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Krishna Leela Series Part 06 Putana Killed
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Krishnalila
Part 5
CHAPTER 6
PUTANA KILLED
Krishna as
Putana-Ghatana
(Pastime & Significance)
* Who is Putana?
* Putana enters Gokula
* Anxiety of Gokula’s Inhabitants
* Krishna’s unlimited mercy
CO
NT
EN
T * Krishna’s pastime with Putana
* Nanda Maharaja’s Deliberation
BG 4.8paritranaya sadhunamvinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma-samsthāpanārthāyasambhavami yuge yuge
To deliver the pious
To annihilate miscreants “Avatar”
-Divine Descent
Purpose?
To reestablish religious principles
Krishna appears millennium after
millennium
BACKGROUND
K
* Kamsa consults his demoniac counsellors
* The Plan - Persecutions- Killing of Male Infants
* Sri Krishna’s Birth Ceremony
* Nanda & Vasudeva meet- Vasudeva’s warning of disturbance in Gokula
Nan
da M
aharaja’s D
eliberatio
n
Vasudeva’s warning of Potential Disturbance in Gokula
Warning was friendly and sincere
The value of timely warnings and good advice
Nanda takes shelter of Vishnu
Fear as an impetus for bhakti
Being fearless in superior protection
- Child-Parent Analogy applied to
Krishna and us
Being Abhaya Charanaravinda
- Fearless under Krishna’s Feet
Wh
o is P
utan
a?
Kamsa consults demoniac ministers
Kamsa decides to send Putana to Gokula to kill Krishna
Putana - a khechari witch & one of Kamsa’s many demoniac associates
Khecari witches can fly in the sky on uprooted trees - still current in remote north-western India. They can change size and form too.
Skilled in the black art of killing small children
What is black art? - Left Tantra- Scriptures provide guidelines for all activities, both good and bad to facilitate the desires of the conditioned souls.
But, the dire consequences are also spelt out.
* Krishna’s Holy Name mitigates all ghostly effects.
* But, Krishna uses anxiety to draw devotees towards Him.
Pu
tana en
ters Go
kula
oPutana enters Gokula without permission - how?
o Goal – to feed Krishna poisoned milk
oDisguised as a beautiful cowherd woman – Descriptions
oShe appeared like the Goddess of Fortune with a lotus flower in her hand, come to see Krishna.
oHer beauty mesmerised everyone & she
owas left unchecked
o– Danger of Material Beauty
oPutana enters Nanda Maharaja’s house and sees Baby Krishna.
o- Her understanding …
Putana senses the supreme destructive potency of the child.
sarvasya caham
hrdi sannivisto
- BG 15.15
-Gives intelligence, remembrance and forgetfulness
Krishna is situated in everyone’s heart as Paramatma
Pu
tana en
ters Go
kula
God is Supremely powerful &
Transcendental in all
circumstances
This applies whether in the spiritual world or the material world.
He is God either as a baby or as a cowherd or as a prince or as a boar, etc. as His various descents show.
Krishna does not have to meditate to become God. He is eternally God.
Proof ? …
Pu
tana en
ters Go
kula
Krishna displays His
baby pastimes
Krish
na’s p
astime w
ith P
utan
a
Closes His eyes
Why? …
Putana’s hesitation
He did not like to see Putana’s face
Killing a woman, brahmana, child and cows is a sin – Vedic rules
Krishna saw Putana as a nurse
VE
DA
- 7 MO
TH
ER
S
Original Mother
Brahmana’s Wife
Guru’s Wife
King’s Wife
Cow
Nurse
Earth
Krish
na’s p
astime w
ith P
utan
a
Krish
na’s p
astime w
ith P
utan
a
•Putana took Krishna on her lap.
•She was holding death personified.
•Both Rohini and Yasoda were there but could not understand.•- Thought of her as having motherly affection.
•Putana smeared powerful poison on her breasts and pushed her nipples within Krishna’s mouth.
•Krishna while sucking the milk also sucked out her life air.
•Putana cried loudly “leave me” and perspiring and trembling fell to the ground, regaining her original witch form.
•12-mile body came crashing down
An
xiety of G
oku
la’s Inh
abitan
ts
Gopis shocked -Krishna’s Yogamaya potency
•They rushed to Krishna-Vatsalya
Prayers for protection-Shuddhi
-- with cow’s tail & circumambulation, cow urine, cow dung and dust raised by walking of cows
-– purification of body by the chanting of Vishnu’s Holy Names – Significance of Tilaka
An
xiety of G
oku
la’s Inh
abitan
ts
Purification
Performance of Achamana – sipping water while chantingTilaka and the different forms of the Lord protecting the various limbs in the body – 12 tilaka markings
Body
- Through Bathing
Mind
- Through Mantra
An
xiety of G
oku
la’s Inh
abitan
ts
Why are the cow and bull so importantly revered?
Krishi go rakshya – agriculture & cow protectionThe cow is mother – nourishment through milkPanchagavya for worship & cow’s role in countering spiritsBull as tiller of field – backhone of subsistence33 million devatas reside in the body of the cow
An
xiety of G
oku
la’s Inh
abitan
ts
Krishna Himself personally shows the value of cow protection
KRISHNA AS GOPALA, GOVINDA,
GO-BRAHMANA HITAYA CA
Krish
na’s U
nlim
ited M
ercy
Krishna took Putana like His mother
- The Lord bestows the Highest benefit even to His enemies
Putana attained liberation or Sayujya Mukti
- But, we should be favourable towards Krishna.
Putana’s dead body burntfragrance of aguru from her body
- Purification by contacting Krishna
Inhabitants of Gokula prayed for Krishna’s safety and blessed Him.
- Spontaneous affection