Killing of Kesi demon

After this killing Aristasura pastime took place which is described here as

“krsnenadbhuta-karmana” (S.B 10.36.16)

This is wonderful pastime of Lord killing this Aristasura demon.

“kamsayathaaha bhagavan narada deva-darsanah” (S.B 10.36.16)

After killing Aristasura Narada muni comes to playing his Veena

“Naradmuni bajaye veena radhikaraman namane”

Narada muni veena, veena Narada muni, so when he comes to Vrindhavan Narada muni is because veena he plays everywhere and he sings glories of Radhikaraman in Braja, in other places he’s chanting (bhajan)

“Narayana Narayana Narayana Laxmi Narayana Narayana Narayana

Badri Narayana Narayana Narayana,Narayana Narayana Narayana,

Narayana Narayana Narayana, Narayana Narayana Narayana

Shriman Narayana Narayana Narayana, Shriman Narayana Narayana Narayana,

Narayana Narayana Narayana,Narayana Narayana Narayana Narayana Narayana Narayana Narayana Narayana, Narayana Badri Narayana Narayana Narayana, Narayana Narayana NarayanaNarayana Narayana Narayana”

So Narayana chanting names of Narayana and he gives Narayana to everybody hence his name is Narada “da” means giver, one who gives what he is giving? he is giving Narayana, he is giving Radhikaraman, Narada muni is such a exalted personality he is one of those personalities who could enter Rasa dance he is competent, he is qualified but he cannot go with his veena & his hair so and he has to take bath in Kusum Sarovar, Vrindadevi said have a bath Naradaji, Naradaji throws himself into Kusum Savaror with all his clothes with his veena and everything he goes in as with veena and all his normal outfits then he comes out Gopi and he is shown the way ok this way this way. So that Narada muni he is misunderstood like anything most misunderstood person is Narada muni, in India they don’t understand Narada muni lot of time they make mockery, that he is some kind of clown no that’s not the case he is topmost he is Bhagvat, one of duadash Bhagvata’s Naradmuni is in that list they commit offences by thinking Narada muni’s, we don’t understand him, we think he is always behind oh! This fight that fight Narada muni he is arranging. So he has come to now to inform what? So you will also again misunderstand him whyshould he go to Kamsa, you know? To do what? What information he’s giving.

“yasodayah sutam kanyam, devakyah kr?s?n?am eva ca ramam ca rohini-putram vasudevena bibhyata nyastau sva-mitre nande vai yabhyam te purusa hatah” (10.36.17)

This information this piece of information he was just puzzled; eleven years now he had heard. OH! Your killer has been born elsewhere you fool. So then he was trying to find that person where is the eighth son of Devaki he couldn’t be a daughter he had all ready figure it out by consulting the astrologer, no! no! Son was expected to take birth not a daughter. So Narada muni now informs you fool Kamsa you were just cheated.

“yasodayah sutam kanyam” The kanya the daughter that you attempted to kill that was Yashoda’s daughter.

“devakyah kr?s?nam eva ca”

Devaki’s son is and “ramam ca rohini putram” is son of Rohini because “vasudevena bibhyata” Because Vasudev was Scared he took these two children and put into custody and under care of Nanda Maharaj and do you know that every associate of yours that you havebeensending,dispatching they were all killed by these two Krishna and Balarama. So he got all the clue Aaaaaa….! They are there in the Nandagram.

“nisamya tad bhoja-patih kopat pracalitendriyah” (10.36.18)

So by hearing this information, Bhojpati the swami the master of the Bhoj dynasty he “kopa” he become so angry that first thing he did, he got sharp sword he attempted to kill Vasudev he was in town he was released by king Kamsa but now after 10-11 years now he thinks, OH! This Vasudev I thought he was such honest and straight forward person but I did not know he was that crooked he is thinking like that and his sword is ready.

“nivarito naradena tat sutau mrtyum atmanah” (S.B 10.36.19)

But Narada muni stops checked hey! Kamsa fool not him your killers are his sons, Vasudev’s sons kill them, not poor Vasudev so he did not kill but he tied him up with iron shakals bound him tied him up.

“pratiyate tu devarsau. Kamsa abhasya kesinam” (S.B 10.36.20)

And after this Narada muni left Mathura and immediately Kamsa called for hey! “Kesi Kesi Kesi Mantri Mantri Mantri Mahodey Minister Kesi please come” he asked one of his servants to bring Kesi

“presayam asa hanyetam, bhavata rama-kesavau” (S.B 10.36.20) And immediately gave a task ok go, Kesi had come yes sir how could I help you, hey! You go and kill this Ram and Kesava

“Rama-kesavau hanyetam” understand he had understood so he left.

