Life Story of Lord Krishna – Part 4 #Krishna

Krishna and his Childhood Friend!

I have in the last three posts have written about the Life of Krishna revolving around the people, family, and the Kingdom. Today I will talk about the two important people in the life of Krishna.

One of them is his Childhood friend Sudama. Krishna and Sudama who met in Mathura had great connection and were the best friends. Though there were differences like caste and social status, Krishna and Sudama never let them come in their way of Friendship. Sudama was a Brahmin and was not a rich person. Sudama grows up gets married but lives in very poor situation. He is in tough position that he is not able to feed his family or run his family well. In this inevitable state his wife reminds him of Lord Krishna. Sudama remembers the friend Krishna and recalls the memories of how both were attached and humbled in both good and bad days. Sudama was sure that he would receive good help from Krishna, but he was hesitant in asking things from Krishna. Finally he decides to take along the ‘Beaten Rice’ the favourite recipe of Krishna. He then goes to meet Krishna. Krishna is overjoyed looking at Sudama and welcomes him with immense happiness. He then takes the beaten rice and enjoys the food. As soon as the food is complete both of them get into long conversation and Krishna completely forgets about Rukmini.

Rukmini is surprised. Rukmini being goddesses herself understands the position of Sudama and gifts lot of wealth to and good clothes to wear. Sudama is seen happy and devoted as always. Sudama is now getting ready to leave home, Krishna then asks Sudama to remove the new clothes and wear the old one’s that he came with. Rukmini is shell-shocked and so is Sudama, yet they both keep calm ad Sudama leaves Krishna place in the same old clothes. As soon as Sudama leaves the palace, Krishna locks himself up in the room and starts crying inconsolably. When asked by Rukmini, Krishna says “You have blessed him with a lot of wealth and good clothes, but look at me I have taken back the clothes and made him wear the old clothes, just because of the People” He thus tells Rukmini that he has done this so that people don’t misunderstand him and his intentions. Returning Home, Sudama sees that his Hut is replaced with a Palace, Wife has a lot of Jewellery, Sons are playing with Toys and his life has now taken a complete turnaround in a positive direction.

Second important person to be introduced Today is Sathyabama.

The story starts like this: Satrajit is one of the people in the advisory board of Mathura, as we know Mathura has oligarchy system which has people at the same level with Ugrasena as its head. One day Satrajit gets a beautiful jewel called as Shyamanthakamani. It is considered as a most famous jewel with magical powers. Krishna then feels that Ugrasena needs to have it. But because Satrajit found it, he wanted to hold it and give it to his brother. When asked by Krishna, Satrajit says that it is with his brother and would return it once his brother returns.

One day brother of Satrajit, Prasen goes for hunting wearing the Shyamanthakamani and gets killed by a lion. The Jewel falls by side of the dead body of Prasen. Satrajit suspects that it is Krishna who had stolen the Jewel and spread the news across to the people of Mathura. Though Krishna denies this rumor, people don’t believe Krishna and are seeing a thief in Krishna. Krishna feels embarrassed and takes it as a challenge to find the Mani. He then travels into the Jungle and finds that Jewel is with a Lady. He explains that the Mani is his and brings her along to the Kingdom. The Lady expresses that a man was killed by a Lion and she picked up the Mani from the same spot. People get the clarity and believe the lady, Satrajit is still feeling sad and ashamed of his behavior. He wants to compensate his mistake by marrying his daughter Sathyabama to Krishna. That’s how Krishna gets married to Sathyabama who is his second wife and there are totally 16008 wives for Krishna.

Both Rukmini and Sathyabama are equally loved by Krishna. Though Rukmini is his first wife, he is more attracted to Sathyabama, that’s because she is more charming and brave. Krishna loved Rukmini for her silent and understanding nature. Whereas  Sathyabama is a different lady who requires attention and she will demand it. That’s where Krishna was making his presence felt for Sathyabama and try to match the ferocious and outgoing character of Sathyabama.