Text 3] Departure of Lord Krsna for Dvaraka 513
ing Maharaja Yudhisthira in his own kingdom and after restoring the
Kuru dynasty, which had been exhausted by the bamboo fire of anger.
PURPORT
This world is compared with a fire in the forest caused by the cohesion
of bamboo bushes. Such a forest fire takes place automatically. for bamboo
cohesion occurs without external cause. Similarly, in the material world
the wrath of those who want to lord it over material nature interacts, and
the fire of war takes place, exhausting the unwanted population. Such
fires or wars take place, and the Lord has nothing to do with them. But
because He wants to maintain the creation, He desires the mass of people
to follow the right path of self-realization, which enables the living beings
to enter into the kingdom of God. The Lord wants the suffering human
beings to come back home, back to Himself, and cease to suffer the
threefold material pangs. The whole plan of creation is made in that way,
and one who does not come to his senses suffers in the material world by
pangs inflicted by the illusory energy of the Lord. The Lord therefore
wants His bona fide representative to rule the world. Lord Sri Krsna
descended to establish this sort of regime and to kill the unwanted persons
who have nothing to do with His plan. The Battle of Kuruksetra was
fought according to the plan of the Lord so that undesirable persons could
get out of the world and a peaceful kingdom under His devotee could be
established. The Lord was therefore fully satisfied when King Yudhisthira
was on the throne and the seedling of the dynasty of Kuru, in the person
of Maharaja Pariksit, was saved.
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SOUMLUC SC MECIGIIC BE
geared: RI
nisamya bhismoktam athacyutoktam
pravrtta-vijnana-vidhiita-vibhramah
§asasa gam indra ivajitasrayah
paridhyupantam anujanuvartitah
nisamya—after listening; bhisma-uktam—what was spoken by

Bhismadeva; atha—as also; acyuta-uktam—what was spoken by the
