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It
is this punyabhumi about which puranas expound that any type of sin
committed in any place gets purged off in a thirtha, but one
committed in a tirtha slicks hard, whereas the sin committed in
Mathura is destroyed in Mathura itself. Sure, there can't be any
residue clinging to body to be accumulated with age due to interest
growing to enormous
proportions. What a boon! And how sacred!! It is this kshetra and
its presiding deity that Vaishnava cult raised them to Himalayan
heights with statements such as: there is one scripture, that is
I3bagavadgita; there is one Acharya that is Sri Krishna; there is
one mantra, that is Krishna mantra: the most sacred chant of all;
there is one k0ittia that is Mathura; there is one God, that is
Krishnaparamatma; and finally there is one duty, that is seva-worshipping
of HIM. Furthermore, there is a belief that the word Mathura, whose
principal letters, M, U & A, represent the three components of
the mystic syllable, A U M, the chief cause of creation, and as
such, it is holding out another attraction for the orthodox
Hindus; for, they interpret that the three letters stand for the.
divinities of the Hindu Trinity Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswar. With
such deification by every school of Vaishnavism, the place became
the Bhooloka Vaikuntha for all devout Hindus, and so, an unending
stream of pilgrims found round the year.
An
infinite number of divyalilas imbued with inexplicable mystery said
to have occurred in this thirtha kshetra are enshrined in several
genres of literatures of all languages in India and abroad, and in
fact each felt honoured in eulogizing the glorious anecdotes of Sri
Krishna, from childhood days to the historic day of that greatest
exodus to Dwaraka, built in the midst of sea to be screened from the
nefarious maneuvers of Jarasandha, the arch enemy of the Yadava
community.
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