Chapter 79: Lord Balarâma
Slays Balvala
and Visits the Holy Places
(33) There are countless
other pastimes like thisof
the mighty, unlimited and unfathomable Balarâma, who
by the power of
His illusory energy appears as a human being.
Chapter 80: An Old Brahmin Friend Visits Krishna
(12-13) The brahmin this way
repeatedly in various ways entreated by his wife thus thought: 'The
sight of Uttamas'loka indeed is the highest attainment', and having
made up his mind to go he asked her: 'Is there anything in the house I
can take as a gift my good woman, please give it to me!'
(16-17) Passing with a couple
of local brahmins three gates and guard stations, he walked
between the
houses of Acyuta's faithful followers, the Andakas and Vrishnis. One
normally couldn't go there and so he felt as if he had attained
the
bliss of the Pure Spirit. He then entered one of the opulent sixteen
thousand residences of the Lord His queens [*].
(18) Acyuta sitting on His consort's bed, seeing him from a distance
immediately rose and came forward to close him gladly in His arms.
Chapter 81: The Brahmin Honored:
Lord Krishna the Godhead of the Brahmins
(8) With this in mind
He Himself
snatched from under the
garment of the twice-born one away
the ricegrains that were tied in a bundle, and said: 'What is
this? (9) Have you brought this to My pleasure My dear friend? These
ricegrains satiate Me and the whole universe [that I am]!
(21-23)
Thus
innerly occupied with these thoughts he arrived in the vicinity of
his home. There he found himself before high rising palaces
rivaling the sun, the fire and the moon that on all sides were
surrounded by wonderful courtyards and gardens swarming with hordes of
cooing birds, ponds full of lilies and night and day blooming white
lotuses and well adorned and ornamented men and women with deer-like
eyes. 'What is this, whose place is this, how could this come about?'
Chapter 82: All Kings and the
Inhabitants of Vrindâvana
on Pilgrimage Reunite with Krishna
(16) Next they proved their
respects to the elders and received obeisances from their younger
relatives. After they had inquired after their well-being and the
comfort of their journey they proceeded to talking amongst each other
about Krishna.
Chapter 83: Draupadî
Meets
the Queens of Krishna
(25-26) When the kings
defeated in their pride had given up, the Supreme Lord,
playfully taking up the bow, stringing it and then
fixing an arrow on
it, managed to pierce with a single look in the water the
fish with His arrow
at the moment the sun stood in Abhijit [in 'victory', or at
noon].
Chapter 84: Vasudeva of Sacrifice
to the Sages
at Kurukshetra Explaining the Path of Success
(16) The honorable sages
said: 'Ah, we the best knowers of the truth and chief creators of the
universe, are bewildered by the power of the material illusion created
by the activities of the Supreme Lord who so amazingly covert in His
operations pretends to be the one controlled.
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