Collectors Copy: STORY OF LORD KRISHNA AND BALARAM’S DEATH! Lord Krishna who helped the Pandavas in the Mahabharat, died after the Great War. There are many arguments about his death. While some believe that Krishna died at the age of 125, the other set of people on the basis of research done on his life say that he was 88 when he died. Apart from the age arguments, there are many stories that float in our society about Krishna’s death. However, as per religious scriptures, there is only one story of Lord’s death. In Dwarka, Sages Vishvamitra, Kanva and Narada paid a visit. Some younsters made a boy dress like a woman. They went to Rishis and asked them that this woman is pregnant and if they can tell whether she will give birth to a boy or a girl. The Rishis did not appreciate the sense of humour of the youngsters and therefore, cursed that whatever is born to the woman shall cause the destruction of their race. The boy was hiding an iron mace in his dress to make him look like a pregnant woman. When Balarama heard about it he got the mace powdered and had it thrown away in the ocean. A small piece, which remained, was also thrown away. In the 36th year after the war, Vrishnis went on a picnic. They all got drunk. There was a fight between Kritavarma and Satyaki who had taken opposite sides in the Great War. Soon, all took sides. They took out stems of a very strong variety of sea weed, growing at the bank of the sea and hit each other. All of them died. Son of Krishna, Satyaki and Kritavarma, all were dead. Only Krishna, Balarama and Daruka, his charioteer remained. The seaweed had grown out of the powder of the mace, which had been thrown in to the sea. Balarama went in to a yogic trance and gave away his body. He turned into a huge white serpent and slipped in to the sea. It is said that he was an incarnation of the great Serpent Seshanaga the bed of Lord Vishnu. Krishna was dejected and he was lying under a tree. A hunter passing by saw him and thought him to be a deer. Krishna was wearing yellow clothes. He shot an arrow made from the pieces of mace, thrown away. The arrow entered his sole and Krishna died and left for his eternal abode. Arjuna came to Dwarka, as it was Krishna’s desire that all the women and children be taken care of by the Pandavas. Vasudeva, the father of Krishna gave up his body by yoga. Some of the women went to his funeral pyres along with the bodies of their husbands. Arjuna took all the women and children with him and started for Hastinapaura. As soon as they left Dwarka, the sea engulfed it. On the way robbers seeing so many women with a single man attacked and took the women and wealth away. Arjuna’s all powers of archery and the knowledge of astras failed. In despair he went back to Yudhisthira and told him all about the Vrishnis and Krishna. The Pandavas too had their share of grief. Dhriatarastra, Gandhari, Kunti and Vidura went to the forest to live and to do penance. Vidura gave up his body while in yogic trance. Others were killed in forest fire.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:01:09 +0000
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