|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya ||

Chapter – 183 – The legend of Lord Krishna – 34

Sarveshamapi Vasthoonam Bhavarththo Bhavathi Sthitha: | Thasyapi Bhagavan Krishna: Kimadhvasthu Roopyatham ||

King Pareekshith speaks “Oh! Bhraman, you have explained the supreme Lord assumed the form of cowherds and cows of Vraja when Lord Bhrama hid all of them, why did the cows and calves, and the children of cowherds and their mothers felt a unique love towards each other?”

Shuka Bhramam speaks “Oh! Rajan, listen to me carefully, everyone has love for themselves more than anybody else, and it is possible as long as the supreme soul resides in us, it stimulates us to like ourselves like the brightness has the ability to catch the attention,  a lifeless body cannot attract due to the lack of presence of supreme soul in it.  The supreme soul is known as Krishna/Karshayath + Ithi Krishna, who resides as a soul in all the living beings.  The Supreme Lord has incarnated as a little cowherd with the influence of Maya, and born as the son of Devaki and Vasudeva for the welfare of the Universe and its people.  We are witnessing the all-pervading nature of the Supreme Lord in the whole Universe, there is nothing other than supreme Lord, and you can realize the presence of the supreme Lord in living as well as non-living things.  We can witness everything in the Universe with the presence of him as a soul in us; he is the source of the functioning of the Gnana Indhriyas, Karmendhriyas, mind, and intellect. Oh! Murari, the compassionate one, kindly grace us to elevate our soul at your lotus feet.”

The legends of Srimad Bhagavatha Puran repeatedly describe the significance of Bhakti, Gnana, and Vairagya.  The practice of learning scriptures, Veda and Upanishads, the performance of religious and spiritual rites, without the awareness of the all-pervading nature of supreme Lord could not elevate the soul, it cannot enhance the devotion in the doer, unless and until the knowledge of the presence of the supreme soul as a soul in living beings.

Thus, years have passed, all these years Krishna was taking care of calves, gradually he began to take the cows for grazing, and he took great care of cows, walked around with the grown-ups in the Vrindavan.  During these days, he employed lots of time playing melodious music on his flute.  He spends most enjoyable times in the woods of Vrindavan, enriched with the beautiful landscape of Govardhana and forest, filled with lush green trees, shrubs and creepers.  Krishna beautifully plays music on the flute and made the children and the cows extremely happy.  They took great pleasure on the river banks of the Yamuna filled in lotus flowers.