Bhagavatha part 6

Poojakramaniroopana:-
Udhava asked “:-Bhagavan,Tell me the order and methods of doing pooja to you.Narada,Vyasa,Acharya Sura who is son of Angirashave described it.Parameshty gave it to his son Brighu etc.Parameswara advised it to Parvathy.I know that it is best and greatest for all varna,all ashrama,for both man and woman.I would like to hear it from your own words.
Krishna said:- There are endless methods for my pooja and I will hear tell them in a concised summarized manner.Listen carefully.There are three main methods .1Vaidika 2Thanthrika 3.Mishra of the above two.
The sadhka can choose whichever is more suitable according to his guna and interest.If done with bhakthy and sradha and with swadharma and without desires in fruits of such karma,totally dedicated in me I will be pleased.One can meditate upon me either using an idol,or without idol,in the floor or earth,in fire,in ones own heart,in Brahmanas,or in Sun according to ones preference.Dedicating everything in me ,who is the swaguru of all ,one can follow any of these.
First clean the teeth ,mouth and body by regular baths.That os dehasudhi
For sudhi or purity of mind learn veda,manthra or thanthra.Do sandhyavandhana regularly with pure samkalpa .All words,deeds and thoughts should be made pure .
There are 8 types of idols.
1.of stone.2.of lepana /like chandan etc
3.of wood
4.of metals
5.of sand
6.drawn and painted
7.of precious jewels
8.made of mind (manasamkalpa ).

Idol is the temple for God .It can be either immobile remaining in one place or mobile ,which moves from place to place.
In sthiraprathishta one need not do udhwahana or aavaahana etc.In slagrama which is a moving stone idol one has to imagine me and see me.All needs bathing or abhisheka,except the lepana and the sand etc .Those need only cleaning by a cloth or cotton etc.
According to the seasonal availability of materials and according to the sasthra injunctions one can do my pooja on any of these .The pooja should not be artificial.If no such material is available ,just do archana by sankalpa in mind only and I am satisfied by that if done with dedication.
In idol one has to do decoration.In Sthandila only Thathwasthapana is needed.In fire one can give ghee and havis.In Sun,one can give water as arghya .In water ,by water and flowers one can do pooja.Even if it is a drop of water I am satisfied if given with pure heart and dedication.So what is to be said about the other paraphernalia like chandana,dhoopa,deepa,pushpa and naivedya etc?But ,understand,if all these are given withoutdedication I am not pleased .
Hence first attain purity and dedication and then collect your poojadravya .
Sit on darba grass ,facing the idol ,or to the east,or to the north,and sitting straight do pooja.Do anganyasa and then wash the idol first with your hand and clean the waterpot for abhisheka ,poornakalasa etc.With that collected water in the kalasa sprinkle and clean the spot of pooja,own body and the idol and the other poojadravya collected.In three pots water for padya,arghya and achamaneeya vidhi is collected.That pot is then purified with doorva grass,chandan,vishnukranthi,lavangha,jaathi,pushpa and rice .And purify them with hridayamanthra,siromanthra,sikhamanthra and Gayathri .Then do dhyana of my jeevakala which is subtle and resides in the purified body with winds and fire ,and water,within the lotus of the chitha ,and meditated by sidha in the end of Naadaantha(end of Naada or silence).That jeevakala becoming Athmna ,do meditation and pooja on it daily with dedication.Then becoming one with it,you have to do avahana of it to the idol and then fix it there and do archana with manthra.Do samkalpa of a seat for me with the nine sakthy like dharma etc ,and in it a eight-pointed padma .Then with veda and thanthra do padya,arghya and achamana for me.All these actions are dedicated for me only .In the eight directions in order imagining sudarsana wheel,panchajanya conch,koumodaki mace,nandakam sword,sarngha bow ,arrows,hala or plough,and musala or axe ,do archana to 8 dik or diretions.The archana starts from east onwards in order.Similarly do archana of the 8 parshada –Nanda,sunanda,Prachanda,chanda,Mahabala,Bala,Kumuda,Kumudekshana in the 8 directions and do archana for them.Then do samkalpa of Garuda in front, Durga,Vinayaka,Vyasa,and Vishwaksena on four sides and Guru on left side,and dikpaala in their respected places .In this way consider ones Athman as Vishnu and do archana .Do prokshana etc in each place denoted for each of these.And thus make every direction facing Vishnu with dedication.
For abhisheka chandana,agaru,ramacha,karpoora ,and fragrant waters are used.And do abhisheka with manthra and with bliss and satisfaction . One who is rich can give gold and other precious articles too.Anuvakamanthra,thrayeevidya ,mahapurushamanthra ,Purushasooktha and Raajanasaama and other auspicious saamamanthra are loved by me.With love my devotee decorates my idol with dress,upaveetha,jewels,thulasi garlands ,chandana and fragrant flowers daily.They give me with sradha ,padya,achamaneeya,chandanam,flowers,akshatha,nivedya,dhoopa and deepa .Rich people gives me payasa with sugar,ghee and milk and sweet modaka ,boiled rice in curds etc.The rites of oilbath,washing with powdered vaaka bark,showing a mirror,purifying face,abhisheka with panchamritha,do bhajana,and give different good foods and wealth etc ,please me with dance and music either daily or on special occasions depending upon ones stature and ability etc are done by my bhaktha and I rejoice in all these.
If not daily at least on days of new moon and full moon,making mekhala,gartha and vedi make a homakunda and kindle fire in it .With spread darbha grass ,sprinkling water ,and dedicating homadravya in the middle of that fire ,they do meditation on me in that fire .They do meditation on me as chathurbhuja wearing chakra,conch,padma and mace and having the splendour of melted gold ,wearing golden yellow silk garments resembling the kesara of a lotus flower,with santha countenance and smiling face ,with crown,decorations with jewels in neck,arms,waist,hands,ankles,wearing kousthubha and sreevalsa and a flower garland.With that meditation they do homa in fire and pour ghee in it ,offer Ajya and havis to me .They praise me with Purushasooktha having 16 Rks and with the other moolamanthra ,for the sake of dharma and justice .Then prostrating before the agni ,offering Bali to all parshada ,meditating on the Swaroopa of Narayana as Brahman ,do japa on moolamanthra several times.Then give achamaneeya and give its remaining(Uchishta)to Vishwaksena.Then offer gandha and thamboola etc.Sitting near by do keerthana singing and praise and in delight do dancing and enact my stories .Hear my stories with pleasure .One can sing the regional desi songs as well as the traditional ones in Sanskrit manthra.I do love such dedicated keerthana singing.The devotees singing and asking for my prasaada(blessing)dedicating themselves at my feet are protected from all sorrows and from the ocean of samsara .
Like fire in fire they do udhwasana of the Iswarajyothi in their own Hridjyothi .Whichever idol is being used for this process is immaterial to me .The purity,dedication and nishta and sradha are important and I do give my prasada (blessing )to all such bhaktha.I am sarvathman,and reside in all elements in all times and in all beings and therefore in whichever form the devotee meditate me ,he is meditating the Athman only ,me only.By veda ,thanthra or a mixture of both of these do kriyayoga as said here .Such a person has no sorrows in this world or in the next world.He gets all sidhi even without asking for it.
Those with wealth construct temples and place my idol there so that all can get the benefit of pooja of me .They make beautiful gardens around for daily collection of all materials needed for the temple’s maintainance daily .For pooja,for journeys and for festivals etc they appoint the rightful persons after determining the qualification of each for the said functions.The daily pooja and maintainance of such temples need many articles including grains and fruits and vegetables and other articles.For this purpose they dedicate fields,market places,trade centers ,villages and urban centers around temple for the temple use .By this they are feeding many people and giving ways of life (jobs)too to many and they help the country and the people to grow in all ways by dedicating themselves to me.By such daana one gets position equal to me as Isathwa and by construction of temple one gets thriloka and by idol prathishta one gets sarvabhoumathwa .By doing aradhana one gets the Brahmaloka .The person who does all these simultaneously (daana of fields etc for temple,and idol prathishta with temple construction) become equal to me and his fame is ensured till the existence of that temple .
By unconditional love or bhakthiyoga one merges with me only and therefore it is the best for all.
If one takes away the fields /bhoomi whether given by himselfor by someone else to another (whether to temple or not)and obstructs the ways of functions or jobs of another (who live on temple jobs etc) such a person is eating dirt and living in the worlds of the dead forever and never reaches me.My bhaktha never takes away the wealth of another or destroys the livelihood or dharma of others.Because they have no other.Only me exists.
Whoever does harm as described above,as well as the people who gets pleasure by seeing others difficulties ,the one who helps in such bad things and the one who causes such bad acts are all participants in the crime and each has its own shares in that sinful act .Either in this janma or in the next they have to suffer the reactions to their sinful actions.

Gnanayoganiroopana

Sreebhagavan said:- Do not criticize and insult and do not unduely praise the swabhava and deeds of others.Visualise this cosmos as an entire whole ,as Eka ,created by purusha and his prakrithi.Therefore the one who insults,criticizes and praises paradharma are deviating from the oneness of creation and is therefore called a Brashta from swadharma which is Ekathwa.During sleep the senses become weakened and and intellect sleeps so that either dreams or a deathlike dreamless state of sushupthi ensues.The state of one who see the manyness as truth is similar to that illusionary dreamstate.Dualities are nonexistent and to feel that it is truth is illusion.Whatever we meditate in thoughts,say in words and do in deeds with such a feeling of duality is illusory.The reflections,the echoed sounds,and the illusion of rajjusarpa are all illusions but feels as truth in Vyavahaara and by that feeling births and deaths happen forever.This prapancha is the same as the Athman who is the prabhu,the controller,the Lokathman and the creator .The created objects ,the protected objects ,the creator and protector ,the destroyed and the destructor are all Eka .There is nothing other than that ONE.The feeling of three seen in Athman as creation,protection and destruction is by avidya and is gunaroopa only.The one who experiences this gnana does not insult or criticize others views.He doesn’t praise them either.He see everything and everywhere as equal and do his lifes journey with perfect equanimity and equality like a sun on earth.The real Knower of truth does his life’s journey nonattached and knowing that all cosmos is endless and beginningless by the help of sruthi,prathyaksha,anumana ,sasthragnana etc.
Udhava said:- Iswara,The allwitnessing Athman should not have samsara in any way.This body which is dead matter also has no samsara.Then who is having samsara?The athman is like agni ,nirguna,unmanifested ,destructionless,and revealing the pure truth.The anathman or body is like wood ,without energy to move and thus both should have no samsara .
Krishna said:-Whenever there is samgha with body,indriya and praana ,till that date Athman feel that I have samsara.This is what happens for the ignorant people.That which is meaningless is felt as meaningful for them.And that is mediatted upon by the chitha and as if a person in swapna creates several things without any objects ,he goes on creating manyness of samsara.When he is awakened from the sleep he knows the truth.Similarly a Gnani who is awakened from state of ignorance ,understand samsara as Mithya or untruth.The sorrows,pleasures,greed ,fear,anger ,and desires are all dharma of Ahamkara and not of Athman.Athman being deathless and birthless do not have them.
The Athman within is called Jeeva,Mahan Athma,Soothrathman etc in different ways.It is the gunakarmamoorthy within mind,praana and sareera and having ahamkara in these existences.The tree of ahamkara makes us do karma of different types by mind,prana,words and body .To cut this rootless tree of Ahamkara ,one has to use the sharp swordof upaasana .Thus becoming desireless and egoless the great Rishi does his lifes journey.By gnana,wisdom,differentiation,nigama,swanubhoothy and advice as well as anumaana ,whatever is in the end and beginning alone can exist in the middle too.That is the first cause and kaalaswaroopa(form of time).How gold is only gold whether it is in molten state or in different ornaments state ,I have to be understood like that.That which exists with three states,with three guna,and as creator,cause and effect ,that vignana is seen with and without thureeya and revealed like that and that alone is real truth.Once that truth is known and fixed in mind the untruth will naturally wither away.That which is true in end and beginning being the real truth ,that which is manifested and seen as different also must be the same truth.The names and forms only are different and in essence they are the same.Thus Prapancha is also Brahman and there is nothing except Brahman is my opinion (Matha).When a scholar after getting all this knowledge still remains unhappy and has no swanubhoothy he has not known me or become one with me.The one who is happy and satisfied and lead a blissful state has attained me .All this is me but I am beyond all these and therefore I am not these. I am nirguna and all these are with guna.Thus the gnanai differentiates samsara from nirvana and remain nonattached to samsara ,to body and senses and sensory pleasures always satisfied in Athman and its enquiry and enjoyment .When due to the effect of poorvajanma’s vasana ,one become again interested in Yoga and gnana ,people turn from samsara and lead a transformed life and all these we see around.It is like a comatose man getting up again with Gods grace starts a new life all over again.The Athmasthitha does not think of body while he eats,drinks,lies down,walks or do other karma.He also see the sensory objects around but his mind or intellect never goes to them as that of ordinary people because he is not desirous of them and is nonattached to them.He finds the samsara as a dream only .By the dawn of gnana the night of agnana is removed.The Athman is avikari and has nothing to receive and nothing to discard either.The dawn of sun affects our eyesight and reveal our external objects to the eye .The direct perception of me like that destroys ignorance and reveals truth.I am swayamjyothi,aprameya ,Aja,and Iswara with great Aiswarya,Eka and Nirdwanda (without a second) and is the End of Vaak .The vaak and praana function due to my influence only.There is no vikalpa in absolute Athman.They are felt due to Manovibrama only.Without own Athman what is the dependence for vikalpa?The prapancha with nama,roopa and mixtures of panchabhootha is not untruth because it is my manifested form.To call prapancha as untrue and Me as true is dwaitha.Prapancha is part of me and is true and is not different from me.I am prapancha but am beyond prapancha too.Therefore I am prapancha and I am not prapancha alone.
The yogins who practice yoga but do not attain the maturity of yoga ,can get the diseases of body just like any other persons and the science of healing should be there for even such people since they carry a body .Some illnesses heal with yogadharana,others by certain Aasana or positions,and dharana,others with oushadha(medicine)manthra(sound as medicine)and thapas etc .Several disorders are healed by nityajapa of my manthra and dhyana and by practice of my yogakrama.All disorders of body ,mind and intellect are thus removed and balanced by several methods.But some people do yoga just for keeping the physical health and the strength for carrying out day to day life and sexlife .But just like the fruit of a tree ,the body is having only a limited timespan however much you try to keep it young by vaajeekarana.Therefore such efforts are meaningless .The most intelligent yogins do yoga not for that and not for any other sidhi but for getting liberation from samsara .But ,though nondesirous of physical health,such a persons body,mind and intellect become strong and healthy and he remains ever energetic and able to conduct life fruitfully by yoga practice.Therefore gnana and yoga (samkhyayoga)has to be done without desire in sidhi for the sake of Athmagnana and liberation.With that,depending entirely on me ,the yogin enjoys nonending bliss and cross ocean of samsara without any effort at all.

Bhakthiyoganiroopana:-
Udhava:-I think this yogakrama is difficult for the common man who cannot contrl the mind.Which is the easiest method to be adopted ?The yogins are unable to control the minds even if they try to do so and fall back into samsara .Therefore thw wise come to your feet as sole refuge.The Maaya of yours does not influence them.Those who have ego in their own efficiency of karma are actually ignorant and caught by your maaya.The oneness of all in you and the compassion you have in all has no place of ego for ones achievements .You are sarvathman,lover of all,and wealth of all,and who will evr sacrifice you for the temporary pleasures of the world?Some people meditate on you for wealth and after gaining it forget you.But how does that happen?For us after reaching your feet what else is to be gained?You are in and out of all beings as Anthraymin and Acahrya ,and remove all their dosha ,and reveal the own Athman .To pay back our debts to you,the scholars know ,is not possible with just one janma.

