Suyajna achieves Goloka
The king said—О great sage, what is the base of lord Mahavisnu, who happens to be the base of all and what is the span of its age of Kalabhita?
What is the duration of the age of small Virat, Brahma, Prakrti, Manu, Indra, the sun and the moon?
О best of those well-versed in the Vedas, you kindly enlighten me about the duration of the age of others as well as what is prescribed in the Vedas. How many are the lokas, about the universe? or is it the same everywhere? О gracious one, you kindly remove my doubt.
The sage said—О king of all the globes, it is Goloka only which is quite vast in area like the sky which was created with the desire of lord Krs na and always remains in the form of an egg.
At the time of creation of the universe, while turning his face a drop fell from the face of lord Krsna which was filled with water.
О king, possessed of his Prakrti, this is believed to be the base of Mahavisnu who happens to be the base of the universe.
О king, the same Mahavisnu appeared from the golden egg of the Prakrti. Mahavirat, who happens to be his base resides in the vast expanse of the ocean.
He is described as the sixteenth part of lord Krsna, the beloved of Radha; he has the dark complexion of Ditrva-gmss and has four arms and wears a serene smile on his face.
He wears a long garland of forest flowers, is graceful and is clad in yellow lower garment. The eternal Vaikuntha of Visnu is lodged in the space.
The one who is eternal like the soul and the sky; it is as vast as the reflection of the moon, has been created by the desire of the lord, has no base and is without a goal.
Like the sky it is spread over a vast area and has been created by the use of gems. There lord Narayana wearing the long garland of forest flowers, having four heads resides there.
The lord has four spouses named LaksmI, Sarasvatl, Gatiga and Tulasl. He is surrounded by his attendants named Sunanda, Nanda and Kumuda.
О great lord, he is the lord of all the siddhas. He incarnates on earth for the benefit of his devotees. Lord Krsna has two arms and with his four anus he stays in Vaikuntha, but with his two arms he dwells in Goloka, which is lodged fifty crores yojanas beyond Vaikuntha. In the circular Goloka there are several buildings studded with gems.
The pillars and the steps of those buildings are studded with gems; their doors are decorated with mirrors of gems and beautiful vases. There are many camps of astonishing manner in Goloka. It is crores of yojanas in width and its length is a hundred times more than this.
The place is surrounded by a stream named Viraja, the mountains are half the size of the stream while Vrndavana is also half size of the same. The Rasamandala is located half the size of the same, in the Goloka. There are many rivers, mountains, forests in Goloka and it looks like the pericarp of a lotus. О king, in the Rasamandala, dwells Krsna the lord of Gopls, Radha the goddess of the divine dance, together with the cows, cowherds and cowherdesses. He is always found with two arms holding a flute in his hand in the form of the cowherd. He is always clad in the garments purified by fire. He is adorned with gems studded ornaments and all his limbs are plastered with sandal-paste. He wears the garland of gems and is seated on the lion throne studded with gems. He has an umbrella over his head studded with gems and the dear cowherds swing the white fly whisks. The beautifully clad lady applies sandal-paste on his body and looks at him with side glances always, which makes the lord smile with pleasure. Thus I have narrated to you according to my own ability the details about Goloka as prescribed in the Vedas.
Now I tell you something about the measure of time which I had heard about from lord Siva. You please listen to it. Let there be a vase made of six palas of gold which should be four fingers deep. It should be pierced with four holes with the nails made of one Masa (gold-smith’s weight). Then the vase should be kept on the water. When the water fills the vase emerging out of those holes, it is called a dandas.
Even otherwise two dandas make a muhiirta and four muhUrtas make a Yama (Prahara), eight yamas make a day and night. Fifteen days make a fortnight and two fort-nights make a month. Twelve months make a year. A year of the humans equates with an Ahoratra of the manes.
Their day is known in the black fortnight and the night in the bright fortnight. One year of the human being is equal to the day and night of the gods.
Uttarayana is the day for them and Daks inayana is the night for them. О king, the age of the human beings is reckoned with the yuga- kanna.
Now I explain to you the age of Prakrti and Brahma which you please listen to from me. Satyayuga, Treta, Dvapara and Kali are the four yugas.
