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KB 1970-1-7 / Salvation of Trnavarta
7 / Salvation of Trnavarta
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is always full
of six opulences -- namely complete wealth, complete strength,
complete fame, complete knowledge, complete beauty and
complete renunciation. The Lord appears in different complete,
eternal forms of incarnation. The conditioned soul has immense
opportunity to hear about the transcendental activities of the
Lord in these different incarnations. In the Bhagavad-gita it
is said, janma karma ca me divyam. The pastimes and
activities of the Lord are not material; they are beyond the
material conception. But the conditioned soul can benefit
by hearing such uncommon activities. Hearing is an opportunity
to associate with the Lord; to hear His activities is to evolve
to the transcendental nature -- simply by hearing. The
conditioned soul has a natural aptitude to hear something about
other conditioned souls in the form of fiction, drama and novel.
That inclination to hear something about others may be
utilized in hearing the pastimes of the Lord. Then one can
immediately evolve to his transcendental nature. Krsna's
pastimes are not only beautiful; they are also very pleasing to
the mind.
If someone takes advantage of hearing the pastimes of the Lord,
the material contamination of dust, accumulated in the heart
due to long association with material nature, can be
immediately cleansed. Lord Caitanya also instructed that simply
by hearing the transcendental name of Lord Krsna, one can
cleanse the heart of all material contamination. There are
different processes for self-realization, but this process of
devotional service -- of which hearing is the most important
function -- when adopted by any conditioned soul, will
automatically cleanse him of the material contamination and
enable him to realize his real constitutional position.
Conditional life is due to this contamination only, and as soon
as it is cleared off, then naturally the dormant function of
the living entity -- rendering service to the Lord -- awakens.
By developing his eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord,
one becomes eligible to create friendship with the devotees.
Maharaja Pariksit recommended, from practical experience, that
everyone try to hear about the transcendental pastimes of the
Lord. This Krsna treatise is meant for that purpose, and the
reader may take advantage in order to attain the ultimate goal
of human life.
The Lord, out of His causeless mercy, descends on this material
world and displays His activities just like an ordinary man.
Unfortunately the impious entities or the atheistic
class of men consider Krsna to be an ordinary man like
themselves, and so they deride Him. This is condemned in the
Bhagavad-gita by the Lord Himself when He says, "
Avajananti mam mudhah." The mudhas, or the
rascals, take Krsna to be an ordinary man or a slightly more
powerful man; out of their great misfortune, they cannot accept
Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes such
unfortunate persons misrepresent themselves as incarnations of
Krsna without referring to the authorized scriptures.
When Krsna grew up a little more, He began to turn Himself
backside up; He did not merely lie down on His back. And
another function was observed by Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja:
Krsna's first birthday. They arranged for Krsna's birthday
ceremony, which is still observed by all followers of the Vedic
principles. (Krsna's birthday ceremony is observed in India by
all Hindus, irrespective of different sectarian views.) All the
cowherd men and women were invited to participate, and they
arrived in jubilation. A nice band played, and the
people assembled enjoyed it. All the learned brahmanas
were invited, and they chanted Vedic hymns for the good fortune
of Krsna. During the chanting of the Vedic hymns and playing of
the bands, Krsna was bathed by mother Yasoda. This bathing
ceremony is technically called abhiseka, and even today this is
observed in all the temples of Vrndavana as Janmastami Day, or
the birthday anniversary of Lord Krsna.
On this occasion, mother Yasoda arranged to distribute a large
quantity of grains, and first-class cows decorated with golden
ornaments were made ready to be given in charity to the learned,
respectable brahmanas. Yasoda took her bath and dressed
herself nicely, and taking child Krsna, duly dressed and bathed,
on her lap, she sat down to hear the Vedic hymns chanted by
the brahmanas. While listening to the
chanting of the Vedic hymns, the child appeared to be falling
asleep, and therefore mother Yasoda very silently laid Him down
on the bed. Being engaged in receiving all the friends,
relatives and residents of Vrndavana on that holy occasion, she
forgot to feed the child milk. He was crying, being hungry, but
mother Yasoda could not hear Him cry because of the various
noises. The child, however, became angry because He was hungry
and His mother was not paying attention to Him. So He lifted
His legs and began to kick His lotus feet just like an ordinary
child. Baby Krsna had been placed underneath a hand-driven cart,
and while He was kicking His legs, He accidentally touched the
wheel of the cart, and it collapsed. Various kinds of utensils
and brass and metal dishes had been piled up in
the handcart, and they all fell down with a great noise. The
wheel of the cart separated from the axle, and the spokes of
the wheel were all broken and scattered hither and thither.