Seeing Udhava with this sacred love,Krishna playing with his toy cosmos ,in love told him:-If men do dharma of mine with sradha they can win even over mrityu.Listen to those dharma carefully.Dedicate all samkalpa and vikalpa in me.Without a doubt ,with desire in my dharma,constantly remembering me do all karma.Go to places where my bhaktha ,the good people live.Do karma of my servants in deva,daanava and maanavajaathi.Either alone or in groups,with music and dance which are royal vibhoothi,worship me and conduct processions ,utsava etc.I am in all bhootha in and out as their Athman.My sevaka See me like that with pure mind .By depending upon this Ekagnaana ,with bhaava of Aham in all bhootha,thinking of me always,with respect live a pure life.In forestdwellers,in the last-born(Anthyaja),in the sun,in theflames and sparks of fire,in cruel and in sufferer of that cruelty I live and the one with samdrishty in al lthese is great yogin.He see only me in all humans and beings.The envy,insults,quarrels,etc which are the dosha of mind with ahamkara or ego are destroyed by this .Avoid the relatives who insult you as well as the fear which is generated by thought of body.Then you can do namaskara of a Chandaala,dog,dog-eater,cow and ass even alike .Because you find me only in even those creatures and beings.So long as the knowledge I exist in all beings is awakened ,one has to do upasana with word,mind and body .For the one who does upasana in this way ,by Athmadhyana and pure wisdom,everything is visualized as Brahman only and all doubts are removed .He finds truth and achieves uparathi.By all the three karana,see my bhaava in all beings.This method is the best than any other method.For the nondesirous person,my sevadharma become fixed from the beginning itself.Since he is also nirguna he has no destruction.The useless karma even ,if done without desire for fruits of action by a person who dedicates all in me,become fruitful.Even the efforts from fear and sorrow are seen to become dharma in loukika sense.I am nirvikaara and the truth and amrithaswabhaava.To perceive me with hman organs which is mithya is the way of the intelligence and the wisdom of the wise.This vedasaara is difficult to be known even by devagana.But I have told you this in summary and in concised form.This is the philosophy with revealed and manifested intellect and logic.The people who cognize this clear all doubts and become liberated.Your question and its answer if studied properly will give attainment of Parabrahman.This is essence of veda.This if someone wants to advice to others ,I give that one the sakthy or power to see Athmaroopa with own mind and truly .This is greatest and sacred knowledge and the one who daily learns and analyse it and teach it to others, by this Athmadeepa itself reveals me to others through him.The one who is ready to listen to it carefully also gets bhakthi and mukthy .Udhava,With this have you got revelation of Athmaswaroopa?Did this remove The desires and sorrows of your chitha?Do not advice this secre thathwa to people who are dishonest,nonbelievers of God,and proud etc .For those without such dosha,and to people with bhakthi in me and in good people,to women and soodra,and to those with sradha give this great sacred story and thathwa of mine.The one who wants to know truth,have nothing else to be known after knowing this truth.After drinking amritha,do any one need to drink any other liquid?By attaining me ,you will get wisdom,karma,yoga,jobs like agriculture,sasthra which gives justice and the four purushartha which men and women seeks .When humans dedicate all karma and mind to me ,he/she has become dear to me and becoming muktha joins me forever.
Thus hearing the yogamarga from the best Guru and yogeeswara ,Udhava folding his hands and shedding tears of joy ,unable to speak further by love fell at his feet.After regaining his state of speech ,he asked Krishna after some time.Krishna,the darkness of delusion has been removed by your sannidhaana alone.One who sits near fire has no fear of cold.With compassion you have wisdom to your servant .The one who is satisfied with your feet alone ,will never search for any other refuge.You had for the sake of creation ,by your maaya created a love towards the Vrishni,Andhaka,Sathwatha,Daasarha races .Now you yourself has cut that bondage of love to them by the sword of gnaana and wisdom.Yogeendra,How one should live so that unending Rathi happens in your lotus feet.I am your dedicated lover .Give me that forever.

Sribhagavan said:-Udhava,You have got my advice now.Go to Badarika ashram now itself.Take bath in the theertha there which is flowing from my own feet.Seeing Alakananada and becoming pure,wear trees barks as dress.Without desire for pleasures eating fruits and leaves and nuts etc from forests live there.Free from dualities,winning over indriya,with all good qualities,and fixing intellect ,tranquil and quiet ,with gnana and vignana thinking of what I have just now told you,live in that pure ashram.meditate on my words as a whole and each one separately ,and fixing mind,word and deed in me with doing my dharma ,cross the three gathi and thus reach me .
Udhava lost his bhedabudhi .He circumambulated Hari .Thinking of the separation from Krishna ,tears rolled down his cheeks and heart melted inside.Keeping his head at Krishna’s feet he washed his feet with hot tears flowing from his eyes.By the extreme love which he cannot sacrifice,the sorrow of separation from Krishna made him miserable and wearing krishna’s paaduka on his head ,he prostrated again and again and obeyed Krishna’s words and went to the northern direction to badaryashrama.There ,doing sadhana and meditation he reached vishnuloka.He saw bhagavan alone in his heart’s lotus .He drank the words of Krishna again and again meditating upon them which were churned out of bliss of Brahman experience and the gnaanamritha was given to posterity through him.The gnana was created for the liberation of mankind from sorrows and from samsara .Krishna (The dark one),the first (Adya),Rishabha and with the name of Krishna known by the veda,and the one who churned this amritha from ocean of knowledge and bliss ,so that his sevakaas drink it forever ,is the puranapurusha and I meditate and worship that purusha only.

After Udhava left for Badarikashrama ,the yadavas quarreled each other at Prabhasatheertha and destroyed the entire race by themselves as a fire in a bamboo forest destroy all bamboos.Balarama left his body in meditation and Krishna sitting under a banyan tree in meditation was seen by a veda called Jara.He saw only the blue feet of the Lord from a distance among the foliage and thought that it is a animal and sent an arrow .Seeing what he had done ,he was full of grief and remorse and guilty feeling.But Krishna in his compassion asked him not to grieve and since he fulfilled what Krishna wished ,he was given jeevanmukthy then and there .And Krishna in yogic Samadhi leftthe earth in deep Samadhi and everyone saw him leaving like a lightening leaving a field of clouds.But no one see where it went .The gathy and dhaama of Paramapurusha is known only to him and to his ekanthikabhaktha.
When Krishna left,Kaliyuga descended on earth.
Kalikaalavarnana:-
By power of kali,qualities like dharma,dhrithy,balam,ayus,soucha etc decrease day by day.The people will that money and power alone are what is needed for human beings .For marital relationship only attraction between the two based on body and its beauty will be considered by people.For trade and commerse exploitation and dishonesty alone will be basics.Both for man and woman expertise in weapons of sexology (panchayudha expertise)will be equal.People will that Brahmanya means wearing a sacred thread.For determining sanyasa ashrama ,they will think that a treebark and a thridanda (external signs)is enough.For rulership,only costly dress and decorations,jewels etc.Weakness of logic result in lack of giving it away (lack of teaching logic due to lack of logic among people).And scholarship will be misunderstood as talking too much and confusing others.Luxury will be thought of as sign of greatness.If one lacks aristocratic birth,his/her words will be considered as asaadhu in kaliyuga.For marriage the receptions and luxury alone will be there.For purity ,external bath alone will be the basis.They will think that all distant rivers are theertha and near ones are not.They will misunderstand the fashionable hair dressing etc as beauty. The greatest Purushartha will be filling ones stomach with food.All the dishonest acts of exploitations will be considered as truth.The efficiency of human beings will be reduced to just ruling ones own family .Doing dharma will be only to get fame.Thus all people become deteriorated in qualities and entire world become a chaos of such people.
Among the four varna the rulers with power become highest and they become mere thieves and fearless to exploit the citizens.They will exploit wealth and even the women of the citizens and the people will have to go to forests and mountains for fear of such rulers.
Because of such adharmic rulers,rains will fail to come in time and famines happen .People suffer by hunger and thirst .Agriculture suffers.Men start eating roots,leaves,fruits,nuts honey,and even meat of whatever they see to quench hunger.These hungry people are forced to pay taxes by the rulers and they suffer miserably.Thinking of what to do next to get a morsel of food,and weak with hunger and thirst ,and diseases of various kinds ,sorrows of man increase during Kaliyuga.The lifespan reduce to 20-30 years .The body become thin and short .All the vedic dharma are lost .People will do Paakhandadharma.Rulers become mere servants .Untruth,dishonesty,violence and murders ,etc increase day by day.Thus all people become soodra and cows become equal to goats.Ashrama become equal to ahouse,marriage become just Yonisambandham (association of sense organs).The Oushadajaala(medicines) will become atoms (anupraaya),and all the mahaavriksha (great trees)become shrublike.Lightening in clouds increases and destroys them and forests become deserts and empty.

When Kaliyuga proceed all people become intellectless like donkeys ,quarrelling each other for no reason and no logic and then for protectionof Dharma,at the end of Kaliyugasandhi God will again incarnate.In Sambhalagrama,as son of Vishnuyasas ,Hari will be born.He will be having eight aiswaryas and will travel on the great horse called Devadatha and encircle entire globe and destroy all thiefs who pretend that they are kings and rulers.When he travels ,the fragrance of his body will purify all villages and cities and the dwellers of them.They will worship Bhagavan in their hearts and by that nityasmarana they get all prosperities .Their children and grandchildren will prosper.The moment Hari takes avathar of Kalki,the new Krithayuga starts .Then all citizens will have increase in sathwaguna .The beginning of Krithayuga happens when sun,moon,Jupiter and Pushya star are together in one Rasi of the zodiac.(That Rasi has to be Karkitaka since star Pushya is there and it is the ucharasi of Jupiter and swakshethra of moon with Gajakesari yoga).

There are some prakshiptha parts in the 12th skanda of Bhagavatha and they were added after several centuries after the original creation of Vyasa.This include the chronology of solar and lunar dynasty.
From birth of Pareekshith to the crowning of Nanda was 1115 years.
One century :-when in saptharshi ,between pulaha and krathu,in exactly the middle of a straight line drawn between them a star remains for one century(of humans).In Pareekshith time it was Magha nakshathra .(which is in Simharasi).That is saptharshichaara was in simharasi when Pareekshith ruled.
Kalipeeda (hurts with kali) started 1200 years after,when the saptharshi with star Magha left Magha and traveled in Pooraada (Poorvashada in dhanu rasi).
From then onwards kali will be strong and entire nations will be submerged in adharma.When Krithayuga come again ,Santhanu,Devapi,Maru who live still with yogabala in Kalapagraama will come again as avathara and recreate dharma as before.

People who think that this earth is their private individual property and should go to my sons,grandsons and my people alone and making dirty plans for such goals and exploiting others arethe cause of adharma .Unless man understands that this body and whatever we see around is only transient transformation of fire,water and food (annam) and Athman alone is eternal ,dharma will not be saved.The desire in body and external things and luxuries make adharma and kali and the opposite make dharma and krithayuga.Kalki will take avathar for creation of a new Krithayuga and end of Kaliyuga .
Krithayuga has four limbs for dharma .They are satyam,karuna,thapas,daanam.(truth,compassion,austerity,giving alms).With these people become happy,contended,friendly to all,peaceful,and Athmaaraama.They become samadrik(perceive all as equal) and become sramana(who has conquered indriya).
In Threthayuga ther are only 3 limbs for dharma.Then,untruth,dissatisfaction,idol worship,and violence will be there.People will be doing thapas and kriya ,and will not commit great violences .People will be efficient in Thrayividya and have thrivargika.They are not womanizers.Majority have qualities of Brahmana and are predominantly Sathwika.
In Dwapara only two limbs of dharma remain.Majority will be householders and they will have aristocratic tendencies,and will learn veda,and will be happy and will be having both sathwik and rajasic qualities.
In Kali only one limb of dharma is there so that balancing is difficult.Even that will be lost in due course of time.People become miserly,fearless to do sins,unethical,greedy,exploiting each other,hating and disbelieving each other,they aquire qualities of soodra.Majority become fishermen /seafarers and amass money from that method.
It is sathwa ,Rajas and Thamas as thriguna which revolve in wheel of time giving this change in yugadharma.
When in sathwaguna,budhi and indriya chitha etc become selfluminous ,and vaasana for gnana and thapas appear,then Krithayuga starts.
When vaasana in dharma,artha and kaama increase ,Thretha with Rajoguna ensues.
When there is a mixture of rajas and thamas and sathwa,with ego,dissatisfaction,greed,pride,concentration only in functions which bring immeadiate and selfish results increase Dwaparayuga comes.Kali is predominantly thamasic and sorrows,laziness,dishonesty,sleep,delusions,violence,fear,depression ,poverty etc increase .People in Kalikala will notice only the transient and silly things and fail to perceive great deeds and thoughts and hear great words of wisdom.they become poor in wisdom,as well as in wealth,and desirous of so many luxuries which are uncountable become unlucky ,and mere enjoyers of pleasures of temporary nature,and woman searching for illicit relationships.Thiefs will become chiefs of nations,and all veda will be infiltrated by sayings from Paashandasasthras.The devas of earth(who were wise )will become desirous of sisna,udara and praja ( vitheshana and puthreshana )and search for food,wife and children and wealth only.The race of sanyasins will become dirty,with lack of soucha,and vratha(austerities).Householders will become mere beggers and wander about without doing any job.The Thapaswins will become householders and dwellers of villages.Sanyasins will be counting their gains and material wealth.Women become shorter in stature,eats a lot,and without shyness, and they speak harsh words without love,and do theft,dishonest acts ,and adventurous and with sons from different men.
Trades and commerce people and business men do exploitation and dishonesty and become low creatures by lack of dharma to get gains.These exploitations will be considered as the law by people of Kali due to ignorance (due to thamas predominance).
Even if the master is sarvothama and wise,if he has no money ,servants and relatives will discard and neglect.Similarly even if the srvants and relatives are honest and good ,masters will not consider their advice or help in important matters ,if they say truth (which is against their interests)and thus quality will be ignored and the opposite will be accepted.The cow ,if it does not give milk ,will be neglected by the master .Father,mother,brother,sister ,friends ,relatives etc will be neglected when they really need help .People being interested in pleasure of eros will unite with sisters of wife and get into great troubles.Soodra will wear the guise of a sanyasin and get material wealth from householder devotees who are cheated and exploited.the people who know no dharma,will climb on a stage and do a speech on dharma.Earth will fail to give food.Afraid of failure of rains ,famines and tax of the Governemnt/king people become thoughtful,weak,hungry and rebellious .Without anything to eat,without a proper place to sleep,without a dress to ward of from cold ,without any pleasure or even a bath,people will wander on earth in kalikaala.Kings and rulers desiring the temporary wealth ,discard honest friendships,quarrel each other,kill own people and destroy wealth of nation.
Men become lowminded ,thinking food and sex as most important pleasures of life does not even protect their old parents and grandparents and even the children and their eductionand future eis neglected by such people.(Both past and future of mankind neglected by desire of pleasures of the present).
Because of the dwaitha or differences created by Paakhanda theories ,people do not meditate on the advaitha state of Bhagavan Hari,who is achyutha and amritha .
Only those who near the death,and the patients with terminal illness will call out his names .
By sravanam,keerthanam,smaranm,poojanam,namaskaram etc Hari takes away all sorrows of kaliyuga.The impurities of the gold is taken of by fire and makes it purified .Like that Hari purify all those who remember him.Hari,residing in ones Athman,makes one pure and equal to Hari in all respects.Therefore ,knowing that death is truth,and life should be fruitful and blissful and useful to the society,and world ,think of Hari within all and within you,and attain the state of Paramapada while you are living and by this make your life remembered by posterity .One has to be unselfish and not desirous of selfish fruits of action ,to become a wellwisher of entire humanity and all beings on earth and that is possible only when we do Nishkamakarma and the wisdom of Advaitha makes understand the need for love and compassion.Thus with a integrated approach of bhakthy,karma and gnana do whatever good is possible for all beings at all time in all places and make this life a beautiful experience .This is what we can do for all the generations who have come before us,for all people who live with us,and for all generations to come after us.And this is the teaching of Bhagavatha for welfare of entire cosmos,for thrikaala .
It is a teaching which is practical for all and hence even the common man can resort to it.Krishna does not discriminate between rich and poor ,scholar and ignorant,man and woman and it is the equality of all creation that is proclaimed in his Ekanthikasampradaaya and it is the same as Advaitha.It is for all of us .For the welfare of entire world.

