Krishna's Transformation of Trivakra: A Tale of Love and Redemption

2. SB 10.48: Kṛṣṇa Pleases His Devotees Shloka 1 to 36 • Trivikra pastime also in Vishnu Puran 5.20.7 • Prabhupad : • In Spiritual world its Love (Prema). Prema is Spiritual • In Material world Prema’s perverted reflection is called Lust • The Feeling and symptoms of Love are completely opposite to Lust • This we also can experience • LOVE AND LUST ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE EVENTS

3. NOD : CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN • Symptoms of Ecstatic Love • The bodily symptoms manifested by a devotee in expressing ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa are called anubhāva.Practical examples of anubhāva are as follows: • Dancing (Siva dancing and playing diṇḍima drum when he saw rāsa) , • Rolling on the ground (Radha Rani on receiving the message) , singing very loudly, stretching the body, crying loudly, yawning, breathing very heavily, neglecting the presence of others, drooling, laughing like a madman, wheeling the head and belching. When there is an extraordinary excess of ecstatic love, with all of these bodily symptoms manifested, one feels relieved transcendentally.

4. SB 10.42.1According to ŚrīlaViśvanāthaCakravartīṬhākura, the young hunchbacked girl was actually a partial expansion of the Lord’s wife Satyabhāmā. Satyabhāmā is the Lord’s internal energy known as Bhū-śakti, and this expansion of hers, known as Pṛthivī, represents the earth, which was bent down by the great burden of countless wicked rulers. Prabhupad mentions in Krishna book that she was Bhu Shakti

5. Lord Kṛṣṇa descended to remove these wicked rulers, and thus His pastime of straightening out the hunchback Trivakrā, as explained in these verses, represents His rectifying the burdened condition of the earth. FIRST COSMETIC SURGERY BY TOUCH ONLY

6. SB 10.42.1 • ŚukadevaGosvāmī said: As He walked down the King’s road, Lord Mādhava then saw a young hunchback woman with an attractive face, who carried a tray of fragrant ointments as she walked along. The bestower of the ecstasy of love smiled and inquired from her as follows. • SB 10.42.2 • Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Who are you, O beautiful-thighed one? Ah, ointment! Who is it for, my dear lady? Please tell Us truthfully. Give Us both some of your finest ointment and you will soon gain a great boon. • Purport:  • The Lord jokingly addressed the lady as varoru, “O beautiful-thighed one.” His joke was not malicious, since He was actually about to make her beautiful.

7. SB 10.42.3 • Translation:  • The maidservant replied: O handsome one, I am a servant of King Kaṁsa, who highly regards me for the ointments I make. My name is Trivakrā. Who else but You two deserve my ointments, which the lord of the Bhojas likes so much? • 10.42.4 • Then she gives Krishna Balaram nice ointments • SB 10.42.7 • Pressing down on her toes with both His feet, Lord Acyuta placed one upward-pointing finger of each hand under her chin and straightened up her body.

8. SB 10.42.8 • Simply by Lord Mukunda’s touch, Trivakrā was suddenly transformed into an exquisitely beautiful woman with straight, evenly proportioned limbs and large hips and breasts. • SB 10.42.9 • Now endowed with beauty, character (guṇa )and generosity, Trivakrā began to feel lusty desires for Lord Keśava. Taking hold of the end of His upper cloth, she smiled and addressed Him as follows.

9. Transcendental humor by Lord Krishna • SB 10.42.10 • Translation:  • [Trivakrā said:] Come, O hero, let us go to my house. I cannot bear to leave You here. O best of males, please take pity on me, since You have agitated my mind. • Purport:  • ŚrīlaViśvanāthaCakravartī supplies the following conversation: • Kṛṣṇa: Is it for the purpose of dining that you’re inviting Me to your house? • Trivakrā: I simply can’t leave You here. • Kṛṣṇa: But people here on the King’s road will misconstrue what you’re saying and laugh. Therefore please don’t speak like this. • Trivakrā: I can’t help being agitated. You made the mistake of touching me. It’s not my fault.

