King Satrajit has received a gift from the sun-god. A wonderful jewel. The Syamantaka jewel which can produce gold and keep diseases and pestilence away. Anyone who wore it became as effulgent as the sun-god and was unrecognizable. He would appear exactly as the sun-god. Satrajit was accustomed to parade around the city of Dvarka wearing the jewel. How funny is that... Really!
On one of these demonstration by Satrajit a prominent citizen of Dvarka approached Krishna to announce the sun-god had come to see Him. It is interesting to note how the citizen of Dvarka approaches Krishna...in all awe and reverence and yet with knowledge of Krishna's Vrndavan pastimes. His relationship to Krishna does not allow him to enter the Vrndavan mood but he glorifies the Vrndavan pastimes of Krishna.
"Once, mistaking him to be the sun-god, some of the important citizens of Dvaraka immediately went to Krishna to inform Him that the sun-god had arrived to see Him. At that time, Krishna was playing chess. One of the important residents of Dvaraka spoke thus; 'My dear Lord Narayana, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In Your plenary portion of Narayana or Vishnu, You have four hands with different symbols-the conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower. You are actually the owner of everything, but in spite of Your being the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana, You have descended in Vrndavana to act as the child of Yasodamata, who sometimes used to tie You up with her ropes, and You are celebrated, therefore, by the name Damodara.' " KB 2.1
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