Even the lord of death must bow to Krishna's will and the divine protection afforded to His sincere devotees.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.3.1–11 — February 1, 1971, Allahabad 710201SB-ALLAHABAD [35:44 Minutes] SB-06.03.01–11_710201SB-ALLAHABAD Prabhupāda: [sings Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka, with devotees singing responsively] vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau [I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Six Gosvāmīs, namely Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī, and Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, who are always engaged in chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa and dancing. They are just like the ocean of love of God, and they are popular both with the gentle and with the ruffians, because they are not envious of anyone. Whatever they do, they are all-pleasing to everyone, and they are fully blessed by Lord Caitanya. Thus they are engaged in missionary activities meant to deliver all the conditioned souls in the material universe.] [03:03] Śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau. The six Gosvāmīs, they are directly recipient of the causeless mercy of Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu; therefore they were empowered to diminish the sinful burden of the world. Śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau.
When people become too much sinful, the heart becomes overburdened. At that time, paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām [Bg. 4.8], the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead comes. So Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, personally Kṛṣṇa, came and involved[?] His disciples, and they diminished the overburden of this earth. niśamya devaḥ sva-bhaṭopavarṇitaṁ pratyāha kiṁ tān api dharmarājaḥ evaṁ hatājño vihatān murārer naideśikair yasya vaśe jano 'yam [SB 6.3.1] Atyāścaryam etad ity āha, yamasyeti. He ṛṣe, yamasya daṇḍa-bhaṅgaḥ kutaścana kasmāccid api śruta-pūrvo nāsīt. Etad eva etasminn arthe.
Yad vā na śruta-pūrvaḥ. Etad yama-dūta-nirākaraṇaṁ cāsīt. Ataḥ sarvasyāpi lokasya saṁśayo vartate taṁ ca tvatto 'nyo na cchinattīti me niścitamataḥ kathayeti śeṣaḥ [Śrīdhara Svāmī's commentary on SB 6.3.2]. The purport of this verse is that Mahārāja Parīkṣit became astonished how it was possible to surpass the order of Yamarāja. Just like in our ordinary experience, if there is a warrant issued by the magistrate, nobody can check it.
There is no power by law. The man who is ordered to be arrested, the police force must arrest him, because the warrant order is there. So similarly, Yamarāja is the police chief on account of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and his business is to arrest all the criminals and give them proper punishment. In the atmosphere of the Yamaloka, such sinful persons are taken there and put into the different types of hellish condition of life, and when one is practiced to that, little, immediately a particular type of body is offered, and he begins his karma again with that body. So in this case, in the case of Ajāmila, there is exception.
He was ordered to be arrested by Yamarāja, but Viṣṇudūta released him. In one sense it is unlawful, but Viṣṇudūta or Viṣṇu can do everything; that is the Almighty. Even though in the material world there was no power to check the order, or to stop the order, of Yamarāja, but it was possible only by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. niśamya devaḥ sva-bhaṭopavarṇitaṁ pratyāha kiṁ tān api dharmarājaḥ [SB 6.3.1] So enquiring, Parīkṣit Mahārāja, that after hearing the statements of the assistants, what the Yamarāja, the superintendent of death, reply? evaṁ hatājño vihatān murārer naideśikair yasya vaśe jano 'yam [SB 6.3.1] yamasya devasya na daṇḍa-bhaṅgaḥ [SB 6.3.2] Murārer naideśikaiḥ kiṅkarair evaṁ vihatān. Ata eva hatā ājñā [part of Śrīdhara Svāmī's commentary on SB 6.3.1].
Murārer naideśikaiḥ means the followers of the order of Murāri, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa's another name is Murāri, because He killed one demon of the name Mura. So, murāreḥ naideśikaiḥ, the followers of the order of Murāri. Vaśe jano 'yam.
So the janaḥ ayam, this population of this material world, they are under the control of the Yamarāja, and how it was possible that the servant of Murāri could check? yamasya devasya na daṇḍa-bhaṅgaḥ kutaścanarṣe śruta-pūrva āsīt [SB 6.3.2] Ṛṣe. "My dear ṛṣi," because Sukadev Goswami is a great ṛṣi. He is addressing, "My dear ṛṣi, I have never heard such incidences before." Yamasya devasya na daṇḍa-bhaṅgaḥ. "Whenever Yamarāja has given order of punishment to anyone, it was never baffled.