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KB 1970-2-18 / Lord Krsna Returns to the City of Hastinapura
18 / Lord Krsna Returns to the City of Hastinapura
The kings and the princes released by Lord Krsna after the
death of Jarasandha were rulers of different parts of the world.
Jarasandha was so powerful in military strength that he had
conquered all these princes and kings, numbering 20,800. They
were all incarcerated within a mountain cave especially
constructed as a fort, and for a long time they were kept in
that situation. When they were released by the grace of Lord
Krsna, they all looked very unhappy, their garments were
niggardly, and their faces were almost dried up for want of
proper bodily care. They were very weak due to hunger, and
their faces had lost all beauty and luster. Because of the
kings' long imprisonment, every part of their bodies
had become slackened and invalid. But although suffering in
that miserable condition of life, they had the opportunity to
think about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu.
Now before them they
saw
the
color of the transcendental body of Lord Krsna, exactly
like the hue of a newly arrived cloud in the sky. He appeared
before them nicely covered by yellow colored silken garments,
with four hands like Visnu, and carrying the different symbols
of the club, the conchshell, the disc and the lotus flower.
There were marks of golden lines on His chest, and the
nipples of His breast appeared to be like the whorl of a lotus
flower. His eyes appeared to be spread like the petals of a
lotus flower, and His smiling face exhibited the symbol of
eternal peace and prosperity. His glittering earrings
were set beautifully, and His helmet was
bedecked with valuable jewels. The Lord's necklace of pearls
and the bangles and bracelets nicely situated on His body all
shone with a transcendental beauty. The Kaustubha jewel hanging
on His chest glittered with great luster, and the Lord wore a
beautiful flower garland. After so much distress, when the
kings and princes saw Lord Krsna, with His beautiful
transcendental features, they looked upon Him to their hearts'
content, as if they were drinking nectar through their eyes,
licking His body with their tongues, smelling the aroma of His
body with their noses, and embracing Him with their arms. Just
by dint of their being in front of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, all reactions to their sinful activities were washed
away. Therefore, without reservation, they surrendered
themselves at the lotus feet of the Lord. It is stated in the
Bhagavad-gita that unless one is freed from all kinds of sinful
reactions, one cannot fully surrender unto the lotus feet of
the Lord. All the princes who saw Lord Krsna forgot all their
past tribulations. With folded hands and with great devotion,
they began to offer prayers to Lord Krsna, as follows.
"Dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, master of all
demigods, You can immediately remove all Your devotees' pangs
because Your devotees are fully surrendered unto You. O dear
Lord Krsna, O eternal Deity of transcendental bliss and
knowledge, You are imperishable, and we offer our respectful
obeisances unto Your lotus feet. It is by Your causeless mercy
that we have been released from the imprisonment of Jarasandha,
but now we pray unto You to release us from the imprisonment
with the illusory energy of this material existence.
Please, therefore, stop our continuous cycle of birth and
death. We now have sufficient experience of the miserable
material condition of life in which we are fully absorbed, and
having tasted its bitterness, we have come to take shelter
under Your lotus feet.
Dear Lord, O killer of the demon Madhu, we can now
clearly see that Jarasandha was not at fault in the least; it
is actually by Your causeless mercy that we were bereft of our
kingdoms because we were very proud of calling ourselves
rulers and kings. Any ruler or king who becomes too puffed
up with false prestige and power does not get the opportunity
to understand his real constitutional position and eternal life.
Such foolish so-called rulers and kings become falsely
proud of there position under the influence of
Your illusory energy; they are just like a foolish
person who considers a mirage in the desert to be a reservoir
of water. Foolish persons think that their material possessions
will give them protection, and those who are engaged in sense
gratification falsely accept this material world as a
place of eternal enjoyment. O Lord, O Supreme Personality of
Godhead, we must admit that, before this, we were puffed up
with our material opulences. Because we were
all envious of each other and wanted to
conquer one another, we all engaged in fighting for supremacy,
even at the cost of sacrificing the lives of many citizens."
This is the disease of political power. As soon as a king or a
nation becomes rich in material opulences, he wants to dominate
other nations by military aggression. Similarly, mercantile men
want to monopolize a certain type of business and control other
mercantile groups. Degraded by false prestige and infatuated by
material opulences, human society, instead of striving for
Krsna consciousness, creates havoc and disrupts peaceful living.
