Krsna Janmastami 2025 | Goloka Eco farm, Italy | Aug 16, 2025
So today is the appearance day of Shri Krishna. Krishna appeared in the Yadu dynasty. So, in that dynasty there was a king called Devamida. He had two wives. One was a Kshatriya wife. So that wife gave birth to a son called Sura. And Sura gave birth to Vasudeva. Devamida had a Vaishya wife. And that Vaishya wife gave birth to a son called Parajanya. And Parajanya gave birth to Nanda. So in the Yadu dynasty actually we get both Vasudeva and Nanda. But Vasudeva was a Kshatriya and Nanda was a Vaishya. And that was because Devamida had the Kshatriya wife and the Vaishya wife.
So we find here, Parajanya actually, he was quite well known. And he had all wonderful qualities. So Ugrasena bestowed Parajanya with a lot of land in Gokula. And he had five sons headed by Upananda. Parajanya literally means a cloud. But Parajanya was a cloud of joy. He gave joy to the world because he gave birth to five sons. Of course, Nanda also means joyful or blissful. So all the sons were called bliss or joy, Upananda, Abhinanda, Nanda, Sananda and Nanda. So Upananda was the eldest, Nanda was the middle son, he was very, very well known. So therefore, though he was the middle son and of course his brothers were also highly qualified, everyone became very affectionate to Nanda. And his four brothers had no envy for him. Ok.
So of course, Nanda was excelling in all qualities because as we know, when we perform Bhakti, all wonderful qualities manifest. So in the various scriptures there is a description of Nanda Maharaja. He was fat. He had the complexion of sandalwood which is like light brown. He wears color which is the color of a bandhojiva flower. It’s a very, very bright red. He was very tall. He also had a beard. But it was kind of grayish, black and white hair mixed. He was elder, by the way. Okay, so there was a cowherd, chief cowherd named Sumukha. And he had a wife called Patala. So that wife gave birth to a daughter. That was Yasoda. And so Sumukha gave Yasoda to Nanda. She was also full of all wonderful qualities.
Of course, Yasoda means one who gives fame. So when people heard about her or saw her, their good qualities also increased. That’s when she gave fame to everybody. So Yasoda has a very dark complexion. She’s a personification of ‘Vatsalya’ called parental affection. Her cloth is the color of the rainbow. So Parjanya, of course, had Upananda as the eldest son. So by normal custom, he gave the rulership of that village to Upananda. So Upananda accepted the order of his father. But then Upananda, he called his younger brother Nanda, embraced him, and he gave the village, the whole area, to Nanda. So Nanda didn’t make independent decisions. Nanda had a gathering of people for advisors. And Upananda acted as his chief advisor.
Of course, ‘Upa-nanda’, means assistant to Nanda. So that was a suitable name. So Nanda took his instructions and he began to rule the citizens, he was a very good king. So there was great prosperity in the kingdom ruled by Nanda. But Nanda had some desire. He had not given birth to a son. And this was, of course, not very joyful for the king and all the citizens also did not feel very happy. So they called the priests, the priests performed yajna, but no son came. So, of course, if one has bhakti, one attracts the Lord. So Nanda Maharaj and Yasoda began to think of the Supreme Lord as their son. And that was because, they had such strong devotion. So the Lord is attracted to devotion. And because of that great devotion of Nanda and Yasoda, He manifested.
So in Gokul, Rohini arrived. That was because Vasudev was, of course, harassed by Kamsa, so he sent Rohini away. So she arrived in secret. Of course, she was very faithful to her husband. And when Nanda and his assembly saw her, they became very joyful. We see that Nanda and Vasudev were like, I guess, cousins, we call them cousins. So Nanda welcomed Rohini, who was still, let’s say, the wife of his cousin. So Rohini actually was already pregnant. Balaram had been transferred from Devaki womb to Rohini womb. So when she arrived in Gokul, she was three months pregnant. And Yasoda became very, very joyful. She did not have a child, but she was happy that Rohini was going to give birth.
