Category:Attacking Krsna
Theme Analysis
The appearance of hostility toward the Supreme Lord within His earthly pastimes is not a sign of vulnerability but a deliberate arrangement to showcase His supreme power and provide transcendental pleasure to His devotees. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the conditioned soul is easily defeated by the reactions of sinful activities, the Lord remains apapa-viddha, or untouched by any such contamination, regardless of how aggressively He is challenged. These demoniac onslaughts serve to confirm Kṛṣṇa’s divinity, as the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana and Mathurā witness the contrast between the fearsome, hill-like forms of the demons and the effortless, playful victory of the Lord. Because the material world is inherently filled with envious entities, the occurrence of such attacks is not uncommon, even during the Lord's childhood pastimes when He appears to assume a human-like dependence on His parents for protection. Ultimately, these encounters demonstrate that the Lord is the eternal fire, while the demons act as flies who are inevitably incinerated by the brilliance of His presence.
- The Illusion of Demoniac Power: Envious entities such as Jarasandha, Bakasura, and Salva repeatedly attempt to challenge the Lord, blinded by their material strength and ignorance of His true position as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They falsely assume that their physical prowess or mystic weapons can overcome the Absolute Truth.
- Manifestation of Divine Glory: When demons appear to attack Kṛṣṇa, the Lord allows these events to unfold to fulfill prophecies, protect His devotees, and display His full potency. He maintains this posture of victory even while appearing as a helpless baby or a cowherd boy in the eyes of the materialistic observers.
- The Protective Role of Devotees: Although the Lord is self-sufficient and never actually requires help, He accepts the loving concern of mother Yasoda and King Yudhisthira, thereby reciprocating with their intense affection and devotion. This dynamic reveals the deep emotional bond between the Lord and those who regard Him as their own beloved child or kin.
- Absolute Immunity of the Lord: Because Kṛṣṇa is the source of all existence and entirely spiritual, He cannot be harmed by material weapons, physical violence, or any reaction of karma. He remains ever victorious in the battle between the divine and the demoniac, showing that material influence has no jurisdiction over His transcendental form.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Attacking Kṛṣṇa - The Transcendental Pastimes of Divine Victory.
Pages in category "Attacking Krsna"
The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
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- A friend tells Mother Yasoda: "How wonderful it is that when the Sankhacuda demon - vast and strong as a great hill - attacked your Cupid-like beautiful son, there was no one present in Vrndavana to help. And yet the demon was killed by your little son"
- After the demon had been thrown into the trees, all the friends and associates of Dhenukasura immediately assembled and attacked Balarama and Krsna with great force. They were determined to retaliate and avenge the death of their friend
- All the ladies at the arena said, "My dear boy (Krsna) - please leave this place immediately! Please leave this place immediately! Don't You see the big elephants coming to attack You? Your innocent gazing upon them is causing us too much perturbation"
- And whoever, at the time of death, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt. BG 8.5 - 1972
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- Balarama suspected that they would attack Krsna, and thus out of great affection for His brother He took strong military divisions of chariots, infantry, horses and elephants and went to the precincts of Kundina
- Because Krsna is Krsna, He is apapa-viddha - He cannot be attacked by sinful reactions. But a living entity is sometimes subjected to their influence because he is so small
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- He (Bakasura) appeared on the scene suddenly and immediately attacked Krsna with his pointed, sharp beak and quickly swallowed Him up. When Krsna was thus swallowed, all the boys, headed by Balarama, became almost breathless, as if they had died
- He (Salva) again rushed toward Lord Krsna. When Salva ran swiftly to attack Krsna with his club, Lord Krsna cut off his hand, which fell to the ground with the club
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- I (Krsna) wish to protect the inhabitants of Vrndavana from the attacks of My enemies. That is why I remain in My kingdom; otherwise I am indifferent to My royal position.
