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Krishna Leela Series - Part 45 - Krishna Erects the Dwaraka Fort
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KRISHNA BHAKTI SANGHA PRESENTS :KRISHNA ERECTS DWARAKA FORT
Krishna Leela Series: 45
Recap….
Akrura was sent to Hastinapura to check on Dhrtrastra’s behaviour towards his nephews
Akrura delivered message to Dhrtrastra and spoke of Dharma
Dhrtrastra accepted his biasness and left everything to destiny
Akrura related everything to Krishna and Balaram
Krishna erects Dwaraka fort
After Kamsa’s death, his 2 wives left for their father’s place
In Vedic culture , women have to be protected:Before marriage she should live
with her fatherAfter marriage, she should be
with her husband In the event of her husband’s
death she should either live with her children or her parents depending on the circumstances
King Jarasandha
Their father was the King of Magada (Bihar)
Was mortified on hearing the news
Avenged to rid the whole Yadu clan
ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!
•Made extensive arrangements to attack Mathura•With thousands of soldiers, elephants, horses and soldiers, he
attacked Mathura with 13 phalanxes•Lord Krishna appeared as a human being and saw
Jarasandha’s immense strength.
Lord’s Mission
paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma-samsthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge
In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I
advent Myself millennium after millennium. Gita- 4.8
Lord was thinking ….
What is my mission? Should I kill Jarasandha? Should I kill the troops? Lord decided to destroy
the troops of Jarasandha Lord Krishna is the most
intelligent While thinking, 2 military
chariots fully equipped arrived from outer space
Krishna and Balaram
Requested Balaram to join Him
They have both descended for the same purpose
“ Compassionate “Jarasandha
Krishna had a small army compared to Jarasandha’s He became compassionate because Krishna and
Balaram were related as grandsons He addressed Krishna as “Purushadhama”
Purusadhama vs Purusottama
Purusadhama means lowest among men
Purushottama – Highest among men!
Acharya’s explanation:purusadhama to be
"one who makes all other personalities go downward."
Started criticizing the Lord
Great dishonour to fight with boys Addressed him as killer of his own relatives Criticized for not being a Kshatriya
because he was hidden and was raised as a Vaishya
Finding faults is a tendency that we should eradicate
Jarasandha told Baladev…
If you want you can fight along with him
If you have patience you can wait to be killed and be promoted to heaven, or kill me!
Kshatriyas go to heaven in victory or in death in the battlefield.
The great fight is going to start..
Don’t talk too much! Just fight!
Jarasandha and his army surrounded the army from all sides like how the cloud covers the sun
Women of Mathura started fainting
Krishna started shooting his arrows when his small army was being harassed and blood started flowing very soon!
Defeated! Balaram and Krishna
killed everyone The sole survivor who
was not killed was Jarasandha and Baladev started tying him up
Krishna told him not to and to let him go
Ashamed and frustrated, he wanted to go do some penance and meditation
BAD ADVICE NEVER HELPS
On his way back, some royal friends encouraged him to fight again and not retire
It was due to past karma that he lost and his fighting had no fault
Lord comes back victorious! Citizens celebrated with great joy!
Everyone was offering nice poems, flowers, foodstuff and began to throw grass and yoghurt as per the
custom. Krishna presented the jewels collected in the battlefield
to Ugrasena
17 and still a loser! Jarasandha attacked 17
times and every time he was defeated
While Jarasandha was attempting one time, a Yavana king also attacked Mathura because of the opulence of the Yadus
Yavanas are descendents of Yayati
The King of the Yavanas was induced by Narada
18th Attempt So Kalayavan and
Jarasandha happened to attack around the same period.
Kalayavan had 30 million soldiers and Jarasandha had the same amount as usual
Krishna decided to build a fort where no 2 legged animal , man or demon could go.
FORTRESS DWARAKA
Engaged Vishwakarma Wall covering 96 square miles within the sea itself There were well planned roads,kalpavrikshas and palaces All the demigods came individually to present some gift to the Lord Krishna transferred everyone to the new palaces once it was completed Krishna entrusted Balaram as the incharge and left to meet Kalayavan
Kalayavan witnessed Krishna
Saw him as extraordinary beautiful and in silken yellow garments.
He saw Kaustabha,Srivatsa, blooming lotus eyes and his four handed form.
Krishna went past and Kalayavan tried catching Krishna but to no avail
He can be caught by devotion
- Krishna entered a cave and could not be seen- Kalayavan saw a man lying down and mistook him for Krishna and kicked him.- The mysterious man awoke and burnt Kalayavan to ashes!
WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS MAN?
?
Tune in next time ……
Hare Krishna Hare KrishnaKrishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare RamaRama Rama Hare Hare