Lord Krishna fights with Banasura
KRISHNA BHAKTI SANGHA
Presents
Chapter 33 of Krishna Book
Recap…
• Banasura saw Usha and Aniruddha talking
• Aniruddha attacked the soldiers with an iron rod
• Banasura siezed Aniruddha with the ‘snake noose’
Narada Muni informs
Yadu family prepares to attack
Banasura orders his soldiers
Lord Shiva becomes commander-in-chief
A fierce battle ensues between Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva
Karttikeya and Pradyumna
Kumbhanda and Balaram
Banasura’s son and Samba
Banasura and Satyaki
Devas curious
Lord Krishna drives away ghosts with HisSaranga bow
Lord Shiva Lord Krishna
Brahmastra BrahmastraHurricane MountainFire RainPasupata Narayana astra astra
Karttikeya left the battlefield
Kumbhanda and Kupakarna fell
Angry Bana attacks Lord Krishna
Lord Krishna breaks his chariot
Kotara helps Bana to escape
Lord Krishna released His yawning weapon
Killed Bana’s soldiers
Lord Shiva releases his deadly Shivajvara which has 3 heads and 3 legs
Lord Krishna released HisNarayanajvara
Cold subdues heat
Shivajvara surrenders to LordKrishna and offers prayers
•You are the most powerful
•You are complete knowledge
•You are the original cause
•You can grant freedom
•You incarnate to protect devotees
One suffers because… One is forgetful of Krishna consciousness Driven by the spell of material desires Ignorant of ultimate shelter One accepts this material body One does not surrender to Your lotus feet
Lord Krishna is pleased. He forgives and benedicts Shivajvara
Banasura again attacks Lord Krishna
Lord Krishna begins to cut off his 1000 arms
Lord Shiva offers prayers to Lord Krishna
• You are Parabrahman
• Only devotees can realise You
• Universal form Your impersonal feature
• We are directors of the Universe by Your grace only
• You are the Supreme Cause
• You are one without a second
• You exist in the 4th dimension
Their intelligence bewildered by Your mäyä, fully attached to children, wife, home and so on, persons immersed in the ocean of material misery sometimes rise to the surface and sometimes sink down.
One who has attained this human form of life as a gift from God, yet who fails to control his senses and honor Your feet, is surely to be pitied, for he is only cheating himself.
That mortal who rejects You—his true Self, dearmost friend, and Lord—for the sake of sense objects, whose nature is just the opposite, refuses nectar and instead consumes poison.
I, Lord Brahmä, the other demigods and the pure-minded sages have all surrendered wholeheartedly unto You, our dearmost Self and Lord.
Lord Krishna agrees with Lord Shiva and says :
I will not kill Banasura, because, he is Prahlad’s great grandson
I severed his hands to subdue his pride
I slew his army since they were a burden on earth
Banasura will be free from old-age and disease
He will have no fear from Me
Banasura bows down to Lord Krishna
Brings Usa and Aniruddha in front of Krishna
Krishna set out for Dvaraka with the bride and bridegroom
Citizens of Dvaraka welcomed Them with festivities
This fight between Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva is very auspicious
Without the sanction of the Supreme Lord, no demigod can award any benediction to the worshiper