2. Recap…
Kuvalayapida killed
Chanura challenges krishna

3. The wrestling match begins
• Kamsa’s wrestlers determined to fight
• Krishna confronts Chanura and Balaram
confronts Mushtika.
• Fighting increased step by step
• Legs and hands were locked together
• Perfect art of wrestling exhibited

4. A Total mismatch
• Audience lost their sense of enjoyment
• Chanura and Mushtika like thunder bolts
& the boys are delicate and of tender age
• Do not watch this unfair match
• Yet someone describes Krishna’s beauty

5. Ladies addresss each other
• Praise the good fortune of Vrajvas
• Opulence of Krishna Balaram
• Gopis perfectly in trance
• Gopis’ activities – highest form of piety

6. Krishna Balaram win effortlessly
• Krishna kills Chanura by centrifugal action
• Balaram strikes Mushtika a deadly blow
• Krishna kicks Shala and cracks his head
• Balaram kills Kuta with
His left hand
• Toshala was also kicked
and killed by Krishna
• Other wrestlers flee

7. Krishna’s friends rejoice Kamsa is enraged
• Cowherd boys congratulate Krishna • Orders Krishna Balaram to be
driven out of Mathura
• Drums beat
• Cowherd boys to be plundered
• Ankle bells tinkle
• Vasudeva, Nanda Maharaj and
• People clap Ugrasena to be killed
• Brahmanas praise

8. Krishna Became Very Angry
• Krishna jumps over Kamsa’s high guards
• Kamsa takes up his sword
• Krishna caught him with great force and
knocked down his crown

9. Kamsa lost his vital force
• Krishna grabbed his long hair
• Threw him down
• Began to strike him over and over again
• Kamsa was dead
• Krishna dragged him
• Jubiliation and lamentation

10. Kamsa attains sarupya mukti
• Thought of Krishna 24 hours a day
• Was thinking of Krishna with His chakra
• Attained same form as Narayana
• Promoted to Vaikuntha planet
• Krishna is all good, all merciful
• Liberation of devotee and enemy not the same

11. TEXT 6
yam yam vapi smaran bhavam
tyajaty ante kalevaram
tam tam evaiti kaunteya
sada tad-bhava-bhavitah
TRANSLATION
Whatever state of being one remembers
when he quits his body, that state he will
attain without fail.

12. Who was Kamsa?
• In Satya yuga he was a demon named Kalanemi
• In Treta yuga he was Ravana’s uncle
• In Dwapara yuga he was Kamsa

13. Lord Balaram kills Kamsa’s brothers
Kamsa and his brothers – maternal uncles
Krishna obliged to kill Kamsa
Balaram takes charge of killing Kamsa’s brothers

14. The Devas Shower flowers
• Congratulate Krishna and Balaram
• Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma join in
• Beating of drums
• Wives of devas began to dance

15. Kamsa’s Wives lament
• Striking their foreheads
• No longer auspicious
• Punished by laws of nature
• Neglected Krishna’s authority
• Met with death

16. Krishna releases His Parents
• Krishna consoled His aunts
• Performed rituals for dead uncles
• Released Vasudeva and Devaki
• Krishna and Balaram fell at Their
Parents’ feet and offered prayers
• They did not embrace Krishna and
Balaram
• Vasudev and Devaki were always
conscious of Krishna’s position