Mother Yasoda and all the gopis, as well as Maharaja Nanda and
the cowherd men, were astonished as to how the cart could have
collapsed by itself. All the men and women who were assembled
for the holy function crowded around and began to suggest how
the cart might have collapsed. No one could ascertain the cause,
but some small children who were entrusted to play with baby
Krsna informed the crowd that it was due to Krsna's striking
His feet against the wheel. They assured the crowd that they
had seen how it happened with their own eyes, and they strongly
asserted the point. Some were listening to the statement of the
small children, but others said, "How can you believe the
statements of these children?" The cowherd men and women could
not understand that the all-powerful Personality of Godhead was
lying there as a baby, and He could do anything. Both the
possible and impossible were in His power. While the discussion
was going on, baby Krsna cried. Without remonstration, mother
Yasoda picked the child up on her lap and called the learned
brahmanas to chant holy Vedic hymns to counteract the evil
spirits. At the same time she allowed the baby to suck her
breast. If a child sucks the mother's breast nicely, it is to
be understood that he is out of all danger. After this, all the
stronger cowherd men put the broken cart in order, and all the
scattered things were set up nicely as before. The brahmanas
thereafter began to offer oblations to the sacrificial fire
with yogurt, butter, kusa grass, and water. They worshiped the
Supreme Personality of Godhead for the good fortune of the
child.
The brahmanas who were present at that time were all qualified
because they were not envious; they never indulged in
untruthfulness, they were never proud, they were nonviolent,
and they never claimed any false prestige. They were all bona
fide brahmanas, and there was no reason to think that their
blessing would be useless. With firm faith in the qualified
brahmanas, Nanda Maharaja took his child on his lap and bathed
Him with water mixed with various herbs while the brahmanas
chanted hymns from the Rk, Yajus and Sama Vedas.
It is said that without being a qualified brahmana, one should
not read the mantras of the Vedas. Here is the proof that the
brahmanas were qualified with all the brahminical symptoms.
Maharaja Nanda also had full faith in them. Therefore they were
allowed to perform the ritualistic ceremonies by chanting the
Vedic mantras. There are many different varieties of sacrifices
recommended for different purposes, but the mantras are all to
be chanted by qualified brahmanas. And because in this age of
Kali such qualified brahmanas are not available, all Vedic
ritualistic sacrifices are forbidden. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
has therefore recommended only one kind of sacrifice in this
age -- namely sankirtana yajna, or simply chanting
the mahamantra, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna,
Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
As the brahmanas chanted the Vedic hymns and performed the
ritualistic ceremonies for the second time, Nanda Maharaja
again gave huge quantities of grains and many cows to them.
All the cows which were given in charity were covered with
nice gold-embroidered garments, and their horns were bedecked
with golden rings; their hooves were covered with silver plate,
and they wore garlands of flowers. He gave so many cows just
for the welfare of his wonderful child, and the brahmanas in
return bestowed their heartfelt blessing. And the blessings
offered by the able brahmanas were never to be baffled.
One day, shortly after this ceremony, when mother Yasoda was
patting her baby on her lap, the baby felt too heavy, and being
unable to carry Him, she unwillingly placed Him on the ground.
After a while, she became engaged in household affairs. At that
time, one of the servants of Kamsa, known as Trnavarta, as
instructed by Kamsa, appeared there in the shape of a whirlwind.
He picked the child up on his shoulders and raised a great
dust storm all over Vrndavana. Because of this,
everyone's eyes became covered within a few moments, and the
whole area of Vrndavana became densely dark so that no one
could see himself or anyone else. During this great catastrophe,
mother Yasoda could not see her baby, who was taken away
by the whirlwind, and she began to cry very piteously. She fell
down on the ground exactly like a cow who has just lost her
calf. When mother Yasoda was so piteously crying, all the
cowherd women immediately came and began to look for the baby,
but they were disappointed and could not find Him. The
Trnavarta demon who took baby Krsna on his shoulder went high
in the sky, but the baby assumed such a weight that suddenly he
could not go any further, and he had to stop his whirlwind
activities. Baby Krsna made Himself heavy and began to weigh
down the demon. The Lord caught hold of his neck. Trnavarta
felt the baby to be as heavy as a big mountain, and he tried to
get out of His clutches, but he was unable to do so, and his
eyes popped out from their sockets. Crying very fiercely, he
fell down to the ground of Vrndavana and died. The demon fell
exactly like Tripurasura, who was pierced by the arrow of Lord
Siva. He hit the stone ground, and his limbs were smashed. His
body became visible to all the inhabitants of Vrndavana.