Stories of Bhagavatha part 5

Krishna -Bhagavatha stories part 4

Narada and his test
Narada wanted to see how after the killing of Narakasura ,Krishna had married so many women and is living with all of them giving all of them equal pleasure .Krishna is Eka purusha and how did he take aneka body and how he does leela in 16008 houses and with so many bodies ?Narada wanted to see that leela directly and came to Dwaraka.He went to the anthapura of Krishna .In one of his houses which was having walls of precious jewels and decorated with garlands,and with many servants all of them dressed and decorated he saw the jeweled lamps everywhere ,chithravalabhi,wherepeacocks seeing the clouds of homa coming out thinking that it is rainclouds expand their feathers and dance.The wife of Krishna with he r 1000 dasi ,was fanning Kesava with chamara having golden handle and Krishna was reclining on a cot .Krishna seeing the distinguished guest got up,welcomed him and did namaskara at his feet befitting to one who has taken a human birth and gave him a respected seat.Washing Narada’s feet he wore the water on his head.Bhagavan wears the water from the feet of bhaktha as theerthajala on his own head.
Narada said:-Lord of all the worlds,You were born by your own will to destroy adharma and protectdharma.I am meditating always on your feet alone for the sake of moksha.Bless me for memory of you to be always within me.I would like to perceive your yogamaya and its vibhoothy,Yogeswara!
Thus getting permission he entered each of the house where Bhagavan was playing his yogamayaleela.
In the home of Sathyabhama he saw Krishna playing dice with Udhava and Sathyabhama.There also Krishna got up and welcomed Narada as before and as if he has not known anything asked him “Mahrshe ,What is the purpose of your arrival?”
In another house he saw Krishna embracing his children and playing with them.In another house he saw Krishna ready for a bath.In another he was doing Agnihothra.In another rhe was doing yajana with panchamahamagha.In yet another he was feeding Brahmins and taking the left over after their food.In one house he was doing manthrajapa in slence.Elsewhere he was doing sandhyavandana.In one house he was practicing with sword.In one house he saw Krishna on a horseback,elsewhere in a chariot and in another on an elephant .In one house he is being praised by the music of the vandi group of musicians.In another he is sleeping on a cot.In another he is discussing with his ministers on the affairs of state with ministers like udhava.In another house he is playing in a swimming pool.In one house he is giving away cows which are decorated to Brahmins.Inanother he is listening to purana and ithihasa stories.In another he is laughing and playing with his wife.In some houses he is enjoying kaama and artha.And in others he is doing dharma and mokshadharma .In many houses he saw Krishna meditating on paramathman which is Eka.Krishna was doing Gurupooja in another house.In one house he is practicing battle and in another place talking about peace and in another with Balarama thinking about the welfare of entire world.In some houses he is thinking with his wives about the marriage proposals to his sons and daughters and who will be the suitable consort for such and such etc just like a samsarin.He was thinking about the wealth and dowry to be sent with the newly wed daughters in some houses with the mother of that daughter.In one house he sending the daughter to her grooms house and in others welcoming the bride of his son.In one house he is doing yajna for deva.Elsewhere Krishna is thinking of doing dharma of making gardens,wells,lakes etc for irrigation .In one house he was on a horse from Sindhudesaa and proceeding for forest on a hunting expedition.He saw him along with yadava doing hunting.In some places he saw Krishna in a different attire journeying to know the secrets of his country and any complaints among the people.Seeing this multiple functions being done at the same time Narada knew the Yogaprabhaava of yogeswra Krisna .He told Krishna :Even Aja and the Aditya do not know this type of yoga ,though they are able to control maaya.We are given a taste of it simply because of the blessing due to eternal service of your feet.Bless me so that I may be able to sing about these stories forever and purify the entire cosmos with your fame .
Bhagavan said:-My son,Do not worry that I have taken grihasthasrama.I have done that for protection of the worlds and its dharma.I am the speaker as well as doer of dharma .And the house of grihasthasramins will be purified by doing swadharma in this way.
Narada seeing pure grihasthasramadharma being done in 16008 houses at the same time simultaneously by the EKA ,knew the prabhaava of Vishnu by direct perception .
Krishna is the cause of origin,sustenance and destruction of cosmos and one who knows and hears and tells the stories of dharma done by him in his avathar will be liberated from all sorrows by the compassionate lord himself.

Day to day activities(dinacharya )of Bhagavan:-
When the cocks make their morning call,the wives of Krishna cursed them thinking of the separation from Krishna for the day.They didn’t want to loose the embrace of Krishna even for a moment.When the birds start their music with the early morning breeze on branches of flowering trees,the vandi musicians too sing and awaken Mukunda .Rugmini ,was always dreading that moment when Krishna wakes up and leaves her from the middle of his embracing arms.Krishna wakes up in the Brahmamuhoortha,washes his body and teeth and with blissful chitha do dhyana of Athman which is beyond thamas.taht one which has no destruction,eka,selfrevealing ,and without a second ,which discards all bondage of avidya and capable of making,protecting and destroying cosmos,and with bliss or ananda as its bhava ,and which is known by the name of Brahman is meditated with sradha .After sandhya and daily routines he observing silence does Homa and do japa of Gayathri ,alone .Gives arghya to rising sun after that.After that do archana of deva,pithru,muni,and elderly Brahmins.Daily he gives away 13084 cows with good quality,with lot of milk and with calf ,horns and hoof plated with gold and silver ,decorated with golden garlands and white silk ,to bhoodeva wearing bark of trees .Worshipping cows,Brahmins,devatha,elderly,Guru and all bhootha he touches auspicious objects .After that decorates himself with new clothes and jewels ,garlands,flowers and fragrant things like chandan etc.To see auspicious things daily he see Aajya,cow,tree,mirror,devatha,and respected Barhmins daily according to the injunction of sasthra.Then he gives whatever the citizens and people in the antha:pura desire.Thus he gave all desires of his people and made them happy.First to Brahmins,then to friends,then to citizens and last to his own wives he gives whatever they desire like garlands,fragrance,thamboola etc and wealth.After making everyone pleased he takes his food.Then the charioteer brings the chariot with the four horses called Saibya,Valahaka,Sugreeva and Meghapushpa.Holding the hand of the charioteer with compassion,with Udhava and Sathyaki he enters the chariot as if the rising sun on the eastern mountain.Seeing all the women in his antha:pura watching him he smiles at them and then starts his journey.The chariot takes him to the sabha called Sudharma where all the yadus assemble.That sabha is free from the six waves of sorrow,thirst,moha,old age or death and everyone is happy there.Krishna is like a full moon among the stars of yadavas in that sabha.The actors,musicians,dancers,and artistic people by their arts worship Krishna there.Veena,Mridanga,murajam,venu,samkha etc and the vocal music and sounds of dancing peoples ornaments always makes it auspicious and the manthra from Brahmins echo in it.The vaadins say the stories of ancient kings who were experts in dharma.Then the gateman came and told Krishna that someone who is not seen before in Dwaraka has come to see him.He came in and with folded hands told about the sorrows of the kings who have been bound by Jarasandha,king of Magadha.”There are 20000 of them who are bound in the fort of Girivraja(mountain fort).All the other kings are afraid when he will bind them too.All of them are worshipping and praying to you only with dharma .Since youalone can protect dharma and destroy adharma,everyone is depending upon you to kill jarasandha and free the kings from him.Isa,This kingly pleasures is temporary and will end one day with the hands of enemy and is always aswathanthra .Knowing this very well we are doing the rajadharma with nishkaama ,so that protection of dharma be done .We do not desire samsara or power but someone should protect dharma and the people and their belongings .That is the only reason we are continuing as kings and none of us wants power of this sort.We too desire moksha only.We have no one except you to come to .Jarasandha has strength of 10000 elephants and with the pride of that strength he is doing adharma .Just like a lion puts female goats in his custody,he has bound all kings in his jail.Do protect us from the king of Magadha .Chakrapaani,18 times he ran from your chakra after loosing all his army.Then when you sent him every time alive and pretended that he has won in the 18th time ,he became too proud.He is thus making life difficult for us,the kings ,who are your citizens ,your praja(Praja means both child as well as citizen which is used in both meanings here).

At that time Narada came to the sabha.The sabha with Krishna welcomed Narada who looked like the sun itself.krishna asked Narada:-Tell me ,Maharshi,is not all the worlds happy and well?You know everything that happen in all three worlds.tell me what is the venture of the Pandava kings at this time?
Narada said:-I have perceived your yogamaaya strength.I know that you know what is being done by Pandava at this time.This body is always making trouble and drawing one away from the real goal the athman .For samsarins to give compassionate help and protection you have come on earth .Yet you behave as if you are an ordinary human being.Your cousin and your greatest bhaktha,the eldest of the Pandava prince is at present thinking of doing a rajasooya yagna.He wants to worship you with rajasooya.In that yagna all the kings and famous people will assemble to see you and worship you.Therefore come for that yaaga and bless it .If someone sings or tells your stories ,or meditates on you,even if he is chandaala becomes purified.Then what if you are directly perceived and touched by some one?Your fame purifies all worlds.In heaven and earth and paathaala ,water flowing from your your feet is known as Mandakini,Ganga and Bhogavathy respectively .That is the purifier of all worlds.

All the yadavas in the sabha wanted Krishna to kill Jarasandha first.then Krishna smiling ,asked Udhava his chief friend and minister and servant .:”Udhava,you are learned and advices us in all matters.Tell me .What should we do ?
Knowing everything,yet pretending that he does not know anything Krishna said tehse .And Udhava knowing his master’s wish answered like this:-The king of Indraprastha is your cousin and wishes to do raajasooya and you have to be there.At the same time giving protection to the people who ask for it also is our dharma.Only a king who can do digvijaya can do Raajasoooya.Therefore if you go to Yudhishtira and help him in his raajassoya ,you can help him in winning over magadha and in this way both can be done simultaneously.By liberating the kings your fame and your protective powers will be appreciated by all kings .And in strength of 10000 elephants of Magadha king only Bheema is equal.To kill him in a duel with Bheema will be best at this time instead of waiting for his akshouhini army.There is a way for this.Jarasandha is a devotee of Brahmins.H egives whatever the Brahmins ask for.therefore let Bheema take the form of a Brahmin and request for a duel from him.In front of you,with your blessings let bheema kill jarasandha .Your leela of liberation of Seetha,of Pithru and of Gajendra is sang by us,by Gopikas and by sages forever.Like that it is sung by the wives of the bound kings in their homes every day .When children cry they say”Don’t cry ,my son,Madhavan will kill the cruel king and liberate your father”.they put to sleep their children singing your glory only.Therefor e,it is our duty to kill jarasandha in this way and help yudhishtira’s wish of doing Rajasooya.

Hearing the words of Udhava ,the entire sabha,Narada and Krishna approved the logic and dharma of it and it was decided accordingly.Krishan sent news to his wives and children first so that they get ready for the journey and getting permission from Ugrasena and balarama went to Indraparstha with his chathuranga sena in his chariot drawn by Daaruka.The army and chariots and the vehicles of Krishna and his wives and children was followed by a big caraven itself.It had decorated dasis ,their dress , grass huts,and other things carried by buffaloes,oxen,ass,men and carts ,umbrellas,chamara,flags,and weapons of all kinds and crowns ,jewels etc .It looked like a wavy ocean in motion with high sounding winds.Narada went through sky by his yogasidhi.The messenger was happy to see and hear all these and went back to the kings who had sent him and told that Krishna will be instrumental in killing Jarasandha within a few days .Every one waited for the sight of Krishna and the moment when Jarasandha will be killed and the 20000 kings liberated from prison.
Krishna passed through his country of Aanartah ,then Souveera and maru,and reached Kurukshethra .Passing mountainous tracts,rivers,cities and villages ,vraja,mines the army went forth.They crossed Drishadwathy and Saraswathy and crossed panchala and Matsya and reached Indraprastha.Hearing his arrival Yudhishtira came happily to receive him with his Guru and frinds and brothers.He came with geethaghosha and vedaghosha to receive Krishna .Like indriya welcoming praana the five brothers welcomed Krishna.they embraced him again and again.They forgot the world and tears of bliss flowed from their eyes seeing Krishna and embracing him.Hari also was happy and received their love with love and respected all elders and Brahmins .Kekaya,Srinjaya and Kuru elders welcomed Krishna .Gandharva,Maagadhi,Vandi musicians with instruments and vocal praised Krishna.They danced in glee .Thus Krishna entered Indraprastha with pandavas.

