Krsna's Death

[yajvan]

hariḥ oṁ
~~~~~~

namast� Param

Hunting the innocents is Adharm of course, but that was DwaparYug, even in TretaYug, Ratnakar (Valmiki) was a bandit and hunter in early life, but quit the adharmic nature and become a Vedic sage.

Talk to us on how he became this sage... it is an inspiring story.


praṇām

[devotee]

Very beautiful posts from esteemed members here !

Yes, I agree. Lord Krishna's birth and death was just a Leelaa ( a play staged by the Lord) .... He was never born and death can never ever touch Him ! It is He who is the source of all births and deaths of this phenomenal world !

OM

[PARAM]

hariḥ oṁ
~~~~~~

namast� Param



Talk to us on how he became this sage... it is an inspiring story.


praṇām

Thank You for asking me for this Satsang.



Maharishi Valmiki tells about his early life in the Uttar Khanda chapter of the Ramayana.



In his early life Maharishi Valmiki was an unnamed highway robber who killed and robbed others to run his family, he was married and had a son.

Once, he tried to rob the divine sage Narada, Narada asked him if his family would share the sin he was incurring due to the robbery. He replied positively, but Narada told him to confirm this with his family.

He asked his family, but none agreed to bear the burden of sin. The dejected robber finally understood the truth of life and asked for Narada's forgiveness.

Narada taught Him to worship, he meditated for many years, so much so that ant-hills grew around his body. Finally, a divine voice declared his penance successful, bestowing him with the name "Valmiki": "one born out of ant-hills".

[anadi]

In the fifth Veda - Maha-bharata - Adivansavantarana Parva it is written:


"And Vishnu (Krishna) himself, of world-wide fame, and worshipped of all the worlds, was born of Devaki through Vasudeva, for the benefit of the three worlds.

He is without birth and death,
of radiant splendour,
the Creator of the universe and the Lord of all!

Indeed, he who is the invisible cause of all,
who knoweth no deterioration,
who is the all-pervading soul,
the centre round which everything moveth,
the substance in which the three attributes of Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas co-inhere,
the universal soul,
the immutable,
the material out of which hath been created this universe,
the Creator himself,
the controlling lord,
the invisible dweller in every object,
progenitor of this universe of five elements,
who is united with the six high attributes,
is the Pranava or Om of the Vedas,
is infinite,
incapable of being moved by any force save his own will,
illustrious,
the embodiment of the mode of life called Sannyasa,
who floated on the waters before the creation,
who is the source whence hath sprung this mighty frame,
who is the great combiner,
the uncreate,
the invisible essence of all,
the great immutable,
bereft of those attributes that are knowable by the senses,
who is the universe itself,
without beginning, birth, and decay,
is possessed of infinite wealth,
that Grandsire of all creatures,
advented in the race of the Andhaka-Vrishnis for the increase of virtue.

[anadi]

In Maha-bharata - Arjunabhigamana Parva it is written:

Vaisampayana said, 'Hearing that the Pandavas had been banished, the Bhojas, the Vrishnis, and the Andhakas went to those heroes residing in affliction in the great forest. And the consanguineous relatives of Panchala, and Dhrishtaketu the king of Chedi, and those celebrated and powerful brothers--the Kaikeyas, their hearts fired with wrath, went to the forest to see the sons of Pritha.

And reproaching the sons of Dhritarashtra, they said, 'What should we do?' And those bulls of the Kshatriya race, with Vasudeva at their head, sat themselves down round Yudhishthira the just. And respectfully saluting that foremost of the Kurus, Kesava mournfully said, 'The earth shall drink the blood of Duryodhana and Karna, of Dussasana and the wicked Sakuni! Slaying these in battle and defeating their followers along with their royal allies, will we all install Yudhishthira the just on the throne! The wicked deserve to be slain! Verily, this is eternal morality.'

Vaisampayana continued, 'And when on account of the wrongs of Pritha's sons, Janardana had thus got into a passion, and seemed bent upon consuming all created things, Arjuna exerted himself to pacify him. And beholding Kesava angry, Falguna began to recite the feats achieved in his former lives by
that soul of all things,
himself immeasurable, the eternal one,
of infinite energy, the lord of Prajapati himself,
the supreme ruler of the worlds, Vishnu of profound wisdom!'

"Arjuna said, 'In days of old, thou, O Krishna, hadst wandered on the Gandhamadana mountains for ten thousand years as a Muni having his home where evening fell! Living upon water alone, thou hadst, in days of old, O Krishna, also dwelt for full eleven thousand years by the lake of Pushkara!

And, O slayer of Madhu, with arms upraised and standing on one leg, thou hadst passed a hundred years on the high hills of Vadari, living all the while upon air! And leaving aside thy upper garment, with body emaciated and looking like a bundle of veins, thou hadst lived on the banks of the Saraswati, employed in thy sacrifice extending for twelve years!

And, O Krishna of mighty energy, in observance of thy vow thou hadst stood on one leg for the length of a thousand years of the celestials, on the plains of Prabhasa which it behoveth the virtuous to visit! Vyasa hath told me that thou art the cause of the creation and its course! And, O Kesava, the lord of Kshetra, thou art the mover of all minds, and the beginning and end of all things!

