating each others beauty ,and with flower garlands and peacock feathers and flute in hand ,one hand in the shoulder of a friend ,and another with a red lotus ,and a captivating smile on face they saw Krishna.The hairs on his forehead moved in soft breeze .The women who had been worshipping him for several years saw him in ecstacy .
Krishna saw their Ahaithukeebhakthy in hm and blessed them.And asked them to go back to their husbands to complete their yagna which is only partially fulfilled.
The women said:-We have discarded all our relations to the samsara including husbands and sons just for attaining you.We came just to wear the thulasi which is touching your feet.We have lost interest in samsara and our husbands and relatives knowing this will not receive us back.We have only your feet as our solace.Let us be your dasi forever.
Krishna said:-For coming to me no one including your husbands,parents,childrenand relatives will discard.Not even the devas will discard you because you have to me .Being fixed in me you will reach me soon.Till that time live in your own homes fulfilling your duties.
Thus the women were sent back and the Brahmins did not show any displeasure in them and their yagna was completed .The women who had by sruthi fixed her heart in Krishna,even if obstructed by their husbands ,embraced Krishna with mind and intellect and reached him .The food which they gave quenched the hunger of Krishna’s friends.By deeds,words and thoughts Krishna made everyone happy in his great avathar.The Brahmins who could not understand Krishna as God himself were sorryfor their deeds and understood the greatness of their wives and its value over their egocentric scholarship.The birth with the three guna,vidya,vratha,knowledge of different sciences and arts ,awards,kriya and yagna are all in vain if there is no dedication to God and selfknowledge .And that lesson was taught to them through their wives by Krishna.
The Brahmins who were to give advice and serve as models became prey to ego of scholarship.The women who were not given proper upanayana,and thought to have all the loukika vasana ,could get ekanthikabhakthy in God by their love alone.It is the dedicated love which is important .That alone will remove selfishness and ego and makes one deserving of ecstacy and bliss and liberation.No amount of scholarship can replace the quality of unselfish nishkama love in God .
God nothing to be gained from anything.The poornakaama Brahman itself approached Brahmins who were doing yagna for swarga attainment ,as a beggar to get some food ,so that they get what they were asking for.But they could not recognize the God in the attire of a beggar.Even a dog can distinguish its master ,in his fancy dress.Whatever form the master takes the dog identifies him.But the scholars did not have even the intellect of a dog,and they recognized that from their wives.They were happy for getting such intelligent and good ,devoted wives and they were happier together than before.Through the wives ,the men knew real devotion and love and Iswarapranidhana.They mentally thanked Krishna and Rama and were afraid of going to them directly because of their guilty consciousness.

The Indrayagna
Once ,according to the custom ,Gokula prepared for doing the Indrayagna.Krishna asked Nanda what are the preparations for. He asked,are these karma done with thought about its meanings or is it justan imitation of what was done by elders .He wanted a logical answer from his elders.
Nandan said:-Indra is the Lord of rains.His friends are the clouds.The lifepower for living things is obtained from water and that is given by clouds.The cloud are lead by Indra.Therefore we worship him for good rains.People depend upon dharma,artha,and kaama on the rains .Therefore Indra is the lord who gives economic prosperity,sustainanace of different races of life and their dharma .This is our traditional dharma.If we do not do this due to our desires,anger,fear or greed ,we will not get rains and that will cause unhappiness to all .
Krishna said:-The living things are created by their own karma.And they are destroyed by their own karma.Happiness,sorrows,pain and fear are all due to karma.If Indra is the person who gives effects to the karma of all living things ,he cannot give effects to people who do not do any karma.We are getting the effects of our own karma due to our previous janma and karma.Indra cannot alter the poorvakarma of us.He is givingrains to those who do yagna as wellas to those who do not do yagna.We find all sorts of life on earth and their karma and they live in co-operation by their karma cycles.The prapancha is in prakrithy.The friend,foe,scholar,ignorant,Guru and Shishya are all due to poorvakarma.The one who does own dharma,depending on ones nature or poorvavasana ,and creates the varnadharma by such actions,should worship dharma .Because dharma alone is the God for us.When Dharma is the God,what is the use of worshipping Indra as another?It is like a woman who has one husband goes to another.Such people do not get real happiness.
