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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 90, Text 48

SB 10.90.48

jayati jana-nivaso devaki-janma-vado
yadu-vara-parisat svair dorbhir asyann adharmam
sthira-cara-vrjina-ghnah su-smita-sri-mukhena
vraja-pura-vanitanam vardhayan kama-devam
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 
 
Lord Sri Krsna is He who is known as jana-nivasa, the ultimate resort of all living entities, and who is also known as Devakinandana or Yasoda-nandana, the son of Devaki and Yasoda. He is the guide of the Yadu dynasty, and with His mighty arms He kills everything inauspicious, as well as every man who is impious. By His presence He destroys all things inauspicious for all living entities, moving and inert. His blissful smiling face always increases the lusty desires of the gopis of Vrndavana. May He be all glorious and happy!
 
Purport by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 
 
The translation and word meanings for this verse are taken from Srila Prabhupada’s English rendering of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta (Madhya 13.79). According to Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti, Srila Sukadeva Gosvami has composed this beautiful verse to console those who lament the fact that Lord Krsna did not continue to manifest His intimate pastimes down to the present time. Here Sri Sukadeva reminds his listeners that the Lord is eternally present in this world in His holy abode, His name and the recitation of His glories. This idea is expressed by the word jayati (“He is victorious”), which is in the present tense rather than the past.
 
Srila Prabhupada explains this verse as follows in Krsna: “Srila Sukadeva Gosvami thus concludes his description of the superexalted position of Lord Krsna by glorifying Him in the following way: ‘O Lord Krsna, all glories unto You. You are present in everyone’s heart as Paramatma. Therefore You are known as Jananivasa, one who lives in everyone’s heart.’ As confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati: ‘The Supreme Lord in His Paramatma feature lives in everyone’s heart.’ This does not mean, however, that Krsna has no separate existence as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Mayavadi philosophers accept the all-pervading feature of Parabrahman, but when Parabrahman, or the Supreme Lord, appears, they think that He appears under the control of material nature. Because Lord Krsna appeared as the son of Devaki, the Mayavadi philosophers accept Krsna to be an ordinary living entity who takes birth within this material world. Therefore Sukadeva Gosvami warns them: devaki-janma-vadah, which means that although Krsna is famous as the son of Devaki, actually He is the Supersoul, or the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead.
 
“The devotees, however, take this word devaki-janma-vada in a different way. The devotees understand that actually Krsna was the son of mother Yasoda. Although Krsna first of all appeared as the son of Devaki, He immediately transferred Himself to the lap of mother Yasoda, and His childhood pastimes were blissfully enjoyed by mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja. This fact was also admitted by Vasudeva himself when he met Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda at Kuruksetra. He admitted that Krsna and Balarama were actually the sons of mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja. Vasudeva and Devaki were only Their official father and mother. Their actual father and mother were Nanda and Yasoda. Therefore Sukadeva Gosvami describes Lord Krsna as devaki-janma-vada.
 
“Sukadeva Gosvami then glorifies the Lord as one who is honored by the yadu-vara-parisat, the assembly house of the Yadu dynasty, and as the killer of different kinds of demons. Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, could have killed all the demons by employing His different material energies, but He wanted to kill them personally in order to give them salvation. There was no need of Krsna’s coming to this material world to kill the demons. Simply by His willing, many hundreds and thousands of demons could have been killed without His personal endeavor. But actually He descended for His pure devotees, to play as a child with mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja and to give pleasure to the inhabitants of Dvaraka. By killing the demons and by giving protection to the devotees, Lord Krsna established the real religious principle, which is simply love of God. By following the factual religious principles of love of God, even the living entities known as sthira-cara were also delivered from all material contamination and were transferred to the spiritual kingdom. Sthira means the trees and plants, which cannot move, and cara means the moving animals, especially the cows. When Krsna was present, He delivered all the trees, monkeys and other plants and animals who happened to see Him and serve Him both in Vrndavana and Dvaraka.
 
“Lord Krsna is especially glorified for giving pleasure to the gopis and the queens of Dvaraka. Sukadeva Gosvami glorifies Lord Krsna for His enchanting smile, by which He enchanted not only the gopis of Vrndavana but also the queens at Dvaraka. The exact words used in this connection are vardhayan kamadevam. In Vrndavana, as the boyfriend of many gopis, and in Dvaraka, as the husband of many queens, Krsna increased their lusty desires to enjoy with Him. For God realization or self-realization, one generally has to undergo severe austerities and penances for many, many thousands of years, and then it may be possible to realize God. But the gopis and the queens of Dvaraka, simply by enhancing their lusty desires to enjoy Krsna as their boyfriend or husband, received the highest type of salvation.”
 
In this way Srila Prabhupada wonderfully illuminates the meaning of this verse by Sukadeva Gosvami, which summarizes Lord Krsna’s pastimes.

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 90, Text 47

SB 10.90.47

tirtham cakre nrponam yad ajani yadusu svah-sarit pada-saucam
vidvit-snigdhah svarupam yayur ajita-para srir yad-arthe ’nya-yatnah
yan-namamangala-ghnam srutam atha gaditam yat-krto gotra-dharmah
krsnasyaitan na citram ksiti-bhara-haranam kala-cakrayudhasya
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 
 
The heavenly Ganges is a holy place of pilgrimage because her waters wash Lord Krsna’s feet. But when the Lord descended among the Yadus, His glories eclipsed the Ganges as a holy place. Both those who hated Krsna and those who loved Him attained eternal forms like His in the spiritual world. The unattainable and supremely self-satisfied goddess of fortune, for the sake of whose favor everyone else struggles, belongs to Him alone. His name destroys all inauspiciousness when heard or chanted. He alone has set forth the principles of the various disciplic successions of sages. What wonder is it that He, whose personal weapon is the wheel of time, relieved the burden of the earth?
 