Thus men naturally forget the real purpose of life: to attain
the favor of Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The kings continued: "O Lord, we were simply engaged in the
abominable task of killing citizens and alluring them to be
unnecessarily killed, just to satisfy our political whims. We
did not consider that Your Lordship is always present before us
in the form of cruel death. We were so fooled that we became
the cause of death for others, forgetting our own impending
death. But, dear Lord, the retaliation of the time element,
which is Your representative, is certainly insurmountable. The
time element is so strong that no one can escape its influence;
therefore we have received the reactions of our atrocious
activities, and we are now bereft of all opulences and stand
before You like street beggars. We consider our position to be
Your causeless, unalloyed mercy upon us because now we can
understand that we were falsely proud and that our material
opulences could be withdrawn from us within a second by Your
will. By Your causeless mercy only, we are now able to think of
Your lotus feet. This is our greatest gain. Dear Lord, it is
known to everyone that the body is a breeding ground of
diseases. Now we are sufficiently aged, and instead of being
proud of our bodily strength, we are getting weaker day by day.
We are no longer interested in sense gratification or the false
happiness derived through the material body. By Your grace, we
have now come to the conclusion that hankering after such
material happiness is just like searching for water in a desert
mirage. We are no longer interested in the results of our pious
activities, such as performing great sacrifices in order to be
elevated to the heavenly planets. We now understand that such
elevation to a higher material standard of life in the heavenly
planets may sound very relishable, but actually there cannot be
any happiness within this material world. We pray for Your
Lordship to favor us by instructing us how to engage in the
transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet so that we may
never forget our eternal relationship with Your Lordship. We do
not want liberation from the entanglement of material existence.
By Your will we may take birth in any species of life; it does
not matter. We simply pray that we may never forget Your lotus
feet under any circumstances. Dear Lord, we now surrender unto
Your lotus feet by offering our respectful obeisances unto You
because You are the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, the son of Vasudeva. You are the Supersoul in everyone's
heart, and You are Lord Hari, who can take away all miserable
conditions of material existence. Dear Lord, Your name is
Govinda, the reservoir of all pleasure. One who is
engaged in satisfying Your senses automatically satisfies his
own senses also, and therefore You are known as
Govinda. Dear Lord, You are ever famous, for You can put an end
to all the miseries of Your devotees. Please, therefore, accept
us as Your surrendered servants."
After hearing the prayers of the kings released from the prison
of Jarasandha, Lord Krsna, who is always the protector of
surrendered souls and the ocean of mercy for the devotees,
replied to them as follows in His sweetly transcendental voice,
which was grave and full of meaning. "My dear kings," He said,
"I bestow upon you My blessings. From this day forth you will
be attached to My devotional service without fail. I give you
this benediction, as you have desired. You may know from Me
that I am always sitting within your hearts as Supersoul,
and because you have now turned your faces towards Me, I, as
master of everyone, shall always give you good counsel so that
you may never forget Me and so that gradually you will come
back home, back to Godhead. My dear kings, your decision to
give up all conceptions of material enjoyment and turn instead
toward My devotional service is factually the symptom of your
good fortune. Henceforward you will always be blessed with
blissful life. I confirm that all you have spoken about Me in
your prayers is factual. It is a fact that the materially
opulent position of one who is not fully Krsna conscious is the
cause of his downfall and of his becoming a victim of the
illusory energy. In the past, there were many rebellious kings,
such as Haihaya, Nahusa, Vena, Ravana and Narakasura. Some of
them were demigods, and some of them were demons, but because
of their false perception of their positions, they fell from
their exalted posts, and thus they no longer remained the kings
of their respective kingdoms.
"While lost in the violence of conditional life, every one of
you must understand that anything material has its starting
point, growth, expansion, deterioration, and,
finally, disappearance. All material bodies are subjected to
these six conditions, and any relative acquisitions which are
accumulated by this body are definitely subject to final
destruction. Therefore, no one should be attached to perishable
things. As long as one is within this material body, he should
be very cautious in worldly dealings. The most perfect way of
life in this material world is simply to be devoted to My
transcendental loving service and to honestly execute
the prescribed duties of one's particular position of life. As
far as you are concerned, you all belong to ksatriya families.