The protection of veda is dharma for Brahmana.rotection of land is dharma of Kshathriya.Protection of krishi,goraksha and vanijya are the dharma of vaisya.And the service sector for all these is the shudradharma.We are people doing goraksha .
The reason for birth,growth and death is sathwa,rajas and thamas.By rajas ,men and women unite and this living world is created.The clouds give rain due to the rajoguna itself.Not by Indra.And by that water we do all our life processes.
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 Krishna’s 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 child’s 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 Vasudeva’s 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 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 Nanda’s 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 Varuna’s 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 lover’s 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.
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
And your handsome form
Which is attracting the three loka
Makes all people attracted to you
And dharmabramsa from samsara happens to all.
Which woman is there in thriloka who is not loving you
And had not forsaken samsara for your sake?
Adipurusha ,has destroyed all sorrows of deva
And took incarnation in Vraja to destroy our sorrows
Therefore touch us and give us the happiness
Of your love as our husband.
Hearing them Krishna smiled and though he is Athmarama,being compassionate in these women who loved him,made them happy as they desired.He looked like a full moon with stars around with the gopikas .His vaijayanthi garland moved as he danced with them to the rhythm of his flutes melodies and he became the jewel of Vrindavana forest.In the banks of yamuna with a cool breeze bringing smell of white lilies,they played with him and touched him and embraced him to their chests and made nailmarks onhis body .He responded playfully and made each of them happy inhis playful mood of yogamaya.
They developed a rare ego in their beauty and luck and the moment such an ego developed in them Krishna hid himself from their view.

Gopivilaapa:
When Krishna disappeared the gopikas,like a leaderless elephant herd wandered around searching for him.They sang and danced imitating his leela and each of them looked like a Krishna due to their thanmayeebhava with him.They thought “I am Krishna,I am Krishna” like the yogins feel Aham Brahmasmi.And they did not feel shy to say so to others.They were immersed in Brahman perfectly and enjoyed it .They searched and found the omnipresent paramapurusha within and then started to ask the external objects,whether they had seen him .
Famous Aswatha,Plaksha,Nyagrodha,
Did you see our Kannan?
Taking away our hearts with his smiles
Did he go through this way?
Naga,Chempaka,Kuravaka,Punnaga,Asoka,
Did any one of you see him?
Did that brother of Balabhadra
With his naught sideglances pass this way?
Thulasi,The auspicious devi,
The one with the name of Govinda
Who takes you away daily with the bees around
Pass this way?
Mallika,Pichaka,Yuthika,
Tell us the truth
That Madhava who is expert in Narma
Touch you while he passed this way?
Amra,Priyala,kovidara,jambu,Bilwa,
Panasa,arkka and the kadampa,and neepa,
Bakula ,You were born in the banks of this famous Kalindi
For helping others
Tell us the path of Krishna .
Dharaidevi,You did thapas before
You shine with the feetmarks of
Son of Nanda.
How did this green hairs of thy body
Become so awakened?
Is it by feet of Krishna or of Vaamana
Or is it because of embrace of Varaha ?
Devi,where is Krishna now?
On which part of your body?
Deer,Did Krishna with his dearest consort
Came through this way?
Did you get the bliss of their sight?
The fragrance of Govinda’s body
Mingled with that of angaraga of his consort
Spreads here.
Trees,did Govinda,with the bees around Thulasi
On his breast,and a play lotus in his hands
The other hand on her shoulders
Happily came here
And with loving eyes directly
Gave you pranaama?
See these vines climbing
Over their tree husband’s stems
They were touched by his nails
That is why they are in blissful state.
Tell us his path”

Like mad women they talked to every object in the forest asking for his path .Their mind was fixed in him alone.They then started the dancedrama of Krishnaleela.One woman took the role of Poothana and another that of Krishna .Another took role of sakatasura,and another with wearing anklets and making sounds walked on four feet as the infant Krishna.Two gopikas played the dance of Rama and Krishna.Others as the Gopa.Valsa,Baka,etc were killed by them in playacting.Then one played flute as if she is Krshna .Another one removed her dress and keeping it as an umbrella enacted govardhana episode.Another one danced Kaliyamardhana and her friend acted as Kaliya .Yet another swallowed forestfires in drama.One played yasoda and bound her Krishna on to mortar.That one who played Krishna enacted fear and walked along and to show the moksha of the trees.Thus playing and searching for his footprints they walked in forest.They saw a footmark and identified it as His by the marks of lotus,dhwja,vajra and ankusa and along with that they saw the footprint of his lover.Seeing that they were unhappy.Look at her footprints with him.He had been walking with her ,with his hands on her shoulders?Who is this lucky woman?He had discarded all of us and went with her alone to a lonelysecret place .That means she had been devoted to Vishnu who gives all the wishes in all her janmas.