Meanwhile, Yasoda and Nanda had taken some great one-year vow for having a son. And finally, Narayana, Vishnu, appeared in their mind. They saw him in a dream. So Narayana said, well, don’t lament, because you have a great bhakti for me. So this blue boy will appear as your son. And he will spread bhakti everywhere. Okay, So therefore, this birth was not like a physical birth. It was transferred, the child was transferred from heart to heart. She saw the child, but at the same time, it was not that she.., no seminal birth or anything. So that child was transferred from Nanda’s heart to her heart. Okay. But the child was actually a girl child. So what’s going to happen is that two children will be born. So anyway, so she helped the children in her womb. And of course, Krishna was there, so because He was in her womb, He began to illuminate everything. As I said before, Balarama was transferred from Devaki’s womb to Rohini’s womb. But then, of course, she stayed in Gokula. And Balarama was actually waiting for Krishna’s birth. So therefore, of course, Krishna was born a year later, So therefore, ultimately, Balarama waited 14 months. So just before Krishna, Balarama was born to Rohini. So we actually celebrated Balarama’s appearance last weekend.
So Balarama had a face like the moon. Which means his face was very beautiful and luminous, shining. And the moon is famous, because it is not heating but cooling. So by looking at his face, one would get relief from all suffering. He had black hair like a big rain cloud, dark rain cloud. And the complexion of Balarama was white, like an autumn cloud. And he had effulgence, glowing like the sun. Okay. And he also had very long arms. And he would also be called Rama. Rama, of course, means one who gives enjoyment. So the astrologers came and they gave all sorts of predictions about his future. So when he was born, then Balarama sat on Yasoda’s lap. And Yasoda was holding Krishna in her womb. So Balarama became very happy because he was near Krishna. And then, after Yasoda’s eighth month of pregnancy, then birth was about to take place.
So the birth of Krishna takes place only once in the day of Brahma. It takes place at Vaivasvata Manvantara. Which is one section of a day of Brahma. So in the Manvantara period, there are 71 yuga cycles. And after 28 cycles of yugas have passed, then this is where Krishna appears. So he appeared on the eighth lunar day of the waning moon in Bhadra month. At that time, the moon was at a particular constellation, Rohini. So that nakshatra, or star, is very, very auspicious. Okay. So Krishna appeared at a very auspicious moment. So when Krishna appears, obviously, then He destroys all darkness. Of course, we know that this is the waning moon, so the moon is actually getting smaller. But when Krishna is born, everything becomes bright.
Okay, so… In different yugas, we have different processes. We have meditation in Satya Yuga. We have sacrifices in Treta Yuga. There is deity worship in Dvapar Yuga. And Kirtan in Kali Yuga. So, at particular times, different plants blossom. So, jasmine blooms in spring. The mango bears its fruit in the summer. The water becomes clear after the monsoon in autumn season. And after that, then, in the winter, the harvest, all the grains are harvested. And the lotus blossoms in the day. So, everything has its particular time for appearing. But, by the influence of Krishna, when Krishna is born, everything manifested. So, the clear water of autumn, the harvest of winter, all the different processes of the different yugas, they all manifested. Usually, the lotus blossoms during the day. Krishna was born at midnight. Lotuses, they blossom at midnight. So all the different flowers, all the different seasons begin blossoming in the middle of the night. So, in other words, all auspicious things happened at Krishna’s birth.
Okay. So, Krishna’s complexion is that of a blue lotus. And, of course, He has the center of His eyes are like little black beads. He had a nose like a sesame flower. His lips were red like hibiscus flower or like a bimba fruit or the bandhuka flower like Yashoda’s clothing, no, Nanda’s clothing was like a bandhuka flower. So His body was blackish. It was the opposite color of Balarama, was white. So, He sometimes compared to the color of a tamal tree trunk, which is also black. On his chest, he had the mark of Srivatsa. This mark also appears on Vishnu in Vaikuntha. He also had a golden line on his chest, that’s the line of Lakshmi. So, with that gold line on His black complexion body, He was like a cloud with a bolt of lightning.
So, along with Krishna, there was another child born, that was His sister. This was Yogamaya. Sometimes we don’t hear about twins being born, we think that Vasudeva gave birth to Krishna and Yashoda gave birth to Yogamaya, but according to Vishvanatha Cakravarti and Jiva Goswami, actually Yasoda gave birth to twins. So Yasoda gave birth first to Krishna and a few minutes later to Yogamaya. And simultaneously, Krishna was also born to Devaki in the prison house. So of course, when Krishna was born to Devaki, He came out with a four-armed form. Because they also expected to have the Lord as their son and they were used to Vishnu, so Vishnu appeared.