When the gopis saw the demon killed and child Krsna very
happily playing on his body, they immediately picked Krsna up
with great affection. The cowherd men and women became very
happy to get back their beloved child Krsna. At that time they
began to talk about how wonderful it was that the demon took
away the child to devour Him but could not do so; instead
he fell down dead. Some of them supported the situation: "This
is proper because those who are too sinful die from their
sinful reactions, and child Krsna is pious; therefore He is
saved from all kinds of fearful situations. And we too must
have performed great sacrifices in our previous lives,
worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, giving great
wealth in charity and acting philanthropically for the general
welfare of men. Because of such pious activities, the child is
saved from all danger."
The gopis assembled there spoke among themselves: "What sort of
austerities and penances we must have undergone in our previous
lives! We must have worshiped the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, offered different kinds of sacrifices, made charities
and performed many welfare activities for the public such as
growing banyan trees and excavating wells. As a result of these
pious activities, we have got back our child, even though He
was supposed to be dead. Now He has come back to enliven His
relatives." After observing such wonderful happenings, Nanda
Maharaja began to think of the words of Vasudeva again and
again.
After this incident, when Yasoda once was nursing her child and
patting Him with great affection, there streamed a profuse
supply of milk from her breast, and when she opened the mouth
of the child with her fingers, she suddenly saw the universal
manifestation within His mouth. She saw within the mouth of
Krsna the whole sky, including the luminaries, stars in all
directions, the sun, moon, fire, air, seas, islands, mountains,
rivers, forests, and all other movable and immovable entities.
Upon seeing this, mother Yasoda's heart began to
throb, and she murmured within herself, "How wonderful this is!"
She could not express anything, but simply closed her eyes.
She was absorbed in wonderful thoughts. Krsna's showing the
universal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even when
lying down on the lap of His mother, proves that the Supreme
Personality of Godhead is always the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, whether He is manifested as a child on the lap of His
mother or as a charioteer on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. The
concoction of the impersonalist, that one can become God by
meditation or by some artificial material activities, is
herewith declared false. God is always God in any condition or
status, and the living entities are always the parts and
parcels of the Supreme Lord. They can never be equal to the
inconceivable supernatural power of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Seventh Chapter of
Krsna, "Salvation of Trnavarta."
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KB 7: The Salvation of Trnavarta
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Salvation of Trnavarta
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna, is always full
with six opulences -- namely complete wealth, complete strength,
complete fame, complete knowledge, complete beauty and
complete renunciation. The Lord appears in different complete,
eternal forms of incarnation. The conditioned soul has immense
opportunity to hear about the transcendental activities of the
Lord in these different incarnations. In the Bhagavad-gita it
is said, janma karma ca me divyam [Bg. 4.9]. The pastimes and
activities of the Lord are not material -- they are beyond the
material conception -- and the conditioned soul can benefit
by hearing such uncommon activities. Hearing is an opportunity
to associate with the Lord; to hear His activities is to evolve
one's transcendental nature -- simply by hearing. The
conditioned soul has a natural aptitude to hear something about
other conditioned souls in the form of fiction, drama and novel.
That inclination to hear something about others may be
utilized in hearing the pastimes of the Lord. Then one can
immediately evolve his transcendental nature. Krsna's
pastimes are not only beautiful; they are also very pleasing to
the mind.
If someone takes advantage of hearing the pastimes of the Lord,
the material contamination of dust, accumulated in the heart
due to long association with material nature, can be
immediately cleansed. Lord Caitanya also instructed that simply
by hearing the transcendental name of Lord Krsna one can
cleanse the heart of all material contamination. There are
different processes for self-realization, but this process of
devotional service -- of which hearing is the most important
function -- when adopted by any conditioned soul, will
automatically cleanse him of the material contamination and
enable him to realize his real constitutional position.
Conditional life is due to this contamination only, and as soon
as it is cleared off, then naturally the dormant function of
the living entity -- rendering service to the Lord -- awakens.
By developing his eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord,
one becomes eligible to create friendship with the devotees.
Maharaja Pariksit recommended, from practical experience, that
everyone try to hear about the transcendental pastimes of the
Lord. This Krsna treatise is meant for that purpose, and the
reader may take advantage of it to attain the ultimate goal
of human life.
The Lord, out of His causeless mercy, descends to this material
world and displays His activities just like an ordinary man.
