The advent of Lord Krsna - Krsna Janmastami

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>From the sixth chapter of the Brahma-vaivarta Purana we learn a detailed

description of Lord Krsna's appearance...

 

A question: What is the Jayanti yoga?

 

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Your sishya,

Dhira Krsna dasa

 

62 Sri Narayana Rsi said: After speaking these prayers, the demigods

returned to their own abode. Then a great rain suddenly fell and no one

moved about in Mathura City.

63 O sage, a terrible darkness covered the night. Seven muhurtas

passed and the eighth muhurta came.

Note: One muhurta equals forty-eight minutes.

64 Then, at the most auspicious moments, a moment even the Vedas

cannot properly glorify, a moment beyond all understanding, a moment when

all auspicious planets were visible on the horizon and no inauspicious

planets could be seen,...

65 ...a moment on the eighth tithi, O sage, when a half-moon had

risen with the star Rohini and the auspicious Jayanti-yoga was present,...

66 ...at that moment the sun and the other planets both auspicious

and inauspicious, gazed again and again at the horizon, became filled with

awe, left their regular places and met in the sign Pisces.

67 Staying there, all the planets became auspicious. In this way, by

the demigod Brahma's order, all the planets happily stayed in the eleventh

house for one muhurta.

68 Then the clouds rained, pleasantly cool winds blew, the earth

became happy, and the ten directions became filled with joy.

69 Filled with joy, the sages, manus, yaksas, gandharvas, kinnaras,

apsaras, demigods, and demigoddesses danced.

70 O Narada, the gandharva kings and the vidyadharis sang, the rivers

happily flowed and the fires happily blazed.

71 In Svargaloka there was beautiful music of dundubhi and anaka

drums. There was a great shower of parijata flowers.

72 The earth-goddess assumed the form of a human woman and visited

Devaki's maternity-room, there were loud sounds of conchshells and the

sounds of 'Victory!' and 'Hari!'

73 Then saintly Devaki fell to the ground and the air suddenly passed

from her belly.

74 Then Lord Krsna, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, left

the lotus-whorl of Devaki's heart and manifested His transcendental form

before her.

75-80 O sage, then Vasudeva and Devaki saw before them the supremely

handsome and charming Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had two arms, a

flute in His hand, glittering shark-earrings, a gentle smile, great mercy

for His devotees, ornaments of the kings of jewels, a form dark like a

monsoon cloud, yellow garments, limbs anointed with sandal, aguru, musk

and kunkuma, an autumn moon face, handsome bimba fruit lips, a peacock

feather crown, a splendid jewel-crown, a threefold bending form, and a

forest garland, who had the mark of Srivatsa on His chest, who was

youthful, peaceful and handsome, and who was the Lord of both Brahma and

Siva.

81 His hands respectfully folded, his neck bent with devotion, tears

in his eyes and the hairs of his body erect, the Supreme Personality of

Godhead's father, Vasudeva, filled with wonder, and his wife Devaki by his

side, offered prayers to the Lord.