recalls the relations that usually exist between husband and wife, we must especially note the attachment they felt for Krishna. The path of asceticism and austerities is essentially to detach ourselves from the material world and to revive our attachment to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. Krishna is the refuge of all who progress on the path of spiritual realization. In his role as head of the ideal family, He lived with his wives and observed the Vedic rites for the sole purpose of showing to the less intelligent beings that the Supreme Lord is not impersonal. Krishna lived with women and children in the most complete opulence, just as a conditioned soul would, to teach by example to the souls really conditioned that one can very well lead a family life, if Krishna in remains the center. The members of the Yadu Dynasty, for example, were part of the very family of Krishna, and they made God the center of all their activities.

Krishna had 16 108 wives and each of them was a liberated soul, and Queen Rukmini was the highest of them all. Apart from Rukmini, the Lord had seven other main queens. The names of the sons of these eight main queens have already been mentioned before, and Sri Krishna had ten sons of each of his other queens. The total number of Krishna's children was thus ten times 16,108. It is not surprising that Krishna had so many sons; always keep in mind that Krishna is God, the Supreme Person, and has boundless powers. To tell the truth, He claims all living beings as his own sons: would there have been 16 million sons and there would be no reason to be astonished.

Of the sons of Krishna, all of great power, eighteen were maha-rathas. The maha-rathas could fight alone against several thousand soldiers, tanks, riders and elephants. The reputation of each of these eighteen sons is very widespread and fits in the pages of almost all Vedic texts. They are Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Diptiman, Bhanu, Samba, Madhu, Brhadbhanu, Citrabhanu, Vrka, Aruna, Puskara, Vedabahu, Srutadeva, Sunandana, Citrabahu, Virupa, Kavi and Nyagrodha. Of these eighteen maha-rathas, sons of Krishna, we hold Pradyumna for the greatest. He happened to be the eldest son of Queen Rukmini, and he had inherited all the qualities of his august father, Sri Krishna. He married the daughter of Rukmi, his maternal uncle, and from this union was born Aniruddha, son of Pradyumna. Aniruddha was so powerful that he could fight ten thousand elephants. He married the granddaughter of Rukmi, Rukmini's brother who was his grandmother. These cousins ​​having only distant ties of kinship, their marriage was not unusual. Aniruddha had a son, Vajra, and when the entire Yadu dynasty was wiped out by the curse of a spiritual guide, only Vajra survived. He himself had a son called Pratibahu. The son of Pratibahu was Subahu, the son of Subahu, Santasena and Santasena Satasena.

Each member of the Yadu Dynasty had many children. As Krishna had many sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons, each of the kings named above had a similar descent; and not only did they all have many children, but all also enjoyed extraordinary wealth and opulence. None of them was of weak constitution; they all lived for many years, and above all, the members of the Yadu Dynasty were all