However, we also see that the two-armed form was born to Yasoda. So, this is how He appears in Gokula. So, there was a difference in His appearance to Devaki and to Yasoda. Of course, Devaki desired that Krishna hide His four arms and have a two-armed form, so, he did that. And, of course, Krishna had already appeared in his two-armed form to Yasoda. So, we can say that the two-armed form that was born to Yasoda also manifested to Devaki at that time. And that four-armed form merged into the two-armed form of Krishna. So, it’s explained in this way to show that the two-armed form is superior to the four-armed form. So, normally we may think that, OK, Krishna was born with four arms and then he turned into two-armed form. But, actually, the explanation is that the four-armed form merged into the two-armed form. Okay. So when these two children were born to Yasoda, she fainted. And then she was not aware that she had given birth to two children. So, of course, all this was the arrangement of Yogamaya herself, who was being born to Yasoda. So, then, Vasudeva took the two-armed Krishna from the prison house and he went across the river and he brought Krishna to Nanda’s house. So, everyone was sleeping in Nanda’s house. And he placed the child down next to Yasoda. And at that time, the two merged. And then he took the female child. So, in this way, of course, Vasudeva also didn’t know the truth about Krishna, He was actually born to Nanda. But when Yasoda woke up, then she saw only Krishna. So Krishna was born and He was most beautiful. He is, of course, sometimes compared to a sapphire. So, sapphire is a dark blue gemstone. So, He was dark in complexion. And like Balarama, He had a face like the moon. He had lotus eyes. So, delicate hands. So, He cried a little bit and He started moving His hands and His feet. And Yasoda woke up and she saw that beautiful child and she became completely stunned.
So, the older women, they approached Nanda and they informed Nanda. And they invited Nanda to come and see the child. So, everyone had been waiting for a son for Nanda, so, everyone was joyful and celebrated. So, Nanda was also very joyful. So, because of that excitement, he came to the room and then he saw the child. Though he was so excited, Vishnu himself gave him support so that he could remain steady. So there was great excitement, all the cowherds had gathered at Nanda’s house. Just as many rivers entered into the Ganga, so all the people from all over, began converging at Nanda’s house. So thousands of women came holding auspicious items. And they began to worship Yasoda. We see in Caitanya Caritamrta also when Lord Caitanya was born, then all the women came and they were worshipping Saci. So all the Brahmanas were called. So on the birth of a child, there are different ceremonies which are performed. So the Brahmanas give blessings and they place auspicious items on the child’s head.
So in that celebration, Nanda became very, very joyful. Okay, so Nanda came and he saw that beautiful son. And of course, Yasoda herself, of course, she brought the child. Usually the delivery room is closed off and guarded. So, Yasoda brought the child out, so he could see the child. And, of course, he saw that child and he was also overcome with astonishment.
So, also here the description, of course, He was like the chief blue lotus. Or He was like the blue Chintamani stone. So, He was perfect in all ways. So, Vishwakarma, who is the architect of the Devatas, he makes all wonderful buildings and things. So, Krishna’s body was like the perfection of all Vishwakarma’s artistry. He had soft flowing black hair. He had eyes which were very, very beautiful. His hands, His feet, and His lips were like buds of a desire tree. He was wrapped in golden cloth. So, after the birth of the child, there is the first samskara of the child, called the ‘Jatakarma’, or the birth ceremony. And the Brahmanas chant mantras to give the child, intelligence. And at that time, they gave a little bit of ghee to the tongue of the child. So, they gave blessings for a long life to the child. So, in this way, the ceremony was carried out very nicely.
And, of course, not only did they bless the child, they sanctified and blessed the surroundings. So, they purified the earth in the four directions. And they laid the child on a bed. They purified the mother, Yasoda. And they sprinkled water on the breasts of Yasoda. This is so she could give milk to the child. And they fixed the water pot near His head. So, as is customary, when Brahmans do ceremonies and there is a big event, then there is a lot of charity given. So Nanda could give lots of charity. We see that Vasudeva, when his son was born, first of all, he couldn’t do anything. So he gave mental charity. But Nanda could actually give charity to everybody. So especially he gave charity to the Brahmins. So, he gave thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of cows. Not only the cows, but the cows were nicely decorated with gold-plated horns. So, not only he gave it to the Brahmanas, he gave charity to everybody that was there. And all the cowherds were very joyful. And they began to sprinkle each other with milk and yogurt. So, the whole place became covered with milk and yogurt. It was like the milk ocean. So Nanda was like a desire tree, he was just giving gifts everywhere.
