388 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 7
TRANSLATION
Lord Krsna saved His foster father Nanda Maharaja from the fear of the
demigod Varuna and released the cowherd boys from the caves of the
mountain, for they were placed there by the son of Maya. Also, to the
inhabitants of Vrndavana, who were busy working during daytime and
sleeping soundly at night because of their hard labor in day, Lord Krsna
awarded promotion to the highest planet in the spiritual sky. All these
acts are transcendental and certainly prove without any doubt His
Godhood.
PURPORT
Nanda Maharaja, the foster father of Lord Krsna, went to take his bath
in the River Yamuna in the dead of night, mistakenly thinking that the
night was already over; thus the demigod Varuna took him to the Varuna
planet just to have a look at the Personality of Godhead Lord Krsna, who
appeared there to release the father. Actually there was no arrest of Nanda
Maharaja by Varuna because the inhabitants of Vrndavana were always
engaged in thinking of Krsna, in constant meditation on the Personality
of Godhead in a particular form of samadhi, or trance of bhakti-yoga.
They had no fear of the miseries of material existence. In the Bhagavad-
gita it is confirmed that to be in association with the Supreme Personality
of Godhead by full surrender in transcendental love frees one from the
miseries inflicted by the laws of material nature. Here it is clearly
mentioned that the inhabitants of Vrndavana were extensively busy in the
hard labor of their day’s work, and due to the day’s hard labor they were
engaged in sound sleep at night. So practically they had very little time
to devote to meditation or to the other paraphernalia of spiritual activities.
But factually they were engaged in the highest spiritual activities only.
Everything done by them was spiritualized because everything was dove-
tailed in their relationship with Lord Sri Krsna. The central point of
activities was Krsna, and as such the so-called activities in the material
world were saturated with spiritual potency, and that is the advantage of
the way of bhakti-yoga. One should discharge one’s duty on Lord Krsna’s
behalf, and all one’s actions will be saturated with Krsna thought, the
highest pattern of trance in spiritual realization.
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