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KB 1970-2-12 / The Deliverance of Dvivida Gorilla
12 / The Deliverance of Dvivida Gorilla
While Sukadeva Gosvami continued to speak on the transcendental
pastimes and characteristics of Lord Krsna, King Pariksit, upon
hearing him, became more and more enthusiastic and wanted to
hear further. Sukadeva Gosvami next narrated the story of
Dvivida, the gorilla who was killed by Lord Balarama.
This gorilla was a great friend of Bhaumasura's, or Narakasura'
s, who was killed by Krsna in connection with his kidnapping
sixteen thousand princesses from all over the world. Dvivida
was the minister of King Sugriva. His brother, Mainda, was also
a very powerful gorilla king. When Dvivida gorilla heard the
story of his friend Bhaumasura's being killed by Lord Krsna, he
planned to create mischief throughout the country in order to
avenge the death of Bhaumasura. His first business was to set
fires in villages, towns, and industrial and mining places, as
well as in the residential quarters of the mercantile men who
were busy dairy farming and protecting cows. Sometimes he would
uproot a big mountain and tear it to pieces. In this way he
created great disturbances all over the country, especially in
the province of Kathwar. The city of Dvaraka was situated in
this Kathwar province, and because Lord Krsna used to live in
this city, Dvivida specifically made it his target of
disturbance.
Dvivida was as powerful as 10,000 elephants. Sometimes he
would go to the seashore, and with his powerful hands he would
create so much disturbance in the sea that he would overflood
the neighboring cities and villages. Often he would go to the
hermitages of great saintly persons and sages and cause a great
disturbance by smashing their beautiful gardens and orchards.
Not only did he create disturbances in that way, but sometimes
he would pass urine and stool on their sacred sacrificial
arena. He would thus pollute the whole atmosphere. He also
kidnapped both men and women, taking them away from their
residential places to the caves of the mountains. Putting
them within the caves, he would close the entrances
with large chunks of stone, like the bhrngi insect, which
arrests and carries away many flies and other insects and puts
them within the holes of the trees where he lives. He thus
regularly defied the law and order of the country. Not only
that, but he would sometimes pollute the female members of many
aristocratic families by forcibly raping them.
While creating such great disturbance all over the country,
sometimes he heard very sweet musical sounds from the Raivataka
Mountain, and so he entered that mountainous region. There he
saw that Lord Balarama was present in the midst of many
beautiful young girls, enjoying their company while engaged in
singing and dancing. He became captivated by the beautiful
features of Lord Balarama's body, each and every part of
which was very beautiful, decorated as He was with a garland of
lotus flowers. Similarly, all the young girls present, dressed
and garlanded with flowers, exhibited much beauty. Lord
Balarama seemed to be fully intoxicated from drinking the
Varuni beverage, and His eyes appeared to be rolling in a
drunken state. Lord Balarama appeared just like the king of the
elephants in the midst of many she-elephants.
This gorilla by the name of Dvivida could climb up on the
trees and jump from one branch to another. Sometimes he would
jerk the branches, creating a particular type of sound, "Kila,
kila," so that Lord Balarama was greatly distracted from
the pleasing atmosphere. Sometimes Dvivida would come before
the women and exhibit different types of caricatures. By nature
young women are apt to enjoy everything with laughter and
joking, and when the gorilla came before them they did not take
him seriously, but simply laughed at him. However, the gorilla
was so rude that even in the presence of Balarama he began to
show the lower part of his body to the women, and sometimes he
would come forward to show his teeth while moving his eyebrows.
He disrespected the women, even in the presence of Balarama.
Lord Balarama's name suggests that He is not only very
powerful, but that He takes pleasure in exhibiting
extraordinary strength. So He took a stone and threw it at
Dvivida. The gorilla, however, artfully avoided being struck by
the stone. In order to insult Balarama, the gorilla took away
the earthen pot in which the Varuni was kept. Dvivida, being
thus intoxicated, with his limited strength began to tear off
all the valuable clothes worn by Balarama and the accompanying
young girls. He was so puffed up that he thought that Balarama
could not do anything to chastise him, and he continued to
offend Balaramaji and His companions.