The length of these extends to twelve thousand divine years. You listen to the same carefully; Satyayuga lasts for four thousand years. Treta lasts for three thousand years. Dvapara lasts for two thousand years and Kali for a thousand years. The sandhya of these and parts of sandhya also extend for two thousand years each. With the measure of the years for a human, the yugas equates with forty three lakhs and twenty thousand years.
Now I am going to tell you separately about the measure of years for all the four yugas. the Krtayuga is of seventeen lakhs and twenty eight thousand years; this figure has been told by the mathematicians. Similarly Tretayuga has the duration of twelve lakhs and ninety six thousand years. The Dvapara has the duration of eight lakhs and sixty four thousand years and the Kaliyuga continues for four lakhs and thirty two thousand years. These figures have been given by those well-versed in the relevant field.
There are seven days, sixteen Tithis, day and night, two fortnights, a month and a year have been prescribed, О king in each one of the yugas the time moves on like the potter’s wheels in the yugas and manvantaras.
Seventy-one divine yugas make a manvantara; Similarly fourteen manvantaras go on rotating.
From the measure of the human time a manvantara consists of twenty five thousand, five hundred and sixty yugas.
О king, I have heard the account from religious people as well as from the mouth of Siva and the same has been narrated by me to you.
The primeval Manu, the son of Brahma and the husband of SatarOpa, is the best among the religious people. He is quite glorious and quite competent among the Manus.
Svayambhuva Manu happened to be the disciple of lord Siva and had been perfonning vratas for Visnu. He is free from birth, is a great intellectual and happens to be your grandfather.
He perfomied a thousand Rajasiiya-yajnas, three lakhs of Asvamedha-yajnas, three lakhs of Narmedha-yajnas, four lakhs of Gomedha- yajhas at the bank of the rive Narmada in a proper manner. He managed them all quite astonishingly. Three crores of Brahmanas daily took their food there. The ghee derived from five lakhs of cows was used for the cooking of the meat besides cooking of other eatables, such as those required for chewing, sucking, pasting, drinking and besides various other sweet preparation.
He distributed daily a lakh of invaluable gems, ten crores of gold coins, cows the horns of which were decorated with gold leaves, ten lakhs of horses decorated with gold, a thousand beautiful chariots, a lakh of palanquins, three crores of gold vases filled with cereals and water, three crores of gold ornaments, the betels with camphor and three crores of beds made of gold studded with gems Visvakarma, the garment sanctified by fire and various astonishing types of garlands of gems to the Brahmanas at the advice of Siva for the pleasure of Lord Vishnu.
He then received divine knowledge from Siva which is difficult to get besides the mantra of lord Visnu. He then became the courtier of lord Krsna and went to Goloka.
At that point of time Brahma felt delighted on finding his son getting free and prayed to Siva. Thereafter Brahma again created Manu.
He was the son of Svayambhuva Manu. He was given the name of Svayambhuva Manu. Another Manu who was the son of Agni was known as Svarocisa-manu who was quite a charitable and religious king. He was as great as the Svayambhuva. Priyavrata who was quite noble had two sons who also became Manus.
Both of them were Vaisnavas, great ascetics, disciples of Siva and were also immensely devotee of lord Krsna.
The fifth Manu was known as Raivata who was the best of the noble people, the sixth Manu was known as Caksusa Manu, who was always engrossed in the devotion of Visnu.
Vaisnava Sraddhadeva who happened to be the son of Stirya was the seventh Manu. The eighth Manu was also a Vaisnava and the son of Stirya and known as Savarni.
The ninth Manu was Daksasavarni who was quite devoted to lord Visnu; the tenth Manu was Brahmasavarni who was possessed of divine knowledge; the eleventh Manu was devoted to Dharma, was the best of the people and was always devoted to lord Visnu.
Rudrasavarni happened to be the twelfth Manu while Dharmasavarni was the thirteenth Manu. The great intellect Candrasavarni was the fourteenth Manu. The age of Manu compares fully with that of the age of Indra. О king, a day of Brahma is equal to the life of fourteen Indras collectively and the night is of the same duration. It is called Kalaratri in the Vedas. О king, a day of Brahma is called the semi-kalpas.
The great sage Markandeya had the life span of seven such kalpas; at the rising of serpent Ses a, he emits fire from his mouth which destroys all the lokas except the Brahmaloka. Thereafter the moon, the sun and the sons of Brahma proceed to Brahmaloka. Thus after the expiry of the night, Brahma again engages himself in creation, his Brahmaratri is called semidissolution.
