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Why
did Lord Krishna choose the lineage of the disobedient Yadu?
Yadu the Great!
The
Lord chose Yadu’s lineage to show the greatness of Yadu to everyone.
When
Yayati approached yadu with his request, Yadu discussed with his brothers.
‘We
all know that our mother has not treated our step mother Sarmishtai well. This world
and its wealth is not permannet. By yearning for worldly wealths we will only
commit further sins. I feel that we should step down and let Puru to get a
chance to accept the kingdom. This is the only way by which we can correct the
mistake made by our mother.’
Thus
Yadu refused in order to give Puru the opportunity to become the king. He
sacrificed his rightful hold over the kingdom and he also had to bear all the
ill words uttered by his father as well as other people. Thus Yadu performed a
supreme sacrifice. To recogonize the greatness of Yadu, the Lord chose to
incarnate in Yadu’s lineage.
Yadu
always donated to the needy. He never refused donation to anyone. If a person
sought $500,000 from Yadu, Yadu would grant $2,000,000! Such was the quality of
Yadu. Lord Krishna’s father Vasudevar imagined in his mind and donated 10,000
cattle to the Brhmins when the Lord incarnated. We would think that as he was
only imagining he could have even donated 2,000,000 cattle. The reason was at
that time Vasudevar was in prison; he calculated the present and future value
of his property and made a vow to make actual donation when he was released
from prison. Likewise, after Kamsa was killed, Vasudevar donated 10,000 cattle.
Lord Krishna’ foster father Nanda Gopan was known for his charitable donations
as mentioned by Andal Nachiar in her pasuram “Ambarame thannire”. Lord Krishna
appreciates people who make charitable donations. This was another reason for
choosing the Yadu dynasty.
Why incarnate as a cowherd?
His
second leela was when He chose to be a cowherd. Bhumi Devi approached Lord Brahma
in the form of a cow and asked help to ease her burden. Lord Brahma then took
her and the Devas to see the Lord. Bhumi Devi is often represented as a cow.
From Bhumi we get all the wealth like food, herbs, metals, gems etc. Thus like
a cow, Bhumi must be milked. A cow gives its milk to everyone and not just its
calf. Like that Bhumi Devi showers her wealth on all her residents. To show us
that Lord will help us milk Bhumi, He incarnated as a cowherd. He protected
Bhumi by reducing her burden by killling all the evil doers. Bhumi can
withstand the population however large in number if all the citizens are
righteous but when a large percentage of the population go against the Yuga
Dharma, she sufferes from the burden.
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