Seeing Madhava with his wives entering Indraprastha,all people assembled on either side of streets and on the terraces of houses women of the country watched him pass with love in their hearts ,smile in the lips and with sideglances which showed their devotion.They thought Krishna looks like a Full moon among stars with his innumerable beautiful and lucky wives.
Kunthi seeing Krishna was extremely happy.She got up from her cot and with Panchali went to welcome Krishna.She embraced and kissed him with love.Krishna worshipped his father’s sister and other elders.Subhadra and Panchali welcomed Krishna with pleasure.Asked by Kunthi,Panchali worshipped the wives of Krishna like Rugmini,Bhama,Jambavathy,Shaibya,Sathya,mithravinda ,Kalindi ,Bhadra etc.Arjuna and Krishna did Khandavadahana and through the efficient workmanship of Maya ,the architect of the Asura,Yudhishtira got the sabha which was better than that of Indra .Krishna spent his days with Arjuna during this period .
One day in the sabha of Yudhishtira ,the king told Krishna in front of the entire elders and ministers and people of the sabha.:-“I would like to perform a Raajasooya.By worshipping your feet forever and doing your japa with devotion,one is liberated from all bad deeds.And all his desires are fulfilled.Let the people see this with their own eyes.Let all people of Kuru and Srinjaya understand this fact .For that bless me with fulfillment of this desire.
Bhagavan said;-his yaaga is for the wefare of all including the rishi and the ancestors.You have won me over by your control of senses.And your brothers are all avathara of the protectors of world.You ,being my devotees will successfully complete Rajasooya.
Thus blessed by Madhava ,the four brothers of Yudhishtira went for Digvijaya.Towards the South India came Sahadeva with all chieftains of Srinjaya .To the west went Nakula with chieftains of Matsya.With Kekaya chieftains went Arjuna to the North.And with Madrakas Bheema went to conquer the east.They brought wealth from all the four sides.Only Jarasandha had to be conquered.
Then remembering words of Udhava ,Krishna,Arjuna and Bheema took the form of Brahmins and went to Girivraja ,capital of Maghadha.Seeing the three distinguished Brahmin guests ,jarasandha promised them whatever they desired.Jarasandha thought:-I have seen these three people before .And though wearing Brahmin signs they have features of kshathriya .Yet ,like mahabali ,who gave everything to Vishnu taking the form of Brahmana and achieved eternal punya ,I too will grant them what they want.
Krishna asked for a duel .He disclosed their identity then.Hearing the name of Krishna,his arch enemy who had made his daughters widows ,Jrasandha was angry and laughing aloud and insulting Krishna he said:-Fool!Are you a kshathriya?You are a coward running away from battles and I have seen you do that before.i don’t want to fight with a coward like you.Paaarthan looks not very strong physically and also is very young to me in age .Bheema though younger to me looks to have a good physique for a duel with me.I will fight with him.
He gave a mace to Bheema and took one himself and came out of the palace to a plain ground where battles are done.the great battle that ensued for 27 days and nights.At dawn they start battle.At night they go back to the palace and talk as if they are great friends .After 27 days Bheema told Krishna:- I think this king has won mrityu.I may never be able to kill such a strong man.
Krishna did not say anything.He just took a leaf from a nearby tree and torn it exactly into two halves.Bheema took the hint and tore jarasandha apart catching his thighs .Thus Jarasandha was killed and his two halves with exact symmetry were seen lying dead on the battlefield Son of Jarasandha was Sahadeva.He was given the country and his abhisheka was done by Krishna ,Arjuna and Bheema according to tradition.All the kings bound by Jarasandha were liberated from prison.They wer 20800 in nmber .They were first fed well and then given good clothes to wear .They saw the Blue-hued Krishna as the saviour .All their sorrows and tiredness disappeared by his sight.They said:-Avyaya,Devadevesa,Namaskaram.We prostrate and worship you.Protect us from the sorrows of the ocean of samsara.Madhusoodana,now all our anger and enmity to the king of maghada is quenched.Because only through his prison we had the luck of seeing you at such close quarters.Inkings who are proud of their power and lands sreyas does not last.They misunderstand that ending transient wealth as the sreyas that is eternal.It is like a child mistaking a mirage for water.Your maaya conquers those who have ego and pride in such temporary gains.We were taught this lesson by this experience.Because we were prisoners and lost all wealth we remembered you always and that opportunity was given to us by king of magadha.Give us your blessing so that we will never forget your feet.
Krishna granted that boon to them.he asked the kings to go back to their respective kingdoms and protect people and land with dharma with constant remembrance of God.Krishna said:-Protect al with dharma.Have good sons and entrust the rule in them so that the dharma continues and then come to me.Fix Athman in me and attain me in the end.
They were then given a royal bath and purification of body and then given dress and decorations proper for a king .Sahadeva,son of Jarasandha himself gave a good lunch to them after that .They looked like the grahas sparkling again after the rainy season in the sky.Thus the kings liberated became devotees of Krishna and friends of pandava and they lived obeying bhagavathadharma,and protected the land and people in name of God as the blessing of God and never did they became arrogant or proud or hurt the land or praja in any way.Krishna and Arjuna with Bheema returned after winning over the kingdom of Magadha to Indraprastha alias Khandavaprastha.
After this when the auspicious time arrived Yudhishtira called Rithwiks who were vedagna for doing rajasooya yaaga.The Rithwiks who were called were,Gouthama,KrishnaDwaipayana,Bharadwaja,Veethihothra,Kasyapa,Chyavana,Kanwa,Vasishta,Asitha,Thritha,Madhuchandas,Pailan,Kavashan,Parasaran,Dhoumyan,Sumathy,Viswamithra,Aasuri,Jaimini,Veerasena,Krathu,Vamadeva,Vaisampayana,BhargavaRama,Sumanthu,Maithreya,Atharvan,Gargan and Akrithavranan.
Drona with Aswathama,Kripa,Bheeshma were invited after that.Dritharashtra and his sons were invited next.Vidura and friends were invited.Brahmana,Kshathriya ,Vaisya and soodra were all invited .TheBrahmins first ploughed th eKsethra for the yajna with a golden plough and in that Dharmaputhra sat with deeksha .Like the yajna of Varuna all utensils were of gold.The Indra and other protectors o fdirections,Shiva with sons and gana,sidha,gandharva,uragasangha,vidyadhara,yaksha,rakshas,kinnara,charana,muni,Khaga(birds),kings with wives ,saamantha,from all directions came to see the yajna of yudhishtira.Yudhishtira seemed like varuna ,Lord of oceans himself doing the yajana.On the days when soma is given ,king respectfully worshipped all Brahmins,elders and people assembled .He asked as tradition,who should be given the status of Agryapooja.The assembly was in thought .Then Sahadeva said:-The Lord of Sathwatha,Bhagavan Sree Hari is here.Wealth,time and space and everything is in him only.He is the form of yajna itself.Manthra,Ahuthy,agni,gnana,all depend on him only.That Eka,Adwaya ,Bhagavan Vaasudeva alone is worthy of being considered for Agryapooja in this yajna.He is Lokaswroopa and Athmasraya and creates,protects and destroys all loka.Just by his supervision every karma is done by prakrithy.When we give Agryaasana to Krishna it is equivalent of worshipping all .He is shantha,sarvantharyamin and poorna.
All the sabha praised these wise words of sahadeva.They accepted Krishna and worshipped him giving Agryaasana.Dharmaputhra washed feet of hari and wore it on his own head and on heads of his brothers,wife and ministers.He decorated krishna’s body with new yellow silk and new jewels and garlands and with tears of joy in his eyes praised him with sthothra .
Seeing all this the king of chedi ,Sisupala became angry and envious.He got up from his seat and raising his hands started to utter insulting words against Krishna.he said:-I have heard that there is a time for everything.It is true.otherwise ,such a sabha with so many elders would never have agreed to the words of a mere child like Sahadeva.How did you,elders ,agree to sahadeva and give Krishna this agryasana?There are several great sages in this sabha who have purified themselves with Athmabodha and sidhi of Brahman,and devoid of any impurities and worshipped by even the protectors of the 8 sides.How could you ignore them and give this great place to a mere cowherd?It looks like a crow taking away the purodasa meant for deva.Krishna has no varnasramadharma,and heis not aristocratic and he is living as he pleases ,without any dharma and without any guna either.The yadava race to which Krishna belongs had been cursed by the ancestor King Yayathi to sacrifice kingship.And moreover,now the yadavas have become drunkards too.how can one who took birth in that detestable race become worshippable?He has discarded all the places which are for time immemorial occupied by Brahmarshins and went to a island in the middle of ocean without any Brahmavarchas .these people are only thiefs.they are robbing people of their rights.

Hearing all these insulting remarks Krishna remained silent as if a lion hearing the cry of a jackal.The sajjana among the sabha closed their ears and saying that to hear such insulting words about God is inauspicious and they left the sabha immeadiately cursing Sisupala for uttering such words of disgrace.Pandava,Matsya,Kekaya,Srinjaya races became angry and wanted to kill king of chedi immeadiately and rose with their weapons.But Sisupaala went on uttering similar words without fear and without concern about the feelings of the others in the sabha.Then Krishna asked the others to be patient and stood up in anger and the wheel Sudarsana appeared in his hands .It took away the life of Sisupaala in a second.The army and relatives of him ran away in fear.Everyonesaw a light arising out of the king of Chedi and merging with Krishna .It looked like a comet falling onto earth .Sisupala was the third janma of one of the Vishnuparshada ,Jaya and vijaya.The dhyana of virodha gave him sarupya with Bhagavan .After the yajna Dharmaputhra gave dakshina to all .Krishna stayed back in Indraprastha for a few more months enjoying the company of Pandavas.Then somehow making Yudhishtira agree to his departure ,Krishna went back home with wives and ministers.All were happy except Duryodhana in the rajasooya of yudhishtira.

In Rajasooyayajna each of the princes and relatives were given a special duty to perform.Son of Vayu ,Bheema was in charge of food and kitchen.Treasury was under Duryodhana.Sahadeva for welcoming guests.Nakula for collecting materials needed.For doing service to sajjana Arjuna and for washing feet of guests Krishna.Karna for giving alms,Krishna daughter of Drupada ,for feeding the guests.Uthama,Yuyudhana,Vikarna,Hardhikya,Vidura,the sons of balheeka like Santhardhana,were all given a duty according to their taste and preference.All of them did their duty efficiently .After Avabrithasnana of Dharmaputhra the kings of Kuru,Kekaya ,Srinjaya,Kamboja,Kosala ,Yadu etc went back with their relatives and army .The wives of Pandava,Krishna and other kings with their husbands did celebrate a holy and made each other drench in water smeared with curd,oil,chandan,kumkm and manjal .Dance and music and instruments echoed everywhere .Allfriends were given dress,crown,kundala,garlands and decorations etc .People were praising the king and his wealth as well as his dharma and efficiency .Seeing and hearing all this and noting the wealth in the treasury of dharmaputhra Duryodhana could not control his envy.Seeing the beautiful wives of Krishna and the wife of Pandava enjoying all the wealth that is available in all the worlds Duryodhana became thoughtful.One day when Yudhishtira was sitting on his golden throne with his retinue,Duryodhana wearing allhis golden ornaments ,and proud of his wealth came there with his brothers scolding the servants of pandava for every other silly reason.He was supervisingthe sabha made by Maya because he had never seen such a wonderful sabha.But unfortunately for him,thinking that a crystal floor is water he caught his dress high up to walk through it and seeing that he was mistaken he walked on and found a place with water.And remembering what had happened earlier he walked through it holding his head high and fell into water and drenched all his clothes and body .The Kings in the sabha,and Droupathy with Bheema laughed aloud even if Dharmaputhra asked them not to do so.He was shy and angry and felt insulted and went back to Hasthinapura in envy and enmity thinking of methods to get all that belongs to Pandavas.The reason for unhappiness of Duryodhana was the dosha of his mind alone and nothing else.


Salwa and the battle journey of Pradyumna:-

Salwa was friend of Sisupala ,king of Chedi and had come for the wedding of Rugmini.And yadavas defeated Salwa in the war at Vidarbha.Salwa took an oath”I will make this earthdevoid of yaadavas”.He did penance ,eating a handful of sand everyday ,withoutany other food ,and meditated on Shiva.At the ned of the rainy season,Shiva being easilypleased (Kshipraprasadi)gave him that boon.Salwa asked for a vehicle that will not be broken by deva,asura,men,serpents,gandharva,rakshasa etc and which is fearful to the Vrishni race,and desirable and which can win over the cities of enemies.Thus he was given a city called Soubha which can move in earth,ocean and sky and made of metal and which gives all desires and made of Thamas.Immeadiately Salwa went to Dwaraka and surrounded Krishna’s port city with his army.At that time ,Krishna was in Indraprastha.
Salwa destroyed the gardens,cities,villages,forts ,walls ,houses ,towers etc of Dwaraka from that vimaana which was invincible.Everywhere dust and whirlwinds were seen and stones,trees ,fire,serpents etc rained from that vimaana .Thus the House of Krishna was attacked by Salwa and seeing this Pradyumna with Sathyaki and other warriors did a strong defence against Salwa.Salwa was a magician and all his magics were defeated by son of Rugmini.It was like sun destroying darkness.With 25 arrows having golden handle and iron tips ,pradyumna killed the commander of Salwa’s army,with 100 arrrows injured Salwa,with 10 each the charioteers,and with three each the vehicles and one each the warriors.Both warriors of Yadava and Salwa side praised Pradyumna for his valourous performance.
The vehicle of Salwa called Soubha is sometimes seen on earth,sometimes in ocean,and sometimes in sky and sometimes disappears from sight and such magical feats were performed by Salwa.It revolved like a wheel of fire everywhere.There was no fixed position anywhere.It was seen wherever the yadavas looked.Yadavas sent arrows in all directions seeing Salwa and his vehicle and army everywhere.For one second by the arrows of yadavas the king of Soubha became comatose .Then his commander and minister Dyumaan came towards pradyumna and with an iron mace struck him and made a great cry of war.By that unexpected strike the chest of Pradyumna was injured and he went into a swoon.The charioteer took the vehicle to a distant place and saved his life.After a moment when Pradyumna got back consciousness he was very sad to see this.He said:-By doing this you have made me an insult to my race.No one evr in our race have fled from a battleground and how can I face my elders now ?And what will the wives of my brothers say when they see me after this ?They will laugh at me saying that I had been a coward ,running away like this leaving my brothers in the battlefront.They will ask me where did your courage go?
The charioteer said :-It is the duty of the charioteer to keep alive the swamin when he is in a swoon.I have just done that.You have not run away from war.You were brought here for a temporary period till your swoon is gone so that you can resume battle.
Thus wearing a new armour and more energetic Pradyumna returned to the battlefront and to Dyumaan.With 8 arrows He attacked yuman.Four of them killed the four horses of Salwa’s minister.One killed is charioteer.One broke his bow,another his flag and yet another his head.Sathyaki,Samba ,Gada were vigourously attacking and destroying army of Salwa.The heads of his army fell into the sea all around Dwaraka.This war lasted for 27 days.
When Krishna ,dwelling in Indraprastha ,after Sisupaalavadha, saw some bad omens he returned to his port city in haste.He knew that when he and Balarama were away,enemies who are angry hearing the death of Sisupala have destroyed his city.Krishna asked Daruka to take the chariot straight to Salwa and his army.The chariot with mudra of Garuda turned to Salwa.Seeing that Salwa sent a powerful Sakthy .That did not touch Krishna’s charioteer.The vimana of Salwa which was revolving as a comet quickly around the earth and lighting up the directions with its brightness was cut into 100 pieces by the arrows of Krishna.With 16 arrows he controlled Salwa and covered his vehicle with arrows,like the sky is covered by rays of sun.Salwa injured the left hand of Krishna holding theSarngha bow and everyone seeing this was afraid .Salwa roared in selfpraise:-Mooda,I have seen you taking away the wife of Sisupaala who is your brother in front of us ,his friends.And now you have killed that friend of mine.You think that you are invincible.Now see what had happened .I have injured you.If you remain in front of me a little longer you will go to that place where you will never return back.
Hearing this Krishna said:-Ignorant fool,Arent you seeing the death which is nearing you?Why do you praise yourself?Brave people never do that.They don’t talk empty words but act.
Saying this ,with Koumodaki mace Krishna struck him on his neck and he fell down vomiting blood and entire body trembling .But when the mace returned to Krishna,the body of salwa was not seen .One man came to Krishna in tears and gave him a message:-Krishna,Krishna,One who loves father,Listen.The king of Soubha has bound your father and took him prisoner to be killed.Just like a goat is taken by a butcher he took Vasudeva.

Krishna for a moment became compassionate and sad and thought:-How can Salwa take my father prisoner when Balarama ,my brother is with him? How can a silly Salwa defeat my brother who is always alert and never worried and too strong.

When Krishna said this ,every one saw Salwa coming with Vasudeva as prisoner .He said:-Krishna,For whom do you live now?Your praana is your father.I am killing him in front of your very eyes.
He took a sword and killed Vasudeva and entered his magic vehicle
Though Bodhaswaroopa himself,Krishna for a second lost consciousness seeing his father thus murdered in cold blood.Then he knew that it is the thaamasi maay aof Salwa and awakening from the dream ,he tried to localize Salwa ,and his vehicle and the body of his father.He destroyed the armour,bow,weapons crown of Salwa with arrows and Soubha with his mace.When soubha fell down from sky as dust ,into the ocean ,Salwa took his mace and ran towards Krishna in anger.His hand with mace was cut by Krishna’s arrows.Then he took Sudarsana wheel with the light of fire of Kalapanthapralaya .Krishna stood there with the wheel like a mountain with rising sun.The head of Salwa with kundala and crown fell by the wheel.