Therefore, you should live honestly, according to the
prescribed duties befitting the royal order, and you should
make your citizens happy in all respects. Keep to the standard
of ksatriya life. Do not beget children out of sense
gratification, but simply take charge of the welfare of the
people in general. Everyone takes birth in this material world
because of the contaminated desires of his previous life,
and thus he is subjected to the stringent laws of nature, such
as birth and death, distress and happiness, profit and loss.
One should not be disturbed by duality, but should always be
fixed in My service and thus remain balanced in mind
and satisfied in all circumstances, considering all things to
be given by Me, and one should remain undeviated from
engagement in devotional service. Thus one can live a very
happy and peaceful life, even within this material condition.
In other words, one should actually be callous to this material
body and its by-products and should remain unaffected by them.
He should remain fully satisfied in the interests of the
spirit soul and be engaged in the service of the Supersoul.
One should engage his mind only on Me, one should
simply become My devotee, one should simply Worship Me, and one
should offer his respectful obeisances unto Me alone. In this
way, one can cross over this ocean of nescience very easily and
at the end come back to Me. In conclusion, your lives should
constantly be engaged in My service."
After delivering His instructions to the kings and princes,
Lord Krsna immediately arranged for their comfort and asked
many servants and maidservants to take care of them. Lord Krsna
requested Sahadeva, the son of King Jarasandha, to supply all
necessities to the kings and also asked him to show them all
respect and honor. In pursuance of the order of Lord Krsna,
Sahadeva offered them all honor, and presented them with
ornaments, garments, garlands, and other paraphernalia. After
taking their baths and dressing very nicely, the kings appeared
happy and gentle. Then they were supplied nice foodstuffs. Lord
Krsna supplied everything for their comfort, as was befitting
their royal positions. Since the kings were so mercifully
treated by Lord Krsna, they felt great happiness, and all their
bright faces appeared just like the stars in the sky after the
end of the rainy season. They were all nicely dressed and
ornamented, and their earrings glittered. Each one was then
seated on a chariot bedecked with gold and jewels and
drawn by decorated horses. After seeing that each was taken
care of, Lord Krsna, in a sweet voice, asked them to return to
their respective kingdoms. By His very liberal behavior,
unparalleled in the history of the world, Lord Krsna released
all the kings who had been in the clutches of Jarasandha, and
being fully satisfied, the kings began to engage in
chanting His holy name, thinking of His holy form, and
glorifying His transcendental pastimes as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. So engaged, they returned to their
respective kingdoms. The citizens of their kingdoms were very
greatly pleased to see them return, and when they heard of the
kind dealings of Lord Krsna, they all became very happy. The
kings began to manage the affairs of their kingdoms in
accordance with the instructions of Lord Krsna, and all those
kings and their subjects passed their days very happily. This
is the vivid example of the Krsna conscious society. If the
people of the world divide the whole society, in terms
of their respective material qualities,
into four orders for material and
spiritual progress, centering around Krsna and
following the instructions of Krsna as stated in Bhagavad-
gita, the entire human society will undoubtedly be happy. This
is the lesson that we have to take from this incident.
After thus causing the annihilation of Jarasandha by Bhimasena
and after being properly honored by Sahadeva, the son of
Jarasandha, Lord Krsna, accompanied by Bhimasena and Arjuna,
returned to the city of Hastinapura. When they reached the
precincts of Hastinapura, they blew their respective
conchshells, and by hearing the sound vibrations and
understanding who was arriving, everyone immediately became
cheerful. But upon hearing the conchshells, the enemies of
Krsna became very sorry. The citizens of Indraprastha
felt their hearts become joyful simply by hearing the vibration
of Krsna's conchshell because they could understand that
Jarasandha had been killed. Now the performance of the Rajasuya
sacrifice by King Yudhisthira was almost certain. Bhimasena,
Arjuna, and Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, arrived
before King Yudhisthira and offered their respects to the King.
King Yudhisthira attentively heard the narration of the killing
of Jarasandha and the setting free of the kings. He also heard
of the tactics which were adopted by Krsna to kill Jarasandha.
The King was naturally affectionate toward Krsna, but after
hearing the story, he became even more bound in love for Krsna;
tears of ecstasy glided from his eyes, and he became so stunned
that he was almost unable to speak.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume,
Eighteenth Chapter, of Krsna, "Lord Krsna Returns to the City
of Hastinapura."
