"Wonderful Krsna"

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Without understanding the intricacies of Krsna, the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, and without knowing His uncommon spiritual

opulences, the innocent cowherd boys and men of Vrndavana began to

discuss the wonderful activities of Krsna which surpass the

activities of all men.

 

One of them said, "My dear friends, considering His wonderful

activities, how is it possible that such an uncommon boy would come

and live with us in Vrndavana? It is really not possible. Just

imagine! He is now only seven years old! How was it possible for Him

to lift Govardhana Hill in one hand and hold it up just like the king

of elephants holds a lotus flower? To lift a lotus flower is a most

insignificant thing for an elephant, and similarly Krsna lifted

Govardhana Hill without exertion. When He was simply a small baby and

could not even see properly, He killed a great demon, Putana. While

sucking her breast, He also sucked out her life-air. Krsna killed the

Putana demon exactly as eternal time kills a living creature in due

course. When He was only three months old, He was sleeping underneath

a hand-driven cart. Being hungry for His mother's breast, He began to

cry and throw His legs upwards. And from the kicking of His small

feet the cart immediately broke apart and fell to pieces. When He was

only one year old, He was carried away by the Trnavarta demon

disguised as a whirlwind, and although He was taken very high in the

sky, He simply hung on the neck of the demon and forced him to fall

from the sky and immediately die. Once His mother, being disturbed by

His stealing butter, tied Him to a wooden mortar, and the child

pushed it towards a pair of trees known as yamala arjuna and caused

them to fall. Once, when He was engaged in tending the calves in the

forest along with His elder brother, Balarama, a demon named Bakasura

appeared, and Krsna at once bifurcated the demon's beaks. When the

demon known as Vatsasura entered among the calves tended by Krsna

with a desire to kill Him, He immediately detected the demon, killed

him, and threw him into a tree. When Krsna, along with His brother,

Balarama, entered the Talavana forest, the demon known as

Dhenukasura, in the shape of an ass, attacked Them and was

immediately killed by Balarama, who caught his hind legs and threw

him in a palm tree. Although the Dhenukasura demon was assisted by

his cohorts, also in the shape of asses, all were killed, and the

Talavana forest was then open for the use of the animals and

inhabitants of Vrndavana. When Pralambasura entered amongst His

cowherd boy friends, He caused his death by Balarama. Thereafter,

Krsna saved His friends and cows from the severe forest fire, and He

chastised the Kaliya serpent in the lake of Yamuna and forced him to

leave the vicinity of the Yamuna River; He thereby made the water of

the Yamuna poisonless."

 

Another one of the friends of Nanda Maharaja said, "My dear Nanda, we

do not know why we are so attracted by your son Krsna. We want to

forget Him, but this is impossible. Why are we so naturally

affectionate toward Him? Just imagine how wonderful it is! On one

hand He is only a boy of seven years old, and on the other hand there

is a huge hill like Govardhana Hill, and He lifted it so easily! O

Nanda Maharaja, we are now in great doubt--your son Krsna must be one

of the demigods. He is not at all an ordinary boy. Maybe He is the

Supreme Personality of Godhead."

 

On hearing the praises of the cowherd men in Vrndavana, King Nanda

said, "My dear friends, in reply to you I can simply present the

statement of Garga Muni so that your doubts may be cleared. When he

came to perform the name-giving ceremony, he said that this boy

descends in different periods of time in different colors and that

this time He has appeared in Vrndavana in a dark color and is known

as Krsna. Previously, He has white color, then red color, then yellow

color. He also said that this boy was once the son of Vasudeva, and

everyone who knows of His previous birth calls Him Vasudeva. Actually

he said that my son has many varieties of names, according to His

different qualities and activities. Gargacarya assured me that this

boy will be all-auspicious for my family and that He will be able to

give transcendental blissful pleasure to all the cowherd men and cows

in Vrndavana. Even though we will be put into various kinds of

difficulties, by the grace of this boy we will be very easily freed

from them. He also said that formerly this boy saved the world from

an unregulated condition, and He saved all honest men from the hands

of the dishonest. He also said that any fortunate man who becomes

attached to this boy, Krsna, is never vanquished or defeated by his

enemy. On the whole, He is exactly like Lord Visnu, who always takes

the side of the demigods, who are consequently never defeated by the

demons. Gargacarya thus concluded that my child would grow to be

exactly like Visnu in transcendental beauty, qualification,

activities, influence and opulence, and so we should not be very

astonished by His wonderful activities. After telling me this,

Gargacarya returned home, and since then we have been continually

seeing the wonderful activities of this child. According to the

version of Gargacarya, I consider that He must be Narayana Himself,

or maybe a plenary portion of Narayana."

 

When all the cowherd men very attentively heard the statements of

Gargacarya through Nanda Maharaja, they better appreciated the

wonderful activities of Krsna and became very jubilant and satisfied.

They began to praise Nanda Maharaja, because by consulting him their

doubts about Krsna were cleared. They said, "Let Krsna, who is so

kind, beautiful and merciful, protect us. When angry Indra sent

torrents of rain, accompanied by showers of ice blocks and high wind,

He immediately took compassion upon us and saved us and our families,

cows and valuable possessions by picking up the Govardhana Hill, just

as a child picks up a mushroom. He saved us so wonderfully. May He

continue to mercifully glance over us and our cows. May we live

peacefully under the protection of wonderful Krsna."

 

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twenty-sixth Chapter of

Krsna, "Wonderful Krsna."