There was another person coming towards Krishna for war.He was friend of Sisupala,Poundraka and Salwa .His name was Dandaavakthra.Krishna seeing him coming jumped down from chariot with his mace and obstructed him as a ocean is obstructed by the land.Dandavakthra said:-I have seen you today,It is your misfortune .You are our uncle’s son.But you have alwys been a enemy to us.You desire to get my wealth .So I will destroy you with my mace which is equal to Vajra.By this I will repaymy debt to my relatives killed by you.You are my relative but enemy in disguise .Like a disease withn the body has to be removed ,you though relative being enemy has to be destroyed.
Inthis manner Dandavakra tried to control Krishna with words as if a mahout tries to control an elephant with his instruments.He struck Krishna on his head with mace.Krishna struck back with Koumodaki mace and he was killed in an instant.A subtle light entering from his body into body of Krishna was seen by onlookers.His brother Vidooratha came towards Krishna with sword but sudarsana killed him too.

When the news that Pandava and Kourava are about to fight each other reached Dwaraka ,Balarama who did not want to participate in the war said that I am going for a sacred pilgrimage and left .He took bath in Prabhasatheertha,and went towards river araswathy.Saw Sudarsanatheertha,Prithoodaka,Bindusaras,Vishaala,Thrithakoopa,Brahmatheertha,Chakratheertha,Saraswathythat flows to the east ,Ganga,and Yamuna etc in order.He reached naimisharanya where great sages do the yaaga .The sages about to start a long Yajna welcomed Rama,and Rama thus respected looked at the disciple of Romaharshana who was in that sabha of scholars.He was not respecting Balarama and was sitting among the sages though he is a sootha (charioteer).He was the disciple of Vyasa .Balarama thought that he though disciple of Vyasa and knower of veda,purana,ithihasa,dharmasastra and a scholar has not learned maryada and is egocentric and therefore is only an imposter who pretends he knows dharma.Rama thought,I being born for protection of dharma should kill this adharmin .And with a blade of kusa grass Samkarshana killed that scholarly disciple of Vyasa ,though he was on a sacred pilgrimage .Seeing this all sages were sad and said that it was adharma .They said:-Yadunanadana,We had given him a great position ,life,Athmabala,the greatest Brahmaasana to fulfill this great yajna and you without thinking had killed him in a moments emotion.We know that you being a yogeswara yourself the injunctions of veda does not touch you and you are beyond them.But yet ,since you have done a Brahmahatya here you have to observe penance for it too.Do it without any body’s influence .Because a penance done by ones own conscience is the best and it is for service of entire humanity.

Balarama agreed and asked them which is the best method of penance for his karma.He said I will give life,a prolonged lifespan,sathwaguna,efficiency in all functions and whatever you desire to him again with my yogasakthy.
Sages said:-Do whatever you think is best so that the yajna,our words,your powers,as well as Mrityu is not made untrue.
Balarama said:-Sruthivaakya is that I am born as the son.So ,he will become the sakthi,life,efficiency and the one who is the vakthaa(speaker)or orator as your son .Tell me what else I should do as a penance .
Sages said:-There is a person called Ballwala ,who is son of Illwala ,and that asura comes in every newmoon and fullmoon day and rains meat,flesh,blood and urine in our yajnasaala and makes it polluted.Kill him and protect our yajna and then complete your journey all over Bhaaratha in 12 months and be purified of your sin.

Balarama waited for the said day.The day of the moon came and he found a foulsmelling stormy wind approaching .Inside the sacrificial hall it rained dirt and dust and urine,blood and flesh polluting it.Then the doer of this havoc,Balluala came in front of everyone wearing a trident.He had a huge black body,and brassy hair and beard ,sharp teeth and thick fearful brows and cruel face.Balarama remembered his mace and his iron musala and they came to him immeadiately .Balarama attracted Ballwala who wasremaining in sky by the end of his plough,and struck him on head with musala and killed him .The rishi assembled praised and worshipped Rama and did abhisheka on him and gave vaijayanthi garland which will never fade and divine decorations,and two garments and blessed him.
Balarama continued his journey with Brahmins .He bathed in theriver Kousiki and reached the origin of Sarayu river.From there along the river bank he traveled to Prayaga and took a bath there.Then he visited Pulaha’s ashram .He took bath in Gomathy,Gandhaki,Vipasa,and Sona rivers and then did Pithruyajna in Gaya and reached where Ganga meets the ocean.From there he went to Mahendra mountains and worshipped BrighuRama .Then he took bath in the sapthaGodavari,Bheemarathi,Vena and River Pampa.Then he reached Thiruchenthur and worshipped Skanda .He went to Sreesailam where Shiva dwells and from there he saw the most sacred Venkata mountain of Dravidadesa.He saw Kancheepura ,which gives all desires,and the Kaveri which is most important among rivers,and Sreeranga with presence of Vishnu.Then he visited Vishnukshethra at Rishaba mountains and Southern Mathura .He went to the Sethu at the southern ocean which destroys all sins .There he gave 10000 cows to Brahmins .Then he went to Krithamala river and thamravarni and Malayaparvatha.He worshipped Agastya who dwells there.With his permission he proceeded to southern ocean to worship Durga as Kanyaka.Then he went to the famous Ananthapura and there he dipped in the panchapsarasa (five theertha of the 5 apsara)and gave 1000000 cows to Brahmins.
From Ananthapura he went to the famous Keraladesa which is known as the thrigartha (The three great areas which are below sea level.).From there he went to Gokarna where Shiva’s presence is felt.He saw the Durga in the island ,and reached the Soorparakaksethra(The sopara ).Tapathi,Payoshni,Nirvindhya were seen and in all these he took sacred baths.Then he reached Dandakaaranya and Mahishmathy.He took bath in Reva which flows through Mahishmathy and then in Manutheertha .And reached back inPrabhasatheerth afrom where he had begun his sacred pilgrimage.
Then he heard of the outcome of the kurukshethra war .He heard that Bheema and Duryodhana are to begin their duel and thought I should some how prevent it.Thus he proceeded from Prabhasa to Kurukshethra.Dharmaputhra,Krishna ,Arjuna came and welcomed him .They were afraid of him and did not know what he was about to say.Rama saw Bheema and Duryodhana in action and the duel had already started.Balarama said:-Both of you are of equal strength.Therefore there is no use in continuing this battle.No one will win and no onewill fail too.One has more of body strength and the other have more of practice.Stop this battle.
Both of them neglected his words .Therefore Balarama thought that it is the dosha of their Kaala and I cannot help them.And he returned to Dwaraka and met Ugrasena and stayed there happily.The sages did worship of him for he had become Yajnamga with his sacred pilgrimage and looked pure as sun.He gave them power to see him in the universe and the universe in him so that they got Brahmagnana from him
Doing Avabrithasnana with his wife Revathy,and with his relatives and friends around he looked like moon in the midst of the stars.The person who remembers the Adisesha as Balarama and his great deeds during sandhya will become dear to Mahavishnu.

Kuchelavritham:-
Heart of devotee is ever thirsty to hear the stories of bhagavan.Even a person who is interested in vishayabhoga and is subject to arrows of Manmatha,will get out of that bondage by constantly hearing stories of Bhagvan.
That word is word which praise Krishna.
Those hands are hands which do service to Krishna.
That heart alone is heart which remembers Bhagavan who fills entire cosmos.
That ear alone is ear which hear the pure stories and songs of Krishna.
No head is head if it does not bow at the two feet of Vishnu as the Vishnulingadwaya.
That eye is not eye which does not see his signs and form.
No organ is organ that does not reach to touch the sacred waters of feet of Hari and Haribhaktha.

There was a friend of Krishna who was shantha ,and Brahmagna and who had controlled all Indriya.He was Kuchela.He spent days with what is obtained by daily bhiksa.But he was agrihastha.His wife was very thin because of constant hunger.She too was a good soul like her husband.Once due to the hunger ,and trembling of entire body by cold,that lady came to her husband and told him:-Brahman,Bhagavan,I know your friend is the husband of Lakshmi herself.And is a brahmanabhaktha too.He protects devotees and dharma.He is Bhagavan eternal .Go and meet him once.He will give you enough wealth for continuing the samsara life of a grihastha.He is adored by Vrishni,Bhoja and Andhaka races and lives now in Dwaraka.For devotees who live with memory of the paadapadma of bhagvan he gives Athman itself.Therefore that Guru can give you artha(wealth)which is not that important too.
When she said this again and again ,the Brahmin thought I will go and meet my old friend .Not because he wanted wealth but because the prospect of seeing that old childhood friend filled him with bliss.He asked him to give something so that he can give a gift to his old friend.
She took four handful of crushed dry paddy(which is called Aval)which was the only food that remained in the house and covered it within a torn cloth and gave it to her husband.Both the torn cloth and the aval were the only wealth in that home which shows the state of the family.
Kuchela thought:-How can I get Krishna’s darsana?Will he remember me after so many years?
And he reached Krishna’s house inDwaraka.Krishna saw him from a distance from his terrace and went down to receive him.He washed the poor Brahmin’s feet and wore that water on his head.Heapplied chandan,kumkum and gorochan on his thin body with swollen veins.Worshipped with lamp,fragrant dhoopa and flowers and gave thamboola.Lakshmidevi herself fanned that Brahmin wearing torn dirty cloths.Seeing Krishna and Rugmini worshipping this poor Brahmin all were astonished and some wondered who this avadhootha might be.Krishna is making him sit on his own throne and Rugmini fans him with golden handled chamara.What good deed he might have done in his past janma to get this punya.Krishna embraces him and talks with him so friendly and naturally as if he had known him all his life.They were reminiscing their childhood stories and memories.
Bhagavan said:After leaving school did you marry a good wife?I know even if you are a grihastha you are not attached to kaama or wealth.Just like me you too are doing the duty without attached to my Maaya.Do you remember the days we sprnt at our Guru’s house?First Guru is the father who made us possible to be born to this world.Second Guru is the one who teach us the sathwik Brahmana dharma.The Guru who gives Gnana is ,like me,sakshath Guru itself.People who knowing my advice of dharma,and cross samsara are knowers of artha or wealth who has all luxuries too.I being the internal Athman is not satisfied with Gurupooja,thapas,birth in a good family or ace or with yaga.

Friend,while we were in Gurukula,Gurupathni once sent us to forest to collect fuel.At dawn a wind and rain came and we could not find our way out of the forest.Moreover all ditches and canals and ways were fll of water and could not be recognized.In the morning Guru Sandeepani came in search of us .Seeing us thus he said by suffering such trouble for me you have given me the best dakshina and I bless you that you will never forget the chandas,and both in this and the other worlds all your desires will be fulfilled.

Kuchela said:-You are the Guru of the world.You are satyasamkalpa and gets everything just by your will.For you what is to be gained by Gurukula training? Your body is the form of veda.It is the origin of auspiciousness.You lived there just for making the world aware that it is the dharma of all who takes birth on earth.
Krishna asked with a smile :-That is right.What have you brought for me as a gift ? Whatever you give from your home ,whether it is a fruit,a flower or even a drop of water given with love makes me pleased .
Kuchela was shy and he lowered his face and kept silent.He could not take that small torn dirty package of aval in front of all those people and in that luxurious palace.
Krishna knowing the thoughts of all ,thought:-This friend of mine did not love for wealth.He has come here not for wealth but just to see me.He came respecting his wife’s words and I will give himeverything even without asking for anything.
Then he caught hold of the small cloth from Kuchela saying “What is this?Is this for me?”And opened it.And saw what is inside.Then he said :Youknow what I like best.I love aval.
He ate a handful of it.When he started to eat a second handful Rugmini caught his hand and prevented him from doing so.She said:-Lord,For this greatest Bhaktha to get all his desires in this and the next loka this is enough.
That night Kuchela stayed with Krishna.He thought he was in heaven.Next day when he took leave Krishna came to the gate and embraced him and gave him leave.
On his way Kuchela thought:-Krishna did not give and I did not ask either.I am in an ecstacy after seeing Krishna and with his embrace.What else doI need?The Bhagavan on whose chest the Goddess of Lakshmy is dwelling embraced this idol of poverty.He didn’t give me wealh because wealth makes men forget God .Thus thinking he reached his home.He could not recognize the place.It had changed to a palace with gardens and swimming pools and with decorated servants and he felt uneasy thinking that I have lost my way in daydreams.
But then he saw his wife with jewels and silk coming to welcome with servants and with musicians playing instruments to welcome him.He thought I am dreaming.She came and embraced him like a Lakshmi.He saw his home luxurious like Dwaraka and wondered how this happened.It must be the compassionate Krishna’s doing .What else can do this ?I needed his love ,friendship devotion only and he has given me these also.Thus fixed in Hari ,he attained vairagya in all the luxuries and remained ever devoted to Krishna and achieved liberation in this very life.

Krishna meets his friends and NandaGopa in Kurukshethra:-

While Krishna and Rama were happily living in Dwaraka a complete eclipse of the sun happened.It looked like the arrival of a deluge as in the end of a kalpa .When this eclipse was predicted early,all people migrated from lowlying areas to the Kshethra called Syamanthapanchaka.This was the place where after killing Kshathriyas for 21 times and destroying the whole race ,Parasurama bathed and got rid of his sins.Even if Krishna and Rama has no association tokarma,being Isa itself,they too went there like all human beings of that time.They too did yajna for removal of sins there to show a karmic model to humanity.People from all places of Bharathavarsha had assembled there .Akroora,Aahuka,Vasudeva and other yadava chiefs were there.Pradymna,Samba and Gada with all their brothers and cousins had come .There were only a few people in Dwaraka .Anirudha for protection of Dwaraka with suka and Saarana,and Charuchandra remained there and Krithavarma was there as their commander in chief.All the others came to Kurukshethra.All yadava with wives,with their entire army reached there for removal of sins for the predicted eclipse.They bathed ,took upavaasa,gave food to Brahmins and prayed for devotion forever in Krishna,and rested under trees .They saw all their friends there.Here Vyasa mentions the friends and relatives of Vrishnis.
Matsya ,Useenara,Kekaya,Kamboja,Kosala,Kerala,Aanartha,Srinjaya,Madra,Vidarbha,Kunthi kingdoms and their kings and subjects were friends and relatives of Vrishnis.The friends of Gokula ,the Gopika and Nanda had come and Rama and Krishna saw them all.They could not speak a word by that reunion and its bliss and looked at each other with tears of joy and embraced and kissed each other .Elders were worshipped and youngsters were given blessings.Kunthi seeing all her relatives in yadava race and Krishna was very happy too.She told Vasudeva:-Arya,I am the unluckiest of the lot amongst us.You have never thought of me even in my worst days though I am your sister.But when divine grace is against me,how can anyone remember me ?Every one forgets the one who is not having grace of God.
Vasudeva said:-We are only toys in the hands of God .Do not blame us.We were afraid of Kamsa and were in his jail and suffering so longso that we could not remember any other thing.Only now we have reached a safe place and a safe life with grace of God.You at least did not suffer the killings of your children by any one.

Bheeshma,Drona,Dritharashtra ,Gandhari ,her sons,Droupathi and Pandavas ,vidura,Kunthibhoja who is king of Kasi ,kripacharya,King of Kekaya Damaghosha ,kings of srinjaya,The king of Mithila the handsome Bheeshmaka,Yudhamanyu,Sudharmav,king of Madra,King of balheeka with his son,and all the kings of Bharatha were assembled there .Every one had opportunity to see and talk to Krishna and all of them wondered at the beauty,knowledge and attractive behaviour of him towards all alike .The kings praised vrishnis for having the great luck of having Krishna among them as protector.They said:-You are lucky.You can see him every day .And he is the one who is unseen even by yogins.His fame is in the veda.The water which wash his feet makes all worlds purified.His words purify the sasthraa and veda.This earth gives us all our needs by the touch of his feet only.To have the luck of living with him,seeing him,touching him,talking with him,and traveling with him ,eating and sleeping with him ,and association with him and protection from him always !!You are lucky since Srihari lives in your home always.

