0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,001 Story 22 Krsna breaking promise 1 00:00:00,002 --> 00:00:02,373 PRABHUPĀDA: I will give you one example 2 00:00:02,374 --> 00:00:07,345 how Kṛṣṇa sometimes breaks His promise. 3 00:00:07,346 --> 00:00:09,850 It is very nice story. 4 00:00:09,851 --> 00:00:16,893 Kṛṣṇa, when He joined Arjuna, He promised from His own side that, 5 00:00:16,894 --> 00:00:22,106 “Because the fight is between your brothers, so it is not My duty… 6 00:00:22,107 --> 00:00:25,029 Because both of you are My relatives, 7 00:00:25,030 --> 00:00:29,560 so it is not My duty to join one party and not to join another. 8 00:00:29,561 --> 00:00:33,515 But because I have divided Myself— 9 00:00:33,516 --> 00:00:38,395 Myself, one side, and other side, My soldiers— 10 00:00:38,396 --> 00:00:45,119 but Duryodhana has decided to take My soldiers, not Me, so I shall join you. 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,356 But I shall not fight. 12 00:00:47,357 --> 00:00:49,025 I shall not fight. 13 00:00:49,026 --> 00:00:52,681 I may take some work which may assist you.” 14 00:00:52,682 --> 00:00:56,837 So, Arjuna offered, “Whatever work You like, You can take.” 15 00:00:56,838 --> 00:01:00,236 So He said, “All right, I shall drive your chariot.” 16 00:01:00,237 --> 00:01:04,091 So Kṛṣṇa’s promise was that He will not fight. 17 00:01:04,092 --> 00:01:10,062 But at a time when Arjuna was perplexed by fighting with Bhīṣma… 18 00:01:10,063 --> 00:01:11,697 Bhīṣma was the greatest fighter, 19 00:01:11,698 --> 00:01:14,139 although he was very old man. 20 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:16,713 Duryodhana incited him that, 21 00:01:16,714 --> 00:01:23,131 “Because the other side are your very pet grandsons, you are not fighting fully.” 22 00:01:23,132 --> 00:01:25,837 That was the complaint of Duryodhana. 23 00:01:25,838 --> 00:01:28,948 So, in order to encourage him, 24 00:01:28,949 --> 00:01:31,416 Bhīṣma said to Duryodhana, 25 00:01:31,417 --> 00:01:37,774 “All right, tomorrow I shall finish all these five brothers. 26 00:01:37,775 --> 00:01:39,722 Tomorrow I shall finish. 27 00:01:39,723 --> 00:01:47,950 And I have got now special arrows for killing these five chivalrous brothers.” 28 00:01:47,951 --> 00:01:50,401 So, Duryodhana was very intelligent. 29 00:01:50,402 --> 00:01:55,221 He told, “All right, please keep these five arrows with me for the night. 30 00:01:55,222 --> 00:01:58,181 I shall deliver you tomorrow in the morning.” 31 00:01:58,182 --> 00:02:00,260 “All right, you take it.” 32 00:02:00,261 --> 00:02:03,513 And Kṛṣṇa understood; Kṛṣṇa is, 33 00:02:03,514 --> 00:02:05,877 everything knows, past, present and future. 34 00:02:05,878 --> 00:02:11,956 Kṛṣṇa knew it that, “Bhīṣma has now promised; He will kill.” 35 00:02:11,957 --> 00:02:18,536 So He asked Arjuna—this is also politics—that, “You go to Duryodhana. 