“tato mustika-canura, sala-tosalakadikan” (S.B 10.36.21)

So he called for all his big big wrestlers not only wrestlers they are Ministers in the assembly in the parliament of Kamsa “mustika,canura, sala, tosala” these are big big Ministers so kind of emergency parliament meeting

“hastipams caiva,samahuyaha bhoja-rathe” (S.B 10.36.21)

He called the care taker of the elephants specially thperson who took care of the Kuvalayapida he is addressing them

“bho bho nisamyatam etad, vira-can?ura-mus?tikau” (S.B 10.36.22)

Hey! Heros you Heros specially addressing two of them canura and mustika

“nanda-vraje kilasate, sutav anakadundubheh? rama-kr?snau tato mahyam, mr?tyuhh kila nidarsitah” (S.B10.36.22-23)

OH! I just got the news worst news of my life in one sense, I was finding trying to know but today I was informed by Narada muni you know my killers whom we were looking for Krishna & Balarama they are in Nandagram they are with Nanda Maharaj so you two,

“bhavadbhyam iha sampraptau, hanyetamm malla-lilaya”(S.B 10.36.23)

Now I am assigning two of you to kill two of them you have to do this malla-lilaya we will organize wrestling match and while you wrestle with them, by the way you just kill them ok as if it’s a Lila it was no preplan, no premeditated he is saying it should sound like that weshould not give wrong perception to the public no no while just playing it’s just happened (devotees laughing) it’s just happened on the spot this was malla-lilaya its just a lila we have to play this, “mancah kriyantam”

So you setup all the stages and invite lets have big festival & invite people of whole and there will be big competition of wrestling match that was instructions to his wrestlers and then he turns to his mahamatra hey! You take care of the Kuvalayapida right you are the one, yes yes I am the one so for you “tvaya bhadra ranga-dvary” (S.B 10.36.25) So just outside the wrestling arena you keep your Kuvalayapida and you kill them right there with the help of the elephant then we don’t have to get even blame oh! The children they were just ooking at the elephant and the elephant did its job we had again not planneit was just an accident. So he was told & given that assignment.

“arabhyatamm” and Kamsa he is trying to package everything and we will have a fire sacrifice you know that Dhanur the bow that we have which Parshuram donated me, let’s have Dhanur yaga right there will have a big sacrifice and so people will think that it’s a festival time, the fire sacrifice, the wrestling match & we will ask everyone when the residents come they should bring lots of milk products & just distribute, exchange that with each other and decorate the whole town it should be like a festival so no one could even think or doubt what the whole crux of the matter is, what’s the purpose behind all this. And so he is making plans like that so after his ministers and this elephant caretakers as well as this Kesi they were given different tasks the next thing is calling over Akrura go get Akrura and thenAkrura arrives & immediately

“gr?hitva pan?ina pan?im” he catches hold of the hands of Akrura and

“atas tvam asritah saumya” you know I am totally depended upon you O’ gentle one I would like you to do a favor to me I would like you to go

“gaccha nanda-vrajam tatra,sutav anakadundubheh?” (S.B 10.36.30)

And bring those two sons’ of Nanda Maharaj he is mentioning they are son’s of Vasudev now with Nanda Maharaj. He say’s you take this chariot, you take this chariot & they will like this chariot if you take a bullock card they may not be so much interested because every day they have their bullock rides but if you go with the chariot immediately they will jump into the chariot so take this chariot & “m? ciram” do not delay please go bring Krishna & Balarama & also invite all the residents & let them bring all the milk products because we have festival here.

“yujyate harssa-sokabhyam,tathapy ajnam karomi te”(S.B 10.36.30)

Yes I will do as you wish but this is not fair this may give you some pleasure but be prepared for lot of lamentation and suffering this warning is also given by Akrura to Kamsa.

“siddhy-asiddhyoh samam kuryad, daivam hi phala-sadhanam” (S.B 10.36.38)

Just depend on the Supreme authority he is not mentioning the name of Lord, Siddhy, Asiddhi whatever comes remaining equipoised.

