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- Part 27 -
Dr Mohendra Irengbam *
Fifty-Second Chapter
NAND AND JASHODA HAVING A CONSULTATION
Yashoda could not understand Nand Maharaj’s perplexity and irresolution. With some timidity she asked him what was upsetting him.
“I have heard my son is at Prabas. Should you not be ordering to beat the big drums and blow the Bheri (the war trumpet) to let everyone know about it? It is said that Prabas is not too far. Only 60 Krosh [one Krosh is 3,000 meters). If we go by carriage, it will take only three days.
“All the suffering we have had for eons will then be over. Just holding my son will quench my thirst of longing to see him. I do not care about a bath in the tirth water and all the karmaphal (result of action) that would bring to me by a dip in the holy river. All I want is to see my son. Wherever my son is, it is heaven for me. If my son is not there, even Veikunth is hell. My lord, please do not defer anymore. I am begging you by touching your feet to please organise for me to see my son and save my soul.
Hearing the heart-rending sorrowful supplication of Yashoda, Nand replied, “What is this you are saying my love? I am in the same chain of thought as you are. Just ponder over it for a while my Rani, why I feel very hurt. This yagna at Prabas is well-known in three loks. Invitations have been sent to Swarg (heaven), Mart (mortal world, the earth) and Patal (netherworld). But Braj, where I am still alive, has been missed. I do not think it will be a foresight of Basudev.
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