|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya ||
Chapter – 178 – The legend
of Lord Krishna – 29
Dhara Dharoshto Jaladhoththaroshto Dharyanantho Girishringa Dhamshtra: |
Dhvanthantharasyo Vithathadhva Jihva:
Parushanilashvasadhavekshanoshna: ||
Krishna was five years old;
as usual, he joined with the large group of children of cowherds and herd of
cows in the wood. Aghasura who is the
emissary Kamsa, arrived as a giant serpent to kill Krishna and the
cowherds. He has assumed a colossal
form, wide opened his lower jaw on the
ground and upper jaw raised up to the sky, stretched his long tongue resembles
a pathway to a cave, and the sharp
tooth has the appearance of hills. The
children of cowherds noticed a beautiful cave in the wood for the first time,
even though they were regular visitors to this place. Instantly, all the children rushed inside the
beautiful cave with great enthusiasm, did not wait for any instructions from
Krishna. Aghasura did not shut its mouth
was waiting for Krishna to enter into his mouth. Krishna felt sad for the children of cowherds
who dashed inside the mouth of Aghasura, they mistook the appearance of the
demon and entered in its mouth putting themselves into troubles. Krishna thought for a second “The children of
the cowherds are already taken shelter in me, they have rushed to danger
without the knowledge of its real nature, finally trapped in deep trouble,
they have no one other than me to protect.
Therefore I should not keep myself away from them.” Krishna mentally prepared
to protect the children from the mouth of Aghasura and performed the amusement
of Aghasura Moksham, thus he entered into the mouth of Aghasura, reached on the
neck area of the serpent, and suddenly Krishna increased the size of his
body. In this way he blocked the air
passage of Aghasura completely, he felt suffocated, his were popped out of breathlessness,
eventually, his huge body rip opened.
Krishna looked at the children of cowherds mercifully, a brilliant
circle of light adorned Krishna, came out with the children who were already
unconscious due to the influence of venomous air inside the stomach of
Aghasura. Thus the demon Aghasura
attained Moksham when Krishna was five years of age, Alas! The children of
cowherds could realize it when Krishna was six years of age.
King Pareekshith enquired
Shukha Bhramam “Oh! Bhraman, why did the children of cowherds take a year to
understand the Aghasura Moksham performed by Krishna?.”
The human intellect has numerous
capabilities to elevate the soul from material welfare to spiritual welfare,
unlike animals. The human intellect can
either adopt wicked nature, or it can elevate the soul with the constant practice of meditation. Aghasura/sin,
who was the emissary of Kamsa had a wicked intention to kill Krishna as long as
he was with Kamsa, once his attention turned towards Krishna, he attained
salvation from the repeated births in the hands of Krishna, in this way the
supreme Lord proved that unless and until the intellect and mind not turned to
the knowledge of the Supreme Lord who resides as soul, it is impossible to
cross the unfathomable ocean of worldly existence. Whoever does not elevate their soul with the
practice meditation, living life of an extrovert concentrating on material
welfare which is temporary nature, forgetting the existence of the supreme soul as
a soul would remain sinners/Agha/Jada.
The intellectuals contemplate upon the supreme Lord who resides as a
soul as supreme bliss, with the knowledge that all the material matters and
people have impermanent nature, would remain fearless, sinless and cross the
ocean of worldly existence effortlessly.