The footprints of Krishna are precious.To wear the dust of these ,Brahma,Shiva and Sreedevi had been doing penance.Which of the lucky lady ,had the fortune of enjoying his lips alone,which is the sarvaswa of all Gopikas,has imprinted her footprints along with his.And by seeing that itself we are becoming envious.Then how can we wear this?
See,here her footprint is not seen.Her feet might have touched a sharp grass.And he might have carried her in his strong arms to prevent her from suffering pain.That is why here his footprints are seen more deep.Because of his weightbearing.Here he has put her down.He has plucked flowers for her ,by standing on his toes alone and made a garland for her.He had decorated her hair wih that garland and all the signs of that are seen here.

Krishna was Athmaaraama.Poorna and Nitya and blissful in Athmananda.To make the Gopis understand the sorrows of desires,and the bad effects of envy and false pride in their beauty and luck,and to redeem them from that bad effects of physical love,Krishna played with them like this.He went with Rema(Lakshmy)to make them envious.It is interesting that Vyasa does not use the name Radha here.He uses the name of Lakshmi devi herself.
Then Vyasa says.The woman who was loved and accepted by Krishna as his dearest also became proud because of her rare luck and of her beauty .In this ,Vyasa points out the identity of the woman as that of a Gopika ,and not Lakshmy,or a incarnation of Lakshmi.She said “Krishna,I cannot walk anymore.If you wants me,take me on your shoulders wherever you wants”.Krishna said:-Come and climb on to my shoulder.
When she looked at him,she could not see him.He had disappered from her view.She was left alone in the forest.
She cried aloud calling him with a thousand and one loving and lovely names and prayng for his presence.She was seen in this unmatha state by the other gopikas who came there in search of them.She told them how madhava respected and loved her and pleased her with services done by his own loving hands and how she had lost all with her pride.The gopikas did not notice that it was becoming dark,the night has come,and moonlight disappered and darkness prevailed everywhere .When they could not see anything they could not search for him further.They wandered slowly,speaking and singing about his leela and his glories,and without once remembering their homes or samsara life.They entered the banks of yamuna and meditating on the form of Krishna ,and praying that they should reach Krishna ,sang Krishnageetham together in deep love and devotion.

Gopikaageetham
1 Gopya : oocha:
Jayathy thedhikam janmanaa vraja
Srayatha Indiraa saswatha thrahi
Dayitha! Drishyathamm dikshu thavaka:
Thwayi dhrithaasavasthwaam vichinuathe.
2.Saradudaasaye saadhujaathasal
Sarasijodarasreemushaadrisaa
Surathanaatha!the sulkadaasikaa
Varada!nignatho neha kim vadha:
3Vishajalaapyayaadwaalarakshasaa –
Dwarshamaaruthaadyaidyuthaanalaan
Vrishayothmajaadwiswatho bhayaa-
drishabha: the vayam rakshitha muhu:
4.Na khalu gopikaanandano bhavaan
Akhiladehinaamantharaathmadrik
Vikhanasaarthitho viswagupthaye
Sakha: udeyivaan saathwathaam kule
5.Virachithaabhayam vrishnidhoorya!the
Charanameeyashaam samsritherbhayaath
Karasaroruham kaanthikaamadham
Sirasi dehi na : sreekaragraham.
6.Vrajajanaarhihan veera!yoshithaam
Nijjanasmayadwamsanasmitha!
Bhaja sakhe!bhavalkimkareesmano-
Jalaruhaananam chaarudarsaya.
7.Pranathadehinaam paapakarsanam
Thrinacharaanugam sreenikethanam
Phaniphanarpitham the padaambujam
Krinu kucheshu na:krindhi hrischayam
8.Madhurayaa giraa valguvaakyayaa
Budhamanognayaa pushkarekshana!