Vasudeva embraced Nanda and they remembered all the difficult times theyhad passed through for protecting this precious son of theirs from Kamsa and his cruelty.Seeing Nanda,Rama and Krishna could not speak a word due to overflowing love towards him.Yesodha and Nanda took them on their lap and washed them in their tears and embraced and kissed them as if they were still small children.Rohini and Devaki embraced Yesodha and talked with her with respect and love.They said:-How can we forget your friendship and love?We will not accept even heaven if it is offered in exchange for your love and friendship.My children who has never seen their father and mother grew up only with your love and compassion.By protecting them as your two eyes they became so valiant and bold and beautiful and compassionate and lovable .
The Gopikas seeing Krishna after several years embraced him with their eyes and attained his bhaava in a second.When they were in Haribhaava they were embraced by Hari ,in ekantha,and smiling at them said sweet words of love.
He said:-My friends!We were involved in protection of our people and in battles and duties of various types and could not come and see you for a long time.Do you still remember us,your childhood friends?Do you think that we are thankless people and enjoyed all your love there and forgotyou when we are here.Iswara has given us union and Iswara himself separates us from each other.Paraanuraaga in me for all living things gives them amritha.By luck ,you have such a deep love for me and so we are in union.This prapancha made of panchabhootha and all in it have in and out ,beginning and end and middle in me alone.Jeeva is the enjoyer and is in all panchabhootha.I am poorna and is in everything and know that there is nothing but me .
Thus he gave Adhyathmavidya to Gopikajana and they permanently merged in him ,by removing the coverings of the Athman forever.That lotus feet which is dhyanagamya and meditated upon by yogheeswara and which help to cross samsara ocean enlightening their minds all the time,that was not difficult for them.

While Krishna was talking with Pandavas,Krishnaa(Droupathy)was talkig with wives of Krishna.She asked:-Rugmini,Bhama,Kalindi,Kousalya,Lakshmana,Mithravinda,Jambavathy,Rohini,Bhadra, and all wives of Hari ,I want to hear the story of how Hari married you from yourself.

Rugmini said:-My brother and kings who are his friends decided to give me to Sisupaala and he like a Lion taking away his share from the jackals took me away .I pray that in all my janma I should be able to serve his feet.
(The Vivaha with Rugmini is by force abducting a girl from relatives and hence called Rakshasavivaha.)
Sathyabhama said:-My father thought Krishna had killed his brother.And to remove that rumour he searched for Syamanthaka and from Jambavan he got it and gave it back to my father.Thus my father gave me in marriage to Krishna.(This is called Prajapatya).
Jambavathy said:-My father could not at first identify him as Srirama and fought in vain for a few days.Then he understood the truth and gave me to him along with the jewel and from that day I am his daasi.(This too is Prajapathya).
Kaalindi said:-I had been doing thapas to get him as my husband.The all knowing Lord knew it.One day he came with his friend Arjuna and through mediation of Arjuna we united .(That is gandharva).
Mithravinda said:-Krishna in my swayamvara came and conquered kings and my brothers and took me as his wife.(This is cousin marriage which was done in a rakshasa style.Being a cousin marriage it is natural love for the girl too.)
Sathyavathy said:-My father decided that my marriage should be after testing the strength of the bridegroom.He thus had 7 ox in our palace specially kept for the purpose.No one can ever win them over .They were so strong.But kesava came and as if a child playing with toys he won over all and won me as well .Thus with Veeryasulka ,he made me his wife and servant out of love for me .(It was a swayamvara for Krishna .He himself had gone to King of Kosala asking for Kousalya and won over the ox just for making her his wife).
Bhadra said:-Krishna is my uncles son and I loved him from childhood being my bridegroom.Therefore my father gave me to him .(Cousin marriage)
Lakshmana said:-Narada used to tell the stories of Krishna .Hearing them I was in love with him.I meditated o him forever and became fixed in him.My father Brihatsena decided to give me to him and for that he made a plan.No one other than Krishna should be able to win .Friend ,In your marriage your father did a Matsyayanthra so that only Arjuna should marry you.My father had made such a one .Its refletion can be seen in water.Looking at the reflection,one has to send arrow and cut the fish in the revolving matsyayanthra.Hearing this all kings and princes came .They all failed in the test.Karna,Bheema,Duryodhana,King of Magadha,Ambashta ,Chedi were all there for the test.Arjuna saw the reflection and sent arrow and it touched the fish but did not fell it.Thus Krishna came last and in child’s play fell the fish .When sun was in the muhoortha called Abhijith he did this great feat.I was taken to him wearing two new cloths to cover my body and with garlands and music everywhere and I was shy.I looked at him with a side glance and a smile on my lips and my anklets making slight music walked to him slowly .I had a golden garland in hand and with a loving devoted heart I put it on his handsome neck.Then Mridanga,pataha,samkha ,bheri etc and vocal music and dance followed .The music was emotional and breaking the heart with love.When I married him thus,Droupathi,those greedy and desirous men who failed in the test came to fight with him.Hari kept me in his chariot with four horses and was ready with his sarngam bow to fight with them.That golden chariot was moved by Daruka ,and Hari took me like a lion from the onlooking jackals.Winning over the kings that followed we reached Dwarka by evening.My father gave wealth ,crowns,ornaments and cloths etc to all relatives on the occasion.Elephants,horses,chariots and deorated dasis were sent to Dwaraka as kanyasulka.Also several weapons were given toKrishna by my father.We ,eight of them,doing thapas every day and discarding all attachment to samsara thus ,became his eternal dasi and kaantha forever .
The other Mahishijana said:-In Digvijaya ,Narakaasura made us prisoners in his city.We worshipped Hari for our liberation.He who knows everything ,and he who has no kaama or desire in anything came simply out of compassion for us,and killing Naraka took us as his wives and dasi.We desire just to wear the dust of his feet on our heads and worship him for ever in all janma .We do not desire empires,power,place of Indra in heaven ,the place of Virat or Parameshty or even Vishnuloka.Werespectfully wish to have the dust of his feet ,which is worn by the Gopaala,the grass of vrindavan,the Gopikas,the women of Pulindadesa etc .It is easy to get it if one gets his compassion through devotion and love .

The conversation between Droupathy and wives of Krishna was listened to by Kunthi,Gandhari,Madhavi ,the Gopikas and wives of all the kings.All of them with love in Krishna shed tears of bliss hearing the stories of their love.
The men were also having their private conversations.Rama and Krishna and the yadava chiefs and Pandavas were conversing cheerfully.The sages came to visit Krishna and Rama.They were Vyasa,Brihaspathy,Narada,Gouthama,Kousika,Kasyapa,Angiras,Athri,Devala,Yajnavalkya,Pulastya,Brighu,Vamadeva,Sathananda,Ekatha,Son of Mrikandu,ParasuRama and his disciples,Bharadwaja,Sanaka and his brothers,Vasishta,Dyutha,Chyavana,Thritha ,Agastya and Galava.
Krishna welcoming and worshipping them said;- our life has become purified by seeing the Yogeendras like you.No one withot thapas and purity can get your sight,and communication with you and we have got the luck of worshipping you too.The sand on which your feet is washed is the purest sacred theertha .By sajjanasevana we are purified.By the advice and blessing of a sajjana all sorrows are removed within a moment.This material body with thridosha of Vaatha ,pitha and sleshma is misunderstood as Athman by the ignorant and they are attached to it and to its pleasures of wife,son and wealth etc.They think that it is their own (swantham).To loose the feeling of difference in sand,stone,idol,living and nonliving things and in everything,to see God in everything is a difficult process and with darsana of yogins like you even that is possible.

The sages stood silent seeing the Iswara speaking the words of a human being ,to bound them in Maaya.They knew that it is for Lokaraksha and dharmaraksha.Krishna is secretly doing his dharma and pretending that he is an ordinary human being so that the dharma that he does and spreads will be done by others.They praised him with several veda words and said:-We know that though you are so close to them and so near them your relatives,the yadus and these kings do not know you as you are! That is the bondage of Maya is blocking their view and they see you as one among them only ,as a dear relative only.

When the Rishis were about to depart Vasudeva approached them and asked a way for destruction of all karma and acquisition of gnana.
Narada said:- Sages,do not wonder why Vasudeva is asking us when he has Krishna as his own son nearby.This is natural .Human beings have contempt or disrespect in the nearest object due to familiarity.(This is the saying familiaritybreeds contempt).Why should one living close to the Ganga wander here and there for purification rites?Yet this happens”

The rishis advised Vasudeva to worship Rishikesa without desire in the fruits of action with yajna so that all karma are destroyed.The grihastha has to earn wealth only by fair means and a part of it should be given for worship of Lord and for feeding the other beings ,guests etc.The greed for wealth should not be there.The feeling that this is mine and that is somebody elses and such differentiation brings in extreme competition and thus exploitation of weak by the strong.(Therefore Individual property rights were not there in ancient India ).By swanubhava and by knowledge of sasthra and by purity of mind sacrifice the eshanathraya and go to forest after Grihasthasrama and do thapas .All human beings are born with three Rna or debts .Debts for the Deva,Rishi and Pithru.By Adhyayana or learning our debts to Rishi is over.By yajna and pooja debts to deva is over.By children the debts to ancestors is over.You have already paid back all these debts .Except the yajna which you could not do in the jail of kamsa.So ,do them and get liberated from the debt to deva.You had done worship of Vishnu for several janma and as a result ,to give you the fruits of that thapas ,Bhagvan is born as your son.
Thus ,Vasudeva did yajna there itself with the rishis as Rithwiks.
In the yagasaala the kings and yadus came with white dress wearing lotus garlands along with their wives .Mridanga etc made rhythms and actors did dances .Magadha,sootha,and gandharva women and men sang praises.Vasudeva wearing anjana in eyes and applying butter all over his body ,with his 18 wives sat for Abhisheka like Moon with stars.Rama and Krishna decorated their father’s yagasala as sun and moon.After yajna Vasudeva gave away wealth as gold ,cows and cloths and did avabritha bath.He gave food to all jeeva and even dogs were invited for the annadaana.He gave gift sto all kings.After the yajna all others left except Nanda and his family who stayed back for some more days.One day Vasudeva caught the hands of Nanda and said:-My friend,what is meant by love?It is not the blood relation alone.It is a bondage which is done by God himself.To get out of that God’s decision no yogin or warrior or even God himself is incapable.You are good people.We have been thankless to you.Yet you love us so well.This friendship even after so many years have not lost its beauty or light .We could not help you in any way in the initial period because we were also helpless at that time.Now,because of our ego and our pride in our wealth we have become blind to who is our friend in reality.If a person gets extrawealth ,he forgets even the best friends.I have been so thankless to you.

Thinking about the old things and how Nanda and Yasodha helped him,Vasudeva wept like a child.Nanada stayed back for three months because he did not want to separate from his sons Rama and Krishna whom he had not seen for so long.At last he went back with his retinue ,not to Gokula but to Mathura since his group of Gopa and Gopika did not want to go back so soon .Krishna seeing that rainy season is nearing went back to his city of Dwaraka.
One day ,Vasudeva asked Rama and Krishna.”Both of you are Vishnu’s Avathara ,I have known it.You are capable of giving all desires to your devotees.You are Lords of all the prapancha.Directions,its right the aakaasa,its manifested form the Naada,Omkarasabda,the forms that separate objects and all their names ,senses and their devatha ,intellect and its consciousness ,the truth of jeeva as anusmrithy –all are you only.You are Parabrahmamoorthy.Bless me so that I will never deviate from your love and devotion .
Krishna said:-What you said is logical about us ,your sons.Father,You,all these people around in Dwaraka are also Parabrahmaswaroopa.Though I am ONE I manifest as Many .
Thus Vasudeva became a gnani.Once Devaki heard that Krishan and Rama had shown the dead son to their Acharya as his Gurudakshina.She remembered her six sons who were killed by Kamsa in their infancy.She told them with tears in her eyes that she has a desire to see those children whom she could not even see or hold properly or give milk.She said,I know from your father you are Iswara ,the creators of the cosmos.Can you fulfill this one desire of mine?
Thus dependingon Iswaramaaya,the two sons entered Suthala where Mahabali lives.He was happy to see them.He worshipped both and with the water of their feet touched his own head.Mediataing on Krishna and with tears in his eyes flowing out of ecstacy of devaotion he praised them.
Krishna and Rama told him:-During the era of the 1st Manu ,Sage Mareechi had six sons in Urna .They saw Brahma trying to unite with his daughter and laughed at him.They were born due to this as Asuriyoni in Hiranyakasipu .These sons were born in my mothers womb in this era and were killed by Kamsa in infancy.My mother wants to see them.To reduce her sorrow we want them .After that they will be released from the curse of Brahma and reach Devaloka.Smaran,Udgeethan,Parishwangan,Ghrini,Pathanga and Kshuudrabrith are their names.All of them will be blessed by me and will get Muktthy.Thus saying ,with permission of Mahabali they took the dead children and showed them to Devakiand Vasudeva.Seeing tthem Devaki took them on her lap ,kissed and embraced and gave them milk with love.She was under the spell of delusion of Vishnmaya for some time .By that love and milk ,they had the remembrance of past janma .Thus they were liberated and worshipping mother ,father ,Krishna and Rma they left for heaven.Seeing this Devaki understood what had happened .She came back to her senses and knew that it was Vaishnavi Maaya.

Subhadraaharanam:-
Pareekshith wanted to know how his father’s mother Subhadra,sister of Balarama and Krishna was married by his grandfather Arjuna.Hence Suka ,the son of Vyasa told him that story.
When Arjuna doing a sacred pilgrimage in Bharathavarsha ,reached Prabhasatheertha he heard about the news that his uncles daughter Subhadra is getting married.He heard that Balarama wanted to give her to Suyodhana but no other yadava was agrreing to that proposal.Arjuna himself wanted to get her in marriage and so he took the disguise of a sanyasin and went to Dwarka for spending the four months of rains(Chathurmasya)there.Raama did not recognize him and gave him welcome and he saw Subhadra one day in Balarama’s house.Subhadra also saw him and fell in love instantly though he was in a sanyasi disguise.Both her mind and eyes were fixed in him.Subhadra was entrusted with the pooja of the sanyasin by Balarama.But ,Arjuna hurt by arrows of Kaamadeva felt uneasy with her pooja.Krishna and the elders of Yadu race knew that it was Arjuna and they alloed him to take her away while she goes for the festival of the Paradevatha.Subhadra was his charioteer.He won over the army of Balarama and Balarama was angry like an ocean during full moon day.Krishna made him tranquil by his sweet words of wisdom.Thus Rama was pacified and agreed to the alliance and sent wealth to Hasthinapura as the dowry .

Story of Sruthadevan:-
There was a devotee who was shantha and dharmika called Sruthadeva.He was a poet too.He lived in the Mithila city of Videha empire.He was a grihastha.He accepts only that what is required for keeping life as food .He did not have any ego that I am Haribhaktha.At that time the king was Bahulaswa,who too had no ego that I am Haribhaktha.To give darsana to both,Bhagavan went in his chariot to Mithila ,with Daruka.The sages who accompanied him were Suka,Narada,Vamadeva,Athri,Brihaspathy,BhargavaRama,Asitha,Kanua,Aaruni,Dwipayana,Chyavana and Maithreya.Wherever we passed the people of all janapada worshipped Krishna as if the Sun is worshipped with the grahagana .
We passed Aanartha,Kurujanghala,Runaka,Kunthi,kosala,panchala,Janghalas,Matsya,Madhu,
Kekayaa.Then reached Videha.All people came and welcomed and worshipped him.Both Sruthadeva and King of Mithila fell on his feet.Both invited Krishna to their homes for stay with them.Krishna ,without telling them ,took two equal forms and went to both houses simultaneously so that both are made happy .
At Janaka’s palace the king welcomed Krishna with all the sages and with tears of joy worshipped him .And gave him cows,wealth and other dakshina and good food .Then he took his feet on his lap and said serving them.:You are witness of all and selfrevealing and sarvabhoothathman.You have given us darsana ,because we have been thinking and meditating on your feet forever.
Krishna said:-For me,the dearest is my devotee .Not even Lakshmi,Adisesha and Brahma are dear to me as my Ekanthikabhaktha>
The king requested that to purify the race of Nimi and the country,Krishna should stay there with the sages for a few days.And krisna accepted that invitation.

