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Krishnas Guru Dakshina: Pirating


Away The Pirates
Last week, we saw how Krishna promised his Guru Sandhipaani, that he would find and rescue
his son, who had been kidnapped by pirates. This week, we look at how Krishna boards the
pirate ship, and with guile and charm, commandeers the pirates.

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Last week, we saw how Krishna promised his Guru Sandhipaani, that he would
find and rescue his son, who had been kidnapped by pirates. This week, we look
at how Krishna boards the pirate ship, and with guile and charm, commandeers
the pirates.
Im here to serve life. I
dont have a mission of
my own.
Sadhguru: Krishna came to know that Panchajana would soon
be coming with his ship to a particular port to sell his pirated
goods. Panchajana arrived at the port, anchored his ship and
started making his deals. He sold precious stones and gems,
rare herbs and people, the kind of people that land would not have ever Sadhguru
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seen. Because his trading was going well, he camped in that place for a
month. Krishna patiently waited, following him and being around
wherever Panchajana was, learning all his ways and how he dealt with
things. When he saw that Panchajana had made his final deals, Krishna
and Udhava swam to the ship and hid themselves. The ship was waiting
for the right winds and had not yet sailed, when old Bikru, the navigator
of the ship, discovered them. Who are you? he asked. Why did you get
onto the boat?

Krishna was armed only with his smile, so he put it on and said, We
have come here because our brother Punardatta was taken away by you.
Take us wherever you took him and leave us there. We cant be away
from our brother.

Bikru was very amused by this. He thought these were just a couple of
local thieves who had come to take something from the ship and go. He
said, You come and sit here in front of me. You should not move. He
wanted to make sure that the ship moves into the deeper ocean, and see
what these boys would do. He thought they would get desperate and
jump off the ship when it sets sail.

But the boys just sat there happily


chatting with him, making inquiries
about navigation, where they go, where
Krishna was armed they come, and making small talk.
only with his smile, Krishna asked, Would you teach me
navigation? I would like to learn how to
so he put it on and navigate a ship. All this was very
amusing for Bikru who had been
said, We have come navigating this crime ship for a long
time. He had never seen anyone sitting
here because our
on the deck and smiling at him, making
brother Punardatta conversation all the time. Such a thing
had never happened in that place. It was
was taken away by always rob, kill and murder; that had
been his life. He wondered if there was
you. something much more diabolical in
these boys that he had not understood
and thought it was better not to take
any risk. So he asked someone to bring
a rope and tied up their hands and legs and just put them there in front of
him. He didnt want them to go out of his vision for a moment.

Lying there with hands and legs bound, Krishna continued to make
enquiries about navigation, about the stars with which Bikru guided the
ship. So what if your hands are bound, you can still learn! Their ears
werent plugged so he continued his conversation. This was too much for
Bikru. Slowly, he started liking the boys. They were so sincere and they
just wanted to know about navigation. This man had been navigating the
ship for over 50 years. He said, My father also navigated the same ship.
After he died my uncle navigated this ship and I have been navigating it
now for fifty years. For the first time, someone was showing so much
interest in navigation, wanting to know. He was a treasury of knowledge
about navigation and he got the opportunity to share his knowledge and
he talked to them the whole night. By morning they were great friends,
but their hands and legs were still tied up.

The chief of the ship, Panchajana, was a hard man. If anything was out of
the way from the way he wanted it, people were severely punished or
killed. So, Bikru reported to Panchajana that they had two boys here.
Panchajana came and looked at them, sized them up and thought, This
is good cargo. This blue boy can fetch us a real good price somewhere.
And the other fellow is not so bad either. So he told Bikru, Dont give
them any hard work. Feed them well, let them just be here. Well sell
them somewhere. At the next port we are going to, we will definitely
fetch a good price for boys like this. I dont want them all sun-burnt and
bruised. I want them the way they are. Keep them this way.

So, Krishna and Udhava were given


good food and taken care of. Krishna
went about freely in the ship making
Panchajana came friends with everyone. Panchajana
and looked at them, watched this. He didnt like friendship.
Friendship is danger. He wanted the
sized them up and whole ship to be on the alert constantly
and in fear of him. When he saw that
thought, This is people had started talking to Krishna
and laughing with him, he said, This is
good cargo. This too much. Come into my cabin and sit in
blue boy can fetch this hold, dont go out. Krishna sat
with Panchajana and started long
us a real good price conversations with him. Unwittingly,
Panchajana couldnt help answering the
somewhere. And the boys questions and getting involved in
other fellow is not so conversations and arguments with him.

bad either. Krishna made enquiries about where


they were headed and Bikru told
Krishna that the next destination was
Kausthali. Our master would like to sell
you there but if you dont fetch a good
price there, we will take you to Vyavasthapuri, the next port which is a
much longer journey. There you will definitely fetch a good price and that
is where we sold Punardatta. So Krishna said, Thats fine I would like to
be sold there.