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KB 73: Lord Krsna Returns to the City of Hastinapura
CHAPTER SEVENTY–THREE
Lord Krsna Returns to the City of Hastinapura
The kings and princes released by Lord Krsna after the
death of Jarasandha were rulers of different parts of the world.
Jarasandha was so powerful in military strength that he had
conquered all these princes and kings, numbering 20,800. They
were all incarcerated within a mountain cave especially
constructed as a fort, and for a long time they were kept in
that situation. When they were released by the grace of Lord
Krsna, they all looked very unhappy, their garments were
niggardly, and their faces were almost dried up for want of
proper bodily care. They were very weak due to hunger, and
their faces had lost all beauty and luster. The
kings' long imprisonment had caused every part of their bodies
to become slack and invalid.
However, because in that miserable condition they had had the
opportunity to think about Lord Krsna, they immediately saw Him
now as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. They saw that
the color of the transcendental body of Lord Krsna resembled
the hue of a newly arrived cloud in the sky. He appeared
before them nicely covered by yellow silken garments,
with four hands like Visnu, and carrying the different symbols
of the club, the conchshell, the disc and the lotus flower.
His chest was marked with a golden line, and the
nipples on His chest appeared like the whorls of lotus
flowers. His eyes appeared to spread like the petals of a
lotus, and His smiling face exhibited the symbol of
eternal peace and prosperity. He wore
glittering shark-shaped earrings, and His helmet was
bedecked with valuable jewels. The Lord's necklace of pearls
and the bangles and bracelets nicely situated on His body all
shone with a transcendental beauty. The Kaustubha jewel hanging
on His chest glittered with great luster, and the Lord wore a
beautiful flower garland. After so much distress, when the
kings and princes saw Lord Krsna, with His beautiful
transcendental features, they looked upon Him to their hearts'
content, as if drinking nectar through their eyes,
licking His body with their tongues, smelling the aroma of His
body with their noses and embracing Him with their arms. Just
by dint of their being in front of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, all reactions to their sinful activities were washed
away. Therefore, without reservation, they surrendered
themselves at the lotus feet of the Lord. It is stated in the
Bhagavad-gita that unless one is freed from all sinful
reactions, one cannot fully surrender unto the lotus feet of
the Lord. All the princes who saw Lord Krsna forgot all their
past tribulations. With folded hands and with great devotion,
they offered prayers to Lord Krsna, as follows.
"Dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, master of all
demigods, You can immediately remove all Your devotees' pangs
because Your devotees are fully surrendered unto You. O dear
Lord Krsna, O eternal Deity of transcendental bliss and
knowledge, You are imperishable, and we offer our respectful
obeisances unto Your lotus feet. It is by Your causeless mercy
that we have been released from the imprisonment of Jarasandha,
but now we pray that You release us from imprisonment
within material existence, Your illusory energy.
Please stop our continuous cycle of birth and
death. We now have sufficient experience of the miserable
material life in which we are fully absorbed, and
having tasted its bitterness, we have come to take shelter
under Your lotus feet. Therefore please give us Your protection.
Dear Lord, O killer of the demon Madhu, we can now clearly see
that Jarasandha was not at fault in the least; it is actually
by Your causeless mercy that we were bereft of our kingdoms,
for we were very proud of calling ourselves rulers and
kings. A ruler or king who becomes too much puffed up with
false prestige and power gets no opportunity to
understand his real constitutional position and eternal life.
Under the influence of Your illusory energy,
such a foolish so-called ruler or king becomes
falsely proud of his position, just like a foolish
person who considers a mirage in the desert a reservoir
of water. Foolish persons think that their material possessions
will give them protection; engaged in sense
gratification, they falsely accept this material world as a
place of eternal enjoyment. O Lord, O Supreme Personality of
Godhead, we must admit that before this we were puffed up
with our material opulences. It was as if we were
intoxicated. Because we were all envious and wanted to
conquer one another, we all engaged in fighting for supremacy,
even at the cost of sacrificing the lives of many citizens."
