SB 01.15.09 – Krishna provides the best intelligence inputs

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yad tejasād bhaśhiroṅganaṁ makhārthaṁ āryaṁ yastavagajānta-sarva-vijñānaṁ tenā hṛdā pramathanāta-makhāyabhūtāṁ yano chitās tadanayaṁ balina-dvarete So here Arjuna is now remembering another great adventure with Krishna in which he observed how Krishna empowered his brother Bhima to overpower the mighty Karva Charasandha. yad tejasād bhaśhiroṅganaṁ makhārthaṁ So he is describing that makhārthaṁ, where makha is fire sacrifice. So Charasandha had arranged for a fire sacrifice.
So what he had done in that? Actually, for that sacrifice, he was going to kill kings. pramathanāta-makhāyabhūtāṁ So pramathanāta is… pramatha is madness. So Lord Shiva is, in one sense, too many people he appears to be mad.
Because he dances, he performs tāṇḍa-gulūptya. So Mahābhārata, the Lord of the Ghosts, pramathanāta, he acts as if he’s mad. He’s not mad, but he acts as if he’s mad so that he can attract the people who are mad to him.
And through that attraction, they gradually become elevated. pramathanāta-makhāyabhūtāṁ So the kings whom he had arrested and he was going to sacrifice them in the sacrifice to Lord Shiva So āryo, he’s referring to Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja Your younger brother. So because he’s speaking to Yudhiṣṭhira, he’s speaking everything from Yudhiṣṭhira’s reference.
So all the vimā is his brother also, but he’s saying, your brother. āyuta refers to a formation, so ten thousand. So gaja āyuta.
So Bhīma had ten thousand elephant strength and sattva-vīryahā, he was extremely powerful. tenā hṛtā So what he did was, that king who had brought a thousand, hundreds of kings under subordination to kill them, yenmo chitās, he liberated them. And then what happened after that? tad anayam They, when they came for your sacrifice, they brought tributes for you.
They offered sacrifice to you. So in this way, now we may say, what is Krishna’s role in it? Actually Krishna, Arjuna and Bhīma, all three of them went to the kingdom of Jarāsandha because his army was formidable and confronting his army would have led to a lot of bloodshed. So Krishna and the Pāṇḍava decided that a less bloody way to resolve the conflict would be to go and challenge him to a single combat.
So there was a long wrestling match between Bhīma and Jarāsandha, which went on for days and days and days and days. One day, one week, two weeks, three weeks. By the end of the fourth week, on the twenty-seventh night, Bhīma was totally bemused, exasperated.
He felt there was no way to conquer Jarāsandha. At that time, it was Krishna who indicated to him that Jarāsandha had a weakness along his central bones because he had originally been born in two parts and had later been united together, those two parts. So at the point of union, his body would be weak.
Everywhere else, when Bhīma hit him, it was like hitting a wall of rock. Nothing would happen to that person who was being hit. And Bhīma himself would feel the endeavor of hitting someone.
So Krishna told that there is weakness. Normally, he would not have found the weakness. But by Krishna’s grace, he found the weakness in Bhīma and he bisected him, knocked him down and tore him apart in two identical halves and threw them away.
And with a roar of pain, Jarāsandha left his body. So actually, the key, as they say, intelligence in sight, there is intelligence in terms of, there are intelligence agencies which stay in touch with what other countries are planning or what the enemies of the state are planning and try to adjust things accordingly. So in this case, the Pandavas had by their intelligence come to know that there was no direct way to fight Jarāsandha.
But even when they did not know, they did not realize that armed confrontation between the armies would be difficult to win. But even in the one-to-one confrontation, Bhīma had not expected Jarāsandha to be so indefatigable. So in a war, sometimes the intelligence input that comes in from one spy, it might be just one bit of information, but that bit of information can change the whole direction of the war.
So Krishna gave that one bit of input by which Bhīma was able to win the war against Jarāsandha. So Krishna is in that intelligence agent role. He is constantly ready to equip his devotees so that they can attain the supreme victories in their lives.
So as devotees, when we take up services, our focus should be more on whether we can serve Krishna or not effectively. If we can serve him, then even if specific abilities are efficient, if we have the desire and the zeal to serve, Krishna will give the empowerment. If we pray to him sincerely and if we please him by our service attitude, by trying to do whatever we can in his service.
So just as Krishna empowered Bhīma to overpower Jarāsandha, so they had such an intimate relationship, Krishna had with everyone. And Yudhishthira Mahārāja has been told that that Krishna has departed from the world. So we can also meditate on such pastimes and try to get the feeling that we are separated from the Lord.
And that we need to reconnect with the Lord. And the easiest way to do that is by devotional service. By engaging in devotional service, we can stay engaged in the service of the Lord and thereby make spiritual advancement till we ultimately attain the perfection of life.
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