Lord Krishna swallows the forest fire.

Like Krishna, Balarama (The first full emanation of Krishna, came to play the role of elder brother) and Their friends were absorbed in their games. the cows, to whom they paid no more attention, set out, attracted by the fresh grass, and plunged deeper and deeper into the forest. With goats and buffaloes, they wandered from forest to forest to finally reach the one called Isikatavi. This forest abounded in green grass, which tempted the animals; but scarcely had they crossed the enclosure, than they were surrounded by an immense fire, ravaging the forest: they began to roar with force.

For their part, Balarama, Krishna and their friends, all sorrows, lamented their lost cattle. They decided to follow the footprints, on the ground, of the hoofs of the cows, and the path traced by the grass grazed. All feared that cows, their very means of existence, would now be lost. But soon they heard squelching sobbing. In a loud voice, Krishna began to call each of the cows by his proper name. At his call, the cows immediately answered, and in what joy! But already the fire had surrounded them and the danger grew ever greater. The wind became violent, the flames rose, all creatures, mobile and motionless, were to be reduced to ashes. Fear had now gained cows and herdsmen; all stared at Balarama, like a dying man in the image of the Lord.

“O Krishna, O Balarama, we are burning with the heat of this fiery fire,” they said. May we take refuge at your lotus feet! As we know, you can protect us from this immense danger. Krishna, our dear friend, we are your intimate companions! Is it fair that we suffer so?

We depend in everything on you, who know everything about the spiritual life. We know no other than you.

God, the Supreme Person, heard the call of his friends and answered them with a sweet look. The only movement of his eyes reassured them: nothing was to be feared. Then, He, Sri Krishna, the Supreme Yogi, Almighty God, suddenly inhaled into his mouth all the flames of the burning forest. This was how cows and young shepherds were saved from an urgent danger. For fear, the boys had almost fainted, but when they came back to them, when they opened their eyelids, here again was the forest, with Krishna, Balarama and the cows! Great their surprise not to feel any more attacks of burning fire; great also to know the cows out of danger. They secretly thought that Krishna was certainly not an ordinary boy, but perhaps a celestial being.

The Lord Krishna shows his beauty, wealth, and boundless power by marrying 16,108 queens and simultaneously multiplying himself into so many divine spouses.

The princesses, when they were high-quality people, daughters of mighty kings, could choose their future husband themselves, at the end of a tournament where all could fight, and that is designated as the ceremony of choice of the husband. As all the