In the meantime, a young carpenter who was working as a crew on the


ship happened to sleep off on his job because he was not well. The report
went to Panchajana. Panchajana did not take this kindly. The boy was
dragged and brought on the deck. Panchajana constantly had two
gigantic bodyguards named Hukku and Hullu. These huge men always
carried cattle whips, and anyone out of line was punished with a
whipping. Panchajana wanted to make a demonstration out of the boy, so
he asked Hukku to take the cattle whip and give him six lashes. The boy
was held down and this giant of a man using the whip, left bleeding
wounds on the boys back who passed out. Krishna did not like the
situation at all. When night set in, Krishna and Udhava went to the boy
and took his head into his lap. Krishna took a cloth, and using what they
could save of their little quota of drinking water, he cleaned all the boys
wounds and applied some medicine that was available on the ship.
Krishna and Udhava sat there with him till he fell asleep.

This was a strange situation on the


pirate ship. It had never happened
before that one human being had
The whole crew very reached out to another and expressed
stealthily came and love and care. So, the whole crew very
stealthily came and watched this event
watched this event of one man caring for another. They had
always lived as every man for himself.
of one man caring But these two boys, without caring for
the punishment that would invariably
for another. be given to them, were nursing this boy
till he fell asleep. After he fell asleep,
they left.

The next morning, this news slowly spread among the crew. The next
day, another boy of 17 happened to steal something, and was also given
the same punishment but with 12 lashes. His whole back was ripped off.
Again that night, Krishna and Udhava sat up with this boy through the
night, cleansed his wounds with their own drinking water, making him
alright. The boy was in such pain so they sat with him through the night.

Then, a huge hulk of a man appeared at the door. Hullu had come. He
couldnt believe that these young boys dared to sit with this man who
had been punished and were nursing him.

What are you doing? he asked.

Krishna said, Were just putting him to sleep.

Hullu said, You cannot do such things.

Who says so?

Our master says so. Panchajana says so. You cannot do such things.

But this is what I do. Someone is in pain, I reach out. Your master
cannot stop this.

Hullu, though he was a great hulk of a man, did not have answers for
these kinds of statements especially when someone was smiling and
talking to him. He had no answers for such a face. He had always been
used to faces that were terrorized the moment they saw him. But this
young boy was looking up at him, smiling and talking to him, and asking
him questions about the fundamentals of his job. He didnt know what to
do. He said, You come with me. Let me take you to the boss. You talk all
this with him.

He took Krishna and Udhava to Panchajana. Panchajana was furious,


What were you doing? he asked.

Krishna said, We were just helping him sleep. Is there any problem
about that?

You dont do such things on my ship.

This is my dharma, nobody can stop me from doing it. If I see suffering,
I reach out.

What is this dharma nonsense? I am the law on this ship. I say no!

That doesnt go with me. Wherever I am, I follow my dharma. My


dharma is I reach out to people no matter what the law is.

Panchajana thought, It looks like they need some treatment. But


then he looked at the boys and he saw they were such good merchandise.
If he whips them and strips off the skin on their backs, they may not sell
well. So he said, Hullu, lock them up in the wooden cage in the hold.
Give them food, dont let them out. There is no point using the whip on
them. We will lose the price. So, they were taken and locked up in the
wooden cage.

By now, many stories about these two


boys had spread among the crew and
they didnt know what to make of these
They didnt know strange people who were so puny and
what to make of small compared to them, but they go
about doing their own things in their
these strange own way. Never before had another man
survived the wink of an eye after having
people who were so dared to stand up and speak in front of
Panchajana, and not follow his orders.
puny and small So, slowly, among the illiterate crew,
compared to them, stories spread that there was something
about them. Maybe they were spirits,
but they go about not real human beings. Especially, Hullu
and Hukku the whip men had been
doing their own brought up in desert lands where the
things in their own fear of evil spirits was really put into
them. They sat down and prayed that
way. these evil spirits who had come on the
ship should not touch them.

