Chapter
85: Lord
Krishna Instructs Vasudeva
and Retrieves Devakî's Sons
(52) Thus having spoken,
They, both being honored by Bali, took the sons back to Dvârakâ and
presented them to their mother. (53) When she saw the
boys, the breasts of the goddess flowed
because of her affection for her sons. She
placed them on her lap and embraced them, over
and over smelling their heads.
Chapter
86: Arjuna
Kidnaps Subhadrâ, and
Krishna Instructs Bahulas'va and
S'rutadeva
(6) With his eyes wide open of happiness,
he saw the wonderful girl there
who
enchanted heroes. Smitten he fixed his mind on
her.
Chapter
87: The
Underlying Mystery: Prayers of the
Personified Vedas
(14) The Vedas said: 'All
glories, oh all glories to You! Please,
Unconquerable One, defeat the eternal illusion
which assumed the form of the natural modes and
constitutes the [human] weakness. Because You,
who in
Your original status are complete with all
opulences, at times engaging with Your spiritual and
material energies awaken the powers of the mobile and
immobile embodied beings [awake them to
consciousness], You can by us, the Vedas, be
supported
[**].
Chapter
88: Lord
S'iva Saved from Vrikâsura
(12) S'rî
S'uka said: 'Brahmâ, Vishnu, S'iva and others,
are capable of pronouncing curses and granting
favors. Brahmâ and S'iva are quick with their
condemnations and blessings, my dear King, but
the Infallible One [Lord Vishnu] is not.
Chapter
89: Vishnu
the Best of Gods and
the Krishnas Retrieve a Brâhmin's Sons
(19) S'rî S'uka said: 'The scholars [being assembled] at the Sarasvatî in order to dispel the doubt of the common
people, thus
[with this conclusion] served the lotus feet
of the Supreme Personality [of Pure Goodness] and attained His
destination.' "
(46) After this statement,
the Supreme Lord, the Divine Controller, mounted his chariot together
with Arjuna and set off in the western
direction.
Chapter
90: The
Queens Play and Speak and Lord Krishna's
Glories
Summarized
(11) Like He
was the king of the elephants surrounded by
she-elephants, Krishna
enjoyed the being sprayed by and spraying of the
women, while the kunkuma
from their breasts stuck to His garland and the
arrangement of His wealth of hair was disheveled
from being absorbed in the game.
(50) A mortal who at every
sacrificial ceremony hears about, sings about
and meditates on the beautiful topics concerning
Mukunda, heads from his home for His abode, the
place where the inescapable sway of death is
arrested. Even those who ruled this earth [like
Dhruva and Priyavrata] went into the forest for this sake.'
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