LIFE OF KRISHNA

DASAKOM 37

STANZA 1

OPPRESSED BY THE EVIL KINGS, WHO, THOUGH EXERMINATED BY YOU

IN THE WAR BETWEEN DEVAS AND ASURAS,

WERE BORN ON EARTH,

DUE TO THAT THEY HAD STILL ATTACHMENT TO LIFE,

GODDESS EARTH WENT FOR HELP TO BRAHMA,

WHOM THE DEVAS HAD ALREADY APPROCHED

STANZA 2

SEEING HER VERY MISERABLE, COMPLAINING,

"SEE ME SINKING UNDER THE HEAVY LOAD OF THESE CRUEL KINGS"

BRAHMA LOOKED ROUND AT THE DEVAS,

AND SOUGHT YOUR HELP

STANZA 3

AND SAYING “WHAT SHE SAID IS TRUE

LET US GO ALONG WITH SHIVA TO THE MILK OCEAN AND

PRAY TO MAHAVISHNU, SINGING SONGS OF PRAISE “,

WENT FAST TO YOUR ABODE AT ONCE

STANZA 4

THEY TOGETHER WENT TO THE SHORE OF THE OCEAN OF MILK,

WHERE WAFTED A COOL BREEZE FROM THE SEA,

AND STOOD MEDITATING FOR SOME TIME, AFTER WHICH BRAHMA SAID

“IN MY MIND, I HEARD VISHNU SPEAKING PLEASE HEAR”

STANZA 5

THEN HE TOLD THEM WHAT VISHNU SAID

“I KNOW THE PITIABLE CONDITION OF THE DEVAS AND THE EARTH

AND WILL BE BORN AMONG THE YAADAVAS WITH ALL MY POWERS IN FULL,

IN ORDER TO EXTERMINATE THE HORRIBLY CRUEL KINGS

AND LET THE DEVAS COME WITH THEIR PARTIAL POWERS,

AND THE APSARA GIRLS TO SERVE ME THERE”

STANZA 6

WHEN THEY,

HEARING THESE NECTARLIKE WORDS OF YOURS WENT, THEIR HEARTS AT REST,

IN THE FAMOUS CITY OF MATHHURA,

THE HOILIER BECAUSE OF YOUR STAY,

THE SHOORASENA KING, VASUDEVA, MARRIED DEVAKI,

THE DAUGHTER OF DEVAKA IN A GREAT CELEBRATION (UGRASENA’S BROTHER)

STANZA 7

AFTER THE WEDDING, KAMSA, IN THEIR HONOUR, DROVE THE CHARIOT,

AND HEARING YOUR VOICE FROM THE SKY, THAT

“HER EIGHTH SON WOLLD KILL YOU",

FRIGHTENED, CAUGHT HOLD OF HER HAIR,

AND PULLED OUT HIS SWOIRD, IN ORDER TO KILL

STANZA 8

WHEN EVEN WITH VASUDEVA'S ALLOUT EFFORTS TO PACIFY HIM, HE DIDNOT LEAVE,

HE PROMISED TO BRING ALL THE SONS BEFORE HIM,

AND KAMSA GLADLY WENT HOME

WHEN THE FIRST BOY WAS BROUGHT, HE DID NOT KILL OUT OF PITY,

EVEN THE WORST WILL BE OCCASIONALLY GOOD SOMETIMES

STANZA 9

THEN NAARADA CAME THERE, AND, SURELY PROMPTED BY YOU, SAID

“YOU ARE ASURAS, AND THESE ARE YAADAVAS, DONT YOU KNOW, MY LORD?

VISHNU FULL OF TRICKS COME HAS COME ON EARTH,

AT THE REQUEST OF DEVAS TO EXTERMINATE YOU “

HEARING THIS, HE EXILED YAADAVAS, AND KILLED VASUDEVA'S SONS

STANZA 10

WHEN THE SEVENTH DELIVERY WAS DUE,

YOUR MAYA TRANSFERRED BALARAMA TO ROHINI'S WOMB,

AND YOU, EMBODIMENT OF SAT-CHITH--AANANDA, CONCIOUS BLISS,

ENTERED DEVAKI, ACCOMPANIED BY SONGS OF PRAISE IN HEAVEN

PLEASE FREE ME FROM THE MANY PASSIONS, KRISHNA,

AND ALL ILLNESSES CAUSED BY THEM