“sukha-du?khe same krtva, labhalabhau jayajayau” (B.G 2.38)

That kind of preaching Krishna has done in Bhagavat Gitajust little sampling of that, that’s the tone of Akrura’s presentation but he says if you insist ok I will go and so Akrura returns to his own resident this was evening time now, its next day two things are happening here Akrura gets ready to go next morning while Akrura is on way to the Kesi who was also instructed, hey! you also go to Vrindavan to kill so he had spared some most powerful very powerful demons so this Kesi in the form of horse, the horse form so the best thing that just kill them even though I have assigned Akrura to go get Krishna & Balarama but if they could be killed just there then my name will not be attach to that killing and, so Kesi demon goes & he is also big size, huge big magnitudes,the hair on the neck, when they would shake the hair that scattered two things scatter clouds in the sky also scatter the aircrafts of the Demigods, Demigods are going doing their inter planetary travels so with the touch of the hair he would just get the clouds out of the way and the aircrafts would meet major accidents and he could see Krishna there,gigantic creature there so without going into much detail of this pastime we want to go to the crux of the matter, so the technique that Krishna is using here is, the horse had its mouth wide open,so Krishna put’s his hand inside the mouth of the horse and see the size of the horse you could imagine that size of mouth. so when Krishna puts his hand inside the mouth that hand filled the entire space inside the big mouth all the hollow space from the front of the teeth all the way to the throat this all became filled up, Krishna kind of expands his hand makes it long although he is that tall his hand is like a long long hand becomes that much hand is inside and also he makes it hot He makes it big & makes it hot. And result of that was you could see he is upside down now throwing his legs into the air & screaming (sound of horse screaming in the background some vedio being played)So what basically happens is that Krishna’s hand is inside he gets chocked up he cannot breath, no breathing all stops in out & no air & he lost his life also passing stool (laughs) special mention is there. “papata lan?d?am”

“papata lan?d?am visr?jan ksitau vyasuh” (S.B 10.37.7)He became lifeless and this pastime Krishna was out there herding his cows on the bank of Jamuna. You know where Kesi Ghat is? Vrindavan Kesi Ghat “kesi ghat vamsi vat duadash kanan..” where Vrindhavan Dhama is not far from Radha Damador temple in 72 when Prabhupad held the festival first ever Vrindavan festival & so I was in that batch of first festival & we were like 40-50 devotes from around the world we were thinking we were so many 40-50 devotees attended the festival so stayed at the Kesi Ghat for one month we were staying at the Kesi ghat which is right on the bank of river Jamuna it’s a palace king of Bharatpur had build the palace at the site where Kesi demon was killed. So that happened during the day, while Akrura was on the way to Vrindavan, all that was going on, Kesi was in action trying to kill Krishna so that it didn’t work out & that afternoon another demon attempted to kill Krishna that was Vyomasura and that pastime, so Kesi demon was killed in the morning and Vyomasura in the afternoon. Vyomasura pastime took place on the top of Govardhan hill one becoming what? One sheep, one thief, one police remember the cowherd boys played this different roles & Vyomasura came they were supposed to be so called thieves but he became a real thief this Vyomasura he started stealing Krishna’s friends they were large number in the beginning but their numbers were diminishing & Krishna was wondering what’s going on here? his friends those who were playing the role of thief they were so called stealing but again returning the stolen sheep but this Vyomasura he was picking up Krishna’s friends stealing them & he was taking them airways to Kamavana and hiding them in cave, in Kamavana there is a cave which you can visit even to this day Vyomasura gufa, Vyomasura cave. So when Krishna realized what was going on, He identified this demon & Krishna followed him all the way up to Kamavana in the sky up there they battled two of them up in the sky, the whole earth was about to go out of orbit because Krishna they would come sometimes down then goes up in air so while giving pushing earth down and go on giving a boost, going up so that was shaking up the whole planet then Balarama he would hold his foot down just to make sure earth doesn’t go out of the orbit doesn’t move. There are footprints of Balarama from that time you could go see during Brajmandal parikrama footprints of Balarama. So that Vyomasura killing happened in afternoon & so that would lead, so these two things happened on the same day as Akrura is going to Vrindavan he lives for Vrindavan.

Krishna goes to Mathura

Welcoming each other and one of them also saying I surrender “sarnagatam” please give me shelter or I take shelter of you OH ! Krishna.

“varnyatam tata”

“saumy?gatah? kaccit, sv–?gatam? bhadram” ( S.B 10.39.4)

You are such a gentle personality, we welcome you, how’s uncle Kamsa? Enquires are being made here but we would like to know, what’s anything we could do? Is there any definite purpose of your visit this time, we would like to know? And then

Sri Suka uvacha like Akrura uvacah ,Akrura is speaking ?r?–?uka uv?ca

“pr?s?t?o bhagavat? sarvam?, varn?ay?m ?sa m?dhavah?” ( S.B 10.39.8)

So as Bhagvata Krishna , krishnena Krishna enquired and Akrura discloses all the plans and all the intentions of Kamsa or even how Kamsa attempted to kill Vasudev and it was also only Narada who intervened and saved the life, but he has been shackled he has been arrested, Vasudev has been arrested and many people he is thinking of arresting, killing, driving them away, so like that this is Akrura disclosing all these facts, confidential news he was not suppose to do this.

