26 June 2012

Kaliya Mardanam

Kaliya Mardanam
Kaliya rose up with his thousand hoods vomiting poison and wrapped himself around Krishna's body. Krishna became so huge that Kāliya had to release him.

Kaliya Mardanam  (Details)
 yadi sva-prakaso lila-rasa-mayah paramatma-svarupas 
tasmin katham syama-varnatvam sarvatra prasiddham. 
"Why is it that the form of the Personality of Godhead, which He manifests only by His own wish, and which is made of the sweetness of transcendental pastimes, is famous everywhere for its dark complexion?"

Kaliya Mardanam (Details)
With rare gems and jewels decorating his body, the young Krishna danced on the thousand heads of Kaliya, thus adorning those poisonous hoods with his divine footmarks