So, Nanda, of course, was thinking that Narayana or Vishnu should give blessings to his child. So he never thought of Krishna as the Supreme Lord. So, he is asking Vishnu to please bless his child. So all the people of Vrindavan, they also took Krishna as the son of Nanda. And from that day, everybody was completely flooded with bliss. And because of the birth of Krishna, the wealth of the place, Gokula, increased and increased. Okay.
And of course, along with that, then many of the cowherds also began to give birth. We see later on, Krishna has so many cowherd friends of the same age. And later on, he has all these Gopis who are also similar age. So they’re all born around the same time that Krishna was born. So in this way, the whole place became very prosperous and also very populated. And everybody was in a great joyous mood.
So, Nanda himself, of course, was full of all wonderful qualities. And he had unlimited wealth. And consequently, he could give unlimited charity. He could make unlimited arrangements for festivals. He had unlimited servants. And he gave unlimited protection to all the citizens. And with the birth of Krishna and also with the appearance of Balaram, Nanda became most blissful. Okay.
So today we are celebrating this appearance of Krishna. And as I said, He does not have a material birth. So, we see in the description and also in the Bhagavatam, how the birth takes place by transferring from husband to wife mentally only. So the Lord appears in the material world, but He does not have a material body. But there is an appearance of birth, He appears to be born. Everyone accepts, ok, Krishna was born from Devaki or Krishna was born from Yasoda. But, as I said, it is not birth because the Lord is unborn. But the Lord arranges for this type of appearance. And one reason is, it gives bliss to His devotees. So we see that Nanda and Yasoda were overjoyed because they had a son. So if Nanda and Yasoda thought well, this is just some sort of false arrangement of Krishna, He is actually not our son, He is eternal, whatever, they wouldn’t have any joy. And that feeling of parental affection, Vatsalya Rasa, would not be very strong.
So, in one sense, it is an appearance, because Krishna has no birth. But at the same time, it is also real. And Nanda and Yasoda, all the cowherd people, take it as a real birth. And they take Krishna as their son. So, therefore, we celebrate this as an appearance day, at the same time, we realize that Krishna is eternal. But at the same time, for Nanda and Yasoda, the people of Vrindavan, He actually is born.
Okay, Hare Krsna!
Q&A
1) Hare Krishna Maharaj. I am just thinking about something that doesn’t happen in any other religious tradition.. how unique.. because the people of Vrindavan, they celebrate Krishna as their son, we celebrate the appearance or birth of God, so how can you explain this unique feature? because it’s so amazing.
So, of course, as I mentioned, the appearance of the Lord in the material world is a little bit contradictory. But everybody wants the Lord to appear in the material world. They want to see Him. So, therefore, even in Christianity, we have Christ appearing, and they don’t want Him to have a material birth. So, we have the Virgin Mary, and it’s not a real birth. And though He’s crucified and He appears to die, He actually doesn’t die. So, in essence, His body is not material also. So, in that sense, of course, they don’t take Him as God Himself, but the Son of God. But still, He should be very special and not have a material birth.
So we see the same with not only Krishna and Balaram but even with Ramachandra and others again they appear in the material world and sometimes they are born looks like in a normal way. But sometimes, they’re not born in the normal way at all, like Narasimhadeva just bursts out of a pillar. And Varaha appears from the nostril of Brahma. He has no mother or father [Laughs]. But then we do have Ramachandra has mother and father. But in all these cases, yes, we understand that the Lord is eternal and has a spiritual body. But there’s an appearance or birth.
After His appearance, growth which also not takes place. So in spiritual world, they say there is no growth, no ageing. But, Krishna is born, He grows up even bigger bigger and bigger [Laughs] change the size. So, one way of explaining in all these stages, Krishna’s growth from birth onwards, they’re all eternal stages and even the birth is eternal. So, how do we explain that? Because Krishna is continually being born in some universe. So, He’s being born right now in some universe. But five seconds later, He’s also born in another universe. So, He’s continually being born somewhere in the material world in some universe. So, His birth is eternal. And similarly, each of the stages of growth are eternal. So, Krishna as a young boy is eternal. When He’s Kaishora, it’s also eternally manifest. So, all these forms of Krishna are actually eternal. It appears to us that it’s like a changing form, but actually each form is eternal in itself.