All the sages, the gods and the humans are consumed by the fire; thus Brahma’s thirty days and nights make a month and his twelve months makes a year. О king, thus after the expiry of fifteen years of Brahma, there comes the dissolution which is called Dainandina in the Vedas.
The ancient seers of the Vedas call it as Moharatri in which the moon, the sun, Dikpalas, Adityas, Vasus, Rudras, the sages, humans, mendicants, ascetics, Gandharvas, Raksasas, those having long life, Markandeya, Lomasa, Pecaka, the king Indradyumna, Акйрйга, tortoise, Nadljangha and Baka are all destroyed. All the lokas below the Brahmaloka also are burnt out. The sons of Brahma revert to Brahmaloka. Thus after the expire of Dainandina, Brahma again creates the universe.
О king, thus Brahma enjoys the life of a hundred years and after the end of Brahma, there is dissolution everywhere. The ancients called it Maharatri. With the end of Brahma, the entire globe is submerged into water. At that point of time Aditi and mother of gods, Savitri, Vedas, Dhanna and death are also destroyed leaving Siva and Prakrti behind.
All the Vaisnavas merge into Narayana and all the Rudras who spread destruction, merge into Mahadeva who has over-powered the death because he happens to be the form of tamoguna. Thus with the fall of Brahma it becomes a second for Prakrti. О king, after the end of second Narayana, Visnu, Siva, Mahavisnu and other creations start with the desire of lord Krsna.
Lord Krsna is beyond Prakrti. His incarnated form has a specified life but his eternal form is devoid of gunas, the beginning or end and is always ultimated. A thousand seconds of Prakrti make a dandas for him. Sixty dandas form a day; thirty days form a month and twelve months form a year.
Thus with the expiry of a hundred years of Prakrti, lord Krsna merges and after the merging of Prakrti into Krsna, he is known as Prakrtalaya.
Thus the mother of Mahavisnu who is the great goddess, is known as Mulaprakrti. After absorbing everything into her body, she merges into the chest of lord Krsna.
The one who is called by the sages and the great ascetics as Durga, Visnumaya, Sanatani, the form of all the strength and the best of all, is called the chaste Narayani.
She is the great goddess of intelligence of lord Krsna whose illusion influences Brahma, Visnu and Siva.
The gods call her as MahalaksmI and best of Radha who happens to be the spouse of lord Narayana and is also known as MahalaksmI.
She happens to be the life of the god who is dearer to him than his life even and in her invisible form she is the eternal energy. Narayana (Visnu) and Siva collecting all their virtues merge into the formless form of Lord Krishna.
О king, the cowherds, cowherdesses, the cow with calves, merge into the nature known as Prakrti and Prakrti in turn merges into lord.
All the small Visnus merge into Mahavisnu and Mahavisnu in turn into Prakrti, whereas Prakrti merges into the great soul.
The will of the lord also known as Prakrti turns herself into yoganidra, overpowers lord Krsna’s eyes, dwelling there. As long as the day of Prakrti lasts, lord Krsna sleeps in Vrndavana.
He sleeps on the bed studded with invaluable, gems, who wears the garment purified by fire, is clad in beautiful garments. His body is adorned with the sandal-paste and fragrance together with the garland of flowers. When he wakes up the creation starts. Thus except lord Krsna, who is deprived of all the gunas, all are said to have been bom out of Prakrti. Therefore he should be adored by reciting his name, dhyanam adoration and reciting of his virtues which relieves one of all the great sins. О king, I had heard all this from the mouth of Mrtyunjaya Siva and the same has been separated by me. What else do you want to listen to from me?
Suyajna said—Kalagni-mdra who happens to be the destroyer of the universe has the form of tamoguna. At the end of Brahma, he merges into Mrtyunjaya Siva.
Siva on his part merges into lord Krsna at the time of dissolution, then how is your teacher Siva called Mrtyunjaya.
Lord Mahavisnu whose hair-pits have innumerable globes, how could Mulaprakrti be termed as his mother?
Sutapa said—О best of the kings, at the death of Brahma, Mrtyukanya who destroys everyone including Brahma is herself destroyed like a water bubble.
Thus after the vanishing of many Mrtyukanyas and crores of Brahmas, Siva finding an opportunity merges into lord Krsna.
