Jai jai shri gokulesh

Story of Dantavakra

After the demise of Sisupala, Salva and Paundra, another foolish demoniac king of the name Dantavakra wanted to kill Krsna in order to avenge the death of his friend Salva. He became so agitated that he personally appeared on the battlefield without the proper arms and ammunition and without even a chariot. His only weapon was his great anger, which was red-hot. He carried only a club in his hand, but he was so powerful that when he moved, everyone felt the earth tremble. When Lord Krsna saw him approaching in a very heroic mood, He immediately got down from His chariot, for it was a rule of military etiquette that fighting should take place only between equals. Knowing that Dantavakra was alone and armed with only a club, Lord Krsna responded similarly and prepared Himself by taking His club in His hand. When Krsna appeared before him, Dantavakra's heroic march was immediately stopped, just as the great, furious waves of the ocean are stopped by the beach.

At that time, Dantavakra, who was the King of Karusa, stood up firmly with his club and spoke to Lord Krsna as follows: "It is a great pleasure and fortunate opportunity, Krsna, that we are facing each other eye to eye. My dear Krsna, after all, You are my eternal cousin, and I should not kill You in this way, but unfortunately You have committed a great mistake by killing my friend Salva. Moreover, You are not satisfied by killing my friend, but I know that You want to kill me also. Because of Your determination, I must kill You by tearing You to pieces with my club. Krsna, although You are my relative, You are foolish. You are our greatest enemy, so I must kill You today just as a person removes a boil on his body by a surgical operation. I am always very much obliged to my friends, and I therefore consider myself indebted to my dear friend Salva. I can only liquidate my indebtedness to him by killing You."

As the caretaker of an elephant tries to control the animal by striking it with his trident, so Dantavakra tried to control Krsna simply by speaking strong words. After finishing his vituperation, he struck Krsna on the head with his club and made a roaring sound like a lion. Although struck strongly by the club of Dantavakra, Krsna did not move even an inch, nor did He feel any pain. Taking His Kaumodaki club and moving very skillfully, Krsna struck the chest of Dantavakra so fiercely that the heart of Dantavakra split in twain. As a result, Dantavakra began to vomit blood, his hairs became scattered, and he fell to the ground, spreading his hands and legs. Within only a few minutes all that remained of Dantavakra was a dead body on the ground. After the death of Dantavakra, just as at the time of Sisupala's death, in the presence of all persons standing there, a small particle of spiritual effulgence came out of the demon's body and very wonderfully merged into the body of Lord Krsna.

Unnati Kadakia.

Shri Vallabha Charan Vina Sharan Koni Jaou.....Shri Vitthala Nam Vina Mantra Kya Thi Paou......Shri Vallabha Charan Vina Sharan Koni Jaou.....

Unnati Kadakia

Jai Shree Krishna

A person if all the time engrossed in the thoughts of Krishna, he is sure to attain liberation. This is true to the extent that the thoughts even if they are not of loving nature but of hateful nature, fulfilling the only condition of it continuously engrossed in Lord Krishna, then the thinker is sure to attain salvation,liberation,moksh from this material world. 

Jai Shri Krishna,
Unnati ji, thank you for the contribution and illustrating the wonderful story about Dantavakra

Shivani ji, what you say is true, then in this case Shishupal, Kansa, Dantavakra and Putna etc. they were constantly engrossed in Krishna,even though their thoughts were enemity, they got Mukti. What was the type of Mukti each one of them got ? 

How does one ensure that they are constantly engrossed in Krishna-thoughts ?

Best Wishes
jagdish

Jai Shree Krishna,

Im not aware of the type of mukti's in particular, but I do know from the scriptures that Gopi's shared and still share the highest transcendal bliss. Because their dedication to Krishna was purely out of unconditional love for him, without knowing about his super spowers.

So I guess what must be the deciding factor in acheiving the type of mukti must be the attitude with which we worship Krishna. The type of relationships which could be formed with him are friendship, parental love, servant ,lover or just pure admirer. So if a person is constantly engaged in thoughts of Krishna of enemity, I beleive that when the salvation takes place of such a person he gets to enjoy a relationship of maybe a servant of Lord.. actually it depends more on his attitude towards Lord during the realization of his relationship with God. If he looks upon HIM as a Master, then he will serve HIM forever as a servant.

But since we do not know what kind of mukti one can obtain , I think we should strive for unconditional love for HIM... the best example would be.. that when a person truly feels that he doesnt care whether Krishna decides to put him on earth or vaishnavlok or any other planet .. as long as he can serve Krishna, he would be satisfied. That kind of unconditional love will surely attain the best transcendal bliss.

The means to ensure that we are in continuous thoughts of him is to have firm faith in Him, in HIS words, in HIS promises which he has made what we know by scriptures and to constantly think and do of what Lord would approve of , the directions which can be obtained from our scriptures.

Hope this satisfies your query. Thanks and Regards,

JAY SHRI KRISHNA.

SHIVANIJI,I totally agree with you that one should worship Thakurji and whatever He decides one should accept with joy.

Jai Shri Krishna,

Shivaniji, thank you for the clarifications and explanations, they do  help to satisfy the queries.

just a small comment ..

i appreciate that we should strive for unconditional love while serving Him with Daas bhaav, because until He bestows the other bhaavs (friends, parents, etc)  upon us through His Grace, we cannot make the mistake of treating him with those bhaavs, because once we start treating Him as a Friend, etc we would forget that we are actually His eternal Daas.

Best Wishes
jagdish

Haripriya.

jay jay shree gokulesh

shree mahaprabhuji has given nice explanation for MOXA  in BAAL BHODH

" NATVAM HARI SADANANDM......"

in this granth aapshree has enlisted all the  four PURUSHARTH ( necessary works) and than explained about  4 types of MOXA  .

vaibhav shah