Bhagavatapurana 11.31
English (machine translation) 11.31
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Śrī Śuka said:
Then Brahmā arrived there, and Bhava together with Bhavānī, / the gods headed by Mahendra, the sages with the lords of creatures,
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the ancestors, Siddhas, Gandharvas, Vidyādharas, great serpents, / Cāraṇas, Yakṣas, Rakṣases, Kinnaras, Apsarases, and twice-born sages,
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eager to behold the departure of the Lord, filled with the highest yearning, / singing and reciting the deeds and the birth of Śauri.
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Crowding the sky with rows of aerial chariots, O King, / endowed with supreme devotion, they showered rains of flowers.
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The all-pervading Lord, seeing the Grandfather [Brahmā] and his own divine manifestations, / fixed his self within the Self and closed his lotus eyes.
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Without burning with the fiery yogic concentration his own body, which delights the world / and is the auspicious object of meditation and concentration, he entered his own realm.
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Kettledrums sounded in the sky, and flowers fell from the heavens; / Truth, dharma, steadfastness, renown, and the earth's splendor followed after him.
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The deities and others headed by Brahmā did not see Kṛṣṇa entering his own abode; / with his path unnoticed, they were utterly astonished.
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Just as the path of lightning darting into the sky after leaving the cloud bank / is not perceived by mortals, so was Kṛṣṇa's path [unseen] by the gods.
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Having witnessed that yogic departure of Hari, Brahmā, Rudra, and the others, / amazed and praising it, then went each to his own realm.
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Know, O King, that the Supreme's activities of birth and dissolution of embodied forms / are an imitation by creative power, like an actor's performance.
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Having created this [universe] by himself, entered it, sported within it, and finally / withdrawn it, he abides inactive in his own majesty.
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He who brought back in his mortal body his guru's son taken to the realm of Yama, / and who, granting refuge, brought you back when burned by the supreme weapon,
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he who brought back in his mortal body his guru's son taken to the realm of Yama, / and who, granting refuge, brought you back when burned by the supreme weapon,
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and who conquered even the Lord [Śiva], the conqueror of the ender [Yama]—was he powerless / to preserve himself, he who brought the hunter to heaven in his bodily form?
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Yet, though he is the sole cause in the maintenance, origination, and destruction of all, / bearing all powers,
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Yet, though he is the sole cause in the maintenance, origination, and destruction of all, / bearing all powers,
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did he not wish to preserve his body remaining here / in order to show to mortals the path of those established in the self?
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Whoever, rising early in the morning, with self-restraint and devotion / recites this supreme path of Kṛṣṇa, attains that very peerless state.
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Arriving at Dvārakā, Dāruka fell at the feet of Vasudeva and Ugrasena / and, separated from Kṛṣṇa, bathed them with his tears.
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He narrated the destruction of the Vṛṣṇis completely, O King; / hearing it, the people's hearts were agitated and they fainted in grief.
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Distraught at separation from Kṛṣṇa, striking their faces, / they went swiftly to the place where their lifeless kinsmen lay.
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Devakī, Rohiṇī, and Vasudeva, / not seeing their two sons, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, lost consciousness, stricken with grief.
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Tormented by separation from the Lord, they gave up their life breaths there; / embracing their husbands, my dear, the women mounted the funeral pyre.
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Rāma's wives embraced his body and entered the fire; / Vasudeva's wives [embraced] his body; the daughters-in-law of Hari [embraced] Pradyumna and the rest; / and the wives of Kṛṣṇa, headed by Rukmiṇī, whose minds were absorbed in him, entered the fire.
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Arjuna, stricken with grief at separation from his beloved friend Kṛṣṇa, / consoled himself with the virtuous words sung by Kṛṣṇa.
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Arjuna had the funeral rites performed properly and in order / for his slain relatives whose lineages were wiped out.
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Once Dvārakā was abandoned by Hari, the ocean instantly flooded it, / sparing only, O great king, the glorious abode of the Lord.
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The Lord Madhusūdana is eternally present there, / the most auspicious of all that is auspicious, destroying all misfortune through remembrance.
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Taking the women, children, and elders who were the survivors of the slaughter, / Dhanañjaya settled them in Indraprastha and consecrated Vajra there.
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Hearing from Arjuna of the slaughter of their friends, O King, your grandfathers, / having established you as the bearer of the lineage, all set out on the great journey.
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Whatever mortal recites with faith these deeds and birth of Viṣṇu, the God of gods, / is completely freed from all sins.
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In this way, chanting the heroic deeds and most auspicious childhood pastimes / of Lord Hari's delightful incarnations,
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heard both here and elsewhere, a person may attain supreme devotion / to the refuge of the supreme ascetics.
Translations (1)
- The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
Commentaries (1)
- Padaratnāvalī — Vijayadhvaja Tīrtha, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit