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Brahmadatta Chakravarti immensely. He commanded his minister to bring before him the eyes of all Brahmins to be crushed, to satiate his burning anger. But how long such massacre would continue ! The minister stopped killing the Brahmins and placed in a dish banyan tree fruits having no kernels, inside. They resembled eyes exactly. The blind Chakravarti crushed them under the impression of eyes. For sixteen years this continued till he breathed his last. As a result of such atrocities he was produced in the 7th hell. Indeed awards of acts committed are bound to follow the doer of the said acts.
Some poet has aptly said, "You may escape in the sky, or beyond the quarters or dive to the bottom of the sea, you may reach wherever you desire but good or evil acts contracted by you shall not leave you like your shadow. They will undoubtedly bestow upon you their rewards."
Bharatraj was regarded as a very valorous Chakravarti king of India. We have also explained to you about the strength of a Chakravarti in the preceding discourses. Suppose he, sitting near well is bathing himself with one hand and he holds an iron chain with the other hand. Now if the entire army of the Chakravarti tries to drag him with that chain, the bathing Chakravarti would not budge and inch. Such a powerful Chakravarti Bharata was defeated in a duel with his brother Bahubali. This is nothing but the power of Karmas.
Shri Krishna was a Vasudeva. He was the Lord of all kinds of prosperities and mystical powers. He could execute any kind of difficult task. He crossed the Ganges 62 1/2 miles wide with his arms while bringing back Draupadi to Aparakanka city of Dhatak, Khanda.
During his last days the city of Dwarka caught conflagration in which Shri Krishna's all the relatives were burnt and dead. He made desperate efforts to save his parents but he could not succeed. They being crushed under the slab of stone of the gate were dead. His brother and himself only survived. While passing through a forest he was very thirsty and Balabhadra went to fetch water, when he was shot dead with an arrow of Jarakumara. This is all due to the strong influence of Karmas.
