Kl01. Prayer Of Mother Earth Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

KRISHNA LEELA

"Oh Lord, save this earth,
From the Demons' wrath,
Like Royal Kings they pose,
But evil deeds they expose."

"All the sages they torture,
Lo, what an alarming picture,
Of a wide spread calamity!
May the Heaven show pity."

Once, with tears in her eyes,
In between her deep sighs,
Prayed Earth, the Mother,
Before Brahma, the Creator.

In the shape of a holy cow,
The Mother Earth narrated how,
They desecrated objects sacred.
And innocents they massacred.

Moved by her touching prayer,
Brahma rushed to the Saviour,
Lord Vishnu, the Destroyer
Of evils existed wherever.

The demigods also prayed,
Told how they were afraid,
Of these Demons' menace,
That robbed their total peace.

Their prayers, the Lord heard,
To them every help He assured,
As Krishna this time to be born
In Yadu dynasty, as Vasudeva's son.

To assist Him in his mission,
The demigods on this occasion,
He ordered their immediate birth,
Before His appearance on the earth.

They were born in the family
Of Yadus, pious and homely,
When their dynasty King Surasena,
Ruled the capital city, Mathura,