Sri Yaadavaabhyudayam Episode 21 | Lord Krishna | Vedanta Desika | English | Dushyanth Sridhar

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]So all these havist that we give to Bhagavan is mentioned here in this shloka.

[00:00:38]This is one shloka. Now if you have a pen whatever you have to draw a diagram first you have to draw one big circle draw that in school they'll say children now take your pen out draw one big circle and you will have to mark its center draw one line from one part of the circumference of the circle passing through its center and continuing and touching the other end of the circumference. So it is called the diameter. Correct? 2 R twice the radius is diameter. It has to pass through the center. Draw an other line from another part of the circumference passing through the circle. Second line. Then draw another line passing through the circle. So you'll have 1 2 and three.

[00:01:31]All three lines have to pass through the center. And all three lines ends should touch the circumference. Correct. So now it looks like a wheel with six spokes.

[00:01:45]>> Correct. Correct.

[00:01:47]You're able to get now you have to write the letters what I say on the first line. First line from the circumference. So the first letter will be on the circumference. S S. Next letter D. Third letter V. Fourth letter.

[00:02:22]Right.

[00:02:25]It has two half letters. You know in samskaram write an next. Next letter is R.

[00:02:33]Third, next letter is Yah.

[00:02:36]Next is T. Next is V. Ne Next next is Ba. Next is V. That V is the central letter. Whatever I told you.

[00:02:52]That V is the center. You have to continue.

[00:02:58]N show me that may will come on the circumference because that may has to touch the other end. Now the second line next line you have to go in the clockwise direction. So if you have mentioned one line go in the clockwise direction and start the next line.

[00:03:45]That V should again come to the center.

[00:03:48]That V is the common letter. You know in the shops they'll say so. So they'll put E as commonly.

[00:03:58]So you know you're able to get so that V is the central letter.

[00:04:06]So center continue the T they will come on the circumference. Now go in the clockwise direction and do the third line. It is chitra n he chitra no v he continue we should again come to the circumference. So three lines four line poem three lines you have filled on the three six spokes the fourth line you have to complete on the circumference what is the fourth line chitra now uh in the third line you saw lan Right? Now you ended up having that letter last a from you have to do a clockwise placement.

[00:05:44]So you have to complete that line. Okay.

[00:05:46]Now if you see the first lines third letter sway what is that way way is the first letter if you go to the third line now imagine it it it will take little effort from your side. So if you go to the third letter from the first spoke 1 2 3 you get we then you go to the next line k t na t y go to the third circle y.

[00:06:29]So he has said who has composed that poetry and what is that poem called in the shakram.

[00:06:42]So ar is spoke shara chakrram is six spoked wheel. So he has coded his name and the poem in that wheel.

[00:06:57]So one the verse has a meaning. Second it gives us a shape. Third it copyrights the name of the poet because what if somebody says I am wing katanath right I have composed this poem. So he ensures that the name comes. So this is called chitra.

[00:07:14]when you see it. I think in one of the sessions that I did during 2020 COVID uh Vidwan Bharat Sundar and I collaborated to explain this verse through music.

[00:07:29]So you can check that on YouTube later with Dantr Bhat Sundar. If you see that conversation I would have explained this verse. So we had to choose three different ragas to complete the three spokes and then use the swaram and then connect it based on that. So we had to do it musically and the see this is all it it is not something that comes normally to a poet because when we speak of Betty bought bought some butter we are amazed with that that sound Betty bought bought some butter. The butter which batty bought her bought was better. So she put some better butter into the bitter butter.

[00:08:10]See this is taking 256 axaras from samska bhasha. In some in English you don't have half letters. See padma half the half ma. In English you never use half a and half b.

[00:08:27]Do we have that? No we don't. So even if we have to write it as padma in some in English you have to write it as p a d ma you are completely giving freedom to the person padma padma so you can say it anyway right whereas in samskrum you have half letters 256 asharas we have besides half letters with that you have to compose poetry and then put your name into it requires a lot of skill so vdantaishika does that diligently this is one verse This is called shara chakr. So this is an important bundam. Now vdantika takes us through uh another shloka. He says So he says this hill when Krishna tries to impress upon his father first the son has to impress upon his father because Krishna was not talking when he had done his postgraduation he had not even been to a school then he was a little boy of 5 to 6 I'm sure in certain traditional families in the yesterdays if the son or the daughter would go amidst a discussion when the elderly people were talking they will be ridiculed but correct that is how it will be right in traditional families they will never say oh child what's your opinion about this we would love to hear about your opinion and I'm all ears to listen to what you say they'll never say this Yeah.

[00:10:28]Yeah. How they will say now Krishna is a little boy but see what a liberal family he had. Father Gopa said who listens to our nobody listens to our he's saying Ry Bau. So this boy says Roy but Krishna is a very excellent speaker who we are no one to certify him but he's an excellent speaker.

