Krishna Leela Series Part 06 Putana Killed

Krishna Leela Series Part 06 Putana Killed

1. Krishnalila
Part 5

2. CHAPTER 6
PUTANA KILLED
Krishna
as
Putana-Ghatana

(Pastime & Significance)

3. * Who is Putana?
* Putana enters Gokula
* Anxiety of Gokula’s Inhabitants
* Krishna’s unlimited mercy
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* Krishna’s pastime with Putana
* Nanda Maharaja’s Deliberation

4. BG 4.8
paritranaya sadhunam
vinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma-saḿsthāpanārthāya
sambhavami yuge yuge
To deliver
the pious
To annihilate
miscreants “Avatar”
-Divine
Descent
Purpose?
To reestablish
religious principles
Krishna appears
millennium after
millennium

5. BACKGROUND
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* Kamsa consults his
demoniac counsellors
* The Plan - Persecutions
- Killing of Male Infants
* Sri Krishna’s Birth Ceremony
* Nanda & Vasudeva meet
- Vasudeva’s warning of disturbance in Gokula

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Vasudeva’s warning of Potential
Disturbance in Gokula
Warning was friendly and sincere
The value of timely warnings and
good advice
Nanda takes shelter of Vishnu
Fear as an impetus for bhakti
Being fearless in superior protection
- Child-Parent Analogy applied to
Krishna and us
 Being Abhaya Charanaravinda
- Fearless under Krishna’s Feet

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Kamsa consults demoniac ministers
Kamsa decides to send Putana to
Gokula to kill Krishna
Putana - a khechari witch & one of
Kamsa’s many demoniac associates
Khecari witches can fly in the sky on
uprooted trees - still current in remote
north-western India. They can change
size and form too.
Skilled in the black art of killing small
children
What is black art? - Left Tantra
- Scriptures provide guidelines for all
activities, both good and bad to facilitate
the desires of the conditioned souls.
But, the dire consequences are also
spelt out.
* Krishna’s Holy Name mitigates
all ghostly effects.
* But, Krishna uses anxiety to
draw devotees towards Him.

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oPutana enters Gokula without permission
- how?
o Goal – to feed Krishna poisoned milk
oDisguised as a beautiful cowherd woman
– Descriptions
oShe appeared like the Goddess of
Fortune with a lotus flower in her hand,
come to see Krishna.
oHer beauty mesmerised everyone & she
owas left unchecked
o– Danger of Material Beauty
oPutana enters Nanda Maharaja’s house
and sees Baby Krishna.
o- Her understanding …

9. Putana senses the
supreme destructive
potency of the child.
sarvasya caham
hrdi sannivisto
- BG 15.15
-Gives intelligence,
remembrance and
forgetfulness
Krishna is situated in
everyone’s heart as
Paramatma
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10. God is Supremely powerful &
Transcendental in all
circumstances
This applies whether in the
spiritual world or the material world.
He is God either as a baby or as a
cowherd or as a prince or as a boar,
etc. as His various descents show.
Krishna does not have to meditate
to become God. He is eternally God.
Proof ? …
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11. Krishna
displays His
baby
pastimes

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Closes His
eyes
Why? …
Putana’s hesitation
He did not like to see
Putana’s face
Killing a woman,
brahmana, child and cows
is a sin – Vedic rules
Krishna saw Putana as a
nurse

12. V
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Original Mother
Brahmana’s Wife
Guru’s Wife
King’s Wife
Cow
Nurse
Earth

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•Putana took Krishna
on her lap.
•She was holding death
personified.
•Both Rohini and Yasoda were
there but could not understand.
•- Thought of her as having
motherly affection.
•Putana smeared powerful
poison on her breasts and
pushed her nipples within
Krishna’s mouth.
•Krishna while sucking the milk
also sucked out her life air.
•Putana cried loudly “leave me”
and perspiring and trembling fell
to the ground, regaining her
original witch form.
•12-mile body came crashing
down

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Gopis shocked
-Krishna’s Yogamaya potency
•They rushed to Krishna
-Vatsalya
Prayers for protection
-Shuddhi
-- with cow’s tail &
circumambulation, cow urine,
cow dung and dust raised by
walking of cows
-– purification of body
by the chanting of Vishnu’s Holy
Names – Significance of Tilaka

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Purification
Performance of Achamana – sipping water while chanting
Tilaka and the different forms of the Lord protecting the various
limbs in the body – 12 tilaka markings
Body
- Through Bathing
Mind
- Through Mantra

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Why are the cow and bull so importantly revered?
Krishi go rakshya – agriculture & cow protection
The cow is mother – nourishment through milk
Panchagavya for worship & cow’s role in countering spirits
Bull as tiller of field – backhone of subsistence
33 million devatas reside in the body of the cow

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Krishna Himself personally shows the value of cow
protection
KRISHNA AS GOPALA, GOVINDA,
GO-BRAHMANA HITAYA CA

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Krishna took Putana like His
mother
- The Lord bestows the Highest
benefit even to His enemies
Putana attained liberation or
Sayujya Mukti
- But, we should be favourable
towards Krishna.
Putana’s dead body burnt
fragrance of aguru from her
body
- Purification by contacting
Krishna
Inhabitants of Gokula prayed
for Krishna’s safety and blessed
Him.
- Spontaneous affection