“?rutv?kr?ra-vacah? kr?s?n?o, bala? ca para–v?ra–h?” ( S.B 10.39.10)

When Krishna and Balarama heard all this they only smiled ha..ha….OH! He wants to die so his days are numbered now for sure. Lords made up their minds on who tried to kill their father Vasudev and he is thinking of killing others and of course he is thinking of killing Krishna and Balarama . So they smiled and of course Nanda Maharaj is not aware of all this confidential reasons and the news, what developments are taking place in Mathura?, what the purpose is?

So not only Krishna and Balaram were invited by Kamsa, but he had invited Nanda Maharaj all other cowherd men, and boys . So Nanda Maharaj is spreading the news, he is making announcement

“gop?n sam?di?at so ‘pi, gr?hyat?m? sarva-go-rasah?” ( S.B 10.39.11) “go-rasah?” all the milk products take them as a gifts “yujyant?m? ?akat??ni” ( S.B 10.39.11)

Get all the bullock carts ready load all the milk products and we will live for Mathura announce this. So party has gone to towns and villages this is their duty, there are announcers they go to squares in villages, they may sometime climb up some roof top of tree, beat the drum. Ahe……….in my village I know they beat drum people gather, then announcement is made, then the person walks to the next square (laughs). And he gets everyone’s attention, people know that person, he has some announcement all gather round him and the announcement is repeated and the whole village comes to know. So Nanda Maharaj has made that arrangement.

“y?sy?mah? ?vo madhu–pur?m?, d?sy?mo nr?pate ras?n”

Part of the announcement is yes we will live for Mathupuri tomorrow “draks?y?mah?” we will offer “nr?pate ras?n” ( S.B 10.39.12)

All these milk products for the pleasure of are king Kamsa we will offer this

“draks?y?mah? su–mahat parva, y?nti j?napad?h? kila” ( S.B 10.39.12)

We will also experience a wonderful festival, our king has organized a grand festival in Mathura, wrestling match, fire sacrifice and what not, food for life (devotees laughing) because they were taking all these milk products. And we will be able to see the big town, we have never seen Mathura, we only stay in village, sometimes we go to the forest. We will see the big city today or tomorrow as we go, so get ready.

“gopya” so this was a good news for most of the residents of Nanadagokul except there is one section of the society and that’s Gopis everyone else, everyone was informed and many were able to go, men, boys and ladies specially young girls they don’t get to go. So for them this news was not a very good news.

“r?ma–kr?s?n?au pur?m? netum, akr?ram? vrajam ?gatam” ( S.B 10.39.13)

So they were not very happy OH! This Akrura he is the one who has come to bring are Krishna and Balarama to Mathura, he is so cruel his name is Akrura he is not Akrura but he is such a Krura person (devotees laugh). He is going to break our hearts he is going to take are life away, he is our “prananatha” Krishna is our prana our life and he has come to take our life away; we are going to be lifeless. So they had hard time all night long they had sleepless nights and when they got up next morning everyone got up, somewhere exited that they would get to go to Mathura , many were getting ready , oxcarts and all the milk products loading was on, Akrura was getting the chariot ready, decorating also that was meant for Krishna and Balaram. So many of them were very very happy, excited looking forward to that day’s trip. Gopis there was a different thing noon time they would be meeting everyday going to Kusum Sarovar picking up flowers, making Vaijayanti mala then running , rushing to Radhakund, offering garland doing all water sports and so many pastimes. What would happen to them today and what about tonight and who knows for how long this is going to last. So when everyone got ready all Gopis also got ready only to attempt to stop Akrura from taking their Krishna and Balarama they were doing everything possible to check the progress of the chariot not let it go, holding the wheels and even catching hold of Akrura, mad handling him some Gopis were what do you think you are? You know get down and some were with the horses all the way in front all surrounding 100s and 1000s of them. Krishna and Balarama were seated already in the chariot, they are begging, praying, pleading please don’t go, please don’t go. But finally the Lord He did not say directly to the Gopis but He asked one of the devotee vrajavasi name is not mentioned to pass on the news to the Gopis let them know he just said 1-2 words “aayase”

I will be coming just inform them, I will be back very soon just now coming just let them know this. So that was the only communication Lord made and Akrura was signaled, to proceed against all the protest, obstacles and Gopis chariot moves forward and other carts also gradually follow, raising lots of dust Gopis stood there like pillars motionless, speechless only looking even praying may there be thunderstorm let there be some kind of blockage on the road, flood, let the trees collapse and some thing let something happen. So that he would not end up going let him return to us, no one took their side and so Krishna went to Mathura.