10. SB 10.42.12 • [Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] O lady with beautiful eyebrows, as soon as I fulfill My purpose I will certainly visit your house, where men can relieve their anxiety. Indeed, you are the best refuge for Us homeless travelers.

11. SB 10.48.1 • ŚukadevaGosvāmī said: Next, after assimilating Uddhava’s report, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the omniscient Soul of all that be, desired to satisfy the serving girl Trivakrā, who was troubled by lust. Thus He went to her house. • Krishna visits Trivakrā house . Uddhava also with Krishna

12. SrilaJiva Goswami in Gopal Campu : Uddahava was with Krishna means : 1) Krishna wanted to show that he is even fulfilling Kubja Promise so what to speak of Promise made to the Gopis 2) Krishna had NO Lust .If its Lust person goes alone , Here Uddhava was also with Krishna 3) Lust is Material , any thing comes in contact with Krishna Turns Spiritual

13. SB 10.48.2 • Translation:  • Trivakrā’s home was opulently appointed with expensive furnishings and replete with sensual accoutrements meant to inspire sexual desire. There were banners, rows of strung pearls, canopies, fine beds and sitting places, and also fragrant incense, oil lamps, flower garlands and aromatic sandalwood paste. • Purport:  • According to ŚrīdharaSvāmī, the sensual accoutrements in Trivakrā’s house included explicit sexual pictures. ŚrīlaViśvanāthaCakravartī adds that her paraphernalia included herbal aphrodisiacs. It is not hard to guess Trivakrā’s intention, yet Lord Kṛṣṇa went there to save her from material existence.

14. She greets Krishna : • SB 10.48.5 :Trivakrā prepared herself by bathing, anointing her body, and dressing in fine garments, by putting on jewelry, garlands and perfume, and also by chewing betel nut, drinking fragrant liquor, and so on. She then approached Lord Mādhava with shy, playful smiles and coquettish glances. • KB Prabhupad : She then took Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet and placed them on her breasts, which were burning with the blazing fire of lust. By smelling the fragrance of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, she was immediately relieved of all lusty desires. She was thus allowed to embrace Kṛṣṇa with her arms and mitigate her long-cherished desire to have Him as a visitor in her house.

15. SB 10.48.6 • āhūyakāntāṁnava-saṅgama-hriyāviśaṅkitāṁkaṅkaṇa-bhūṣitekarepragṛhyaśayyāmadhiveśyarāmayāreme ’nulepārpaṇa-puṇya-leśayā • Synonyms:  • āhūya — calling forward; kāntām — His beloved; nava — new; saṅgama — of contact; hriyā — with shyness; viśaṅkitām — fearful; kaṅkaṇa — with bangles; bhūṣite — ornamented; kare — her two hands; pragṛhya — taking hold of; śayyām — on the bed; adhiveśya — placing her; rāmayā — with the beautiful girl;reme — He enjoyed; anulepa — of ointment; arpaṇa — the offering; puṇya — of piety; leśayā — whose single trace. • Translation:  • Calling forward His beloved, who was anxious and shy at the prospect of this new contact, the Lord pulled her by her bangled hands onto the bed. Thus He enjoyed with that beautiful girl, whose only trace of piety was her having offered ointment to the Lord. • Purport:  • nava — new; saṅgama — of contact shoes her chastity to Krishna

16. Effects of Lotus feet fragrance • SB 3.15.43 : Effect on the Kumaras when Krishna came (Jaya Vijaya pastimes) • Translation:  • When the breeze carrying the aroma of tulasīleaves from the toes of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead entered the nostrils of those sages, they experienced a change both in body and in mind, even though they were attached to the impersonal Brahman understanding. • They became devotees of the Lord just by smelling the aroma of lotus feet

17. SB 10.60.45 Rukmani Mata tells Krishna : • A woman who fails to relish the fragrance of the honey of Your lotus feet becomes totally befooled, and thus she accepts as her husband or lover a living corpse covered with skin, whiskers, nails, head-hair and body-hair and filled with flesh, bones, blood, parasites, feces, mucus, bile and air. • SO HOW WE CAN SMELL AROMA OF KRISHNA’S LOTUS FEET • ŚB 3.9.5 (brahmovāca) • Translation • O my Lord, persons who smell the aroma of Your lotus feet, carried by the air of Vedic sound (BG AND SB) through the holes of the ears, accept Your devotional service. For them You are never separated from the lotus of their hearts.