When Lord Balarama personally saw the disturbances created by
the gorilla and heard that he had already performed many
mischievous activities all over the country, He became very
angry and decided to kill him. Immediately He took His club in
His hands. The gorilla could understand that now Balarama was
going to attack him. In order to counteract Balarama, he
immediately uprooted a big oak tree, and with great force he
came and struck at Lord Balarama's head. Lord Balarama, however,
immediately caught hold of the big tree and remained
undisturbed, just like a great mountain. To retaliate, He took
His club by the name of Sunanda and began to hit the
gorilla with it. The gorilla's head was severely
injured. Currents of blood flowed from his head with
great force, but the stream of blood enhanced his
beauty like a stream of liquid manganese coming out of a great
mountain. The striking of Balarama's club did not even slightly
disturb him. On the contrary, he immediately uprooted another
big oak tree, and after clipping off all its leaves, he
began to strike Balarama's head with it. But Balarama, with the
help of His club, tore the tree to pieces. Since the gorilla
was very angry, he took another tree in his hands and began to
strike Lord Balarama's body. Again Lord Balarama tore the tree
to pieces, and the fighting continued. Each time the gorilla
would bring out a big tree to strike Balarama, Lord Balarama
would tear the tree to pieces by the striking of His club. The
gorilla Dvivida would clutch another tree from another
direction and again attack Balarama in the same way. As a
result of this continuous fighting, the forest became treeless.
When no more trees were available, Dvivida took help from the
hills and threw large pieces of stone, like rainfall, upon the
body of Balarama. Lord Balarama, also in a great sporting mood,
began to smash those big pieces of stone into mere pebbles. The
gorilla, being bereft of all trees and stone slabs, now stood
before Him and waved his strong fists. Then, with great
force, he began to beat the chest of Lord Balarama with
his fists. This time Lord Balarama became most angry. Since the
gorilla was striking Him with his hands, He would
not strike him back with His own weapons, the club or the plow.
Simply with His fists He began to strike the collarbone of the
gorilla. This striking proved to be fatal to Dvivida, who
immediately vomited blood and fell unconscious upon the ground.
When the gorilla fell, it appeared that all the hills and
forests tottered.
After this horrible incident, all the Siddhas, great sages and
saintly persons from the upper planetary system began to
shower flowers on the person of Lord Balarama, and
sounds glorifying the supremacy of Lord Balarama were vibrated.
All of them began to chant, "All glories to Lord Balarama!
Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet. By
Your killing this great demon, Dvivida, You have initiated an
auspicious era for the world." All such jubilant sounds of
victory were heard from outer space. After killing the great
demon Dvivida and being worshiped by showers of flowers and
glorious sounds of victory, Balarama returned to His capital
city, Dvaraka.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second
Volume, Twelfth Chapter, of Krsna, "Deliverance of Dvivida
Gorilla."
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KB 67: The Deliverance of Dvivida Gorilla
CHAPTER SIXTY–SEVEN
The Deliverance of Dvivida Gorilla
While Sukadeva Gosvami continued to speak on the transcendental
pastimes and characteristics of Lord Krsna, King Pariksit, upon
hearing him, became more and more enthusiastic and wanted to
hear further. Sukadeva Gosvami next narrated the story of
Dvivida, the gorilla who was killed by Lord Balarama.
This gorilla was a great friend of Bhaumasura, or
Narakasura, who was killed by Krsna in connection with his
kidnapping sixteen thousand princesses from all over the world.
Dvivida was the minister of King Sugriva. His brother, Mainda,
was also a very powerful gorilla king. When Dvivida gorilla
heard the story of his friend Bhaumasura's being killed by Lord
Krsna, he planned to create mischief throughout the country in
order to avenge the death of Bhaumasura. His first business was
to set fires in villages, towns and industrial and mining
places, as well as in the residential quarters of the
mercantile men who were busy dairy farming and protecting cows.
Sometimes he would uproot a big mountain and tear it to pieces.
In this way he created great disturbances all over the country,
especially in the province of Kathwar. The city of Dvaraka was
situated in this Kathwar province, and because Lord Krsna used
to live in this city, Dvivida specifically made it his target
of disturbance.
Dvivida was as powerful as ten thousand elephants. Sometimes he
would go to the seashore, and with his powerful hands he would
create so much disturbance in the sea that he would flood
the neighboring cities and villages. Often he would go to the
hermitages of great saintly persons and sages and cause a great
disturbance by smashing their beautiful gardens and orchards.
Not only did he create disturbances in that way, but sometimes
he would pass urine and stool on their sacred sacrificial
arenas. He would thus pollute the whole atmosphere. He also
kidnapped both men and women, taking them away from their
residential places to the caves of the mountains. After
putting them within the caves, he would close the entrances
with large chunks of stone, like the bhrngi insect, which
arrests and carries away many flies and other insects and puts
them within the holes of the trees where it lives. Thus Dvivida
regularly defied the law and order of the country. Not only
that, but he would sometimes pollute the female members of many
aristocratic families by forcibly raping them.