[00:10:55]How do we know that? First an excellent speaker has to do nanuhan.

[00:11:01]See, when you express your opinion to the other person, the easiest way you can make the other person accept is when you make yourself very tiny. I'm sure you know much better.

[00:11:15]You know it all.

[00:11:18]Yet, since you've given me the opportunity to speak, I'm I'm extremely thankful to you. I would just like to express my opinion. Feel free to discard it, reject it. You don't want them to reject it but you just say feel free then the other person no no no no no please tell please tell they'll say Krishna does that very diligently see when you read bhagavatam you will learn how to communicate communication skills becomes extremely important now people will ask I'm in the corporate world how's how is bhagavatam going to impact me you have to read bhagavatam first right first of all you should know samskutabasha that is another How many times can we stick only to the English translation? Oh the lotus eyed one punda. Oh the leotus one as you would take the walk the gate of the swan hamsagati you come on this mother earth and you say how long can we keep doing that so that is our deficiency in bharati abhasha and our proficiency in victoria's language is giving us that big gap between our scriptures that is why our scriptures look at the irony today to learn bhagavatam we need English translation To learn your own country's bhasha, you need a foreign languages translation to read. Irony, right? What a sad state we are in. We need a a language which was born maybe 8,000 miles away from Bharata desam to understand the poetry which was written 10 kilometers away from my house. I will be in Kipi. Vedantika is composed there.

[00:13:07]But to learn his poem, I need a language of which is 8,000 mi away. That is our wonderful state. Right? I'm not talking about Tamil Nad state means.

[00:13:18]That is our nal. Right?

[00:13:22]Now when we look at the way Krishna speaks, we will be amazed at as to how we need to communicate. Even in corporate world, if you have to get your things moving, how to communicate. So this is what Krishna says. Now Krishna says my dear father the hill that we are going to propitiate because he has to convince the father that the hill is better than Indra.

[00:13:48]First he has said Gohan Himalay has never been to Himalayas. Father, if you'd have Googled, he would have seen Govadan is a very short Parvatam.

[00:14:26]Himalayas is so huge. Now what makes a person tall?

[00:14:32]See there is a word in Tamil called and now Shivaji was 5'6 he is not one tall person but or tall in English or tall in English doesn't come with height it comes with your achievements and your demeanor.

[00:14:59]I said it means with his habits and contribution he has reached the zenith or the pinnacle which is generally not so easy to be surpassed.

[00:15:15]So Krishna says that Govar Dhanam is greater than Himalayas. For which he says papa now Himalayas is able to drive away the extra heat tapam through its snow.

[00:15:35]Through its snow it can do away with the extra heat. Hea means snow. Allayam is the place where it rests. So Himalaya is the place where the snow rests. So when the snow starts melting you feel the coolness around the water is cool. So if a person has been burning from the inside probably it has the ability to drive away the heat. That is what Himalayas does. But papa more than heat what causes anguish in a person is hunger.

[00:16:13]See when was asked you know in the 1970s most of Balachand's movies will project poverty right then 10 of them will be seated in the family they won't have food then they'll have to keep hitting on the plate have you seen So you have to project poverty because in those days it was not so easy for all families and all people in the strata of the society to get food thrice a day. It was not an easy task. So poverty especially hunger is something that will trouble people and will stay in their minds. Now they will be extremely rich but if they remember the days of their destitution they will be left with tears rolling down their cheeks. People will will never want to unstaple such memories but it will come and haunt them.

[00:17:25]So the boy Krishna says to his father to drive away the extra heat the snow in the Himalayas helps. But what is worse than heat is hunger and govar dhana drives away the hunger of our bovine race cows with its grass. So taller than the Himalayas is Govar Dhanam.

[00:17:51]First he says Indra is not needed.

[00:17:53]Govadam is needed. Now he says god danam is greater than Himalayas.

[00:17:59]See imagine your son or daughter.

[00:18:04]You have been wanting to find a suitable partner for them, but they are of the thought that why should I trouble my parents?

[00:18:19]And to that son or daughter whom you would have never thought will find a partner on their own, Someone comes home.

[00:18:42]Now there will be a even now there will be some families where there'll be you know not all parents will say so now there will be parents who will say no no no now they'll be a tug of for now the child or their son or daughter will now be entrusted with the responsibility of proving that the partner that they have chosen is much better than the boy or the girl that you have chosen. So they will intelligently try to say you you know this person feeds 100 dogs a day.

[00:19:37]He feeds like a 100 dogs.

[00:19:57]So now your children will actually become Krishna's that time because Krishna tries to impress upon his father that goam is greater than any mountain.

[00:20:12]It is greater than any mountain.

[00:20:15]Ras malai it is bigger than ras malai.

[00:20:18]It has become than any mother.

[00:20:21]So Krishna tries to say that it will drive away hunger.