Text 37] The Killing of the Demon Aghāsura
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the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana to visit, and it remained so for a long, long time.
TEXT 37
एतत् कौमारजं कर्म हरेरात्माहिमोक्षणम् । मृत्योः पौगण्डके बाला दृष्ट्वोचुर्विसिता व्रजे ॥३७॥
etat kaumārajaṁ karma harer ātmāhi-mokṣaṇam mṛtyoḥ paugaṇḍake bālā dṛṣṭvocur vismitā vraje
etat —this incident of delivering both Aghāsura and Kṛṣṇa’s associates from death;  kaumāra-jam karma —performed during their  kaumāra  age (the age of five years);  hareḥ —of the Supreme Personality of God-head;  ātma —the devotees are the Lord’s heart and soul;  ahi-mokṣaṇam —their deliverance and the deliverance of the python;  mṛtyoḥ —from the path of repeated birth and death;  paugaṇḍake —at the age of  paugaṇḍa , beginning with the sixth year (one year later);  bālāḥ —all the boys;  dṛṣṭvā ūcuḥ —disclosed the fact after one year;  vismitāḥ —as if it had happened on that very day;  vraje —in Vṛndāvana.
TRANSLATION
This incident of Kṛṣṇa’s saving Himself and His associates from death and of giving deliverance to Aghāsura, who had assumed the form of a python, took place when Kṛṣṇa was five years old. It was disclosed in Vrajabhūmi after one year, as if it had taken place on that very day.
PURPORT
The word  mokṣaṇam  means “liberation.” For the associates of Kṛṣṇa and for Kṛṣṇa Himself, there is no question about liberation; they are already liberated, being in the spiritual world. In the material world there are birth, death, old age and disease, but in the spiritual world there are no such things because everything is eternal. As for the python, however, by the association of Kṛṣṇa and His devotees, Aghāsura also achieved the same facility of eternal life. Therefore, as indicated here by the word  ātmāhi-mokṣaṇam , if the python Aghāsura could receive