Krishna was eternally youthful

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Krishna was eternally youthful

 

Krishna was eternally youthful. By saying that He was eternally

young, we should not imply that He had a young and youthful body

forever. This should convey to us the meaning that He had no anxiety

and that He always had a smiling disposition. This kind of bliss and

happiness also gives happiness to one's body and bodily health.

 

Once it so happened that Krishna, Balarama and Satyaki, who were

little boys at that time, were stranded in a thick jungle. Krishna

frightened them with his description of ghosts, ghouls and demons

roaming in search of human prey. He proposed that two of them should

sleep for three hours at a stretch while the other one kept watch. It

was Krishna's duty to keep awake and be on the look-out from 7 p.m.

to 10 p.m. Satyaki was to be vigilant from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., and

Balarama was to start his part of the duty at 1 a.m. and keep awake

till 4 a.m.

 

Satyaki got up at 10 p.m. Balarama and Krishna laid themselves on

beds of dried leaves and slept soundly. Meanwhile, a demon did

actually present itself before little Satyaki. He fell upon the boy,

who resisted heroically, dealing and in turn receiving punches with a

good number of clawing and biting in-between. Satyaki was badly

mauled, but was happy at the end that the two brothers were still

sound asleep; they had not been disturbed in the least by the noise

of the encounter.

 

Satyaki had met blow with blow and dealt injury for injury. At 1

a.m., he awakened Balarama and stretched himself on the heap of

leaves, as if nothing had happened. The demon invited Balarama too

for a combat and had to retreat humiliated, because Balarama was too

strong, and his blows were more terrible than Satyaki's. Balarama

curled himself on the bed at 4 a.m., after waking up Krishna, who was

to keep watch during the Brahma-Muhurtham.

 

The infuriated demon came roaring like a wounded tiger and advanced

ferociously at the little divine boy. Krishna turned His sweet

charming face to him, and rewarded him with a lovely smile. The smile

disarmed the demon. The longer he came under its influence, the

weaker became his vengeance and venom. At last, the demon became

docile as a lamb. When the other two woke up, they were surprised at

the victory that Krishna had won by the weapon of love.

 

You cannot destroy anger by anger, cruelty by cruelty, hatred by

hatred. Anger can be subdued only by forbearance; cruelty can be

overcome only by non-violence; hatred yields only to charity and

compassion.

 

At HIS LOTUS FEET

Bharadhwaaj Ramaswamy