18. CONCLUSIONS AND LESSONS FOR US : 1) Reme has roots in Prema . Hence Krishna does Prema and NOT Lust 2) Any thing material comes in contact with Krishna is spiritualized even Lust : a)Kubja started with Lust ended with transcendental loving service b)Dhruv Maharaj also started with material desire but ended with devotional service 3) Krishna can be worshipped by ones profession , as did Kubja by offering Sandal wood paste – Prabhupad in KB (ex BG 9.27 ) 4) Krishna Lotus feet frargrance makes devotee 5) We can also smell the fragrance of lotus feet of Krishna BY HEARING BHAGVAT GITA AND SRIMAD BHAGVATAM

19. Lessons cont …6) SB 2.3.10 EVEN IF SARVA KAMO VA AT LEAST WORSHIP THE LORD AS HE WILL TAKE CARE • akāmaḥsarva-kāmovāmokṣa-kāmaudāra-dhīḥtīvreṇa bhakti-yogenayajetapuruṣaṁ param • akāmaḥ — one who has transcended all material desires + DESIRE TO SATISFY Lord ex Gopis ; sarva-kāmaḥ — one who has the sum total of material desires; vā — either; mokṣa-kāmaḥ — one who desires liberation; udāra-dhīḥ — with broader intelligence; tīvreṇa — with great force; bhakti-yogena — by devotional service to the Lord; yajeta — should worship; puruṣam — the Lord; param — the supreme whole. • A person who has broader intelligence, whether he be full of all material desire, without any material desire, or desiring liberation, must by all means worship the supreme whole, the Personality of Godhead.

20. Lessons cont • SB 7.1.31 Narad ji said : • My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the gopīs by their lusty (spititual) desires, Kaṁsa by his fear, Śiśupāla and other kings by envy, the Yadus by their familial relationship with Kṛṣṇa, you Pāṇḍavas by your great affection for Kṛṣṇa, and we, the general devotees, by our devotional service, have obtained the mercy of Kṛṣṇa • One Can get mercy of Krishna in several waysBUT WHATS BEST AND WHY

21. 7) FINAL CONCLUSION IS TO DO AHAITUKI BHAKTI • CC Madhya 19.167 • anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁjñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtamānukūlyenakṛṣṇānu-śīlanaṁbhaktiruttamā • SB 1.2.6 • savaipuṁsāṁparodharmoyatobhaktiradhokṣajeahaitukyapratihatāyayātmāsuprasīdati • The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted . • WHY : yayātmāsuprasīdati : to completely satisfy the self. • Example Govind katha and Hanuman ji Chutkikatha

22. AKRURA DOES BHAGVATAM AND BHAGAVAT GITA • After a while, Kṛṣṇafulfilled His promise to visit Akrūra at his house. • Akrūra was in relationship with Kṛṣṇa as His servitor, and Kṛṣṇa wanted to get some service from him. • He went there accompanied by Lord Balarāma and Uddhava. • When Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma and Uddhava approached the house of Akrūra, Akrūra came forward, embraced Uddhava(Ambarish Maharaj did aalingan of devotees and this is how he used touch in Krishna seva) and offered respectful obeisances, bowing down before Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma and Uddhava offered him obeisances in turn and were offered appropriate sitting places.

