The Story of the Pulinda Women
Before reading my below article, I would like to request my viewers to read my other article first “The Story of the Personified Vedas” – material relationships are based on lust desire only which cannot be compared with Lord Krishna’s pastimes. Lord Krishna is free from material defects of possessiveness, false-ego and free of the modes of material nature. Lord Krishna serve his devotees in reciprocation according to their desires.
In the Garga Samhita, Sri Narada Muni explains to Sri Bahulashva, the story of the Pulinda Women that become gopis, a wonderful and sacred story that removes all sins and increases one’s love for Lord Krishna.
Living in the forests of the Vindhya Hills, many Pulinda highwaymen stole the king’s wealth, although they never stole from the poor. Very angry, the powerful king of Vindhya-Desha took two Akshauhini divisions of soldiers and confronted all the Pulindas.
For how many days can they fight with swords, kunta, and spears? To the Yadu-king Kamsa, the Pulindas sent a letter begging for aid. Kamsa sent a powerful demon named Pralamba.
He was sixteen miles tall, dark as a cloud, decorated with helmet and earrings, and garlanded with a serpent. With chains around his ankles, a club in his hand, a tongue moving to and fro, and a horribly ugly form, he looked like death personified. When he walked he flattened the hills and made the trees fall.
Staring at Pralamba, who was drunk with the idea of a fight, and who made the earth shake, the king and his army fled the battlefield as an elephant flees when it sees a lion. Then Pralamba took the Pulindas to Mathura.
The Pulindas and their families all became Kamsa’s servants. They lived at Kamagiri.
By Lord Ramachandra’s blessing, many Pulinda women took birth as their splendidly beautiful daughters. They were glorious and worshipable as the goddess of fortune herself.
Simply by seeing Lord Krishna, they were overcome with passionate love for Him. They embraced the dust that had touched His feet. They thought of Him day and night.
During the rasa dance, they attained the association of Lord Krishna, the perfect Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ruler of Goloka.
The great good fortune of these Pulinda girls is that they attained the dust of Sri Krishna’s lotus feet, dust that even the great demigods cannot attain.
A person who does not desire the post of Brahma, the post of Indra, a great royal kingdom, the kingdom of Patalaloka, mystic powers, or even freedom from the world of birth and death, but desires only the dust of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s feet, is a true devotee of the Lord.
Aloof from material possessions and free from past karma, the sages and saintly devotees who love the dust of Lord Krishna’s feet say there is no real happiness in any other place.