My teacher Siva alone has overcome Mrtyukanya and the case is not otherwise. This has happened in each and every kalpa and is testified in the Vedas.
O best of the kings, Siva, Narayana and Prakrti are all eternal; therefore, the merging of the eternal bodies into the eternal one is just an illusion and not the reality.
Because the primeval Purusa is Nirgitna who at the appropriate time takes to a new form. Narayana himself is Siva and his illusion is the Prakrti.
It is like a flame of fire. The creation made by Brahma of Rudras, Adityas and others are all over-powered by Mrtyukanya and are therefore perishable, but Siva is never created by Brahma. He is truthful eternal and everlasting.
O lord of the earth, by whose twinkling of an eye Brahma is destroyed, the same lord Krsna the teacher of the universe stays in Vrndavana at the beginning of the universe. At that point of time Radha emerges from his left side in the Rasamandala who carries the fragrance from the seed of lord Krsna up to the life of Brahma. Thereafter, in the Rasamandala of Goloka, she give birth to an egg. At the sight of the egg she is filled with grief, her heart becomes painful and she throws away the egg from Golojta over the universe. Thus disowning the egg she laments again and again. Then lord Krsna who is well- versed in the Yoga enlightens her variously. Out of that egg Mahavisnu is bom who happens to be the best of all.
Suyajna said—Му life has been successfal today. My life has been purposeful and the curse has been turned into a blessing as a result of which I have achieved the devotion of the lord.
O Brahmana, the devotion of the lord provides welfare of all the welfares, is difficult to achieve and the five types of devotion mentioned in the Vedas cannot be equated with it. О great sage, you kindly tell me the way out by which my devotion towards lord Krsna can go on increasing.
Because the holy places are not sacred because of water, nor do the gods dwell in the earth or the stone; they purify one in long term and the devotee of Krsna purifies whosoever looks at them.
Of all the Asramas the Brahmanas are considered to be the best. Out of the Brahmanas, one is the best, who is devoted to his dharma.
The one who recites the Krsna-mantra or is devoted to him or offers naivedya to him daily, is always considered to be pure and the best of all the Brahmanas.
О sage, you are the pupil of Siva, the best of the Brahmanas, a devotee of Visnu and have an ocean of knowledge. After getting you, whom shall I approach for my rescue. О great sage, because of your curse I have been suffering from leprosy; therefore being impure I have no right to perfonn tapas. I, therefore, cannot perform tapas.
Sutapa said—The eternal illusion of lord Vis nu bestows devotion of the lord on whosoever she is graceful; she grants devotion to him.
Whosoever is influenced by this illusion, she grants him perishable things and deprives him of the devotion.
Therefore you recite the name of Radha who happens to be the beloved of lord Krsna and is his true energy. She happens to be supreme deity of his life and bestows all the riches on people.
By serving her you will soon achieve Goloka because Krsna the lord of the universe has himself adored her.
Having worshipped lord Krsna who is an attainable by meditation, fastidious, devoid of all the qualities, the devotees achieve Goloka after a long period of many births, but by adoring the compassionate mother of the universe, devotees achieve Goloka expeditiously. She is origin of all types of wealth.
T’ crefore you consume the water, washing the feet of the Brahmanas with great devotion for a year, which will make you beautiful like Kamadeva and you will be freed from all ailments because up to the time, the earth remains wet with the water of the feet of Brahmana, the manes consume food on the leaves of lotus.
The number of holy places on earth is equated with the number of holy places on the sea-shore. The same number of holy places are enshrined in the feet of the Brahmanas.
Therefore, the water of the feet of a Brahmana removes all the ailments and grants salvation, devotion and provides welfare.
Because Brahmana represents Janardana, the god of the gods and all the things given to the Brahmanas are consumed by the gods.
Thus speaking, he is retumes to his abode after adoring the Brahmana, saying, “I shall come back after the expiry of one year.”
О Parvati, thereafter the king consuming the water of the feet of the Brahmana regularly, adoring them, fed them for a year. After the expiry of one year, the king was cured of all the ailments and the sage Sutapa of the race of Kas’yapa also arrived there. He imparted knowledge of the method of the adoration of Radha, her stotra, mantra and dhyanam to him, as prescribed in the Samaveda.
He said : “O’ king now you proceed immediately for performing tapas.” Thus speaking the sage left the place and the king also went back to his abode.
