Janmastami, the occasion of joy in each corner of world is the birthday of the eight incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
He has many names like Maadhav, Keshav, Vasudev, Hrishikesh, Madhusudan, but the name which is prominent among those in that incarnatio...
I know you all are not ignorant about me. All of you know me very well still I am introducing myself, because I don't have any specific name by which you can remember me. I am daughter of Nand baba and Yashoda maiya. I was the one who had been swiped with Kanha for his protection from the clutches of evil Kansa. I think now the image of my existence is making its clear appearance in all of yours mind.
I am "Krishna Sehjata" means the girl who was born with Krishna on the same day on which he had taken birth. I am Yogmaya in myself. I had taken birth in order to help my prabhu according to his wish. He is my Lord, and I am his "Sevika". He was capable enough to protect himself. He is the supreme power who creates, nurtures and protects the whole universe. Despite that he had considered me worthy to give the credit of his protector.
I remembered that dark stormy night. Sri Vasudev had come to "Nandgaon" with my prabhu after crossing all the barriers on his way. According to my Lord's wish, I had frozen the whole surroundings. Sri Vasudev came, placed little Krishn on the other side of Yashoda maiya, and picked me up in his arms.
I knew he was feeling guilty as his conscience was preventing him for taking me along with him. He was aware of what evil Kansa would do with me. He was blaming himself for my horrific fate, but it was all necessary for establishment of dharm. Somehow, he composed himself, and left from there wrapping me in his arms.
He had clutched me safely to his chest. His voice was chocked out of grief which was prohibiting him to talk with me, but I could understand his unspoken words. His concern filled eyes was ensuring my safety all the way. I too tried to assure him through my happy cooing at which he smiled, heartily.
When he reached inside the prison everything became normal. He handed me to mata Devaki who hugged me with warmth of affection, and started crying. When a child takes birth parents shed tears of happiness after listening cry of their child, but in my case it's different. I was calm, and my parents were shedding the tears of pain which was certainly destined to them.
Mata Devki showered numerous kisses on my face. I giggled at her action making her reciprocate me with the same. I felt happy for making her smile even for a short. She was praising my divinity with tear beamed eyes. Shri Vasudev was caressing my head forgetting the upcoming.
My aura had calmed their worries, but their concern for me was the same like before. For the first time, I felt that in some cases divinity couldn't be fully affective, especially in consoling affectionate hearts of parents.
The credit of this extraordinary experience obviously belonged to my Lord who had graced such a moment to me.
The soldiers of prison went, and informed their king about the birth of the eighth child. Kansa came there, immediately.
Mata Devki requested him not to kill me as I was a girl, and there could be no harm to him from my side. Sri Vasudev also tried to convince Kansa's evil mind, but all went in vain. Kansa didn't hear anything, and grabbed me from Mata Devki. He was about to throw me on the wall of prison.
Just then, I appeared in my real form in front of him. He was terrified witnessing all these while mata Devaki and Shri Vasudev were ecstatic confirming there was no threat to me from Kansa. Even, in devotion they didn't have any lack of parental affection towards me.
I couldn't resist admiring their affection, and I could have admired them till ages if I hadn't been assigned the task of warning Kansa.
"You can harm neither me nor him, you foolish!" I laughed at Kansa's petrified face.
"About whom are you talking?" He was faking anger to scare me.
"He is the saviour of sages. He is the sovereign over everyone and everything. He is the serenity against seriousness, and most importantly he is your death," I announced the arrival of my Lord on the earth.
"Stop blabbering! No one can kill me. I am immortal," Kansa was consoling the fear inside himself which had turned into a huge storm.
"This bubble of false belief won't last long, Kansa. Wait for the day when my Lord will come here to mark your end," saying so, I disappeared from there.
I went to Lord Narayan who was in "Nandgaon", and informed him that I had accomplished my task. He told me to wait for the time when I would come to him again, and would have a life with him. I bowed to him with utmost content.
"Why are you getting emotional, Mahadevi? You will always be around me for assisting me. I will need you for everything I have planned for this era," Narayan asked me in his delicate voice as he was a baby at that time.
"I can't explain my emotions, Sarveswar. I am just overwhelmed at this moment," I was unable to speak without stammering due to extreme joy.
"It's the rarest sight of watching you being puzzled. You are the illusion who inspires life sources and each single activities of life," he reminded me, playfully. His babyish voice was so soothing that I just wished to be mentioned by him again and again.
"For now, I am just a devotee who gained the most awaited moment for which I had been wishing for since eras," tears of gratitude were glistening in my eyes.
"You are always my maya, the designer of mesmerising moves of my divine acts," my heart jumped at his statement, and he was smiling at me, continuing his babyish activities.
"The fact with which you have felicitated me just now is the greatest fortune of my existence. I am going to enter into waiting zone again, all happily, because I know that at the end the greatest happiness is going to be harvested out for me," I bowed down to him, the Lord of Dwapar yug once again before leaving from there.
I know everyone will remember me as Subhadra, Yadvi, Dwarkaratn, Krishnanuja, Vasudev suta, but I won't be able to live a life as Nand nandini. I am happy that Nand baba and Yashoda maiya will get the rarest fortune of nurturing Narayan's childhood. They will know about me in future, for sure. It will be resulted into their separation from their Kanha.
After knowing about me they won't cry for me, because we are not connected with each other through any emotion. I would be like an asset for them who was never possessed by them. So, the grief of losing me won't cause that much pain to them. I am relaxed about it.
They were my first parents yet I couldn't even call them as baba and maiya. In my next birth, I wouldn't be able to remember anything as I had taken decision to live as a normal girl, without any power and my memory. Many pleasures are waiting for me on the way of next birth, but the pain of not being able to fulfill my duties as daughter of Nand baba and Yashoda maiya will be the same.
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*************************************** I am dedicating this OS to the unique bond of Sri Narayan and Devi Yogmaya.
How is this, my first OS?
Give your suggestions, freely.
LAXMIPATI SHRI NARAYAN, please accept this offering to you in name of all wellbeing of my LIFELINE.
