Kl53. Vasudeva Performs Sacrifices Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

KRISHNA LEELA

The Queens besides Kunti,
Subhadra, Gandhari, Draupadi,
And the Gopis from Vrindavana,
All were present at Kuruksetra.

They held high this occasion,
Unseen earlier in their vision,
Among them, as center of attraction,
Krishna played His spiritual action.

Choked with a feeling of emotion,
They saw His endless compassion,
Around him they all danced
And tears of joy they shed.

All Sages came there to see
Krishna surrounded by sea
Of people from far and near,
What He was saying to hear.

"To the Sages, let all glories be,
Their faces, we all now see,
Our goal of life, we do achieve
The exalted ones, when we receive."

"The importance of Sages all,
One may not know at all,
But to the temple one may go,
Merely to display a show."

"Know this, in everyone's heart,
I am seated and play well my part.
A new devotee sees not this well,
But Me he searches in the temple."

"Visiting holy places to take bath,
But following not the Sages path,
Doesn't make him a true devotee,
He is an animal, human he may be."

So said Krishna, the Supreme,
To educate He went to that extreme,
All those devotees assembled there,
His feelings with them to share.

Who the Lord Krishna was,
The Sages all knew well this,
Personally paid their obeisance,
This was to them a rare chance.

The Sages then gave their advices,
To perform prescribed sacrifices,
As rendered in the Vedic scripture,
To King Vasudeva, Krishna's father.

All the sacrifices Vasudeva did,
In the respectable Sages' mid,
The people's joy knew no bound,
Assembled in the sacrifice ground.