Krsna Book Audio Dictation - Chapter 26
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Heading: "Wonderful Kṛṣṇa."
The innocent cowherds boy, as well as the cowherds men of Vṛndāvana, without entering into the intricacies of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and without knowing His uncommon spiritual opulences, began to discuss amongst themselves in the village about the wonderful activities of Kṛṣṇa, which is never possible to be done by any man in the world.
Some of them said, "My dear friends, how it is possible that such a uncommon boy could live with us in Vṛndāvana amongst the cowherds men? (indistinct) to His wonderful activities. It is not possible that He would come and live with us. Just imagine, He is now only seven years old, and how it was possible for Him to lift the Govardhana Hill in one hand? And He raised the hill just like the elephant, the king of elephant, holds a lotus flower. In other words, for an elephant, especially the king of elephant, to lift a lotus flower is most insignificant thing.
"Similarly, Kṛṣṇa, when He lifted the Govardhana Hill, He did not feel any kind of exertion at all. When He was simply a small baby, He could not see even properly, He killed a great demon, Pūtanā. While sucking her breast, He also sucked her life wonderfully. Kṛṣṇa killed the Pūtanā demon exactly like the eternal time kills a living creature in due course of time. And when He was only three months old and sleeping underneath a hand-driven cart, but when He was hungry for her (His) mother's breast, He began to cry and throw His legs upwards. And by the strike of His small legs, the cart immediately broke down in topsy-turvy condition. And when He was only one year old, He was carried away by the Tṛṇāvarta demon as a whirlwind, and although He was taken very high in the sky, the child simply by hanging on the neck of the demon forced him to come down from such high sky, and the demon died immediately.
"Sometimes His mother, being disturbed on account of His stealing butter, tied Him with the wooden mortar, and the child pushed it towards the pair of trees known as yamala arjuna and caused their breaking down immediately. Sometimes when He was engaged in tending the calves in the forest along with His elder brother, Balarāma, the Bakāsura appeared, and He bifurcated the beaks of the demon immediately.
"When the demon known as Vatsāsura, when entered amongst the calves tended by Kṛṣṇa with a desire to kill Him, He immediately detected the demon and killed him, and threw him on the top of a tree. Kṛṣṇa, along with His brother, Baladeva, when entered into the Tālavana, the demon known as Dhenukāsura, in the shape of an ass, attacked Them, and he was immediately killed by Balarāma by catching his hind legs and threw him on the tree. Although the demon Dhenukāsura was assisted by his company in the same shape of ass, all of them were killed, and the Tālavana became freed for being used by the animals and inhabitants of Vṛndāvana.
"When Pralambāsura entered amongst His cowherds boyfriends, He caused his death by Balarāma. Thereafter, He saved His friends and cows from the severe forest fire. And thereafter He chastised the Kāliyanāga in the lake of Yamunā, and He forced him to go out of the vicinity of the Yamunā River and thus He made the water of Yamunā poisonless."
Some of the friends of Nanda Mahārāja addressed him and said, "My dear Nanda, we do not know why we are so much attracted with your son Kṛṣṇa. We want to forget Him, but it is impossible to forget Him. Why we are so much naturally affectionate towards Him? Just imagine how wonderful it is! On one side a boy of seven years old only and another side a huge hill like Govardhana Hill, and He lifted it so easily. Nanda Mahārāja, we are now in great doubt that your son Kṛṣṇa must be some demigod. He is not at all a ordinary boy. Maybe He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
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On hearing the versions of the cowherds men in Vṛndāvana, King Nanda addressed him and said, "My dear cowherds men, in reply to your…, I can simply present with you the statement of Gargamuni so that your doubts may be cleared up. Gargācārya, when he came to perform the naming ceremony of Kṛṣṇa, whatever he said are as follows. He said that 'This boy descends in different periods of time under different color, and this time He has appeared in Vṛndāvana in a blackish color known as Kṛṣṇa. Previously, He had white color, then red color and then yellow color, and at the present moment he has a hue in blackish color.
"He also said that this boy was sometimes the son of Vasudeva, and anyone who knows about His previous birth sometimes call Him Vāsudeva. Actually he said that my son has many varieties of names according to His different contemporary qualities and activities. Gargācārya assured me that this boy will be all-auspicious for my family, and He would be able to give transcendental blissful pleasure to all the cowherds men and cows in Vṛndāvana. Even though you will be put into various kinds of difficulties, by the grace of this boy you will be very easily freed from them.
"He also said that formerly this boy saved the world from unregulated condition of states, and He saved all honest men from the hands of dishonest thieves. In this way, all honest men were saved from the clutches of dishonest population. He also said that any fortunate man who becomes attached to this boy, Kṛṣṇa, is never vanquished or defeated by his enemy. On the whole, He is exactly like Lord Viṣṇu, who takes always the side of the demigods and thereby they are never defeated by the demons.
"Gargācārya thus concluded that my child would grow exactly like Viṣṇu in various transcendental beauty, qualification and activities, influence and opulence. Therefore I should not be very much astonished by His wonderful activities. After making this statement, when Gargācārya went back to his home, I am continually seeing wonderful activities of this child. Therefore, in pursuance of the version of Gargācārya, I consider Him that He must be Nārāyaṇa Himself, or maybe plenary portion of Nārāyaṇa."
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When all the cowherds men heard very attentively the statement of Gargācārya through Nanda Mahārāja, and when they appreciated the wonderful activities of Kṛṣṇa in the past, they become very much jubilant and satisfied. After this they began to eulogize Nanda Mahārāja very greatly, and by such consultation their doubts about Kṛṣṇa became cleared up. The cowherds men began to say, "Let Kṛṣṇa, who is so kind and beautiful and merciful also, so that Indra being angry upon us when he sent torrents of rain, accompanied by showering of iced blocks and...
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"...of rain, accompanied by showering of iced blocks and high wind, He became immediately compassionate upon us and saved ourselves, along with our family, cows and valuable possession, and picked up the Govardhana Hill just like a child picks up a mushroom umbrella. He saved us so wonderfully. Let His merciful glance over us and our cows be continued. Let us live peacefully under the protection of wonderful Kṛṣṇa."
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Twenty-sixth Chapter in the matter of "Statement about Wonderful Kṛṣṇa."