36 00:02:18,537 --> 00:02:23,052 Do you remember that Duryodhana”— Duryodhana is elderly than Arjuna— 37 00:02:23,053 --> 00:02:29,593 “that he would keep some promise which was offered to you?” 38 00:02:29,594 --> 00:02:35,024 Duryodhana told him, “Arjuna, whenever you want something, I shall give you.” 39 00:02:35,025 --> 00:02:37,615 “Now this is the time; You can go.” 40 00:02:37,616 --> 00:02:38,535 “And what is that?” 41 00:02:38,536 --> 00:02:41,575 “Now, he has got five arrows for killing you. 42 00:02:41,576 --> 00:02:44,394 You should take and come to Me.” 43 00:02:44,395 --> 00:02:47,137 So after fight, they were friends. 44 00:02:47,138 --> 00:02:52,285 So Arjuna went to the camp of Duryodhana, and he was well received. 45 00:02:52,286 --> 00:02:53,492 “Well Arjuna, come on. 46 00:02:53,493 --> 00:02:54,455 What do you want? 47 00:02:54,456 --> 00:02:56,044 Come on; sit down. 48 00:02:56,045 --> 00:02:57,757 Do you want anything from me? 49 00:02:57,758 --> 00:02:59,757 If you want, I can stop this fight. 50 00:02:59,758 --> 00:03:01,835 I can return you this…” 51 00:03:01,836 --> 00:03:07,114 Arjuna said, “No, I have not come to you for begging my kingdom. 52 00:03:07,115 --> 00:03:08,784 Fighting will go on. 53 00:03:08,785 --> 00:03:10,592 But I want… You promised something.” 54 00:03:10,593 --> 00:03:11,487 “Yes, I know. 55 00:03:11,488 --> 00:03:12,284 I offer you. 56 00:03:12,285 --> 00:03:13,518 What do you want?” 57 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:15,679 “Now, I want those five arrows.” 58 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,016 At once he delivered. 59 00:03:18,017 --> 00:03:24,091 And this information was carried to [splice] Bhīṣma. 60 00:03:24,092 --> 00:03:27,569 Bhīṣma knew that “Kṛṣṇa is very cunning also. 61 00:03:27,570 --> 00:03:29,578 He will save His devotee. 62 00:03:29,579 --> 00:03:31,004 So He has done this. 63 00:03:31,005 --> 00:03:37,769 All right, in spite of Kṛṣṇa… He has broken my promise, and tomorrow I shall see. 64 00:03:37,770 --> 00:03:42,887 If Kṛṣṇa does not break His promise, then His friend will be killed. 65 00:03:42,888 --> 00:03:44,974 I will fight in such a way.” 66 00:03:44,975 --> 00:03:52,352 So, he was fighting in such a way that Arjuna became almost dead. 67 00:03:52,353 --> 00:03:58,766 Then at that time, Kṛṣṇa… The chariot was torn into pieces. 68 00:03:58,767 --> 00:04:00,415 Arjuna fell down. 69 00:04:00,416 --> 00:04:05,648 And then Kṛṣṇa took up one of the wheel of the chariot and came before: 70 00:04:05,649 --> 00:04:10,776 “Now, Bhīṣma, you stop this fighting; otherwise I will kill you.” 71 00:04:10,777 --> 00:04:16,990 Bhīṣma at once gave up his arrow, and he offered, “All right; kill me.” 72 00:04:16,991 --> 00:04:26,171 So thing is that because Bhīṣma promised that, “I shall kill Arjuna tomorrow,” 73 00:04:26,172 --> 00:04:29,356 and Kṛṣṇa also promised not to fight, 74 00:04:29,357 --> 00:04:33,270 just to save these two devotees, Arjuna and Bhīṣma— 75 00:04:33,271 --> 00:04:36,533 Bhīṣma also was a great devotee—just to show him that, 76 00:04:36,534 --> 00:04:39,804 “I am breaking My promise; please stop….” 77 00:04:39,805 --> 00:04:45,974 He wanted that “Either I shall break My promise or you shall kill Arjuna. 78 00:04:45,975 --> 00:04:48,430 So better see that I have broken My promise.” 79 00:04:48,431 --> 00:05:01,925 So in this way, sometimes, for devotee, He sometimes breaks His own promise. 80 00:05:01,926 --> 00:05:01,927 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com