At the same time in Sruthadeva’s house he was dancing in glee in a state of ecstacy when he saw the sages and Krishna arrived.He gave them carpets made of darba grass to sit.He washed their feet with his wife.The water was poured over their own heads as abhisheka.He gave fruits,flowers,chandana,dhoopa and dheepa ,water with ramacha grass in it,thulasi ,lotus etc .All his worship was with natural things ,available in the place ,and nlike that of the king which were luxurious and imported from different places and not natural to the place.The food he served was increasing Sathwaguna.He thought :-How could a grihastha ,who had fallen into samsara and grihasthasrama get this rare luck of seeing Bhagavan in my own house!!
He also took Krishnas feet on his lap after food and serving it said:-If ,thought deeply,I think you have been giving darsana to us every day ,from the moment you enterd our hearts and this is not the first time that you are coming to my house.Being seated in own hearts people do not see you.They think that you are far away.You are paramathman within all.You are Brahman as well as Prapancha.By your Maaya which bind the eyes people are unable to see you. I have been free from all sorrows by your darsana and there is nothing else I want .Order me what I should do now.

Hearing this Krishna smiled and caught both his hands and said:-I came here just to bless you .These sages came with me so that the entire world be purified.By darsana,sparsana,aradhana of good souls ,the sacred theertha of world become purified ,step by step only.Among living beings by the janma Maheesura with daivisampathy are greatest.He is also great with vidya,thapas,and bliss.And if such a person is my devotee too, his greatness is unthinkable.I do not love even my own form of Chathurbahu ,as my devoted Brahmin bhaktha.The Brahmin is sarvavedaswaroopa.And I am Sarvadevaathmaka.The envious people who are more concentrated in worshipping idols ,disrespect Bhoodeva who is Me,Guru as well as Athmaswaroopa.The Bhoosura cognizes that all beings and entire cosmos is me only in their pure mind.Therefore do worship in me and the Brahmarshis as before .That is all needed.
Thus simultaneously Hari went to a poor home and a rich palace and gave bliss of mukthy to both his devotees who had Ekathmabhava ,He spent a few days in Mithila teaching vedamarga to both his devotees and the people .

Sruthigeetha:-

Pareekshith asked:- Great sage,NirgunaBrahman has no cause or effect and cannot be spoken of .Then how can in it function the Sruthi which has function of Guna?
Sage Suka said:- Iswara created intellect ,indriya,praana and chitha for the vishayasukha,performance of duty/dharma,and attainment of heaven by sathkarma,and for imaginative and creative power for the manifold jeevarasi contained within Hmself .Cognising This Upanishadam which is on Brahman ,the ancestors in succession discarded all and got liberated .Narayana Rishi and Narada once had a discussion.Rishi Narayana was living in Kalaapagrama in Badari ashramam and doing thapas for the welfare of all beings of Bharathavarsha.Narada asked him:-Previously people of the Janaloka had a discussion on Brahmavada.I would like to know it.
Bhagavan in front of all the Brahmavadin sages assembled there told him:-There was aBrahmasathra there by Urdharethas rishis directly born from the mind of Brahma.Probably you heard their discussion when you went there to visit the white Iswara .Because you have asked me that question,now.They were all equally knowers of Brahman,and equally having thapas and lacked dualities or friend and foe .Yet they made one person the speaker and others were listening.The Parabrahman who was in yoganidra,merging in oneself with all his powers,and they reached there and awakened him from that pralayanidra.By their sthuthy ,(praise)they awakened his Sruthy(hearing)..It was like a vandi awakening the king every day morning with good music praising him .
It was as follows:-
Victory to eternally winning and successful Lord! Killer of Malla (Mallari).Liberate the Maaya which block the eternal bliss of this jeevasangha.You have all vibhoothy.You awaken all jeeva.The one with prakrithy,the sruthi praises you.This seen form also is you and in pralaya everything merge in you.When the pots merge in soil ,the soil lasts and like that you are present even in pralaya.Therefore sages does their mind and word vyaapara in you daily.Whether the foot touches sand,torn,or stone ,it is earth.Like that whatever name the devotees call you,you are you only.Scholars ,in the ocean of thy stories merge and remove sorrows,dualities of raagadwesha ,old age,death etc by swaprakaasa and attain eternal bliss.Only if a human being remember you and praise you he is having breath.Otherwise his life is like a bellows(an instrument made of leather for blowing and making music,and by artisans) only.Mahath and Aham by your influence created universes.You as purusha enter it and give it life.Even when they end you does not end.Therefore you arethe Sesha (the one that remains or Balance).You are both gross and subtle and are the satya of satya.
There are two Munimarga for your meditation.In the gross marga ,they meditate you in Manipoorachakra in the Nabhi .
Another group called the Aarunis meditate you in Hrichakra (Anahatha)and from that chakra,if one pass through sushumna and fix in sahasrara ,and thus leave thebody ,that one will not fall into death and birth cycle again.You are in every body ,in every being according to their yoni manifesting differently .The body etc is not absolute truth yet in them the scholars see you only because there is nothing but you.In and out of everything only you are there.You are sarvasaktha.And purusha is created from an amsa or part of you.To experience purusha and ,meditating on your feet with scientific injunctions,and with faith they know your truth that is unknowable.By contact with such people ,who are your devotees ,people get purification and opportunity to know samsara and to liberate from it.That janma without pleasure of loving you is in vain.Even the enemies do remember you always.The women who desire embrace of a man’s body which is equal to that of a serpent ,and we who always drink nectar of your feet are alike for you.You are the first(Adya).Therefore the people who came after find t difficult to know you.Even the Brahma originated from your nabhi.When you were sleeping ,containing everything within you,there was no time or kaala,no sasthra,no sath or asath,no mass or body.
The end of sath and beginning of asath is a differenciation made by the imagination of mind.The advice of several Mathadhyaksha(leaders of different opinions) differ because of their delusions .The difference of Gunathraya projecting into purusha also is due to such Branthi or delusions.The root cause is that it is difficult to know you with gross senses alone
You are dense gnana and different from thamas,and selfluminant and differences does not exist in you.You are sath and in you is this prapancha with thriguna and hence astha having its prathishta.Prapancha includes humans as well.Since based in you,they seem as sath .Gold in its different forms is Gold only.Similarly all forms are you only.One who serves you with sarvabhoothathmabhaava and without any doubt crosses death.The one though learned ,does not love you,is bound by his own words and arguments like a animal.Your lovers,the devotees are most merciful and compassionate and purify cosmos just by their presence.Others are polluting it.Existing by yourself,without organs ,strong with all bhootha ,everyone gives you bali including deva,like Samantha gives bali to emperor.All celestial beings do their jobs afraid of your displeasure.In your play with Maaya,jeevi with karma are awakened and born.Looking like soonya,looking like aakaasa ,and all compassionate ,unseen,and without a second, you are experienced.
If jeevathma were many ,without control for breathing and laws of balance everything will be in chaos.The one who say I know even does not know you.You are in all due to your nature a scause of all.Jeeva are with upadhi of maaya from you created and are in samsara .You teach them to destroy avidya and to get liberated.For prakrithi and purusha who have no birth ,the janma of both is not there.Like bubbles in your union are created all jeevi here.They mergein you as different tastes of flowers exist in honey and several rivers exist in ocean.Maaya is removed only with your blessings.Knowing you men become fearless.For your devotee there is no fear of samsara.In your Agnachakra in the brookuti as kaala with thrichakra (time with past ,present,future) is there.And one who does not meditate upon you and love you is afraid of that kaaalachakra.Without worshipping the Guru ,trying to control the horses of senses and mind people get into trubles and sorrows.It is like the vaniks(tradesmen )who are in trouble in the sea ,when they have no Karnadhaara (Captain ) in their ship.You are sachidananda and gives abhaya to devotees.Waht is the use of land,wife,son,wealth ,house,vehicle,etc ?Without knowing the true object men and women get desire in rathi or eros .This killing by immersing in samsarasindhu is like suicide.The sages who are sinless by worshipping your feet still do worship the theertha of eartha as they do not have ego.The one who at least once remember you,will not have the desire in samsara as before.this cosmos originated from Sath(truth)and becomes sath.Therefore everything is Sath and everything is you.This samsara is for the maintainance and sustenance of the races only.This cosmos was not there before creation.It will not be there after pralaya.In the middle only it is seen to exist in you.Therefore all sciences dealing with matter and its classification have decided that that one which is truth forever alone is truth and that is you.Men depend upon guna for functioning of life.Like a serpent discards its skin the wise discard maaya .Your body is indivisible and scholars divide it into 8 vibhoothy for understanding.You reside in people who are good and bad.therefore if a yogin does not discard desire,you become unattained .They are afraid of Mrityu and you who is always nearby.The one who loves you does not know any sorrow .And even vidhinishedha does not affect him.In all yuga by hearing according to sampradaya(sravanam by sampradaya or tradition)you are worn (dharanam)in hearts and for them you give moksha.Your end is not known by Indra or other devas and even by you yourself.You have no boundary.The boundaries of the several universes,and their 7 coverings internally perceived,with the kaalachakra or wheel of time revolve in spacetime as dust particles only.The boundary of you beyond all tehse Brahmandas.You are known only by negating other things as Nethi,Nethi etc.Becasue you are not perceived by word,deed or mind.

Hearing this sruthigeetha which is revealing the self(Athmaprabhodhaka)Narada etc became sidha and worshipped Sanandana who adviced this in Brahmaloka.This is the essence of all veda and Upanishads.All our ancestors and nishkamayogins learned this from Sanakaadi rishi.Knowing this live in the world without any sorrow.

Narayana Rishi was then worshipped by Narada thus:-To protect all bhootha from sorrows of samsara you are born from Sri Narayana.Namaskaram to that Bhagavan Madhava.”Then the sage came to Vyasa’s ashram.He told everything that Narayana told in Badari ashram to my father Vyasa and I heard it.That is why I could answer your question.Who first created the cosmos,and protects it and destroys it during pralaya and who remains in all the thrikaala ,who controls everything and every jeeva,being their antharyamin that One is Krishna.Like a dreamer forgets own body,jeevan forgets own Athman and see illusions as Maaya and with awkening discard the maaya and see own form.The one who gives liberation from samsara and gives abhaya or fearless state to all devotees ,that NirgunaBrahman,Vishnu as Krishna is always remembered and worshipped by me.
Thus said sage Suka.

Kaivalya only with devotion to Mahavishnu:-
Those who worship Shiva become wealthy and powerful easily but devotees of Mahavishnu are poor and powerless and what is the reason for this?
Mahavishnu is Nirguna .Thereofre the wealth of Gunathmaka prakrithy is not kaivalya and that of Nirguna is real wealth.To get worldly wealth is eaiser than getting eternal wealthof kaivalya.Yogin who desire kaivalya therefore do not go after the wealth of the world or after power and other sidhi.
Brahman and Shiva are easily pleased even by thapas of thamasic and rajasic people but Mahavishnu is pleased only with sathwik devotion.The easily pleased deities are easily angered as well .But Mahavishnu is not angered easily .He is patience incarnate like mother earth herself.Giving boons to Ravana and Baana etc easily ,Shiva hurt the entire world and regretted for giving the boon later on.Vrikasura went to KedarNatha and did cruel thapas ,cutting pieces of flesh from own body and dedicating it to Shiva in fire.Seventh day,impatient that Shiva did not appear,he tried to cut away his own head.then Shiva appeared.Because Shiva is compassionate in his devotees he came not because he was pleased either with such cruel thapas or with his impatience.When Shiva touched the body of Vrika it became healthy and whole again.Shiva asked him what boon I should give you.He said:-The person on whose head I place my hands should become ashes instantly.Shiva gave that boon.He had protected and given boon to Vrika as if giving milk toa serpent.Vrika wanted to get Parvathy and for that to kill Shiva .That was the purpose of his austerity.The moment he got the boon he ran after Shiva to touch his head.Shiva ran in all the worlds and in the 10 directions sweating and breathing hard and the asura followed him everywhere.Devas and Brahma seeingthis and not knowing a solution kept silent.Shiva at last reached Vaikunta where only sathwik guna shines.
Vaikunta is the abode of the saantha sanyasins who never does Himsa with thoughts and words and deeds and it is there that Mahavishnu resides.One who reach there has no rebirth.Hari seeing the plight of Shiva took the guise of a young Brahmacharin and went towards Vrika.Carrying a danda,ajina,japamala,mekhala,and kusa grass like a fire in form,he asked Vrika:-You look tired.Why were you running like this?I f I can help you ,tell me the problem.
Vrika told all that had happened.Then Hari said with a smile.”We Sanyasins do not give much heed to boons of Shiva.He has the curse of Daksha and after that his boons do not become true.See whether what he gave is true just by keeping your hand on your head.You will find my words are true.We sanyasins say only truth.
To test words of Shiva ,the ignorant thamasic Asura kept hands on his own head and as if stuck by a lightening he fell down dead.Therefore Shiva was saved.
Mahavishnu gives kaivalya .The other sidhis are not given by him.

Test of Brighu on thrimurthy:-
Once sages doing thapas in the banks of Saraswathy had a discussion.They argued who among the thrimurthy are more patient?Brighu,son of Brahma was sent to test the three .First he went to Brahmasabha.He did not praise or worship Brahma and Brahma was angry at the quiet and tranquil Muni for that.But he with his own tapas controlled that anger towards his own son.
Then Brighu went to Kailasa .Shiva embraced and welcomed him as if his own brother.But Brighu said do not embrae me because you have lostthe way of the righteous.Shiva was angry and eyes red and trident raised tried to kill him.Parvathy fell at his feet and made him calm.Then the sage reached Viakunta.He saw Vishnu sleeping on his cot of Anantha in deep yoganidra with his feet on lap of Lakshmi.The sage strck on his chest with his hard feet to awaken him.Vishnu awoke and caught the feet of the rishi and said:-Forgive me.I did not know your arrival.Did your feet feel the pain by kicking on my feet?Thus saying he caressed the feet slowly to reduce its pain.
He said:-By putting your feet which is the sacred theertha you have made me purified and I will carry this mark on my chest forever as a mark of your respect.
Hearing this the sage in devotion and bliss shed tears of joy and became silent by aanaanda and he went back and told everything to the sages in saraswathy .
Shanthy and abhaya and peace and kaivalya are residing in Vishnu .Dharma and the eight vibhoothy flow from him with vairagya and gnaana and his devotee gets moksha and untold fame forever.He is the paramagathy of the sages who are always dharmic and never forsake satya and ahimsa.His three murthy are the sathika as sura and rajasa as asur and thamas as rakshasa.Of these sura murthy is more sathwik and hence more nearer to Vishnu.

Santhaanagopaala:-
In dwaraka when a Brahmins wife delivered the child died immeadiately.This happened several times.Each time when a child dies the Brahmin will bring the dead body to gate of Dwaraka and keep it there and say that because of the adharma of the king I have lost my child.The 9th time when this occurred Arjuna was in Dwaraka ..He was surprised at this and asked why are you doing like this?He heard the Brahins complaint and said I will protect your next child and if not possible I will jump into fire and sacrifice my own body.Arjuna said with pride:-
Brahmin,I am not Sankarshana or Krishna.I am not Anirudha.I am son of Indra wearing the great bow called Gandeeva.Do not insult my prowess which won over even the prowess of Shiva.I will win over even Anthaka in battle to get back your child.

