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inevitable material tendencies. Now You can punish me or save me as You
desire.”

After hearing this, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who was acting
as a small human child, ordered the serpent thus: “*You must immediately
leave this place and go to the ocean. Leave without delay. You can take
with you all your offspring, wives and everything that you possess. Don’t
pollute the waters of the Yamuna. Let it be drunk by My cows and cow-
herd boys without hindrance.” The Lord then declared that the order
given to the K4liya snake be recited and heard by everyone so that no one
need fear Kaliya any longer.

Anyone who hears the narration of the Kaliya serpent and his punish-
ment will need fear no more the envious activities of snakes. The Lord
also declared: “If one takes a bath in the Kaliya lake where My cowherd
boy friends and I have bathed, or if one, fasting for a day, offers oblations
to the forefathers from the water of this lake, he will be relieved from all
kinds of sinful reaction.” The Lord also assured Kaliya: ““You came here
out of fear of Garuda, who wanted to eat you in the beautiful land by the
ocean. Now, after seeing the marks where I have touched your head with
My lotus feet, Garuda will not disturb you.”

The Lord was pleased with Kaliya and his wives. Immediately after
hearing His order, the wives began to worship Him with great offerings of
nice garments, flowers, garlands, jewels, ornaments, sandal pulp, lotus
flowers, and nice eatable fruits. In this way they pleased the master of
Garuda, of whom they were very much afraid. Then, obeying the orders
of Lord Krsna, all of them left the lake within the Yamuna.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Sixteenth Chapter of Krsna,
“Subduing Kaliya.”
