Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.7.26
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śānta-rayaḥ
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the force of the blast reduced
Śānta (calmed) + raya (speed, force). The same śānta which names śānta-rasa — the peace of self-realization. Here the demon's speed itself is śānta-ed; even Tṛṇāvarta's whirlwind is brought to a yogic-style stillness by Kṛṣṇa's weight. The Lord pacifies even the storm-form.
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vātyā-rūpa-dharaḥ
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who had assumed the form of a forceful whirlwind
Vātyā (storm) + rūpa (form) + dhara (holder). The demon holds a form — he is not the form. The Gauḍīya distinction: jīvas wear rūpas; Bhagavān is His rūpa (sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha). Tṛṇāvarta's rūpa is a costume; Kṛṣṇa's rūpa is His being.
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nabhaḥ-gataḥ
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went up to the top of the sky
Nabhas (sky) + gata (gone). Nabhas is the Vedic word for ākāśa. The demon's apparent ascent into the sky is the false ascent of asuric power — Hiraṇyakaśipu boasting of reaching the heavens. The Bhāgavatam's pattern: asuric ascent ends where divine weight begins.
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bhūri-bhāra-bhṛt
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becoming heavier than what could be borne
Bhūri (much) + bhāra (weight) + bhṛt (bearer). The compound describes Kṛṣṇa as the bearer of immense weight — but the demon is now under it. The verb-noun bhṛt is Vedic: He who bears the universe (jagad-bhṛt) is here resting on the throat of a single demon, which cannot bear what bears all.
Here is a competition in yogic power between Kṛṣṇa and Tṛṇāvartāsura. By practicing mystic yoga, asuras generally attain some perfection in the eight siddhis, or perfections, namely aṇimā, laghimā, mahimā, prāpti, prākāmya, īśitva, vaśitva and kāmāvasāyitā. But although a demon may acquire such powers to a very limited extent, he cannot compete with the mystic power of Kṛṣṇa, for Kṛṣṇa is Yogeśvara, the source of all mystic power ( yatra yogeśvaro hariḥ ). No one can compete with Kṛṣṇa. Sometimes, of course, having acquired a fragmental portion of Kṛṣṇa’s mystic power, asuras demonstrate their power to the foolish public and assert themselves to be God, not knowing that God is the supreme Yogeśvara. Here also we see that Tṛṇāvarta assumed the mahimā-siddhi and took Kṛṣṇa away as if Kṛṣṇa were an ordinary child. But Kṛṣṇa also became a mystic mahimā-siddha. When mother Yaśodā was carrying Him, He became so heavy that His mother, who was usually accustomed to carrying Him, could not bear Him and had to place Him down on the ground. Thus Tṛṇāvarta had been able to take Kṛṣṇa away in the presence of mother Yaśodā. But when Kṛṣṇa, high in the sky, assumed the mahimā-siddhi, the demon, unable to go further, was obliged to stop his force and come down according to Kṛṣṇa’s desire. One should not, therefore, compete with Kṛṣṇa’s mystic power. Devotees automatically have all mystic power, but they do not like to compete with Kṛṣṇa. Instead, they fully surrender to Kṛṣṇa, and their yogic power is demonstrated by Kṛṣṇa’s mercy. Devotees can show mystic yoga so powerful that a demon could not even dream of it, but they never try to demonstrate it for their personal sense gratification. Whatever they do is for the service of the Lord, and therefore they are always in a position superior to that of the demons. There are many karmīs, yogīs and jñānīs who artificially try to compete with Kṛṣṇa, and thus ordinary, foolish people who do not care to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from authorities consider some rascal yogī to be Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. At the present moment there are many so-called bābās who present themselves as incarnations of God by showing some insignificant mystic wonder, and foolish people regard them as God because of lacking knowledge of Kṛṣṇa.
At first Krsna was as light as a normal child and Trnavarta lifted him up high in the sky. But then Krsna became heavy, and Trnavarta slowed down. He was unable to carry him further and stopped moving.
Because the people were crying in pain, Kṛṣṇa decided to end his pastime of travelling in the air and decided to kill the demon. In the shape of a storm, the demon took Kṛṣṇa into the air and there, because Kṛṣṇa manifested weight, the demon felt overburdened (bhūri-bhāra-bhṛt). He was not able to go further (śānta-rayaḥ).
Because the people were crying in pain, Kṛṣṇa decided to end his pastime of travelling in the air and decided to kill the demon. The demon carried him in order to take him to a great distance (bhūri), but Kṛṣṇa manifested heaviness by his nature or to show his power. Or he carried Kṛṣna who was very (bhūri) heavy.
- Notice today where you are competing with Kṛṣṇa — trying to engineer an outcome by personal force — and consciously hand that weight back to Him.
- Refuse to be impressed by displays of mystic or worldly power (in others or in yourself); test every claim against the simple measure: does it lead to surrender to Kṛṣṇa?
- Before any task that tempts you to lean on your own siddhi (skill, charm, intellect), pause and pray to act as a servant whose strength is Kṛṣṇa's mercy, not personal vigour.
A child tries to lift a marble statue of a king, finding it light at first, then heavier with every step, until at the top of the stair he cannot move it forward or set it down — the statue's weight has met its decision. Tṛṇāvarta picks up Kṛṣṇa with the same false ease, and finds, at his peak, the weight of svayaṁ-bhagavān refusing further passage.
Hiraṇyakaśipu tried to crush, poison, burn, and trample his own son Prahlāda — every instrument failed, every demonstration of asura-power found its limit when it met the child of the Lord (SB 7.5). At the end, the very pillar Hiraṇyakaśipu struck became Narasiṁha.
Tṛṇāvarta's whirlwind reaches the same wall in this verse: bhūri-bhāra-bhṛt, Kṛṣṇa becomes too heavy. The asura's grip cannot release what it has seized — the same asuric trap into which Hiraṇyakaśipu fell. Material power has no exit when it tries to overpower the Lord.
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Source: vedabase.io