Chapter 85: Lord Krishna
Instructs Vasudeva
and Retrieves Devakî's Sons
(52) Thus having spoken They,
both being honored by Bali, took
them back to
Dvârakâ and
presented the sons to their mother. (53) Seeing the boys the
breasts of the goddess out of her affection for her sons started to
flow, and
placing them on her lap she embraced them, over and over smelling
their
heads.
Chapter 86: Arjuna Kidnaps
Subhadrâ, and
Krishna Instructs Bahulas'va and S'rutadeva
(6) When he there, with eyes blossoming of
happiness, saw the wonderful girl
who enchanted heroes, he smitten fixed his mind upon her.
Chapter 87: The Underlying Mystery: Prayers of
the Personified Vedas
(14) The Vedas said: 'All glories, all glories to
You, please o
Unconquerable One defeat the eternal illusion that assumed the form of
the modes and creates the detrimental. Because You at times engage
Yourself with the from Your inner self springing energies of the
embodied ones who move and not move about, You by us, the Vedas, can be
appreciated who in Your original status are complete in all opulences [**].
Chapter 88: Lord S'iva Saved from
Vrikâsura
(12) S'rî S'uka said:
'Brahmâ, S'iva and others are capable of cursing and blessing.
Brahmâ and S'iva are quick with their condemnations and
blessings, my dear King, but the Infallible One [Vishnu] is not.
Chapter 89: Vishnu the Best of
Gods and
the Krishnas Retrieve a Brâhmin's Sons
(19) S'rî S'uka said:
'It is through their service at the lotus feet of the Supreme
Personality [the Pure of Goodness] that the learned ones,
who this way live at the Sarasvatî in order to dispel the doubts
of the
common people, attained His destination.' "
(46) The Supreme Lord, the
Divine Controller, thus conferring mounted together
with Arjuna his chariot and set off in the western direction.
Chapter 90: The Queens Play and Speak and Lord
Krishna's Glories Summarized
(11) With on His
garland the kunkuma from their breasts, and the order of His
mass of
hair disheveled from
being absorpbed in the sporting, Krishna enjoyed the spraying of and
being sprayed by
the women like he was He the king of the elephants surrounded by
she-elephants.
(50) At every
sacrifice hearing, singing and meditating upon the beautiful topics
about
Mukunda, a mortal heads from his home for His abode, where the
inescapable push of death comes to a stop. Even the ones ruling the
earth [like Dhruva and Priyavrata] went for the sake of this purpose into the
forest.'
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