This is the disease of political power. As soon as a king
becomes rich in material opulences, he wants to dominate
other nations by military aggression. Similarly, mercantile men
want to monopolize a certain type of business and control other
mercantile groups. Impelled by false prestige and infatuated by
material opulences, human society, instead of striving for
Krsna consciousness, creates havoc and disrupts peaceful living.
Thus men forget the real purpose of life: to attain
the favor of Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The kings continued: "O Lord, we were simply engaged in the
abominable task of killing citizens and alluring them to be
unnecessarily killed, just to satisfy our political whims. We
did not consider that Your Lordship is always present before us
in the form of cruel death. We were so foolish that we became
the cause of death for others, forgetting our own impending
death. But, dear Lord, the force of the time element,
which is Your representative, is certainly insurmountable. The
time element is so strong that no one can escape its influence;
therefore we have received the reactions of our atrocious
activities, and we are now bereft of all opulences and stand
before You like street beggars. We consider our position
Your causeless, unalloyed mercy upon us because now we can
understand that we were falsely proud and that our material
opulences could be withdrawn from us within a second by Your
will. By Your causeless mercy only, we are now able to think of
Your lotus feet. This is our greatest gain. Dear Lord,
everyone knows that the body is a breeding ground of
diseases. Now we are quite aged, and instead of being
proud of our bodily strength, we are getting weaker day by day.
We are no longer interested in sense gratification or the false
happiness derived through the material body. By Your grace, we
have now come to the conclusion that hankering after such
material happiness is just like searching for water in a desert
mirage. We are no longer interested in the results of our pious
activities, such as performing great sacrifices to be
elevated to the heavenly planets. We now understand that such
elevation to a higher material standard
may sound very relishable, but actually there cannot be
any happiness within this material world. We pray for Your
Lordship to favor us by instructing us how to engage in the
transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet so that we may
never forget our eternal relationship with Your Lordship. We do
not want liberation from the entanglement of material existence.
By Your will we may take birth in any species of life; it does
not matter. We simply pray that we never forget Your lotus
feet under any circumstances. Dear Lord, we now surrender unto
Your lotus feet by offering our respectful obeisances unto You
because You are the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, the son of Vasudeva. You are the Supersoul in everyone's
heart, and You are Lord Hari, who can take away all miserable
conditions of material existence. Dear Lord, Your name is
Govinda, the reservoir of all pleasure, because one who is
engaged in satisfying Your senses satisfies his
own senses automatically
. Dear Lord, You are ever famous, for You can put an end
to all the miseries of Your devotees. Please, therefore, accept
us as Your surrendered servants."
After hearing the prayers of the kings released from the prison
of Jarasandha, Lord Krsna, who is always the protector of
surrendered souls and the ocean of mercy for the devotees,
replied to them as follows in His sweet, transcendental voice,
which was grave and full of meaning. "My dear kings," He said,
"I bestow upon you My blessings. From this day forth you will
be attached to My devotional service without fail. I give you
this benediction, as you have desired. You may know from Me
that I am always sitting within your hearts as the Supersoul,
and because you have now turned your faces toward Me, I, as
master of everyone, shall always give you good counsel so that
you may never forget Me and so that gradually you will come
back home, back to Godhead. My dear kings, your decision to
give up all conceptions of material enjoyment and turn instead
toward My devotional service is factually the symptom of your
good fortune. Henceforward you will always be blessed with
blissful life. I confirm that all you have spoken about Me in
your prayers is factual. It is a fact that the materially
opulent position of one who is not fully Krsna conscious is the
cause of his downfall and his becoming a victim of the
illusory energy. In the past there were many rebellious kings,
such as Haihaya, Nahusa, Vena, Ravana and Narakasura. Some of
them were demigods and some of them demons, but because
of their false perception of their positions, they fell from
their exalted posts, and thus they no longer remained kings
of their respective kingdoms and were lost in the violence of
abominable conditioned life.
"Every one of
you must understand that anything material has its starting
point, growth, maintenance, expansion, deterioration and,
finally, disappearance. All material bodies are subject to
these six conditions, and any relative acquisitions
accumulated by this body are definitely subject to final
destruction. Therefore, no one should be attached to perishable
things. As long as one is within this material body, he should
be very cautious in worldly dealings. The most perfect way of
life in this material world is simply to be devoted to My
transcendental loving service and to execute honestly
the prescribed duties of one's particular position. As
far as you are concerned, you all belong to ksatriya families.
