Sri Garga Samhita

BY: SUN STAFF


Dec 30, CANADA (SUN) —

Canto One, Volume Two
Chapter Fourteen

Sakatasura-trinavarta-mokshah
The Liberation of Sakatasura and Trinavarta

Text 1

sri-garga uvaca

ity evam kathitam divyam
sri-krishna-caritam varam
yah srinoti naro bhaktya
sa kritartho na samsayah

Sri Garga Muni said: A person who with devotion hears Lord Krishna's transcendental pastimes becomes perfect and successful. Of this there is no doubt.

Text 2

sri-saunaka uvaca

sudha-kandat param mishtam
sri-krishna-caritam subham
srutva tan-mukhatah sakshat
kritarthah smo vayam mune

Sri Saunaka said: O sage, hearing from your mouth Sri Krishna's beautiful pastimes, which are sweeter than nectar, we have now become successful.

Text 3

sri-krishna-bhaktah santatma
bahulasvah satam varah
atho munim kim papraccha
tan me bruhi tapo-dhana

What did Bahulasva, who was a peaceful-hearted devotee of Lord Krishna, and who was the best of the pious, ask the sage then? O saint wealthy in austerity, please tell me this.

Text 4

sri-garga uvaca

atha raja maithilendro
harshitah prema-vihvalah
naradam praha dharmatma
paripurnatamam smaran

Sri Garga Muni said: Happy, overcome with love, and meditating on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the saintly- hearted king of Mithila spoke to Narada.

Text 5

sri-bahulasva uvaca

dhanyo 'ham ca kritartho 'ham
bhavata bhuri-karmana
sango bhagavadiyanam
durlabho durghato 'sti hi

Sri Bahulasva said: Because of you, whose devotional service is very great, I have become fortunate and successful. Association with the Lord's great devotees is very rare and difficult to attain.

Text 6

sri-krishnas tv arbhakah sakshad
adbhuto bhakta-vatsalah
agre cakara kim citram
caritam vada me mune

What wonderful activities did wonderful infant Krishna, who loves His devotees, do? O sage, please tell me.

Text 7

sri-narada uvaca

sadhu prishtam tvaya rajan
bhavata krishna-dharmina
sangamah khalu sadhunam
sarvesham vitanoti sam

Sri Narada said: O king, as a devotee of Lord Krishna, you have asked a very good question. Association with saintly devotees brings happiness and auspicious to everyone.

Text 8

ekada krishna-janmarkshe
yasoda nanda-gehini
gopi-gopan samahuya
mangalam cakarod dvijaih

On the day of Krishna's birth-star, Nanda's wife Yasoda called together the gopas and gopis and had the brahmanas perform auspicious ceremonies.

Text 9

raktambaram kanaka-bhushana-bhushitangam
balam pragrihya kalitanjana-padma-netram
syamam sphurad-dhari-nakhavrita-candra-haram
devan pranamya su-dhanam pradadau dvijebhyah

Taking her dark boy, who was dressed in red garments and who, His limbs decorated with golden ornaments and His lotus eyes with black anjana, wore a glittering moon necklace of lion's nails, she offered respectful obeisances to the demigods and gave great wealth to the brahmanas.

Text 10

prenkhe nidhaya nijam atmajam asu gopi
sampujya mangala-dine prati gopikas tah
naivasrinot su-ruditasya sutasya sabdam
gopeshu mangala-griheshu gatagateshu

On that auspicious day she placed her son in His cradle, and quickly greeted the gopis. As the cowherd people came and went in the auspicious rooms, the gopi Yasoda did not hear the sound of her crying son.

Text 11

tatraiva kamsa-khala-nodita utkacakhyo
daityah prabhanjana-tanuh sakatam sa etya
balasya murdhni paripatayitum pravrittah
krishno 'pi tam kila tatada padarunena

Then, when a demon named Utkaca, who had been sent by the demon Kamsa, and who had a body made of air, went to a cart and tried to make it fall on Krishna's head, infant Krishna kicked the cart with the red sole of His foot.

Text 12

curne gate 'tha sakate patite ca daitye
tyaktva prabhanjana-tanum vimalo babhuva
natva harim sata-hayena rathena yukto
goloka-dhama nija-lokam alam jagama

When the cart broke into pieces the demon fell. Leaving his body of air, he attained a pure spiritual body and, after respectfully bowing down before Lord Hari, in a chariot pulled by a hundred horses went to the Lord's own abode of Goloka.

Text 13

nandadayo vraja-jana vraja-gopikas ca
sarve sametya yugapat prithukams tad ahuh
esha svayam ca patitah sakatah katham hi
janitha he vraja-sutah su-gatas ca yuyam

Headed by Nanda, the men and gopis of Vraja at once converged on that place and asked the children, "How could this cart have fallen by itself? O children of Vraja, you were here. You know."