The next delivery neared and Arjuana was ready to protect the baby with his great bow.He made a covering of divine arrows all around the house .But the child was dead as before when it was born.Brahmin went to Krishna and said several insulting words about Arjuna.I believed in the words of this Napumsaka ,he said insulting Arjuna.Arjuna went to the world of Yamadharma called samyamani but did not see the child there.He searched the abode of Indra and Agni ,Varuna,Nryathi,winds,and soma ,paathaala ,sky and earth.But not getting the child Arjuna was ready to sacrifice himself in fire.But Krishna prevented him from doing so.He asked Arjuna to enter his own divine chariot and both of them went towards the western direction.They crossed the seven islands,with seven lands in each,seven oceans around each,lokaaloka and reached the darkness beyond that.In that Thamas ,the horses could not see the way to go forward.Therefore Krishan sent his chakra in front .The wheel cutting the darkness with its light showed the way beyond that darkness into the paramjyothis and seeing that Arjuna closed both his eyes.they saw the huge waves moving in winds and in its middle the white house with jeweled pillars and luminnant .There they saw the thousandhooded Anantha with endless jewels spreading light and on that blue serpant they saw Hari with his santhabhaava reclining.Yellow silk garmets ,lotus eyes,jeweled crown and kundala,jasminelike teeth ,beautiful hair and hands reaching upto knees,kousthubha and sreevalsa ,vanamaala and retinue around the sight was incomparable.The wheel ,conch ,mace and lotus and the eight vibhoothy served the Lord..Krishna an Arjuna worshipped him.Mahavishnu said:-I had a desire to see you two who are born as Nara and Narayaana to protect dharma on earth and for that purpose I just took the children here.
Uttering OM they received the children from the Lord and came back and gave to the Brahmin .
While Krishna walked on the earth the earth gave all wealth and grains and food and rains came in time and there was wealth in entire earth and people were happy and interested in doing dharma and in pleasing him by doing dharma.

Krishan lived in Dwaraka with prosperity and happiness with all his friends and relatives and people.In the homes of Dwaraka people played different arts like Panthadi dance,Bharatahnatya,chinthupaatu and melodious music and accompaniments.Woman sang and danced beautifully.Several elephants,horses,warriors ,golden chariots,always traveled in the royal paths.Beautiful gardens,forests ,flowering and fruit trees,birds singing on them ,and music of insects (with 6 feet )that sang around flowers and the beautiful retinue of 16000 women made the city always colourful .In each of the houses were tanks,wells and lotus flowers,and other water flowers ,and their fragrant pollen spread everywhere.Krishna did Jalakreeda in them with the kumkuma spreading in the waters from their bodies embracing him .Veena,panava,mridanga,Aanaka,etc were played by Gandharva,Vandi,sootha and Maaagadha and they sang according to the time of the day ,their music to make Krishna happy .The women and Krishna played with coloured water sprinkling on each other in competition .They embraced him during such playful moods and got moksha instantly from all sorrows of samsara.Krishna looked like a happy elephant king playing with his womenfolk in forests freely .He and his wives gave gifts of jewels and silks etc to dancers and musicians .With his side glances,touch,smile,music ,humour and ways of life and beauty Krishna attracted all his wives and all people alike .All his wives thought only of him and nothing else.
They sang in his praise,while he was away :-
Chakravaaka(a bird), why do you keep awake and sing at night.
Your lover is Gupthabodha .He is asleep .
Are you like us,wounded by the smiles and glances of Hari?
You are crying at night ,not seeing him
Like us,forever his servants who cannot suffer his separation
Even for a second.
Do you desire to wear the garland dedicated at his feet
Just like us ?
Ocean,you are so deep and wide and yet without sleep
Even at night in Jagrad state you make huge cries and heave
Like us separated from him .You too are attaracted to Mukunda like us?
Moon,grasped by the disease Kshaya (Rajayakshma)
You are so weak .You have lost efficiency to remove darkness.Are you keeping silence fearing to get sorrow of disobeying the word of Krishna?
He had promised to come to play with us in moonlight
He didn’t come.So you have lost a chance to serve him.
What did we do to displease you ,wind from Malaya mountains
Our minds wounded by Krishna is made
Full of Manmathachintha by you!
Clouds,you are friend of Krishna,we know.
You meditate on him like us with sradha
And remembering him shed tears of joy
Hearing his stories always is bliss as well as
Full of sorrow of separation
Kokila,with sweet voice,
Like Krishna with your loving music
As Mrithasanjeevika you converse as a sushtu(pure soul)
What we can do for you as a reward for it?
Great mountains,you do not utter a word
Or move.Are you thinking of the great purushartha Moksha?
Just as us ,do you want to wear his feet
On your breasts(the peaks)?
With his separation we have become thin
And like that the rivers ,wives of Sindhu,
and lakes have become thin
without decorations of lotus flowers.
Swan,welcome.Taste the food and water
and tell us stories of Madhava.
Are you his messenger ?
Is he well and happy?
Does he remember what all he told us?
His friendship is vibratory.
The mean messenger,bring him to us .
Kamala alone is not the only woman
Who has Ekapatheevratha.
We are having ekanthabhaava in
Krishna ,Yogayogeswara.

Thus singing in his separation,all of them reached his paramapada and mukthy.Apart from the 16000 women he had another hundred (16100)and 8 as his principal consorts (16108).Among the sucessors of Krishna 18 became Maharatha.They were,
Pradyumna,anirudha,deepthiman,chithrabhanu,Brihadbhanu,Bhanu,pushkara,samba,Madhu,Vedabahu,Nyagrodha,Sruthadeva,Viroopa,Kavi,Aruna,Vrika,Sunanda,Chithrabhanu.
Anirudha is son of Pradymna in daughter of Rugmi .He married daughter of Rugmis daughter and their son was Vajra and he remained in Mousala.His son was Prathibahu and his son Subahu and his son Santhasena and Sruthasena was his son.All the people in that race was good,devoted to Brahmins,and prosperous.One cannot count the number of their successors .The Gurus who taught all these yadava children ,grandchildren and successors is about 3crore lakhs and 88 and then we can assume the number of students to be more.
The race of Ugrasena
101 one races of Kasyapeya
Are uncountable and belong to yadava race too.
The curse of rishis in the Yadu race :-
By the kurukshethra war Krishna made dharma win over adharma.but by this time by the thought that Krishna is born among us and we are invincible the yadava race became too egoistic and proud.Their destruction came by that ego .It was like agni which originated in a forest of bamboo,destroys the bamboo forest itself,that a quarrel of internal strife destroyed the yadu race.
But how did the Vrishnis who are devotees of Vishnu ,Brahmanabhaktha and daaanaseela get a curse from Brahmins?
Sages like Viswamithra,Kanua,Asitha,Vasistha,Kasyapa,Vamadeva,Brighu,Durvasas,Athri,Angiras ,Narada were sent to PindarakaTheertha by Krishna.When they came ,the children of yadava race who were playing in Dwaraka thought to play a trick on them.They dressed up Sambha ,son of Jmabavathy as a girl who is pregnant .He pretended as if he is a shy pregnant young girl and others asked the sages ,whether she will deliver a male or a female?The sages who were insulted said that she will deliver a iron mace and with that your entire race will be destroyed.The childrenimmeadiately removed the cloth covering Sambha’s middle and saw a iron weapon .The children brought it to the sabha of Krishna and said what had happened.All yadava chiefs were afraid.King Ugrasena said ,to escape from curse that weapon should be made into a powder and thrownin the ocean.Thus the yadavas made it powdered but a last small piece remained .
That piece was eaten by a fish and the fish was caught by a fisherman.The fisherman sold the iron piece to ahunter and he made an arrow with it.The powdered iron came to shore with waves and each sprouted into sharp grass (Eraka grass)on the shores.

Krishna knowing that it is time for him to depart from this world gave his message for posterity to his best friend Udhava .Udhava went to Badarikashram as asked by Krishna and meditating on Krishna and his teaching dwelled there.
Pareekshith asked Suka:-How did Bhagavan’s body which was the center of attraction for all and which was the seat of bliss for all was lost to us?How did he sacrifice that lovely form odf his which had been the refuge of all?Which form entering heart through eyes never leaves it,which name and stories entering through ears fix in chethana forever,and by which poets and musicians were always blissful and creative ,and by which feet the earth was purified –How Lord sacrificed it to go back to his dhama?
Suka said:- Krishna saw the Uthpaatha or comets in earth,anthariksha and sky and knowing that the time has come for departure told people of his sabha,the sudharma.All of us should move away from Dwaraka because these bad omens portend destruction of our city in the ocean.Let all women and children leave for the Sankhodharakatheertha.We will go to Prabhasatheertha where River Saraswathy flow to the west.There we will live and take sacred baths and do good deeds and shanthikarma and give away alms to Brahmins to divert bad effects of the omens seen.Thus the men and women of Dwarakain boats and ships left Dwaraka and went to the directions they were told.
The men did all ausoicious karma as Krishna told them.But after that they started to drink aliquor called Maireyaka.The proud and egocentric Yadavas with inebriation of liquor lost their swabodha and quarreled between each other.The quarrel became a war .Samba,Pradyumna,Akroora,Bhoja,Anirudha,Sathyaki,Sangramajisnu,Bhadran,Sumithran,surathan,Darunan,Gadhan,Sahasrajith,Bhanu,Sathajith,were all in that battling crowd.Sathwatha,Vrishni,Andhaka,Dasarha,Bhoja,Madhu,Arbudha,Soorsena,Mathura,Kunthi,Visarjana,Kukura,branches of yadus forgetting their friendships and relationships fought each other vigourously and when all weapons were finished they strted to pluck the strong Eraka grass on th seashore as weapons and each blade of grass converted to an iron Musala killed them instantly according to the curse of the Sages.When Krishna tried toprevent them the proud yadavas struck even him .They tried to kill Balarama thinking that he is their enemy.Then Rama and Krishna ,to fulfill the word of the sages took the grass themselves and killed all the warring yadavas within no time.Thus the entire race perished as if fire destroys a bamboo forest.Balaraman then went to the seashore and knowing the end,in yoga sat in deep mediatation ,merging Athman in Athman and by Dhyanayoga in Samadhi sacrificed his temporary body and went to his swadhaama.
Seeing Rama’s Samadhi,Krishna took vow of silence and sat in dhyana under a banyan tree.Like fire without smoke ,in his own enlightenment ,in his form of fourlimbed state illuminating all sides Krishna sat in mediation.The dense blue body, marked with sreevalsa, covered with two silks like molten gold, and auspicious smile ,lotus feet and blue hairs untied on head,ornaments and the Brahmasoothra as upaveetha,and his weapons around,left feet on the right thigh he sat in deep meditation.
The hunter called Jara ,who had purchased the piece of iron from the fisherman thinking that the blue feet is that of an animal from a covered distance sent that arrow .And the arrow struck Krishna’s feet.Coming forward the hunter saw Krishna and was sad as well as afraid of having committed a great sin.He prostrated at krishna’s feet and said:-Uthamasloka,Madhusoodana,This sinner has done a sin by ignorance.Sudhathman,forgive me for this heinous crime of mine.Your body which is meditated upn by even the yogins has been hurt by my arrow.Give me a punishment so that I will never commit such a sin even in next janmas.
Bhagavan said:-Do not be afraid .Do not grieve.You did this becaue I so willed it.Because you have done what I desired you will go to heaven .
By that time vimana from heaven came and the hunter circumambulating Krishna three times went to heaven in that.Daruka was searching for Krishna and he smelt thulasi and came to where Krishna sat and saw what had happened.Seeing Krishna in meditation posture under the banyan tree and surrounded by wheel,conch,mace and lotus and that he is departing from this world he in love and devotion jumped out of the chariot and fell at his feet .He cried:-If I lost sight of your feet what will lead me?Without moon how can one see path in dark night in a forest ?
Then he saw the chariot with symbol of Garuda on flag and the four divine horses going up to heaven on its own .Then all the divine weapons followed that chariot.Krishna said:-Daruka,Go back to Dwaravathy and tell the news of Balarama’s death and my end to all .And it is not good to stay in Dwaraka after this.Whoever remains in Dwaraka should leave it immeadiately ,because when I leave my body entire Dwaraka will be submerged in the ocean .All elders and women should go to Indraprastha with Arjuna’s protection .This is my dharma and my wish .Be peaceful knowing that everything is Maaya.Daaruka again prostrated at Krishna’s feet and left for Dwaraka.

Swargarohana of Bhagavan
Shiva,Bhavani,Brahma,Saraswathy ,Indra,all devas ,pithrudevas,sidha,gandharva,vidyadhara,bhoodeva,apsara,chaarana,yaksha,rakshas,kinnara,mahauraga,pakshi came to see the Samadhi and swargarohana of Bhagavan.They came and sang his stories with devotion .The entire aakasa was filled by celestial beings who rained flowers on Krishna with ekanthikabhakthy.Krishna seeing them,in deep meditation,merging mind in Athman,closing slowly his lotus eyes,sacrificed his beautiful body which is the subject of dhyana,and dhaarana of yogins .But he did not burn it in the yogagni and went with it to his dhaama.When he left devadundhubi naada was heard in the heavens and flowers rained.From earth,satya,dharma,dhrithy,keerthy ,aiswarya departed with that Uthamapurusha and Kali descended on earth.Even Brahma and Shiva could not see his departure to his dhaama.No one can see the gathi of paramapurusha.They just saw a light departing.Hari was seen as a lightening that departs from a field of clouds and its course or destination could not be assessed by even the celestials.Only a Ekanthikabhaktha of Hari know the course and dhaama of Hari.
After his departure ,Brahma,Shiva and the others also went back to their own abodes.

Suka said:-King Pareekshith,The leela of Bhagavan is like that of an actor on stage.All this is Maaya.Making prapancha,entering it and playing leela in all bodies and all beings and by the greatness of Athman,remaining nonattached to anything,Padmanabha,that God of all is wonderful.The one who brought the son of Guru from abode of Yama,the one who protected you from the Brahmasthra of Aswathamaa,the one who made the hunter Jara who killed him to ascend toheaven withhis own body as jeevanmuktha,that compassionate and all protecting Krishna could have protected himself if he so wanted or willed.But ,he was not very keen to keep and protect that bodyof him forever in this world of existence.How to go to heaven in swastha state in yogic health was demonstrated for all to see so that human beings can face death as a natural law .That was his purpose.That is why he waited till all the people came to watch his death.Whoever in the dawn,sings this paragathy of Krishna with devotion gets uthamagathy and moksha.

Daaruka reached Dwaraka in a dazed state and washing the feet of Vasudeva and Ugrasena with his tears told them what had happened.The old people,women and friends of them fell unconscious hearing the terrible news.Then they got up and went in haste to the place where their loved ones lay dead.Rohini and Devaki and Vasudeva became sad due to love of their children.Each woman embracing her husbands body entered into funeral pyre along with it.Arjuna also wanted to jump into the funeral pyre and end his life with Arjuna.But he remembered krishna’s words and did all the rites for the yadava tribe since none of their people remained to do them .He took the remaining elders and children to Indraprastha and did Abhisheka for Vajra ,as king of Indraprastha.Pandavas hearing the news from Arjuna ,made you the king of Hasthinapura and left for Himalaya for Mahaprasthaana.
When Hari left his Dwaraka and this earth,that city was submerged by the ocean ,except one house which stands there even now.And people still go there and feel the presence of Hari in it.
Praising the life and activities of Krishna,and knowing his words and advices,and living according to it with sradha,one becomes free from all sins and is purified.Singing his glories and baalaleela,one becomes blissful and in both iha and para (this and that world) he will be a paramahamsa attaining paramapada of Hari itself.