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Ordinarily the Gopas lead the cows or the Adhi-Davas lead
the senses, but in Vrindavana the Devas surrender themselves en-
tirely to Krishna.
The calves or the Vatsas are the modifications of the senses
and the mind the Vrittis.
In Vrindavana, Rama and Krishna first tended the calves.
The Gopa boys were the attendants of Rama and Krishna, the pan-
shads or companions who reached very near the state of divinity, the
work-mates of Bhagavan in the preservation of the universe.
The Lord tended the Vrittis of the mind. Therefore they
could not go astray.
Now let us follow up the working of the divine in the heart of
the individual and the killing of all obstacles.
Vatsa, Baka, Agha and BrahmA. The Vatsa Asura is a
Vrittt of the mind. If a non-spiritual Vritti becomes unconsciously
mixed up with the spiritual Vrittis of the mind, it has instantly to be
killed.
Baka or the crane, stands for religious hypocrisy. Spiritual
life rejects all hypocrisy, all traces of untruth, in any form.
When these two Asuras are destroyed, a third Asura appears
on the scene, the terrible Agha. Agha is sin, an evil deed. The sins
of a man, his past evil deeds, stand up for a while and swallow up all
that is divine in him. Even Gods can not overcome Agha. Those
who know the struggles of a devotee know very well how hard it is
when all that is evil in man the accumulated tendencies of innumer-
able births, rise up in rebellion as it were at a certain stage of his
progress. Who else but Srikrishna can save a devotee at such a
crisis. The flesh itself has to be destroyed and the whole nature
changed. The devotee undergoes a second birth as it were. His
Vrittis are not the Vrittis of ypre; even the energies that guide these
vrittis undergo change.
Every Brahmana knows the Mantra that is recited for the sup-
pression of Agha (Agha-marshana). It goes back to the pre-mani-
festing period, when days and nights did not exist.
The serpent Agha swallowed up Krishna and his compan-
ions.
Krishna came out victorious and he revivified his companions.
The Vrittis underwent change by this process and also those
that guided them. It was another creation altogether. The forms
and varieties of Brahma's creation had no meaning now in them.
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