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## The Scattering of Eager Refusal
Then their parents said, "O sons, go! All the Yadavas live because of you two. You have already accomplished what was to be done by your valor. This is a stronger and more difficult situation to be overcome."
"We, who are deprived of fortune, will not attain the fruit of our own actions by initiation at the end of Sri Nemi's feet. We will not experience it."
Even after being told this, when Rama and Krishna did not go, Vasudeva, Devaki, and Rohini spoke. "Therefore, Sri Nemi, the world teacher, is our refuge. We have renounced the four types of food. We have renounced the Arhats, the Siddhas, the Sadhus, and the Dharma as taught by the Arhats. Therefore, we, who desire refuge, have taken refuge in Him. We are not anyone's, nor is anyone ours. We have stood firm in the prescribed worship, devoted to prostration."
Then Dvapayana rained fire like a cloud of fire upon them. The three, Vasudeva and the others, were afflicted and went to heaven.
Rama and Krishna went outside the city to the old garden. There they saw the city burning. The walls of jewels had become like dust and broken stones. The pillars of sandalwood and go-shirsha had become like ashes and straw. The heads of the city walls were crumbling and falling. The foundations of the houses were bursting and cracking. There was no space between the flames, as if in the ocean. Everything became one fire, as if one ocean in destruction. The fire danced with its fiery hands and roared with its fiery sounds. It drove the people of the city like fish in a net, through the smoke.
Then Krishna said to Siri, "Alas! This is like a club now. I am standing on the shore and seeing my own city burning. Just as I cannot save the city, so I cannot bear to see it. O Arya, tell me where we should go, everything is against us."
Balabhadra, the friend, the relative, and the kinsman, spoke. "Our Pandava cousins are there, in their dwelling."
Krishna said then, "They have been made free of poison by me. How can we go to their dwelling, ashamed by our own wrongdoing?"
Rama said, "The virtuous keep kindness in their hearts. They never remember wrongdoing, as if it were a bad dream."
"They have been honored in many ways, those grateful Pandava sons. They will only offer respect. Brother, consider it otherwise."
Thus spoken to by Siri, Shārṅga turned his bow east and south. He saw the Pandava city, called Pandu-Mathura.