​Gita 10.28 The life that emerges from love manifests the divine

Bhagavad Gita 10.28 ayudhanam aham vajram dhenunamasmi kamadhuk prajanas chasmi kandarpah sarpanamasmi vasukihi here Krishna is continuing his description of the various Vibhutis and says ayudhanam aham vajram ayudha among the weapons I am the Vajra Vajra, thunderbolt is considered to be the foremost weapon of the formidable god Indra Indra is considered the king of the gods and although sometimes in the Bhakti literature such as the Bhagavatam Indra's mistakes are talked about how he becomes attached and how he tries to challenge Krishna and how he does gets into trouble or how he becomes infatuated worldly things but that is only one that is only that is only done to highlight how pleasure and prestige and power can infatuate and distract but overall Indra has done great Punya and that's how a person comes to the position of Indra in fact in the Karmakandi Kshatriya culture for a Kshatriya the greatest honor is could be the becoming the king becoming the king of heaven Indra and as the king of heaven Indra has an appropriately formidable weapon that is his Vajra now when Karna appeased Indra who had come in the gaon for brahmana asking for charity, Karna gave him his Kavachan kundal so at that time Indra gave him his weapon but he did not give him the Vajra he gave another slightly lower level weapon that is called Shakti so often the Vajra can be like a decisive weapon in overpowering opponents and the Bhagavatam stresses that Bhagavad Gita stresses that when it says that yes when different weapons are talked about it's known that this weapon is extremely powerful and naturally that that special power of that weapon ultimately the manifestation of Krishna's opulence Dhenu Naam Asmi Ka Madhuk Dhenu Naam Dhenu is Ka Madhuk is one who fulfills desire what this means is that actually there are many different that there are many cows and they all give milk but very few cows give milk as much as one may desire and that the cow who gives that much level of milk that is a very special cow, Ka Madhuk Ka Madhuk is also used as a metaphorical reference to refer to to something which fulfills one's desire and Krishna also uses this in the 3.9 3.10 actually 3.10 3.10 so Krishna tells Arjuna that this process of Yajna by which your desires will be fulfilled see that this is a process of this can be your Ka Madhuk this can be your desire fulfilling cow this cow gives milk and a cow that gives abundant milk is called Ka Madhuk one who fulfills desire so this Yajna can fulfill your desire so the point is that there are cows which are considered very holy and they are considered the blessing of Krishna and they give the blessings of Krishna through their gifts but among those the cow that gives practically all gifts that we may desire that is a very special cow and the potency by which the cow is able to do this herculean feed that manifests Krishna's potency Dhenu Naam Asmi Ka Madhuk third line is Prajana Prajana means to take birth Kandarpa Kandarpa is the god of love so now when two people unite then man and woman unite at that time the birth takes place now if there is affection among the two family members then among the spouses that is considered positive so for example sometimes a lusty man may forcibly accost a woman and then may violate her and then also sometimes a pregnancy may take place so this is actually this sort of child birth is not considered auspicious but when there is attraction between the two and then there is the begetting of progeny then that is positive of course there is spiritual affection that is the best when both of them see themselves as servants of God and they are bringing auspicious new life into this world that is even more auspicious but overall when the husband and wife have an affectionate relationship now a days there is the bhakti culture the spiritual culture in general even disapproves sexual relationships that are without that are divorced from procreation but what to speak of procreation now people have things like a one night stand where leave alone the responsibility of begetting children people don't even want the commitment of a long term relationship just want the physical titillation that comes from bodily union and then this is actually very superficial, very unsatisfying that's what is considered fashionable in the culture and the body's hormones are also driving people towards indulgence and they get into that indulgence but there is practically no pleasure there because there is only the brief contact of the body and no matter how glamorized the pleasure may be the bodily pleasure actually lasts for barely a few moments and then after that it's all over so there it's a very unfortunate culture which glamorizes such a uncommitted sensual indulgence and especially if children are born from such a thing because they are not born into a family with loving parents the children themselves don't grow up well so when there is affectionate relationship between the parents and the children that are born the children are a fruit of their love and the children are also raised lovingly so in that sense that kind of union and the result of that union is a manifestation of the divine Sarpanam Asmi Vasukihi and it says that there are various snakes themselves are very powerful very fearful or rather fearsome they induce fear in us but among the various snakes Vasuki is considered the king of snakes the foremost of snakes during the Amrit Mantra it was Vasuki who was used as a rope and he gave out such fearsome poison as he was being used for the rope that even the Devatas and the Devatasuras were almost fainting so even without touching him from his body such toxic fumes were coming out that was having a dangerous, malefic effect on the demons such was his prowess so normally if we see a snake we will be fearful, if we see a very big snake or a very deadly snake we will be all the more fearful so whatever regard we have, whatever attention whether it be fearful or whatever that the snakes attract when we consider the greatest of snakes Vasuki that will be the greatest that attention, that fear will be the greatest and that greatness, that formidability is a manifestation of Krishna's opulence.