Wonderful Kṛṣṇa

Heading: "Wonderful Krsna."

The innocent cowherds boy, as well as the cowherds men of Vrndavana, without entering into the intricacies of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and without knowing His uncommon spiritual opulences, began to discuss amongst themselves in the village about the wonderful activities of Krsna, which is never possible to be done by any man in the world.

Some of them said, "My dear friends, how it is possible that such a uncommon boy could live with us in Vrndavana amongst the cowherds men? [indistinct] to His wonderful activities. It is not possible that He would come and live with us. Just imagine, He is now only seven years old, and how it was possible for Him to lift the Govardhana Hill in one hand? And He raised the hill just like the elephant, the king of elephant, holds a lotus flower. In other words, for an elephant, especially the king of elephant, to lift a lotus flower is most insignificant thing.

"Similarly, Krsna, when He lifted the Govardhana Hill, He did not feel any kind of exertion at all. When He was simply a small baby, He could not see even properly, He killed a great demon, Pūtana. While sucking her breast, He also sucked her life wonderfully. Krsna killed the Pūtana demon exactly like the eternal time kills a living creature in due course of time. And when He was only three months old and sleeping underneath a hand-driven cart, but when He was hungry for her [His] mother's breast, He began to cry and throw His legs upwards. And by the strike of His small legs, the cart immediately broke down in topsy-turvy condition. And when He was only one year old, He was carried away by the Trnavarta demon as a whirlwind, and although He was taken very high in the sky, the child simply by hanging on the neck of the demon forced him to come down from such high sky, and the demon died immediately.

"Sometimes His mother, being disturbed on account of His stealing butter, tied Him with the wooden mortar, and the child pushed it towards the pair of trees known as yamala arjuna and caused their breaking down immediately. Sometimes when He was engaged in tending the calves in the forest along with His elder brother, Balarama, the Bakasura appeared, and He bifurcated the beaks of the demon immediately.

"When the demon known as Vatsasura, when entered amongst the calves tended by Krsna with a desire to kill Him, He immediately detected the demon and killed him, and threw him on the top of a tree. Krsna, along with His brother, Baladeva, when entered into the Talavana, the demon known as Dhenukasura, in the shape of an ass, attacked Them, and he was immediately killed by Balarama by catching his hind legs and threw him on the tree. Although the demon Dhenukasura was assisted by his company in the same shape of ass, all of them were killed, and the Talavana became freed for being used by the animals and inhabitants of Vrndavana.

"When Pralambasura entered amongst His cowherds boyfriends, He caused his death by Balarama. Thereafter, He saved His friends and cows from the severe forest fire. And thereafter He chastised the Kaliyanaga in the lake of Yamuna, and He forced him to go out of the vicinity of the Yamuna River and thus He made the water of Yamuna poisonless."

Some of the friends of Nanda Maharaja addressed him and said, "My dear Nanda, we do not know why we are so much attracted with your son Krsna. We want to forget Him, but it is impossible to forget Him. Why we are so much naturally affectionate towards Him? Just imagine how wonderful it is! On one side a boy of seven years old only and another side a huge hill like Govardhana Hill, and He lifted it so easily. Nanda Maharaja, we are now in great doubt that your son Krsna must be some demigod. He is not at all a ordinary boy. Maybe He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

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On hearing the versions of the cowherds men in Vrndavana, King Nanda addressed him and said, "My dear cowherds men, in reply to your…, I can simply present with you the statement of Gargamuni so that your doubts may be cleared up. Gargacarya, when he came to perform the naming ceremony of Krsna, whatever he said are as follows. He said that 'This boy descends in different periods of time under different color, and this time He has appeared in Vrndavana in a blackish color known as Krsna. Previously, He had white color, then red color and then yellow color, and at the present moment he has a hue in blackish color.

"He also said that this boy was sometimes the son of Vasudeva, and anyone who knows about His previous birth sometimes call Him Vasudeva. Actually he said that my son has many varieties of names according to His different contemporary qualities and activities. Gargacarya assured me that this boy will be all-auspicious for my family, and He would be able to give transcendental blissful pleasure to all the cowherds men and cows in Vrndavana. Even though you will be put into various kinds of difficulties, by the grace of this boy you will be very easily freed from them.

"He also said that formerly this boy saved the world from unregulated condition of states, and He saved all honest men from the hands of dishonest thieves. In this way, all honest men were saved from the clutches of dishonest population. He also said that any fortunate man who becomes attached to this boy, Krsna, is never vanquished or defeated by his enemy. On the whole, He is exactly like Lord Visnu, who takes always the side of the demigods and thereby they are never defeated by the demons.

"Gargacarya thus concluded that my child would grow exactly like Visnu in various transcendental beauty, qualification and activities, influence and opulence. Therefore I should not be very much astonished by His wonderful activities. After making this statement, when Gargacarya went back to his home, I am continually seeing wonderful activities of this child. Therefore, in pursuance of the version of Gargacarya, I consider Him that He must be Narayana Himself, or maybe plenary portion of Narayana."

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When all the cowherds men heard very attentively the statement of Gargacarya through Nanda Maharaja, and when they appreciated the wonderful activities of Krsna in the past, they become very much jubilant and satisfied. After this they began to eulogize Nanda Maharaja very greatly, and by such consultation their doubts about Krsna became cleared up. The cowherds men began to say, "Let Krsna, who is so kind and beautiful and merciful also, so that Indra being angry upon us when he sent torrents of rain, accompanied by showering of iced blocks and...

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"...of rain, accompanied by showering of iced blocks and high wind, He became immediately compassionate upon us and saved ourselves, along with our family, cows and valuable possession, and picked up the Govardhana Hill just like a child picks up a mushroom umbrella. He saved us so wonderfully. Let His merciful glance over us and our cows be continued. Let us live peacefully under the protection of wonderful Krsna."

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Twenty-sixth Chapter in the matter of "Statement about Wonderful Krsna."