While creating such great disturbances all over the country,
sometimes he heard very sweet musical sounds from Raivataka
Mountain, and so he entered that mountainous region. There he
saw Lord Balarama in the midst of many
beautiful young girls, enjoying their company while
singing and dancing. Dvivida became captivated by the beauty
of Lord Balarama's body, whose every feature
was very beautiful, decorated as He was with a garland of
lotus flowers. Similarly, all the young girls present, dressed
and garlanded with flowers, exhibited much beauty. Lord
Balarama seemed fully intoxicated from drinking the
varuni beverage, and His eyes appeared to be rolling in a
drunken state. Lord Balarama appeared just like the king of the
elephants in the midst of many she-elephants.
This gorilla by the name of Dvivida could climb up into the
trees and jump from one branch to another. Sometimes he would
jerk the branches, creating a particular type of sound --
kilakila -- so that Lord Balarama was greatly distracted from
the pleasing atmosphere. Sometimes Dvivida would come before
the women and exhibit different types of caricatures. By nature
young women are apt to enjoy everything with laughter and
joking, and when the gorilla came before them they did not take
him seriously but simply laughed at him. However, the gorilla
was so rude that even in the presence of Balarama he began to
show the lower part of his body to the women, and sometimes he
would come forward to show his teeth while moving his eyebrows.
He disrespected the women, even in the presence of Balarama.
Lord Balarama's name suggests not only that He is very
powerful but that He takes pleasure in exhibiting
extraordinary strength. So He took a stone and threw it at
Dvivida. The gorilla, however, artfully avoided being struck by
the stone. In order to insult Balarama, the gorilla took away
the earthen pot in which the varuni was kept. Dvivida, being
thus intoxicated with his limited strength, began to tear off
all the valuable clothes worn by Balarama and the accompanying
young girls. He was so puffed up that he thought Balarama
could not do anything to chastise him, and he continued to
offend Balaramaji and His companions.
When Lord Balarama saw the disturbances created by
the gorilla and heard that he had already performed many
mischievous activities all over the country, He became very
angry and decided to kill him. Immediately He took His club in
His hands. The gorilla could understand that now Balarama was
going to attack him. To counteract Balarama, he
immediately uprooted a big oak tree, and with great force he
came and struck Lord Balarama's head. Lord Balarama, however,
immediately caught hold of the big tree and remained
undisturbed, just like a great mountain. To retaliate, He took
His club, named Sunanda, and hit the
gorilla with it, severely injuring his
head. Currents of blood flowed from the gorilla's head with
great force, but the stream of blood simply enhanced his beauty,
like a stream of liquid manganese coming out of a great
mountain. The striking of Balarama's club did not even slightly
disturb him. On the contrary, he immediately uprooted another
big oak tree and, after clipping off all its leaves, again
struck Balarama's head with it. But Balarama, with the
help of His club, tore the tree to pieces. Since the gorilla
was very angry, he took another tree in his hands and struck
Lord Balarama's body. Again Lord Balarama tore the tree
to pieces, and the fighting continued. Each time the gorilla
would bring out a big tree to strike Balarama, Lord Balarama
would tear the tree to pieces by the striking of His club, and
the gorilla Dvivida would clutch another tree from another
direction and again attack Balarama in the same way. As a
result of this continuous fighting, the forest became treeless.
When no more trees were available, Dvivida took help from the
hills and threw large pieces of stone, like rainfall, upon the
body of Balarama. Lord Balarama, in a great sporting mood,
began to smash those big pieces of stone into mere pebbles. The
gorilla, being bereft of all trees and stone slabs, now stood
before Balarama and waved his strong fists. Then, with great
force, he began to beat Lord Balarama's chest with
his fists. This time Lord Balarama became most angry. Since the
gorilla was striking Him with his hands, Lord Balarama would
not strike him back with His own weapons, the club or the plow.
Simply with His fists He struck the collarbone of the
gorilla. This blow proved fatal to Dvivida, who
immediately vomited blood and fell unconscious upon the ground.
When the gorilla fell, all the hills and
forests appeared to totter.
After this horrible incident, all the Siddhas, great sages and
saintly persons from the upper planetary system showered
flowers on the person of Lord Balarama and vibrated
sounds glorifying His supremacy.
All of them chanted, "All glories to Lord Balarama!
Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet. By
killing this great demon, Dvivida, You have initiated an
auspicious era for the world." All such jubilant sounds of
victory were heard from outer space. After killing the great
demon Dvivida and being worshiped by showers of flowers and
glorious sounds of victory, Balarama returned to His capital
city, Dvaraka.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Sixty-seventh
Chapter of Krsna, "The Deliverance of Dvivida
Gorilla."
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