krishna story
Sivan Krishnan
Dear
Children
46 ‘Syamanthakam"
She was a beautiful damsel, his pet daughter. Her name was Sathyabhaama, a princess. Both the daughter and father were conversing with each other, one evening sitting in their garden.
“Daddy, is not it a strange coincidence that you now admire the same person whom you suspected and despised earlier”.
“Of course, my darling, I do admit that he is not only the person I admire, but very much dear to me now because he is going to be my son in law.”
“Oh. Dad, how come this sudden change in your attitude towards him? What was his trick or magic which transformed you, Bhama, asked, laughing, but her happiness was lagely writ on her face when she said this. She was shy to admit her approval of his desire. She wanted to know more about King Satrajit's views on Krishna, the would be son in law.
Satrajit was quite sincere when he replied her "You must be a lucky girl Bhama , to marry him. He is great among men, strong, bold,courageous, intelligent and there is something special about him which I don’t know how to express."
“Dad, you have not told me yet, what made you change your earlier views of him?”
“Let me explain you Bhama, You know I had the precious Syamanthakam obtained from the Sun god. It is something like a sapphire stone jewel. The possessor of this jewel will be receiving measures and measures of gold everyday.
One day I went to Dwarka where I met Krishna. I proudly showed the syamanthakam jewel to him. He said "possessing this syamanthakam will endanger your life because of its power to make you rich day by day. You will attract enemies and you need extra strength to win over them. If you wish to safely keep it, you had better deposit it with me in Dwarka and collect the golds daily from here."
“I misjudged him thinking that he was trying to take the jewel away from me. So I said don’t worry I will take care of it and guard myself against any enemy". So saying, I returned back
You know what Prasenan, of our family, did in my absence one day. He took the Syamanthakam from my safe chest and placed it in his crown and went away. He went for hunting wearing the crown. He saw a cave and entered it. Unfortunately Prasenan was killed in the cave by a lion. He was eaten by the lion and the Syamanthakam was dislodged from the fallen crown and was lying in a corner in the lion's cave. Many months passed away while I was searching for Prasenan and the Syamanthakam and had no news. One day someone who crossed the cave found the crown lying out of the cave and brought it to me. I knew it was Prasenan's and concluded he had been killed for the Syamanthakam, which was not found on the crown. My suspicion was that Krishna had secretly killed Prasenan for inheriting the Syamanthakam
What I learnt after checking the facts was that Jambavan the bear king happened to visit the jungle and there was a fierce fight between Jambavan and the lion which killed Prasenan in the cave Ultimately Jambavan won the battle and killed the lion. While leaving the cave he was attracted by something brigh lying in a corner of the cave and wondered what it was.
It was the syamanthakam jewel which fell from Prasenan’s crown when he was fighting with the lion and lost his life.
Jambavan took the jewel with him and reached his den. Jambavan gave the syamanthakam jewel to his child as a plaything.
Not knowing the above fact, the moment I got the news that Prasenan was killed my mind immediatey jumped to the conclusion that it might be Krishna’s plan to kill Prasenan just for robbing the Syamanthakam. recalling what Krishna said earlier to me at Dwarka, that he will keep it safely for me
When Krishnan was told of the loss of the Syamanthakam and the death of Prasenan, and my suspecting him, he sent word for me that he would go and find out where the Syamanthakam was, who was its present possessor and recover it back to me. Even then I thought, it was one of his tactics.
I later learnt through my messengers that Krishna went to the jungle, visited the den, found out that Jambavan was keeping the Syamanthakam, and fought with him for 28 days to win the duel and recovered the syamanthakam from him. In fact, during this long fight with Jambavan, Krishna sustained many injuries and was bleeding profusely.
He told me when he handed back the syamanthkam, “If I had kept your Syamanthakam and wished to return it back to you, I need not bleed like this with many injuries, do you understand?”
I learnt the whole story later and begged Krishna to forgive me and told him sincerely, “I understand the Syamanthakam is capable of exposing me to undue risks and you are the best person to retain it and offered it to him:
Did Krishna accept it?
No. He said " I don’t need it" and started leaving our palace
I stopped him and fell at his feet. "Krishna if you don’t want the Syamanthakam, you must at least marry my daughter Sathyabhaama. She is as precious to me as the Syamanthakam.
"What was Krishna's reaction?
