160 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

of Salva. He was displaying His pastime,in playing the role of a human
being. Great saintly persons and sages who are engaged in the devotional
service of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna and who have thus achieved the
greatest perfection of self-realization have transcended the bewilderments
of the bodily concept of life. Lord Krsna is the ultimate goal of life for
such saintly persons. How then could Krsna have been bewildered by the
mystic jugglery of Salva? The conclusion is that Lord Krsna’s bewilderment
was another opulence of His supreme personality.

When Salva thought that Krsna had been bewildered by his mystic
representations, he became encouraged and began to attack the Lord with
greater strength and energy by showering volumes of arrows upon Him.
But the enthusiasm of Salva can be compared to the speedy march of flies
into a fire. Lord Krsna, by hurling His arrows with unfathomable strength,
injured Salva, whose armor, bow and jewelled helmet all scattered into
pieces. With a crashing blow from Kysna’s club, Salva’s wonderful airplane
burst into pieces and fell into the sea. Salva was very careful, and instead
of crashing with the airplane, he managed to jump onto the land. He again
rushed towards Lord Krsna. When Salva ran swiftly to attack Krsna with
His club, Lord Krsna cut off his hand, which fell to the ground with the
club. Finally deciding to kill him, the Lord took up His wonderful disc,
which was shining like the brilliant sun at the time of the dissolution of the
material creation. When Lord Sri Krsna stood up with His disc to kill
Salva, He appeared just like the red sun rising over a mountain. Lord Krsna
then cut off his head, and the head, with its earrings and helmet, fell on
the ground. Salva was thus killed in the same way as Vrtrasura was killed
by Indra, the King of heaven.

When Salva was killed, all his soldiers and followers began to cry, “Alas!
Alas!” While Salva’s men were thus crying, the demigods from the heavenly
planets showered flowers on Krsna and announced the victory by beating
on drums and blowing bugles. At this very moment, other friends of
Sigupala, such as Dantavakra, appeared on the scene to fight with Krsna
in order to avenge the death of Sigupala. When Dantavakra appeared
before Lord Krsna, he was extremely angry.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Twenty-
second Chapter, of Krsna, “The Deliverance of Sélva.”’