Therefore, you should live honestly, according to the
prescribed duties befitting the royal order, and
make your citizens happy in all respects. Keep to the standard
of ksatriya life. Do not beget children out of sense
gratification, but simply take charge of the welfare of the
people in general. Everyone takes birth in this material world
in continuation of his previous life,
and thus he is subject to the stringent laws of nature, such
as birth and death, distress and happiness, profit and loss.
One should not be disturbed by duality but should always be
fixed in My devotional service and thus remain balanced in mind
and satisfied in all circumstances, considering all things to
be given by Me
. Thus one can live a very
happy and peaceful life, even within this material condition.
In other words, one should actually be callous to the material
body and its by-products and should be unaffected by them.
One should remain fully satisfied in the interests of the
spirit soul and engage in the service of the Supersoul.
One should engage his mind only in thinking of Me, one should
simply become My devotee, one should simply Worship Me, and one
should offer his respectful obeisances unto Me alone. In this
way, one can cross over this ocean of nescience very easily and
at the end come back to Me. In conclusion, your lives should
constantly be engaged in My service."
After delivering His instructions to the kings and princes,
Lord Krsna immediately arranged for their comfort and asked
many servants and maidservants to take care of them. Lord Krsna
requested Sahadeva, the son of King Jarasandha, to supply all
necessities to the kings and show them all
respect and honor. In pursuance of the order of Lord Krsna,
Sahadeva offered them all honor and presented them with
ornaments, garments, garlands and other paraphernalia. After
taking their baths and dressing very nicely, the kings appeared
happy and gentle. Then they were supplied nice food. Lord
Krsna supplied everything for their comfort, as befitting
their royal positions. Since the kings were so mercifully
treated by Lord Krsna, they felt great happiness, and their
bright faces appeared just like the stars in the sky after the
end of the rainy season. All nicely dressed and
ornamented, their earrings glittering, they were then
seated on chariots bedecked with gold and jewels and
drawn by decorated horses. After seeing that each was taken
care of, Lord Krsna, in a sweet voice, asked them to return to
their respective kingdoms. By His liberal behavior,
unparalleled in the history of the world, Lord Krsna released
all the kings who had been in the clutches of Jarasandha, and
the kings, being fully satisfied, began to chant
His holy name, think of His holy form, and
glorify His transcendental pastimes as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Thus engaged, they returned to their
respective kingdoms. The citizens of their kingdoms were
greatly pleased to see them return, and when they heard of the
kind dealings of Lord Krsna, they were all very happy. The
kings began to manage the affairs of their kingdoms in
accordance with the instructions of Lord Krsna, and all those
kings and their subjects passed their days very happily. This
is a vivid example of a Krsna conscious society. If the
people of the world, taking into
account their respective material qualities, divide the whole
society into four orders for material progress and four orders
for spiritual progress, centering these orders on Krsna and
following the instructions of Krsna as stated in the Bhagavad-
gita, the entire human society will undoubtedly be happy. This
is the lesson we have to take from this incident.
After thus causing the annihilation of Jarasandha by Bhimasena
and after being properly honored by Sahadeva, the son of
Jarasandha, Lord Krsna, accompanied by Bhimasena and Arjuna,
returned to the city of Hastinapura. When they reached the
precincts of Hastinapura, they blew their respective
conchshells, and by hearing the sound vibrations and
understanding who was arriving, everyone immediately became
cheerful. But the enemies of Krsna, upon hearing the
conchshells, were very sorry. The citizens of Indraprastha
felt their hearts become joyful simply by hearing the vibration
of Krsna's conchshell because they could understand that
Jarasandha had been killed. Now the performance of the Rajasuya
sacrifice by King Yudhisthira was almost certain. Bhimasena,
Arjuna and Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, arrived
before King Yudhisthira and offered their respects to the King.
King Yudhisthira attentively heard the narration of the killing
of Jarasandha and the setting free of the kings. He also heard
of the tactics adopted by Krsna to kill Jarasandha.
The King was naturally affectionate toward Krsna, but after
hearing the story he became even more bound to Him in love;
tears of ecstasy glided from his eyes, and he was so stunned
that he was almost unable to speak.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Seventy-third
Chapter of Krsna, "Lord Krsna Returns to
the City of Hastinapura."
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