Purport by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 
 
From beginning to end, the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam has been exclusively dedicated to reciting the pastimes of Lord Krsna in Vrndavana, Mathura and Dvaraka. As Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti points out, this verse sums up the Tenth Canto by mentioning five special glories of Sri Krsna that even His expansions, plenary portions and incarnations do not display.
 
First, Lord Krsna’s reputation eclipsed that of the holy Ganges when He descended into the Yadu dynasty. Previous to this, Mother Ganges was the most sacred of all tirthas, being the water that had bathed Lord Vamanadeva’s lotus feet. Another river, the Yamuna, became even greater than the Ganges by contacting the dust from Sri Krsna’s feet in the districts of Vraja and Mathura:
 
ganga-sata-guna prayo
mathure mama mandale
yamuna visruta devi
natra karya vicarana
 
“The renowned Yamuna in My domain of Mathura is hundreds of times greater than the Ganges. About this there can be no dispute, O goddess.” (Varaha Purana)
 
Second, Lord Krsna gave liberation not only to His surrendered devotees but also to those who considered themselves His enemies. Devotees like the cowherd girls of Vraja and others attained His personal association by entering into His eternal pleasure pastimes in the spiritual world, while inimical demons killed by Him attained the sayujya-mukti of merging into His divine form. When He was present on this earth, Lord Krsna’s compassion extended to His family, friends and servants, and also to His enemies and their families, friends and servants. Great authorities like Lord Brahma have mentioned this fact: sad-vesad iva putanapi sa-kula tvam eva devapita. “My Lord, You have already given Yourself to Putana and her family members simply because she dressed herself as a devotee.” (Bhag. 10.14.35)
 
Third, Goddess Laksmi, Lord Narayana’s constant companion, whom great demigods serve menially to win her slight favor, was unable to win the privilege of joining the intimate company of Lord Krsna’s devotees in Vraja. Despite her eagerness to participate in the rasa dance and other pastimes enacted by Sri Krsna, and despite the severe austerities she underwent to achieve that end, she could not transcend her natural mood of reverence. The sweetness and intimacy Lord Krsna manifested in Vrndavana constitute a unique kind of opulence found nowhere else, even in Vaikuntha. As Sri Uddhava says:
 
yan martya-lilaupayikam sva-yoga-
maya-balam darsayata grhitam
vismapanam svasya ca saubhagarddheh
param padam bhusana-bhusanangam
 
“To exhibit the strength of His spiritual potency, Lord Krsna manifested a form just suitable for His humanlike pastimes in the material world. This form was wonderful even for Him and was the supreme abode of the wealth of good fortune. Its limbs were so beautiful that they increased the beauty of the ornaments worn on different parts of His body.” (Bhag. 3.2.12)
 
Fourth, the name Krsna is superior to the name Narayana and to those of all of Lord Krsna’s other expansions. These two syllables krs and na combine together to destroy all inauspiciousness and illusion. When recited, the name Krsna becomes sruta-matha; that is to say, the recitation of Krsna’s name totally crushes (mathnati) the excellence of all other spiritual practices described in the revealed scriptures (sruta). In the words of the Brahmanda Purana:
 
sahasra-namnam punyanam
trir avrttya tu yat phalam
ekavrttya tu krsnasya
namaikam tat prayacchati
 
“By uttering the single name of Krsna just once, one attains the same benefit as that gained by reciting Lord Visnu’s thousand names three times.”
 
Fifth, Lord Krsna solidly reinstated dharma, the bull of religion, on his four legs of compassion, austerity, cleanliness and truth. Thus dharma could once again become go-tra, the protector of the earth. Sri Krsna also established the religious function of Govardhana-puja to honor His favorite hill, the cows and the brahmanas. He also became the hill (gotra) Himself, assuming its form to accept the cowherds’ offerings. Moreover, He cultivated the dharma, or loving nature, of Vraja’s divine cowherds (gotras), whose love for Him has never been equaled.
 
These are just a few of the wonderful features of Lord Krsna’s unique personality.

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 90, Text 46

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SB 10.90.46

sayyasanatanalapa-
krida-snanadi-karmasu
na viduh santam atmanam
vrsnayah krsna-cetasah
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
 
The Vrsnis were so absorbed in Krsna consciousness that they forgot their own bodies while sleeping, sitting, walking, conversing, playing, bathing and so on.

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 90, Text 45

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SB 10.90.45

tesam pramanam bhagavan
prabhutvenabhavad dharih
ye canuvartinas tasya
vavrdhuh sarva-yadavah
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
 
Because Lord Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Yadavas accepted Him as their ultimate authority. And among them, all those who were His intimate associates especially flourished.

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 90, Text 43

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SB 10.90.43

devasurahava-hata
daiteya ye su-darunah
te cotpanna manusyesu
praja drpta babadhire
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
 
The savage descendants of Diti who had been killed in past ages in battles between the demigods and demons took birth among human beings and arrogantly harassed the general populace.

 

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SB 10.90.32

tesam uddama-viryanam
asta-dasa maha-rathah
asann udara-yasasas
tesam namani me srnu
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
 
Among these sons, all possessing unlimited valor, eighteen were maha-rathas of great renown. Now hear their names from me.

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