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Slokam 5
Brahma conveys the Paramathma’s message, providing an assurance that He is aware of the pathetic condition of the devas and Mother Earth. Brahma conveys that the Paramathma will soon manifest directly, with all His attributes, in the clan of the Yadavas.
The Paramthma’s reference to His avatar with all attributes is important. That means the problems that He needs to resolve require every one of His immense capabilities to be deployed.
The Paramathma’s avatars such as Varaha, Matsya, Kurma, Hayagriva, Parasurama, were all meant for a specific purpose and the Paramathma does not deploy His full capability.
As Sri Krishna, not only does the Paramathma destroy demons, (which does not require all his capability), He performs the immense task of establishing dharma in the human race. This requires all his capabilities since it is about staging a learning exercise for the entire humanity to follow.
The Paramathma also requests that the Devas and divine damsels also be born on earth in the clan of Vrishnis for rendering Him service.
Extract from Wikipedia
The Yadavas (literally, descended from Yadu[1][2]) were a cowherd clan[3] of ancient Indian people who believed themselves to be descended from Yadu, a legendary king. The community was formed of four clans, being the Abhira (Ahir),[4]Andhaka, Vrishni, and Satvatas, who all worshipped Krishna.[5][6] They are listed in ancient Indian literature as the segments of the lineage of Yadu (Yaduvamsha).[7] At various times there have been a number of communities and royal dynasties of the Indian subcontinent that have claimed descent from the ancient Yadava clans and legendary Yadava personalities, thus describing themselves as the Yadavas.[8][9]
Amongst the Yadava clans mentioned in ancient Indian literature, the Haihayas are believed to have descended from Sahasrajit, elder son of Yadu[10] and all other Yadava clans, which include the Chedis, the Vidarbhas, the Satvatas, the Andhakas, the Kukuras, the Bhojas, the Vrishnis and the Shainyas are believed to have descended from Kroshtu or Kroshta, younger son of Yadu.[11]
It can be inferred from the vamshanucharita (genealogy) sections of a number of major Puranas that, the Yadavas spread out over the Aravalli region, Gujarat, the Narmada valley, the northern Deccan and the eastern Ganges valley.[12] The Mahabharata and the Puranas mention that the Yadus or Yadavas, a confederacy comprising numerous clans were the rulers of the Mathura region.[13] The Mahabharata also refers to the exodus of the Yadavas from Mathura to Dvaraka owing to pressure from the Paurava rulers of Magadha, and probably also from the Kurus.[14]
Vrishnis
The Vrishnis are mentioned in a number of Vedic texts, which include the Taittiriya Samhita (III.2.9.3), the Taittiriya Brahmana (III.10.9.15), the Satapatha Brahmana (III.1.1.4) and the Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana (I.6.1).[13] The Taittiriya Samhita and the Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana mention about a teacher, Gobala belonging to this clan.[36]
Although, Panini, in his Ashtadhyayi (IV.1.114) includes the Vrishnis in the list of the clans of the Kshatriya gotra, having a sangha (tribal oligarchy) form of government,[28] but in the Drona Parva (141.15) of the Mahabharata, the Vrishnis, like the Andhakas were categorized as the Vratyas (deviators from orthodoxy). In the Shanti Parva (81.25) of the Mahabharata, the Kukuras, the Bhojas, the Andhakas and the Vrishnis are together referred as a sangha, and Vasudeva Krishna as Sanghamukhya (seignor of the sangha)[14] According to the Puranas, Vrishni was one of the four sons of Satvata.[11] Vrishni had three (or four) sons, Anamitra (or Sumitra), Yudhajit and Devamidhusha. Shura was son of Devamidhusha. His son Vasudeva was father of Balarama and Krishna.[31]
According to the Harivamsa (II.4.37-41), the Vrishnis worshipped goddess Ekanamsha, who, elsewhere in the same text (II.2.12), described as daughter of Nandagopa.[37] The Mora Well Inscription, found from a village near Mathura and dated to the early decades of the Common era records the installation of the images of the five Vrishni viras (heroes) in a stone shrine by a person, named Tosha. These five Vrishni heroes have been identified with Samkarshana, Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Samba from a passage in the Vayu Purana (97.1-2).[38]
Sri Krishna, all through the Bhagavatham and Bhagavath Gita, does not reveal His true identity to anyone except to Arjuna on the battle field of Kurukshetra. However, all of the Pandavas and many of the key characters among the Kauravas, infer His true nature as the saga progresses.
May we see the hand of the Paramathma in all that we perceive and within ourselves. May we imbibe and ever abide by the teachings of the Paramathma and stay on the path of progress and attainment.
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