Text 37] The Killing of the Demon Aghasura 299

the inhabitants of Vrndavana to visit, and it remained so for a long,
long time.

TEXT 37
Gag BART Fa eeTeAsaTT |
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etat kaumdrajarh karma
harer Gtmahi-moksanam
mrtyoh paugandake bala

drstvocur vismita vraje

etat—this incident of delivering both Aghasura and Krgna’s associates
from death; kaumdra-jam karma—performed during their kaumdra
age (the age of five years); hareh—of the Supreme Personality of God-
head; dtma—the devotees are the Lord’s heart and soul; ahi-mok-
sanam—their deliverance and the deliverance of the python; mrtyoh—
from the path of repeated birth and death; paugandake —at the age of
pauganda, beginning with the sixth year (one year later); balah—all the
boys; drstva icuh—disclosed the fact after one year; vismnitah—as if it
had happened on that very day; vraje—in Vrndavana.

TRANSLATION

This incident of Krgna’s saving Himself and His associates from
death and of giving deliverance to Aghasura, who had assumed the
form of a python, took place when Krsna was five years old. It was
disclosed in Vrajabhimi after one year, as if it had taken place on
that very day.

PURPORT

The word moksanam means “‘liberation.”’ For the associates of Krsna
and for Krsna 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 Krsna and His devotees, Aghasura also
achieved the same facility of eternal life. Therefore, as indicated here by
the word dtmahi-moksanam, if the python Aghasura could receive
