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EDITORIAL September 23, 1999 VNN4788 Comment on this story Whirlwind Lifts Child Eight Hundred Miles Into The Sky BY ARIJIT DAS EDITORIAL, Sep 23 (VNN) — Sri Narayana Rsi said: One day in Gokula, Nanda's wife, saintly Yasoda, held infant Krsna to her chest as she performed her household duties. Seeing the demon Trnavarta coming to Gokula as a whirlwind, and understanding his intent, infant Krsna made Himself suddenly very heavy. Unable to hold Him, Yasoda put her boy down. She put Him to sleep and then she went to the Yamuna. Then the whirlwind demon came, grabbed Krsna and, whirling around and around, took him eight hundred miles into the sky. After breaking many tree branches and for the moment blinding Gokula, the magician demon finally crashed to the ground. Free, by Lord Krsna's touch, of his past karma, the demon mounted a beautiful chariot and traveled to Lord Krsna's spiritual abode.This demon had been the king of Pandya-desa, but by the curse of Durvasa Muni, he became a demon. By the touch of Sri Krsna's feet, he went to Goloka. O sage, the gopas and gopis frightened by the whirwind demon did not find the infant Krsna sleeping in His cradle.Overcome with grief, everyone beat their chests. Some cried piteously and some fainted. After a great search, the people of Vraja found infant Krsna, His limbs covered with dust, sitting in a flower garden, ÿ. by a lake, staring at the sky, frightened, and crying without stop. Picking up his son and pressing Him to his chest, grieving Nanda gazed again and again at His face and wept. Yasoda and Rohinia gazed at the boy, wept, pressed Him to their breast, and kissed His face again and again. Yasoda bathed her boy, had ceremonies performed to bring Him auspiciousness, and, her face and eyes filled with happiness, gave Him her breast. Sri Narada said: Why did Durvasa Muni curse the king of Pandya-desa? O brahmana, please tell the story. Sri Narayana Rsi said: In the country of Pandya-desa there was a very powerful king named Sahasraksa who, wounded by Kamadeva's arrows, married a thousand wives. In a beautiful and secluded flower garden by a riverbank on beautiful Mount Gandhamadana, he enjoyed with his wives.Biting and scratching, He enjoyed many conjugal pastimes, beginning with the pastime of viparita, with his passionate wives.A great yogi, that king expanded himself into a thousand forms to enjoy pastimes on the land and in the water. Expanded into a thousand forms, the naked king enjoyed with his naked wives on the beautiful shore of the Puspabhadra river. At that moment, on his way to visit Lord Siva in Mount Kailasa, and accompanied by a hundred thousand disciples, Durvasa Muni came by that path. When he saw the sage, the king, absorbed in his passionate activities, did not stand up, bow down, or greet him with pleasant words or a handshake. Seeing this, Durvasa became angry and, his lips trembling, cursed the king, "Sinner, become a demon! Lose your yoga powers and go to the earth!" "O lowest of men, you will live on the earth for a hundred thousand years and then, because you will be touched by Lord Krsna's feet, you will go to Goloka. "O beautiful queens, you must take birth again and again in the royal palaces of the different countries of the earth, again and again the daughters of mighty kings." After speaking these words, Durvasa Muni, his compassionate disciples lamenting, "Alas! Alas!," continued on to Lord Siva's abode. When Durvasa Muni had departed, the king wept by the riverside, and his beautiful wives, tormented by the thought of being separated from him, also wept. Again and again they lamented: O master, O best of lovers, without you, where will we go? Where will you go now? Never again will we enjoy pastimes with you in secluded places. Never again will you rule your kingdom. Never again will we return to our homes. Never again will we see your face, which robs the moon of its splendor. Never again will you embrace us with your arms and hold us to your chest. Speaking these words, they gathered before him on the riverside, grasped his feet, wept, and fainted. O Narada, the king built a lake of fire, and remembering Lord Krsna's lotus feet, entered it with his wives. All the demigods in the sky lamented, "Alas! Alas!" The sages commented, "Destiny is very powerful." The king became Trnavarta and went to Lord Krsna's spiritual abode. The queens took birth on the earth and eventually attained the fulfillment of their desires. In this way I have told you everything of Lord Krsna's transcendental glories and I have told you how a king became liberated by Durvasa Muni's curse. The above story can be found in the Brahma Vaivarta purana III - submitted for the pleasure of the devotees by Arijit Das Comment on this story  Contact VNN about this storySend this story to a friend
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