2) He’s asking, how did Devaki, Vasudeva and Nanda, Yasoda qualify themselves to have Krishna as their son?
Well, actually, they’re all eternally in the spiritual world, so they don’t need qualification. But we do see in Bhagavatam, they become qualified [Laughs]. So, Drona and Dhara, they were wanted the Lord as their son, so they started worshipping the Lord in previous birth, and then finally they became Nanda and Yasoda, they got Krishna as their son.
And of course, we’ll see all sorts of stories like this in different Puranas. But our Acharyas say that actually, Nanda and Yasoda are eternally the mother and father of Krishna. They are Nitya Siddha, they don’t have to go through stages of practice and austerity and worship to become qualified to be the mother and father. So that has explained that, actually, Drona and Dhara are expansions from Yasoda and Nanda, and they merge back into Krishna’s birth [Laughs].
3) Could you please explain how the appearance of Krishna is compared with the killing of the demons in Devaki’s womb? Is it representing the fact that we have to kill the demons in our heart in order for Krishna to appear? Where is it explained? If you could elaborate.
This is explained in relation to Devaki giving birth to six previous sons who were all killed by Kamsa. And then Balaram was there, then He was transferred, and then Krishna appeared. So the explanation is that Devaki is kind of symbolic, and of course these sons previously had been cursed [Laughs]. So they were being killed by a demon or whatever, because they had insulted Brahma [Laughs].
But then our Acharyas like Vishwanath Chakravarti explain that there is a little bit of symbolic meaning to all these killings and whatever [Laughs]. So the six sons who were vanquished are compared to Anarthas like envy, anger, greed, etc. So obviously, if the Lord is to appear, none of these Anarthas can be present.
And similarly we see that the devotee should have fear of these Anarthas. So Devaki’s fear of Kamsa is like that. And by that fear of Anarthas, then the Anarthas get removed. And then for Krishna to be born there has to be a proper environment. So Balarama actually is in charge of the Sandhini Shakti. The Sandhini Shakti manifests the spiritual abode, Vaikunta, Goloka, etc. So the Lord can only appear once that setting is there, the spiritual setting. So, Balaram appeared in Devaki’s womb and He makes the nice setting. And then Krishna can appear after that.
4) We hear that there is a similarity between the appearance of Jesus and the appearance of Krishna. So some Christians think that we copied them. So how do we understand that similarity? Is it because they copied us or the other way around? Or is it because actually there are some commonalities that happen the same way everywhere in the world at different times? In terms of the avatars coming down or saints appearing at certain times regardless of the time or wherever.
We do have some interesting similarities. Even the names are similar. Christ and Krishna. [Laughs]. And we see that Christ was born with all sorts of cows around him [Laughs]. And also he had to hide because one of the kings was there trying to kill all the children or whatever [Laughs]. So like Kamsa was trying to kill all the children. So I think here whoever the king was, he was also trying to kill all the children [Laughs] because he thought the son of God was born or something like that. So the similarities are there. I’m thinking of the past even missionaries that came to India, they just thought the Krishna story looks very similar to Christ.
So of course, they could say well you know the Puranas are copying Christ’s story. But of course we say that if Christ is recent then Krishna was born 5,000 years ago. And in terms of archaeology we will find before Christ, probably about 500 years before Christ, we’ll find you know statues there of Vasudev etc., these things are there. Krishna Balaram. So of course we can’t say that one copied or borrowed from the other. Because it’s very difficult to get evidence that the Krishna story was influenced somehow by Christ’s story or whatever. We don’t have any concrete evidence for that. So why would be similar we can’t really say. But of course we could also say the arrangement of the Supreme Lord [Laughs] to have similarity.
But of course this is only similarity with Krishna. We have so many different births which are quite different. Ramachandra’s birth is different. Narashimadev appears from a pillar. So all the different avatars appear in all sorts of different ways. So this is one of the Krishna.
Of course we can say that, Christianity has been influenced by many sources including you know way back to the Egyptians and the Assyrians. There’s many influences we see on the…even the pagan influences on Krishna’s day. Why celebrate on the solstice? You know whatever like that’s all the Easter equinox. All sorts of things are quite related with other sources, not just Christianity.