23. When all were comfortably seated, Akrūra washed their feet and sprinkled the water on his head (Akrura followed Lord Shiva) . Then he offered nice clothing, flowers and sandalwood pulp in regular worship. All three of them were very satisfied by Akrūra’s behavior. Akrūra then bowed down before Kṛṣṇa, putting his head on the ground. Then, placing Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet on his lap (ŚB 3.13.5 ŚrīKṛṣṇa, was pleased to place His lotus feet on the lap of Vidura(when he went there for dining) because Vidura was very meek and gentle) • , Akrūra gently began to massage them. When Akrūra was fully satisfied in the presence of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, his eyes filled with tears of love for Kṛṣṇa, and he began to offer his prayers as follows:

24. My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, it is very kind of You to have killed Kaṁsa and his associates. • My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, both of You are the original personality from whom everything has emanated, the original cause of all causes. (BG AhamSarvasvaPrabhavo …BG10.8) • You have inconceivable energy, and You are all-pervasive. • There is no cause and effect, gross or subtle, but You. • You are the Supreme Brahman realized through the study of the Vedas.(BG 15.15 Vedes ca sarvair…)

25. By Your inconceivable energy, You are actually visible before us. You create this cosmic manifestation by Your own potencies, and You enter into it Yourself. • (ŚB 8.6.11 Translation Bharmaji said (before the churning of oscean) : O Supreme, You are independent in Your self and do not take help from others. Through Your own potency,You create this cosmic manifestation and enter into it )

26. As the five material elements—earth, water, fire, air and sky—are distributed in everything manifested by different kinds of bodies, so You alone enter the various bodies created by Your own energy. You enter the body as the individual soul and, independently, as the Supersoul.” • ŚB 11.7.47 Krishna Instructs Udhava • Translation • Just as fire manifests differently in pieces of wood of different sizes and qualities, the omnipotent Supreme Soul, having entered the bodies of higher and lower life forms created by His own potency, appears to assume the identity of each.

27. Akrūra continued: “In the material world, You create, maintain and dissolve the whole manifestation by the interactions of the three material qualities, namely goodness, passion and ignorance. But You are not implicated in the activities of those material qualities, for Your supreme knowledge is never overcome like the knowledge of the individual living entity.” • ŚB 6.9.34 (demigods prayer for annihilating Vritrasura) • You are the cause of the cosmic manifestation and You supply its material ingredients without being transformed, You create, maintain and annihilate this cosmic manifestation by Yourself. Nevertheless, although You appear engaged in material activity, You are transcendental to all material qualities. • Example Spider

28. Akrūra continued: “Less intelligent men misunderstand Your transcendental form to be made of material energy. But that concept is not at all applicable to You. Actually, You are all-spiritual, and there is no difference between You and Your body. • Therefore, there is no question of Your being conditioned or liberated. • You are ever liberated in any condition of life. • As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, only fools and rascals consider You an ordinary man.avajānantimāṁmūḍhā BG 9.21 • To consider Your Lordship one of us, conditioned by the material nature, is a mistake due to our imperfect knowledge. • My dear Lord, You are always situated in uncontaminated goodness (śuddha-sattva). • Your appearance is necessary to reestablish actual Vedic knowledge (Yada Yada hi Dharmasya.. BG 4.7 )

29. My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, this time You have appeared in the home of Vasudeva as His son , with Your plenary expansion, ŚrīBalarāma. Your mission is to kill all the atheistic royal families and destroy their huge military strength. (|| śrīkṛṣṇāṣṭakam ||Vasudev SutamDevamKanschanurmardanam…) • You have advented Yourself to minimize the burden of the world (Vinasaya ca Dushkritam…bg 4.8), and to fulfill this mission You have glorified the dynasty of Yadu by appearing as one of its members.

30. My dear Lord, today my home has been purified by Your presence. • The water of His lotus feet purifies the three worlds, and now He has kindly come to my place. • Who in the three worlds among factually learned men will not take shelter of Your lotus feet and surrender unto You? • Who, knowing well that no one can be as affectionate as You are to Your devotees, is so foolish that he will decline to become Your devotee? • Throughout the Vedic literature it is declared that You are the dearmost friend of every living entity. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: suhṛdaṁsarva-bhūtānām [Bg. 5.29]. • You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, completely capable of fulfilling the desires of Your devotees. (AkamoSarvaKamoVa…2.3.10) • You are the real friend of everyone. In spite of giving Yourself to Your devotees, You are never depleted of Your original potency. Your potency neither decreases nor increases in volume.