Unfortunately the impersonalists or the atheistic
class of men consider Krsna to be an ordinary man like
themselves, and so they deride Him. This is condemned in the
Bhagavad-gita by the Lord Himself when He says,
avajananti mam mudhah [Bg. 9.11]. The mudhas, or
rascals, take Krsna to be an ordinary man or a slightly more
powerful man; out of their great misfortune, they cannot accept
Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes such
unfortunate persons misrepresent themselves as incarnations of
Krsna without referring to the authorized scriptures.
When Krsna grew up a little more, He began to turn Himself
backside up; He did not merely lie down on His back. And
another function was observed by Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja:
Krsna's first birthday. They arranged for Krsna's birthday
ceremony, which is still observed by all followers of the Vedic
principles. (Krsna's birthday ceremony is observed in India by
all Hindus, irrespective of different sectarian views.) All the
cowherd men and women were invited to participate in
the jubilant celebration. A nice band played, and the
assembled people enjoyed it. All the learned brahmanas
were invited, and they chanted Vedic hymns for the good fortune
of Krsna. During the chanting of the Vedic hymns and playing of
the bands, Krsna was bathed by Mother Yasoda. This bathing
ceremony is technically called abhiseka, and even today this is
observed in all the temples of Vrndavana on Janmastami Day, or
the birthday anniversary of Lord Krsna.
On this occasion, Mother Yasoda arranged to distribute a large
quantity of grain, and first-class cows decorated with golden
ornaments were made ready to be given in charity to the learned,
respectable brahmanas. Yasoda took her bath and dressed
herself nicely, and taking child Krsna, duly dressed and bathed,
on her lap, she sat down to hear the Vedic hymns chanted by
the brahmanas. While mother Yasoda was listening to the
chanting of the Vedic hymns, the child appeared to be falling
asleep, and therefore she very silently laid Him down
on the bed. Being engaged in receiving all the friends,
relatives and residents of Vrndavana on that holy occasion, she
forgot to feed the child milk. He was crying, being hungry, but
Mother Yasoda could not hear Him cry because of the various
noises. The child, however, became angry because He was hungry
and His mother was not paying attention to Him. So He lifted
His legs and began to kick His lotus feet just like an ordinary
child. Baby Krsna had been placed underneath a hand-driven cart,
and while He was kicking His legs, He accidentally touched the
wheel of the cart, and it collapsed. Various kinds of utensils
and dishes made of brass and other metals had been piled up in
the handcart, and they all fell down with a great noise. The
wheel of the cart separated from the axle, and the spokes of
the wheel were all broken and scattered hither and thither.
Mother Yasoda and all the gopis, as well as Maharaja Nanda and
the cowherd men, were astonished as to how the cart could have
collapsed by itself. All the men and women who were assembled
for the holy function crowded around and began to suggest how
the cart might have collapsed. No one could ascertain the cause,
but some small children who were entrusted to play with baby
Krsna informed the crowd that it was due to Krsna's striking
His feet against the wheel. They assured the crowd that they
had seen how it happened with their own eyes, and they strongly
asserted the point. Some were listening to the statement of the
small children, but others said, "How can you believe the
statements of these children?" The cowherd men and women could
not understand that the all-powerful Personality of Godhead was
lying there as a baby and that He could do anything. Both the
possible and impossible were in His power
.
While the discussion was going on, baby Krsna cried. Without
remonstration, Mother Yasoda picked the child up on her lap and
called the learned brahmanas to chant holy Vedic hymns to
counteract the evil spirits. At the same time she allowed the
baby to suck her breast. If a child sucks the mother's breast
nicely, it is to be understood that he is out of all danger.
After this, all the stronger cowherd men put the broken cart in
order, and all the scattered things were set up nicely as
before. The brahmanas thereafter began to offer oblations to
the sacrificial fire with yogurt, butter, kusa grass and water.
They worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead for the good
fortune of the child.
The brahmanas who were present at that time were all qualified
because they were not envious, they never indulged in
untruthfulness, they were never proud, they were nonviolent,
and they never claimed any false prestige. They were all bona
fide brahmanas, and there was no reason to think that their
blessings would be useless. With firm faith in the qualified
brahmanas, Nanda Maharaja took his child on his lap and bathed
Him with water mixed with various herbs while the brahmanas
chanted hymns from the Rg, Yajur and Sama Vedas.
It is said that without being a qualified brahmana one should
not read the mantras of the Vedas. Here is the proof that the
brahmanas were qualified with all the brahminical symptoms.
