Jain Journal 1971 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 40

APRIL, 1971
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with difficulty, Jareya, weeping pitifully, asked Krsna : "Oh! What is this brother ? Why have you come here ? Is Dvaraka burned? Has the destruction of the Yadus taken place ?" ...
Krsna told everything and Jareya, weeping again, said : "Oh! I have done a fitting thing to a brother who has come ! Where, pray, is the place in hell for me who have killed you, a younger brother, sunk in misfortune, dear to your brothers. I surely lived in the forest with the idea of protecting you. I did not know that death had been placed before you by the Creator. O earth, give a crevice by which I can better go now to that hell with this same body. Henceforth, a place here is worse than hell, the pain of killing a brother, worse than all pain, being present. Why did I become the son of Vasudeva and your brother? Or why did I become a human being even, I who did such a deed ? After hearing the Omniscient's prediction, why did I not die right then ? While you were alive, what deficiency would there be, I, a mere person, were dead?”
Krsna said: "Enough of your grief, brother. Fate cannot be transgressed by you nor by me. You are the sole survivor of the Yadus. So live a long time, Go! Go! Otherwise Rama may kill you from anger at my killing. Take my kaustubha as a token. Go to the Pandavas. Tell them the whole story. Let them be of assistance to you. You must go somehow from here with reversed footprints so that Rama following your footprints, will not find you quickly ..."
So instructed again and again by Krsna, he went away just so, after he had pulled the arrow from Krsna's foot, taking the kaustubha. When Jareya had gone, Janardana, suffering from pain in his foot, his hands folded respectfuly, began to speak :
“Homage to the Blessed Arhats, homage to the Siddhas, triple homage to the Acaryas, to the Upadhyayas, and to Sadhus. Homage to the blessed Aristanemi, master of the world who founded a congregation on earth, abondoning the wicked, us and others.”
After reciting this, resting on a couch of grass, placing a foot on a knee and covering (himself) with a cloth, Krsna thought again : "The blessed Nemi is fortunate, and Varadatta and others, the princes, Pradyumna and others, my wives, Rukmini and others, who abondoned the status of a house-holder, the cause of dwelling in existence and became mendicants, but shame on me here who have experienced mortification."