Sri #Jagannathadasa virachita SRI #HARIKATHAMRUTASARA

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410.      ಭೂತಳದಿ ಜನರುಗಳು ಮರ್ಮಕ-

            ಮಾತುಗಳನಾಡಿದರೆ ಸಹಿಸದೆಂದೂ   

            ಘಾತಿಸುವರತಿಕೋಪದಿಂದಲಿ ಎಚ್ಚರಿಪ ತೆರದಿ|

            ಮಾತುಳಾಂತಕ ಜಾರ ಹೇ ನವ-

            ನೀತಚೋರನೆ ಎನಲು ತನ್ನ ನಿ-

            ಕೇತನದೊಳಿಟ್ಟವರ ಸಂತೈಸುವನು ಕರುಣಾಳು||31||

            BhUtaLadi janarugaLu marmaka-

            mAtugaLanADidare sahisadendU

            ghAtisuvaratikOpadindali yechcharipa teradi|

            mAtuLAntaka jAra hE nava-

            neetachOrane yenalu tanna ni-

            kEnadoLiTTavara santaisuvanu karuNALu||31||

SUMMARY: On this earth, if people speak in a manner that hurts, they are punished and warned of dire consequences. But, even if one calls Lord Hari a killer of maternal uncle (MAtuLAntaka), a debaucher (JAra) and a thief of ghee (Navaneetachora), the kind-hearted Lord Sri Hari takes such people into his house and makes them happy.

In the guise of abusing Lord Krishna, if someone were to remember him as the killer of his maternal uncle, Kamsa — Kamsa was the elder brother of Devaki; or call him as Jara or characterless for giving shelter to sixteen thousand princesses, who had been abducted by force by Jarasandha and jailed; or Navaneetachora as Krishna, during his childhood days, used to steal ghee from the homes of his neighbours, he would, instead of punishing them like normal human beings do, give shelter to them in his abode, clear all their sorrows and bestow upon them the bliss.

This stanza does not suggest that one should chide Lord Sri Hari. All these words are in praise of the Lord and one should offer them as worship. In fact, all these abusive words are encomiums to Lord Krishna. Why did Krishna kill Kamsa? Kamsa was a highly ambitious, cruel demon, who had usurped the throne by torturing his own father. He went on to imprison his own father. Although he was affectionate to his sister Devaki, once he came to know that eight child born to Devaki would kill him, Kamsa imprisoned his sister, her husband Vasudeva and went on killing every single child born to her. However, Lord Krishna kept everyone in dark, including the guards, security personnel, went to Gokul by asking his father Vasudeva to carry him to Gokul, grew up there like other children and when Kamsa deceitfully wanted to kill Krishna through wrestlers, he not only vanquished all the acclaimed and established wrestlers before launching a physical fight against Kamsa and incidentally killed him. The sixteen thousand princesses who had been mercilessly jailed by Jarasandha had nowhere to go after Jarasandha was killed by Bheemasena under the direction of Krishna. Since they had been captured and tortured, humiliated and kept in prison by a dastardly king, those women of marriageable age had no hopes of being accepted by anyone as wives. They requested Lord Krishna and Lord Krishna provided them with shelter. It was not debauchery in the ordinary sense of the term. By stealing ghee from the houses of his neighbours in Gokul, Krishna exculpated those women and their family members. He was not a thief in the ordinary sense of the term. Hence, all those words and many more are in praise of Lord Krishna. The word Navaneeta not only means Ghee but also the mind. By pretending to steal ghee, Lord Krishna was stealing the minds of women in Gokul.  

411.     ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರವಿದು ಸಂ-

            ತರು ಸದಾ ಚಿತ್ತೈಸುವುದು ನಿ-
            ಷ್ಠುರಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಪಿಶುನರಿಗಯೋಗ್ಯರಿಗಿದನು ಪೇಳದಲೆ|

            ನಿರುತ ಸದ್ಭಕ್ತಿಯಲಿ ಭಗವ-

            ಚ್ಚರಿತೆಗಳ ಕೊಂಡಾಡಿ ಹಿಗ್ಗುವ

            ಪರಮಭಗವದ್ದಾಸರಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸುವುದು ಈ ರಹಸ್ಯ||32||

            HarikathAmrutasAravidu san-

            taru sadA chittaisuvudu ni-

            ShThurigaLige pishunarigayOgyarigidanu pELadale|

            Niruta sadbhaktiyali bhagava-

            ChcharitegaLa konDADi higguva

            paramabhagavaddAsarige tiLisuvudu yee rahasya||32||   

SUMMARY: This is the gist of the elixir of the story of Lord Hari (HarikathAmrutasAra); it should be listened to with dedication, devotion and conviction; it should not be told to polemics or those besmirching the Lord and his omniscience; instead it should be told to those devotees of the Lord who are bent on serving Him; praise the Lord in front of such people and divulge to them this secret.

It is common sense that for those who have lost taste due to illness or fever, no delicacy can be served. For those unaware of the existence of Almighty, not mindful of culture and tradition, the story or stories of Lord Hari sound like disturbing. For the righteous, the virtuous, listening to the stories of Lord Hari is the most valuable thing. Telling the stories of Lord Hari to such people is one of the ways of offering prayer or worship to Lord.

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