Life Story of Lord Krishna Part 3 #Krishna

Life of Krishna in Dwaraka!

I have written about the early life and his life in Vrindavan and Mathura in the last two posts. In this post, I will talk about Lord Krishna and his Life in Dwaraka. We have seen that at the end of the previous post, Krishna runs from Jarasandh and settles in a place called Dwaraka along with the people of Mathura. Dwaraka is a very important phase in the life of Krishna. Unlike any other Kingdom which had monarchy system those days, Dwaraka was different. The system followed in Dwaraka was an oligarchy system, where you don’t have any single leader taking decisions, but a group of people who would run the Kingdom collectively. Ugrasena being elder was given the name of King but decisions were all made together by Balaram, Krishna, Ugrasena, Pradhyuma and Kritivarma, and others.

Krishna role was pivotal in this as being an intellectual and Supreme knowledge holder in everything, He was consulted and His advice was prominent in all decisions. Krishna’s main aim was make Dwaraka a good place to live for the people without any problems. The fact was that Krishna was the youngest of all the members in the group. Balaram being the elder one to Krishna,  was always over-protective towards Krishna. He used to decide everything on behalf of Krishna on personal issues relating to Krishna. Krishna was never independent but he couldn’t do anything as Balaram was elder to him. We need to understand that Balarama is the re-incarnation of Shesh Nag and in Treyta Yuga he was Lakshman who saw his elder brother Ram suffering. So, Balarama didn’t want the same to happen to Krishna, thus becoming over-protective. Krishna by nature was very caring and took care of all His relatives well, by spending a lot of wealth on them.  But in return, Krishna was treated like a servant. This word Servant was used by Lord Krishna Himself when He was talking about the way He was treated by the relatives.  Though He was treated this way, Krishna never minded and then also all the relatives were hungry for his attention, and they always expected that Krishna would do things that they would want and in return, they never thought for a minute also, what Krishna wanted from them. This is the real problem that Krishna had faced in his life. Not just the relatives he had to face this even from the friends.

Krishna had the real good friend in Ugrasena who is the head of Kingdom. Another good friend that Krishna had was Akrura. The first time when Akrura met Krishna was when he was only 11 years, whereas Akrura was 50 years old. The reason for this friendship sounds very interesting and  God’s plan. Akrura was told by his mom that there would be someone coming into his life and that person would change the life of everyone and he would be the ‘Deliverer’. Akrura was sent by Kansa to bring Krishna to Mathura for a wrestling match. On the way, Akrura starts talking to Krishna and gets a doubt that Krishna Himself is the “deliverer” that his mother was referring to. So, he as Krishna whether it is true.

Krishna answers to Akrura that he doesn’t know who he is,  but he knows that he is the one who is going to deliver the Dharma in the World. In a World where people walk their heads bent in shame and humiliation, he is going to restore order and make the people walk with their heads held high, where everyone follows their Dharma dutifully. This confirms Akrura and he believes that Krishna is the deliverer. Though Krishna is a good friend of Akrura and Ugrasena, both never liked each other. Whenever Krishna talks to Ugrasena, Akrura used to get jealous and vice versa. Both were fighting for Krishna’s friendship and used to bad mouth about the other, just to keep Krishna away from the other. This used to pain Krishna a lot as He wanted good friendship with both.

Moving on, Krishna turns 37, but still He is unmarried while Balarama marries Revathi and has a daughter called Shashirekha. One day Krishna happens to see a 13 year old beautiful girl named Rukmini and instantly falls in love with her. Rukmini is the daughter of King Bhishmaka and a very good friend of King Jarasandha. When Krishna approaches Bhishmaka to ask for Rukmini, he discusses the issue with Jarasandha, who advises him not to give his daughter to a cheater and a old man like Krishna. In turn, he suggests Bhishma to get his daughter married to a 22 year old young prince named Shishupala.  Shishupala who is 15 years younger to Krishna is actually the nephew of Lord Krishna. He hates Krishna from the beginning and Knowing all this, Shishupala’s mother requests for mercy from Krishna who tells her that He would pardon 100 mistakes of Shishupala but not more.

When Krishna threatens to abduct Rukmini if she is forced to get married to Shishupala, Bhishmaka and Jarasandha deploy huge armies to stop Krishna. But Lord Krishna comes at a lightning speed in His chariot, enters the Palace of Bhismaka, abducts Rukmini and goes off to Dwaraka at a lightning speed. None of the armies of Jarasandha or Shishupala succeed in stopping Krishna. Once in the safe abode of Dwaraka, with the blessings of Balarama and other elders Krishna gets married to Rukmini and Rukmini who is considered to be the avatar of Goddess Lakshmi becomes the wife of Lord Krishna. In the previous birth she was born elder to Lord Rama as Sita now, she is born much younger to Krishna as Rukmini.

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