Text 14

sri-bala ucuh

prenkha-stho 'yam kshipan padau
rudan dugdhartham eva hi
tatada padam sakate
tenedam patitam khalu

The children said: Staying in the cradle, crying for milk, and kicking His feet, the child hit the cart with one foot and it fell.

Text 15

sraddham na cakrur balokte
gopa gopyas ca vismitah
traimasikah kva balo 'yam
kva caitad bhara-bhrit tv anah

Astonished, the gopas and gopis did not believe the childrens' words. "What is this three-month old infant in comparison to this heavily-burdened cart?"

Text 16

balam anke sa grihitva
yasoda graha-sankita
karayam asa vidhi-vad
yajnam vipraih su-tarpitaih

Fearing a ghost had come, Yasoda took the infant on her lap, gave offerings to the brahmanas and had them perform a traditional yajna.

Text 17

sri-bahulasva uvaca

ko 'yam purvam tu kusali
daitya utkaca-nama-bhak
aho krishna-pada-sparsad
gato moksham maha-mune

O great sage, in his previous birth who was this fortunate demon named Utakaca, who attained liberation by the touch of Lord Krishna's foot?

Text 18

sri-narada uvaca

hiranyaksha-suto daitya
utkaco nama maithila
lomasasyasrame gacchan
vrikshams curni-cakara ha

Sri Narada said: O king of Mithila, one day the demon named Utkaca, who was Hiranyaksha's son, went to Lomasa Muni's hermitage and broke some trees.

Text 19

tam drishtva sthula-dehadhyam
utkacakhyam maha-balam
sasapa rosha-yug vipro
videho bhava durmate

Seeing the powerful giant named Utkaca, the brahmana became angry and cursed him, "O evil-hearted one, become bodyless!"

Text 20

sarpa-kancukavad-deho
'patat karma-vipakatah
sadyas tac-caranopante
patitva praha daitya-rat

From this deed his body at once fell away as a snake's old skin also falls away. The king of demons then fell at the brahmana's feet and spoke.

Text 21

utkaca uvaca he mune he kripa-sindho
kripam kuru mamopari
te prabhavam na janami
deham me dehi he prabho

Utcaka said: O sage, O ocean of mercy, please be kind to me. I did not know your power. O lord, please give me a body.

Text 22

sri-narada uvaca

tada prasannah sa munir
drishtam naya-satam vidheh
satam rosho 'pi varado
varo mokshartha-dah kim u

Sri Narada said: Then the sage, who had studied a hundred lessons in morality from the demigod Brahma, became pleased. The anger of saintly persons brings a blessing. How great is that blessing, which brings liberation?

Text 23

sri-lomasa uvaca

vata-dehas tu te bhuyad
vyatite cakshushantare
vaivasvatantare muktir
bhavita ca pada hareh

Sri Lomasa said: You may have a body made of air. When the cakshush-manvantara is over and the vaivasvata-manvantra has come, Lord Hari's foot will give you liberation.

Text 24

sri-narada uvaca

tasmad utkaca-daityas tu
mukto lomasa-tejasa
sadbhyo namo 'stu ye nunam
samartha vara-sapayoh

Sri Narada said: In this way the power of Lomasa Muni gave liberation to the demon Utkaca. I offer my respectful obeisances to the saintly devotees of the Lord, who have the power both to bless and to curse.

Text 25

utsange kriditam balam
lalayanty ekada nripa
giri-bharam na sehe sa
vodhum sri-nanda-gehini

O king, one day, as He played on her lap and she fondled Him, Nanda's wife could not longer hold her infant boy, for he had become as heavy as a mountain.

Text 26

aho giri-samo balah
katham syad iti vismita
bhumau nidhaya tam sadyo
nedam kasmai jagada ha

She was astonished, "How has my infant boy become heavy as a mountain?" She placed Him on the ground at once. How has this happened?" she said.

Text 27

kamsa-pranodito daityas
trinavarto maha-balah
jahara balam kridantam
vata-vartena sundaram

The powerful demon Trinavarta, who had been sent by Kamsa, with a circling whirlwind grabbed the handsome, playing infant boy.

Text 28

rajo-'ndha-karo 'bhut tatra
ghora-sabdas ca gokule
rajasvalani cakshumshi
babhuvur ghatika-dvayam

In Gokula there was blinding darkness and a terrible roar. For an hour the dust stopped everyone's vision.

Text 29

tato yasoda napasyat
putram tam mandirajire
mohita rudati ghoshan
pasyanti griha-sekharan

Yasoda did not see her son in the courtyard. Bewildered and crying, she gazed at the roofs of the houses in Vraja.

Text 30

adrishte ca yada putre
patita bhuvi murchita
uccai ruroda karunam
mrita-vatsa yatha hi gauh

When she did not see her son, she fell to the ground unconscious. She loudly and pitifully wept, like a cow whose calf has died.



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