- If required, Krsna Himself was sufficient to defend Himself from the attack of others who counted the Lord as their enemy, but still He accepted all the arrangements made by Yudhisthira because He could not disobey the King, who was His elder cousin
- In the arena of Kamsa, when Krsna was attacked by big elephants, all of the ladies present began to address Him in this way
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- Krsna continues, "When the Muslims attacked, the priest who was serving Me hid Me in this bush in the jungle. Then he ran away out of fear of the attack"
- Krsna did not want Vrndavana disturbed by enemies like Dantavakra and Jarasandha. If Krsna were to go to Vrndavana, these enemies would not only attack Mathura but would go on to Vrndavana, and the peaceful inhabitants of Vrndavana would be disturbed
- Krsna was now able to turn His attention from the attack of Lord Siva to the efforts of Banasura, and He began to kill Banasura's personal soldiers with swords and clubs
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- Lord Krsna appeared to be cruel to Canura, and He immediately struck him thrice with His fist. The great wrestler was jolted, to the astonishment of the audience. Canura then took his last chance and attacked Krsna, just as one hawk swoops upon another
- Lord Krsna, with His own club, broke the club of Mura to pieces before it could reach Him. The demon, bereft of his weapon, decided to attack Krsna with his strong arms
- Lord Sri Krsna wanted to save Mathura from the eighteenth attack of the great military divisions of King Jarasandha. To prevent further killing of soldiers and to attend to other important business, Lord Krsna left the battlefield without fighting
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- Regarding Krsna's expertise in releasing weapons, when Jarasandha, along with thirteen divisions of soldiers, attacked Krsna's army, they were unable to hurt even one soldier on the side of Krsna
- Rukmi immediately took another bow and shot another five arrows at Krsna. Being attacked for the second time, Krsna again severed Rukmi's bowstring. Rukmi took a third bow, and Krsna again cut its string
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- The caretaker, being thus insulted by Krsna, became very angry, and in order to challenge Krsna, as was previously planned, he provoked the elephant to attack
- The gopis and the men began to converse amongst themselves about how wonderful it was that child Krsna had been attacked in so many ways and so many times by so many demons, and yet the demons themselves had been killed and Krsna had remained uninjured
- The individual soul in the body of a baby cannot show the full power of a grown man, but the S P of Godhead, Krsna, even when lying on the lap of His mother as a baby, could exhibit His full power by killing Putana and other demons who attacked Him
- They (the gopis and cowherd men) continued to converse amongst themselves about how so many great demons in such fierce bodies had attacked Krsna to kill Him but, by the grace of Hari, had not been able to cause even a slight injury
- They (the gopis and men) remembered the words of Garga Muni, who had foretold, by dint of his vast knowledge of the Vedas & astrology, that this boy would be attacked by many demons. Now they were actually seeing that this was coming true, word for word
- They (The seven sons of demon Mura) equipped themselves with the necessary weapons and situated Pitha, another demon, to act as commander in the battle. By the order of Bhaumasura, all of them combinedly attacked Krsna
- Thinking that perhaps the child (Krsna) was being attacked by some other ghost or demon, the astonished mother Yasoda put the child down on the ground and began to think of Narayana - SB 10.7.19
- Thinking that some bad planet had attacked Krsna, mother Yasoda picked up the crying child and allowed Him to suck her breast. Then she called for experienced brahmanas to chant Vedic hymns and perform an auspicious ritualistic ceremony - SB 10.7.11
- This attack of Maya's agent is not very uncommon. When Krishna Himself was present He was being attacked by Maya's agent almost everyday during His childhood
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- When Banasura saw that his soldiers and commanders had been defeated, his anger only increased. He thought it wise to stop fighting with Satyaki, Krsna's commander in chief, and instead directly attack Lord Krsna
- When Jarasandha angrily attacked the city of Mathura, he looked at Krsna with sarcastic glances
- When Krsna, after kidnapping Rukmini, was attacked by all the kings, Rukmini was momentarily bewildered, until the Lord took the proper steps
- When Krsna, the leader of the Vaisnavas, saw that the demon Bakasura, the friend of Kamsa, was endeavoring to attack Him, with His arms He captured the demon by the two halves of the beak - SB 10.11.51
- When Salva thought that Krsna had been bewildered by his mystic representations, he became encouraged and began to attack the Lord with greater strength and energy by showering volleys of arrows upon Him
- When the demon (Bakasura) saw that Krsna, although having been swallowed, was unharmed, he immediately attacked Krsna again with his sharp beak - SB 10.11.50
- When they (the princes) attacked Krsna's party, shot arrows like incessant torrents of rain, Arjuna, Krsna's best friend, took charge of the challenge, he alone very easily drove them off to please his great friend Krsna on the occasion of His marriage
- While Lord Krsna and others were listening, he (Arjuna) specifically attacked Krsna by saying, "My dear brahmana, I am neither Sankarsana nor Krsna nor one of Krsna's sons like Pradyumna or Aniruddha"