Skandha 1 - Yajur Veda Australasia - Resources

48 His mind was free from all sinful tendencies because of the practice of concentratedmeditation on the Lord. All the pain due to the wounds on his body caused by weaponsdisappeared as the Lord's look fell on him. His senses having ceased to run after theirobjects, they were held in absolute stillness. When he was thus lying there ready to die, herecited the following hymn addressed to Sri Kṛṣṇa:–32. May my mind, freed from everv desire, be an offering unto Thee, the Supreme Lord,now appearing as a noble scion of the Yadu clan, but who is in reality the all-pervadingBeing, who in the midst of His absorption in His inherent bliss, desired to have a playfuldiversion, and assumed His power of Yoga-Māyā, as a result of which has come forth thisunimaginably vast flow that is the universe, the realm of Becoming.33. May I have unfailing and absolute devotion, which seeks not liberation even, to Kṛṣṇa,the friend of Arjuna, who has an enchanting body of bluish tinge and robes of yellow silk,brilliant like the rays of the morning sun, and whose lotus-face is fringed with curlyforelocks (Alaka).34. His hair, rendered brown with the dust raised by the hoofs of horses, his face adornedwith the sweat caused by exertion in battle, his armour pierced and blood dripping from hisskin on account of the sharp arrows shot by me — Oh! for Kṛṣṇa of such description, maymy mind have unfailing hankering!35. Positioning the chariot between the two opposing armies at his friend's bidding, andconsuming, as it were, the lives of the men of the opposing army by his look — may Kṛṣṇa,the friend of Arjuna, stationed thus, be the object of my abiding love!36. May I have supreme devotion to the holy feet of the Lord, who, by teaching the truth ofthe Ātman, rid the ignorance of Arjuna who felt overwhelmed by the thought of the sin hewould be incurring by causing the death of his own clansmen arrayed in battle order onboth sides!37-38. In the field of battle in order to make true my words (that I would make Thee takeup arms and thus break Thy pledged word not to touch any weapon), Thou didst actuallyabandon Thy promise (in the guise of protecting Arjuna in imminent danger), and holdingin hand Thy divine discus Sudarsana, rushed at me like a lion against an elephant, causingtremors of the earth by Thy strides, forgetting even Thy slipped upper garment in thecourse of Thy charge. With Thy armour pierced by the sharp arrows of a murderous enemylike me, and Thy body bathed in blood, Thou didst rush at me, as if to kill me. May thatKṛṣṇa of the battlefield (looming vividly in my memory) be my refuge!39. All those who died in battle, seeing Thee in front, have been absorbed into Thy being,O Thou, charming resident of Arjuna's chariot, with the reins and horse-whip in hand! Maythis mind of mine, about to face death, attain to the highest delight in Thee!40. May my mind attain to delight in Him whom the Gopikas worshipped with their comelygait, play, sweet smile and love-lorn looks, and as a consequence became overwhelmedwith His love and began to imitate His doings in the infatuation of love and ultimatelyattained to oneness with Him.41. There shines clearly before my eyes that Divine Being, the Self of my Self, who waslooked at with wonder and intense delight by all in that grand assembly of sages androyalty gathered at the Rajasuya sacrifice of Yudhiṣṭhira, while He received the honour andworship of pre-eminence accorded to Him by the Master of the Sacrifice.