Vidhikareeramaa veera!muhyathi-
Radhaasidhunaapyaayayaswana:
9.Thava kathaamritham thapthajeevanam
Kavibhireeditham kanmashaapaham
Sravanamangalam sreemadaadatham
Bhuvi grinanthi the bhooridaa jana:
10Prahasitham priya!premaveekshanam
Viharanam chithe dhyanamangalam
Rahasi samvido yaa hridisprisa:
Kuhaka!no mana:kshobhayanthi hi
11 Chalasi yadvrajaachhaarayan pasoon
Nalinasundaram naatha!th padam
Sithathrinamkurai : seedatheethi na:
Kalilatham mana:kaantha!gachathi
12.Dinapareekshaye neelaknnthalai :
Vanaruhaananam bibradaavritham
Ghanarajaswalam darsayan muhu-
-Rmanasi na smaram veera!yachasi.
13.Pranathakaamadamm padmajaarchitham
Dharanimandalam dhyeyamaapadi
Charanapankajam santhamm cha the
Ramananasthaneshuarpayaadhihan
14.Surathavardhanam sokanaasanam
Swarithavenunaa sushtuchumbitham
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.
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 don’t 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 krishna’s hands in the Gopika’s 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 one’s face simultaneously by his many forms.He enjoyed the Haribhajans and keerthana they sang for him.With broken garlands and spread with the kumkuma from their breasts,like a great Gandharva ,and followed by honeybees ,and like an elephant with his many females ,Krishna entered Yamuna for his jalakreeda.Both in water and land he played like this for several hours.Several nights passed in this great raasaleela.And Vyasa says the poets who are knowers of Rasa(rasagna)made stories about this according to their tastes.Whatever story with whatever rasa they sang and told became great kavya and music and being in love with these kavya and music and through them in Krishna ,who is satyasankalpa, lasted like those eternal moments of bliss of Bhagavan with his devotees ,the gopikas.
When Suka was telling this story King Pareekshith had a doubt ,which is still raised by several people who have not read the Bhagavatha fully and who have just heard the stories of it from retold sources.The king asked:
Rishi,Krishna was born for protection of dharma and for destruction of adharma.Then how could he do such adharmic actions of union with other’s wives? How could hari who is Apthakaama do such heinous acts which are due to kaama?
Suka replied:-Iswara is of inimitable thejas and power.Agni digests both good and bad things within a second and converts them to mere ashes.Iswara is like that great energy in agni.Whatever touches him,immeadiately become purified and mere ashes.And agni/energy does not become impure by touching or burning an impure thing like a dead body.That is possible only for Iswara.A human being,who is not God,should not do such adharma,even by his mind.Shiva can eat poison and remain alive.If a man eats it imitating Shiva,he will perish immeadiately.The words of Iswara are always truth.The karma of iswara are truth only in certain contexts .The intelligent has to analyse these acts and deduct what is truth and what is not.For those who have no selfish motives or ego,their karma is for others and not for oneself.Therefore for a person like Krishna ,who is Iswara,no blemish happens.How can God who controls,generates,destroys everything be touched by dualities like punya and papa?Just by dust of his feet even the greatest yogins become purified and free of karmabandha.Therefore how can he have bandha with body?He is the witness of indriya as wel as intellect of all.He is internal to all beings,including the gopikas and their husbands.His form as avathara was for blessing the world and his devotees and the good people.The gopikas were near their husbands and their minds were fixed in Krishna,the paramathma and that is the reason why the husbands had no dislike or envy to Krishna.King,have devotion in love and Krishna like the Gopikas.The dedication in him with premabhakthy,destroys the Hridroga (heart disease)called Kaama ,quickly and completely.

Once on a shivarathri day,the gopas of Nandagrama went with their bullock carts to Ambikaavana in Mathura.Bathing in the sacred Saraswathy river,they worshipped Ambika and her consort Shiva.They gave cows,honey,gold ,and sweet foods ,and clothes to Brahmins as dakshina.Nanda and sunanda and his retinue took upavasa ,drinking water alone and remained in the banks of Saraswathy.Nanda slept for some time .And a great serpent in the forest came and swallowed him.Nanda cried aloud calling “Krishna! Krishna!”.The gopas struck the serpent with burning sticks .Then Krishna came and just touched the serpent with his soft feet.Immeadiately ,the serpent ,purified of all sins,left its serpent form and became a vidhyadhara .Krishna asked ,who are you handsome man?
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 Krishna’s 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 Gopikas”Don’t 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.