All asceticism resteth in thee, and thou too art the embodiment of all sacrifices, and the eternal one! Slaying the Asura Naraka, offspring of the Earth-first begotten, thou hadst obtained his ear-rings, and performed, O Krishna, the first horse-sacrifice (offering up that Asura as the sacrificial horse)! And, O bull of all the worlds, having performed that feat, thou hast become victorious over all! Thou hadst slain all the Daityas and Danavas mustered in battle, and giving the lord of Sachi (Indra) the sovereignty of the universe, thou hast, O Kesava of mighty arms, taken thy birth among men!

O slayer of all foes, having floated on the primordial waters, thou subsequently becamest Hari, and Brahmaa and Surya and Dharma, and Dhatri and Yama and Anala and Vasu, and Vaisravana, and Rudra, and Kala and the firmament the earth, and the ten directions! Thyself increate, thou art the lord of the mobile and the immobile universe, the Creator of all, O thou foremost of all existences!

And, O slayer of Madhu, O thou of abundant energy, in the forest of Chitraratha thou didst, O Krishna, gratify with thy sacrifice the chief of all the gods, the highest of the high! O Janardana, at each sacrifice thou didst offer, according to shares, gold by hundreds and thousands. And, O son of the Yadava race, becoming the son of Aditi, O exalted one of the supreme attributes, thou hast been known as the younger brother of Indra!

And, O thou chastiser of foes, even while a child thou didst, O Krishna, in consequence of thy energy, fill by three steps only the heaven, the firmament, and the earth! And, O thou soul of all covering the heaven and the firmament (while thou wert thus transformed), thou didst dwell in the body of the sun and afflict him with thy own splendour!

And, O exalted one, in thy incarnations on those thousand occasions, thou hadst slain, O Krishna, sinful Asuras by hundreds! By destroying the Mauravas and the Pashas, and slaying Nisunda and Naraka. Thou hast again rendered safe the road to Pragjyotisha! Thou hast slain Ahvriti at Jaruthi, and Kratha and Sisupala with his adherents, and Jarasandha and Saivya and Satadhanwan!

And on thy car roaring like unto clouds and effulgent like the sun, thou didst obtain for thy queen the daughter of Bhoja, defeating Rukmi in battle! Thou didst in fury slay Indradyumna and the Yavana called Kaseruman! And slaying Salwa the lord of Saubha, thou didst destroy that city of Saubha itself!

These have all been slain in battle; listen to me as I speak of others (also slain by thee)! At Iravati thou hast slain king Bhoja equal unto Karttavirya in battle, and both Gopati and Talaketu also have been slain by thee!
And, O Janardana, thou hast also appropriate unto thyself the sacred city of Dwarka, abounding in wealth and agreeable unto the Rishi themselves, and thou wilt submerge it at the end within the ocean!

O slayer of Madhu, how can crookedness be in thee, devoid as thou art, O thou of the Dasarha race, of anger and envy and untruth and cruelty?
O thou who knowest no deterioration, all the Rishis, coming unto thee seated in thy glory on the sacrificial ground, seek protection of thee!

And, O slayer of Madhu, thou stayest at the end of the Yuga, contracting all things and withdrawing this universe into thy own self, thou repressor of all foes!

O thou of the Vrishni race, at the beginning of the Yuga, there sprang from thy lotus-like navel, Brahmaa himself, and lord of all mobile and immobile things, and whose is this entire universe!

When the dreadful Danavas Madhu and Kaitava were bent on slaying Brahmaa, beholding their impious endeavour thou wert angry, and from thy forehead, O Hari, sprang Sambhu, the holder of the trident. Thus these two foremost of the deities have sprung from thy body in order to do thy work!

Even Narada it was who hath told me this! O Narayana, thou didst, in the forest of Chaitraratha, celebrate with plentiful gifts a grand sacrifice consisting of a multitude of rites! O God, O thou of eyes like lotus leaves, the deeds thou hast performed while still a boy, having recourse to thy might and aided by Baladeva, have never been done by others, nor are they capable of being achieved by others in the future! Thou didst even dwell in Kailasa, accompanied by Brahmanas!'

[anadi]

Caitanya Caritamrita 2.8.154-156

sac-cid-ānanda-maya kṛṣṇera svarūpa
ataeva svarūpa-śakti haya tina rūpa

The original form of Krishna (is made of) the energy - svarūpa kṛṣṇera maya
of eternal existence, knowledge, and ecstatic love - sat-cit-ānanda
as such the energy of the original form -ataeva śakti svarūpa
has three forms - haya tina rūpa

ānandāḿśe hlādinī, sad-aḿśe 'sandhinī'
cid-aḿśe 'samvit', yāre jñāna kari' māni

The part of the ecstatic love (which is ) the pleasure giving energy- aḿśe ānanda hlādinī
The part of the eternal existence (which is) the power of creation - aḿśe sat sandhinī
The part of knowledge (which is) the energy of cognizance - aḿśe cit samvit
which is accepted as science - yāre kari māni jñāna

hlādinī sandhinī samvit
tvayy ekā sarva-saḿśraye
hlāda-tāpa-karī miśrā
tvayi no guṇa-varjite

(Oh, Lord) The pleasure giving potency, the potency of creation and knowledge energy - hlādinī sandhinī samvit
(are all) One (single energy) of Yours - ekā tvayi,
the basis of all things - sarva- saḿśraye
Pleasure and suffering are the cause of mixed (impure) existence (mişra sattva) – hlāda tāpa karī miśrā
But in Yourself there are no (such material) qualities - tvayi no guṇa-varjite

Tika:
This is a quote from Viṣṇu Purāṇa (1.12.69).