Srimad Bhagavatam 10.66.39-43 - Surrender to Krishna and Don't Oppose Him (download mp3) and (download mp4)
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SB 10.66.39
tat surya-koti-pratimam sudarsanam
jajvalyamanam pralayanala-prabham
sva-tejasa kham kakubho ’tha rodasi
cakram mukundastram athagnim ardayat
Translation:
That Sudarsana, the disc weapon of Lord Mukunda, blazed forth like millions of suns. His effulgence blazed like the fire of universal annihilation, and with his heat he pained the sky, all the directions, heaven and earth, and also the fiery demon.
SB 10.66.40
krtyanalah pratihatah sa rathanga-paner
astraujasa sa nrpa bhagna-mukho nivrttah
varanasim parisametya sudaksinam tam
sartvig-janam samadahat sva-krto ’bhicarah
Translation:
Frustrated by the power of Lord Krsna’s weapon, O King, the fiery creature produced by black magic turned his face away and retreated. Created for violence, the demon then returned to Varanasi, where he surrounded the city and then burned Sudaksina and his priests to death, even though Sudaksina was his creator.
Purport:
Srila Prabhupada comments as follows: “Having failed to set fire to Dvaraka, the fiery demon went back to Varanasi, the kingdom of Kasiraja. As a result of his return, all the priests who had helped instruct the black art of mantras, along with their employer, Sudaksina, were burned into ashes by the glaring effulgence of the fiery demon. According to the methods of black-art mantras instructed in the tantra, if the mantra fails to kill the enemy, then, because it must kill someone, it kills the original creator. Sudaksina was the originator, and the priests assisted him; therefore all of them were burned to ashes. This is the way of the demons: the demons create something to kill God, but by the same weapon the demons themselves are killed.”
SB 10.66.41
cakram ca visnos tad-anupravistam
varanasim satta-sabhalayapanam
sa-gopurattalaka-kostha-sankulam
sa-kosa-hasty-asva-rathanna-salinim
Translation:
Lord Visnu’s disc also entered Varanasi, in pursuit of the fiery demon, and proceeded to burn the city to the ground, including all its assembly halls and residential palaces with raised porches, its numerous marketplaces, gateways, watchtowers, warehouses and treasuries, and all the buildings housing elephants, horses, chariots and grains.
Lord Visnu’s disc also entered Varanasi, in pursuit of the fiery demon, and proceeded to burn the city to the ground, including all its assembly halls and residential palaces with raised porches, its numerous marketplaces, gateways, watchtowers, warehouses and treasuries, and all the buildings housing elephants, horses, chariots and grains.
SB 10.66.42
dagdhva varanasim sarvam
visnos cakram sudarsanam
bhuyah parsvam upatisthat
krsnasyaklista-karmanah
Translation:
After burning down the entire city of Varanasi, Lord Visnu’s Sudarsana cakra returned to the side of Sri Krsna, whose actions are effortless.
SB 10.66.43
ya enam sravayen martya
uttamah-sloka-vikramam
samahito va srnuyat
sarva-papaih pramucyate
Translation:
Any mortal who recounts this heroic pastime of Lord Uttamah-sloka’s, or who simply hears it attentively, will become freed from all sins.
Purport:
Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to the Tenth Canto, Sixty-sixth Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “Paundraka, the False Vasudeva.”