Maharaja Nanda also had full faith in them. Therefore they were
allowed to perform the ritualistic ceremonies by chanting the
Vedic mantras. There are many different varieties of sacrifices
recommended for different purposes, but the mantras are all to
be chanted by qualified brahmanas. And because in this Age of
Kali such qualified brahmanas are not available, all Vedic
ritualistic sacrifices are forbidden. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
has therefore recommended only one kind of sacrifice in this
age -- namely the sankirtana-yajna, or chanting
the maha-mantra, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna,
Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
As the brahmanas chanted the Vedic hymns and performed the
ritualistic ceremonies for the second time, Nanda Maharaja
again gave them huge quantities of grain and many cows.
All the cows which were given in charity were covered with
nice gold-embroidered garments, and their horns were bedecked
with golden rings; their hooves were covered with silver plate,
and they wore garlands of flowers. He gave so many cows just
for the welfare of his wonderful child, and the brahmanas in
return bestowed their heartfelt blessings. And the blessings
offered by the able brahmanas were never to be baffled.
One day, shortly after the ceremony, when Mother Yasoda was
patting her baby on her lap, the baby felt too heavy, and being
unable to carry Him, she unwillingly placed Him on the ground.
After a while, she became engaged in household affairs. At that
time, a servant of Kamsa's known as Trnavarta, as
instructed by Kamsa, appeared there in the shape of a whirlwind.
He picked the child up on his shoulders and raised a great
dust storm all over Vrndavana, covering
everyone's eyes. Within a few moments the
whole area of Vrndavana became so densely dark that no one
could see himself or anyone else. During this great catastrophe,
Mother Yasoda could not see her baby, who had been taken away
by the whirlwind, and she began to cry very piteously. She fell
down on the ground exactly like a cow who has just lost her
calf. When Mother Yasoda was so piteously crying, all the
cowherd women immediately came and began to look for the baby,
but they were disappointed and could not find Him.
The Trnavarta demon went high into the sky with baby Krsna on
his shoulder, but the baby assumed such a weight that suddenly
he could not go any further, and he had to stop his whirlwind
activities. Baby Krsna made Himself heavy and began to weigh
down the demon, catching hold of his neck. Trnavarta felt the
baby to be as heavy as a big mountain, and he tried to get out
of His clutches, but he was unable to do so, and his eyes
popped out from their sockets. Crying very fiercely, he fell
down to the ground of Vrndavana and died. The demon fell
exactly like Tripurasura, who was pierced by the arrow of Lord
Siva. Trnavarta hit a stone slab, and his limbs were smashed.
His body became visible to all the inhabitants of Vrndavana.
When the gopis saw the demon killed and child Krsna very
happily playing on his body, they immediately picked Krsna up
with great affection. The cowherd men and women became very
happy to get back their beloved child Krsna. At that time they
began to talk about how wonderful it was that the demon had
taken away the child to devour Him but could not do so; instead
he fell down dead. Some of them supported the situation: "This
is proper because those who are too sinful die from their
sinful reactions, and child Krsna is pious; therefore He is
safe from all kinds of fearful situations. And we too must
have performed great sacrifices in our previous lives,
worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, giving great
wealth in charity and acting philanthropically for the general
welfare of men. Because of such pious activities, the child is
safe from all danger."
The gopis assembled there spoke among themselves: "What sort of
austerities and penances we must have undergone in our previous
lives! We must have worshiped the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, offered different kinds of sacrifices, made charities
and performed many welfare activities for the public, such as
growing banyan trees and excavating wells. As a result of these
pious activities, we have gotten back our child, even though He
was supposed to be dead. Now He has come back to enliven His
relatives." After observing such wonderful happenings, Nanda
Maharaja began to think of the words of Vasudeva again and
again.
After this incident, when Yasoda once was nursing her child and
patting Him with great affection, there streamed a profuse
supply of milk from her breast, and when she opened the mouth
of the child with her fingers, she suddenly saw the universal
manifestation within His mouth. She saw within the mouth of
Krsna the whole sky, including the luminaries, stars in all
directions, the sun, moon, fire, air, seas, islands, mountains,
rivers, forests and all other movable and immovable entities.
When Mother Yasoda saw this, her heart began to
throb, and she murmured within herself, "How wonderful this is!"
She could not express anything, but simply closed her eyes.
She was absorbed in wonderful thoughts. Krsna's showing the
universal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even when
lying down on the lap of His mother, proves that the Supreme
Personality of Godhead is always the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, whether He is manifested as a child on the lap of His
mother or as a charioteer on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. The
concoction of the impersonalists, that one can become God by
meditation or by some artificial material activities, is
herewith declared false. God is always God in any condition or
status, and the living entities are always the parts and
parcels of the Supreme Lord. They can never be equal to the
inconceivable, supernatural power of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Seventh Chapter of
Krsna, "The Salvation of Trnavarta."
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