5) It was coming to my mind the sloka from Bhagavad gita, “janma karma ca me divyam” in Bhagavad gita. So we should know the activity and the birth of Krishna and it’s what we use the word Tattvata. So at all the levels, how much we have to help us to understand that we are supposed to be present.
So of course the statement is that one should know in truth the birth and activities of Krishna. And of course we say that Lord has no birth [Laughs]. That was the verse this morning. He has no activity. But if we read Bhagavata, yes Krishna is born. He’s doing all sorts of activities. But the idea is that, we shouldn’t think that Krishna has material birth or material activities. And of course, as I said, in one sense the birth is like an appearance that is spiritual not material. And it’s not unreal also.
But we have to understand what is the real nature of this birth and the real nature of his activities. So to do that one has to be a devotee. We have to accept the Supreme Lord who’s got an eternal form. And we have to accept that He has inconceivable powers by which He can be born but still be unborn [Laughs]. So that of course is a type of philosophical knowledge. But even to understand and accept that requires devotion and lot of faith.
Now of course through realization then real tattvata in truth we know [Laughs]. But we can’t get to that level unless we get to the philosophical level of at least accepting the eternal form. Just as let’s say that Krishna is blue. If you’re a materialist why blue, why not red or whatever. Anyway blue and red are material colors so it doesn’t make any sense. So if we have faith in scripture, then we simply say yes Krishna is blue, but it’s not material. So based on that acceptance, based on scripture then we actually can realize blue Krishna. But if we don’t accept the scripture that says Krishna is blue then we’re going to realize some other form that’s not blue [Laughs].So that knowledge of scripture that we accept is in one sense it’s intellectual, whatever, but without that we can’t really realize the actual Krishna also.
So that’s why knowledge is necessary. Devotion is necessary, but that devotion also needs some knowledge so it goes in the right direction. So Prabhupada said that, devotion without knowledge of scripture is mere sentiment [Laughs]. I don’t think you can concoct anything that way. And if we just have scripture or whatever it is and we don’t have any knowledge of it then we can’t realize it. If we don’t have any knowledge without any bhakti then that’s also very just speculative or dry logic.
6) Thank you Maharaj. [Not clear] So that’s why I want to ask you if I am so.. that Krishna chose to manifest Himself directly and why?
So if the Lord appears in the material world, he has to appear from somewhere [Laughs]. He can appear without a family as He appears in Narashimamadeva from a pillar. But then He often appears in a family. So then we have this whole Yadu dynasty. And actually if you look in the Bhagavatam the whole Bhagavatam from third canto, fourth canto is actually tracing lineages of families. And we go through the different things until we get to the lineage of Vaivasvata Manu. And then we have the descendants from the Sun dynasty and the Moon dynasty. So in the ninth canto, it starts tracing the Yadu dynasty and then we get up to Krishna and that’s the tenth canto. Now these dynasties of Manu are actually material.And like the Devatas in the material bodies. But they are also given some special Shakti by the Supreme Lord to carry out their duties as Manus and Kings etc.
But then when the Lord appears, the Lord appears with His associates. So like the Lord the associates are also spiritual transcendental Siddha. So therefore when Krishna appears, He appears in the Yadu dynasty, the Yadus also are eternal associates. So they are not actually a material lineage at that point. So simultaneously we have a so-called material lineage coming back from Manu and the Moon dynasty. But then we do have the lineage which is eternal and spiritual that is the Yadus and Dwarka and whatever.
But in this particular case, we see that though it is a lineage of Kings, Krishna began as not a King, as a Vaishya, a conqueror. So He actually played both roles, because later on He went to Mathura, Dwarka, therefore He was a Kshatriya there. But then He was a Vaishya in Vrindavan.
So that’s explained by having the lineage where the King had a Vaishya wife and a Kshatriya wife. The Kshatriya lived with Vasudeva and He was born as a Kshatriya. And then he would also have the lineage through the Vaishya wife and then Parjanya and Nanda and Krishna as well. So He was born through both lineages. And both are in the Yadu dynasty which is traced back to the Moon dynasty and traced back to Vaivasvata Manu.
7) I heard about in this case that also because Yadu was a very nice devotee, because he refused to give his youth to his father because he wanted to go back, he wanted to engage in spiritual life. So he refused the order of his father to give his youth. So Krishna, likes his character, decided to give him this opportunity to be the Yadu’s son. Oh, He was part of that family?
Well, the other thing is that actually the Yadus were not supposed to be kings ultimately.
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