Later that night, Bikru the navigator,


came down to the hold and told
Krishna, We are changing direction, we are not going to Vyavasthapuri.
We are going much further away. Krishna immediately asked Bikru, I
want to get to Vyavasthapuri. Get me out of this cage, or I will break it
and come out.

Bikru went and brought the carpenter whom Krishna had nursed. Krishna
broke out of the cage and the carpenter fixed the cage as it was. Then,
Krishna and Udhava started walking freely about the deck. Panchajana
came to know of this and asked, Who let them out?

Everyone said, Nobody let them out.

So, they have broken the cage. That means the death penalty. Money or
no money, enough! Lets put an end to these two fools. Has he broken
the cage?

Hullu went and inspected the cage and saw that it was not broken. The
cage was intact. The lock was right there as it was but the boys had just
come out. He was totally terrified. These were definitely some evil spirits!
In total terror, he went to Panchajana and told him, The boys have not
broken the cage. The lock is still intact. But theyve just come out.
Panchajana also felt a little tremor within himself What kind of boys are
these?

Panchajana decided that this was


spreading the wrong kind of situation
among the crew and wanted to punish
Hullu looked at these boys in front of everyone. He
Krishna. Krishna just called the whole crew onto the deck and
had the boys brought up. He told Hullu,
smiled at him. Hullu Whip these boys.

got terrified. Hullu looked at Krishna. Krishna just


smiled at him. Hullu got terrified. This
is some kind of evil spirit. He came out
of the cage without breaking it and
since he came, he has been doing such strange things. All the tales he
had heard about evil spirits had gone into him. Terror took over and he
could not use his whip.

Panchajana saw that things were going out of control. He didnt want the
situation to look like Hukku or Hullu were not following his instructions.
So, he said, Let me do this personally. Give me the whip. Handling a
very long cattle whip needs some skill. Everyone cant do it. If you try to
use the whip, you will most probably end up whipping yourself unless
you know how to handle it. A cattle whip is something that you must
know how to use.

Panchajana was not an expert in using a cattle whip. Krishna, right from
infancy, has lived among cattle. He knows how to use a cattle whip very
well. Panchajana tried to whip Krishna but it didnt really make proper
contact. Normally, this whip will peel the skin off but it just left a red
welt on Krishnas back. Krishna caught hold of the end of the whip, took
the whip away and really gave the whipping of his life to Panchajana.
This big man was whipped to such an extent that very little of his skin
was left and he passed out.

Panchajana had a very fine conch with him which he always wore around
his shoulder. A conch is used as a signal to order and to sail away and
these kinds of things. Krishna saw this conch. It was a most beautiful
conch perfectly made and when he blew it, he saw that it made a
most wonderful sound. Conches were used extensively in India at that
time but this was a very special conch which came out with such a
powerful musical tone. Krishna helped himself to the fine conch and
said, I take this as a gift from Panchajana. I am going to keep it for
myself. The conch remained with him his whole life and he named the
conch Panchajanya. Panchajanya become the symbol of power and
victory throughout Mahabarat. It played a very important role.

Then, with the help of Hukku and Hullu, Krishna transported Panchajana
to his cabin and nursed him. When Panchajana regained consciousness,
Krishna told him, See, I have no business with you. My business is just
that I want to save my brother, my gurus son, whom you sold. I see that
you hold no hatred towards my guru or his son. You are just into some
business of your own. You are a thief. This is your dharma. You are doing
it. I am doing my dharma as a disciple. Just drop me on that coast and
you go your way. I dont want to have anything to do with you.

But Panchajana was not made that way. He was groaning in pain but he
was burning with the humiliation that he went through in front of his
crew. And he knows that if he does not do something drastic, no one is
going to take orders from him anymore. He is finished as a captain of the
ship.

After they nursed Panchajana, they left him in his cabin and came up.
They put the ship back on course to go to Vyavasthapuri. Then, in the
night, as Krishna himself was guiding the ship, they saw a big figure
approaching them with a short sword. Panchajana was coming to attack
them. He was a very big man and fighting him when he has a sword in
his hand would be very difficult. Krishna was just looking for a way out. It
looked like he would have to jump off the ship to save his life.

When he was just about to do that, Hullu, who had been a slave of
Panchajana all his life, suddenly came up from behind, picked
Panchajana up and threw him overboard. A skinless man in salt water is
not a very pleasant way to go! And they continued the journey.

Editors Note: Watch the Leela series, for more of Sadhgurus talks on Krishna.

Image courtesy: Krishna blows the conch, Panchajanya, declaring the end of Mahabharata
war, Wikipedia.

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