In his absence, all his relatives were filled with grief for three nights, the ladies nearly ended their life. After that he made his son the king.
The king Suyajna then went to Puskara-ksetra and performed tapas there for a hundred years.
Thereafter he had an audience with Radha, who was mounted on a chariot and descended from the sky; at the very sight of Radha all his sins disappeared.
Discarding his human body he took to a divine form and mounted on the chariot studded with gems; he sat beside the goddess and went to Goloka. Reaching there the king saw Goloka surrounded by the river Viraja.
It was surrounded by hundred peaked mount, Srlvrndavana and decorated with Rasamandala.
It had many cows, cowherds and cowherdesses besides several beautiful temples studded with many variegated gems. It had thirty-three kalpa- vrksas besides the trees like Pdrijata, Kamadhenu cow. It was very large as the sky and circled as a disc of moon.
Above Vaikuntha and at a distance of fifty crores yojanas, Goloka was created at the desire of lord Krsna where it was staying still like Dhruva.
It is difficult to achieve, like the soul and the sky, I could find only Narayana, Ananta, Brahma, Visnu, Mahavirat, Dharma, Small Visnu, Ganga, LaksmI, Sarasvatl, Visnumaya, Savitrl, Tulasi, Ganes’avara, Sanatkumara, Skanda, Nara-Narayana, Kapila, Daksina, Yajna the ascetic sons of Brahma, Vayu, Varuna, Candra, Siirya, Rudra, Agni and the Vaisnavas who always recited the mantra of Sri Krsna. Such people could be seen in the Goloka and none else. In the Goloka the lord Krsna is seated on the gem-studded lion-throne adorned with all the ornaments studded with gems, kirlta-mukuta spotless and clad in garments purified by the god of fire.
The sandal-paste was plastered all over his body and he appeared in the form of a cowherd, having the complexion of new clouds and the eyes like white lotus and the lustre of the body resembled that of the full moon. He wore a serene smile on his face and had two arms having a flute in his hand. He takes to the human fonn for the welfare of his devotees; he is beyond Prakrti, who could be won over with devotion and his devotion is quite difficult to achieve.
Twelve of the cowherds are moving fly- whisks over his body, the cowherdesses with smiling faces are looking at him. They are quite beautiful and are hurt with the arrows of passion and clad in the garments purified by Agni.
Thereafter the king looked at the supreme god Srlkrsna staying in the middle of Rasamandala, at the instance of Radha. He was having a beautiful form and was adored by all the four Vedas and surrounded by all the devotees and the Ragas and Rdginl. О Parvatl, you are the eternal Prakrti and he was listening to the speech from your mouth, accompanied by music.
His lotus-like feet were being adored offering kastiiri, saffron, fragrant sandal-paste, immortal TulasI leaf, rice, Ditrva-grass, Parijata flower and the sacred water of the Viraja river. The arghya was being offered to him; he was in a delightful mood, independent, the cause of all the causes, the soul of all, the lord of all, the life of all, the base of all, most adorable, Brahman, eternal, the form of flame, the form of all the treasures, the bestower of all the riches and welfare and happens to be the welfare for all the welfares.
The king felt panicky at the sight of the lord. He got down from his chariot and bowed in reverence to him. Thereafter the lord pronounced a blessing on him and deputed him as a courtier bestowing his grace and devotion on him, which is very difficult to get even for the people like you.
Thereafter, the king got down from his chariot. Thereafter Radha got down from her chariot and merged into the chest of lord Krsna and the beautiful cowherdesses kept on flying white fly- whisks over the lord.
Lord Krsna also stood up with a smiling face and adored her and welcomed her speaking sweet words.
That is why Radha is spoken first and Krsna later. This has been ordained by those well- versed in the Vedas. Because those who first recite the name of Krsna and then Radha indeed insult her who happens to be the beloved and dearer to him than his life. They have to remain in the kalasiitra hell till the life of the sun and the moon and for hundred births, they are bom ill without sons and wives.
O Durga, thus I have narrated to you the biography of Radhika. You are also the same Bhagavati, Vaisnavi, eternal goddess, Narayani, Visnumaya, Mitlaprakrti and Isvari and still you are asking me under the influence of illusion though you know everything by yourself. You are the form of all females, the great goddess, the best of all and the one, who is adorable by all; thus I have told you the story of Radhika; now what else do you want to listen to from me?