He laughed saying “Bhama is my Syamanthakam”
Satrajit, the king and father of Sathyabhama then told her “ I am making all the best arrangements I can, to perform your marriage with Krishna. I am more happier to have Krishna as my son in law than being the owner of Syamanthakam”
Sivan Krishnan
Dear
Children
47 ‘ DEVAS"HAPPINESS"
Our great grand fathers and theirs, have left behind for us many treasures. Srimad Bhagavatham is one such a rare grift to us. It has an interesting story of a powerful demon king, Bowmasuran who ruled the kingdom of Prakjothishpur.
This Asura (a demon) penanced for long, and earned enormous powers, as a boon from Lord Siva but he misused the powers torturning the Devas.
He kidnapped about 16000 princesses and kept them imprisoned in his palace to sacrifice them to obtain more powers by performing a Yaga.
He was a menace to the Devas of Heaven. He snatched from the Lord of Rains, Varuna, his divine umbrella and the ear rings of Athithi, the mother of Devas. His atrocities included his usurping a part of the Meru mountain, named Mani Parvath among so many problems he created for the Devas.
Indra, the lord of Devas was helpless to check the demon because of the powers he obtained as a boon, and approached Krishna to put an end for Bowmasuran’s tortures.
Pragjothishpur was surrounded by a strong fortress, impenetrable, with a deep moat around. Bowmasuran filled the moat area with poisonous gas to kill anyone trying to trespass into the fortress. Muran, the five headed monster was engaged by him, to protect him. Muran planned and provided these security arrangements and guarded the fortress with thousands of armed men.
Responding to Indra’s appeal, Krishna decided to fight with Bowmasuran. He took with him, Sathya bhama, his queen, riding on Garuda (the divine eagle on which Lord Vishnu flew everywhere).
On seeing Krishna, the Muran’s army attacked and a battle ensued. Krishna entered the fortress of Bowmasuran after killing the soldiers of Muran. Muran was shocked. He always remained under water. He possessed a body always red hot emitting unbearable heat and fire with a dazzling light. Anyone daring to near him was blinded by the light of his body, and burnt by its heat.
Krishna destroyed the fort of Bowmasuran and the sound of his conch Panchajanyam echoed everywhere threatening Muran and Bowmasuran. Muran came out roaring like a lion carrying his powerful spear. Krishna’s piercing sharp arrows broke Muran’s spear to pieces and injured Muran badly bleeding him profusely.
He took his big mace and attacked Krishna. Krishna too used his mace and split the mace of Muran to pieces rendering Muran now unarmed.
Muran jumped on Krishna with his powerful arms to crush him. Krishna used his mighty Sudharshan disc to behead Muran. Muran lost all his five heads and fell into the sea.
Muran had seven princes and they came to attack Krishna supported by another demon Pithan and his huge army. There was a long fierce battle with them for Krishna but in the end they were all killed by Krishna.
Bowmasuran was shocked by the unbelievable death of Muran and the destruction of his strong fortress. For his last ditch bttle, he came with all his forces to kill Krishna.
Bowmasuran possessed Sathagni, the sword like special weapon, which when he used, there would be no escape for the opponent. With a sweep, it will kill any number of people. He had also a large number of fully armed soldiers still.
Krishna had a very long fighting with him which made him tired also. He suddenly changed his plan and asked Sathyabhama to attack and guided her with suitable welapons. He turned every feather of Garudan into a menacing sharp weapon each one of them taking care of Bowmasuran’s huge army and ended them.
Bowmasuran realized the might of his enemy and decided to use his only remaining weapon, the special trident. Once it was aimed and thrown at the target it will not return until the person was killed. Krishna , in a split second, understood Bowmasuran’s plan. He made Sathyabhama release her arrows at him which attacked him more effectively and ultimately Sathyabhama was responsible for his death.
Dear children, prepare yourselves for another interesting story of Bhowmasuran who was also known as Narakasuran and wait till you turn thenext page to know why Krishna used Sathyabhama to kill Narakasura and the strategy behind it.
The Devas were pleased and rained flowers on Krishna and Sathyabhama.
Krishna was decorated with the matchless Vyjayanthi, the necklace presented by Bhumadevi. Krishna recovered the ear rings of Athithi, the umbrella of Varuna, and released the 16000 princess who were kidnapped by Bowmasura. They all were unanimous in their decision not to go back to their respective kingdoms. They all wanted to be Krishna's brides as he saved them and asked him to promise to be so failing which they decided to end their lives there itself. Krishna consented to be their protector for life as his queens and sent the princesses with due honours to Dwarka.
Bhumadevi introduced the boy standing next to her. “Krishna, this is Bhagadatt, the son of Bowmasuran. Please protect him as he realizes the atrocities committed by his father but was helpless.” Krishna embraced the boy and made Bhagadatt the next king,