31. By Your grace only, I can now understand that my home, my wife, my children and my worldly possessions are all bonds to material existence. Please cut the knot and save me from this entanglement of false society, friendship and love.” • ŚB 6.11.27 (Vritrasura said) • Translation • O my Lord, my master, I am wandering throughout this material world as a result of my fruitive activities. Therefore I simply seek friendship in the association of Your pious and enlightened devotees. My attachment to my body, wife, children and home is continuing by the spell of Your external energy, but I wish to be attached to them no longer. Let my mind, my consciousness and everything I have be attached only to You.

32. Lord ŚrīKṛṣṇa was very much pleased by Akrūra’s offering of prayers. • With His smile captivating Akrūra more and more, the Lord replied to his submissive devotional statements with the following sweet words: “My dear Akrūra, in spite of your submissiveness, I consider you My superior, on the level with My father and teacher and most well-wishing friend. • You are therefore to be worshiped by Me, and since you are My uncle I am always to be protected by you. • I desire you to maintain Me, for I am one of your own children. • . • One can take advantage of a place of pilgrimage only after going there, and worshiping a particular demigod involves waiting a long time for the fulfillment of one’s desire, but saintly persons like you, My dear Akrūra, can immediately fulfill all the desires of a devotee. • My dear Akrūra, you are always Our friend and well-wisher. You are always ready to act for Our welfare. Kindly, therefore, go to Hastināpura and see what arrangement has been made for the Pāṇḍavas.”

33. Kṛṣṇa was anxious to know about the sons of Pāṇḍu because at a very young age they had lost their father. Being very friendly to His devotees, Kṛṣṇa was anxious to know about them, and therefore He deputed Akrūra to go to Hastināpura and get information of the real situation. • Kṛṣṇa continued: “I have heard that after King Pāṇḍu’s death, his young sons—Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva—along with their widowed mother, have come under the charge of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, who is to look after them as their guardian. • “ I have also heard that Dhṛtarāṣṭra is not only blind from birth but also blind in his affection for his cruel son Duryodhana. • The five Pāṇḍavas are the sons of King Pāṇḍu, but Dhṛtarāṣṭra, due to Duryodhana’s plans and designs, is not favorably disposed toward them. • Kindly go there and study how Dhṛtarāṣṭra is dealing with the Pāṇḍavas. On receipt of your report, I shall consider how to favor them.” In this way the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, ordered Akrūra to go to Hastināpura, and then He returned home, accompanied by Balarāma and Uddhava.”

34. QUESTION : SO WHY DID AKRURA STEAL THE SAMYANTAKA JEWEL The offence to the Gopis Why was Daksha Yajna done for Visnu ji destroyed by Virbhadra

35. Sb 4.3.3 Prabhupad Purport : • Dakṣa neglected great devotees like Lord Śiva. • All sacrifices are intended to pacify Lord Viṣṇu, but Lord Viṣṇu includes all His devotees. • Brahmā, Lord Śiva and the other demigods are all obedient servants of Lord Viṣṇu; therefore Lord Viṣṇu is never satisfied without them. • But Dakṣa, being puffed up with his power, wanted to deprive Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva of participation in the sacrifice, understanding that if one satisfies Viṣṇu, it is not necessary to satisfy His followers. But that is not the process. Viṣṇu wants His followers to be satisfied first.

36. SB 4.3.3 cont… • Lord Kṛṣṇa says, mad-bhakta-pūjābhyadhikā: “The worship of My devotees is better than worship of Me.” Similarly, in the Śiva Purāṇa it is stated that the best mode of worship is to offer oblations to Viṣṇu, but better than that is to worship the devotees of Kṛṣṇa. Thus Dakṣa’s determination to neglect Lord Śiva in the sacrifices was not fitting.

37. CONCLUSION • NEVER OFFEND A DEVOTEE OF THE LORD . • WATERING THE ROOTS MEANS WORSHIPING LORD KRISHNA AND HIS DEAR DEVOTEES ALSO