Lord Krishna fights with Banasura

KRISHNA BHAKTI SANGHA

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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