"Thus, Gopala destroyed the messengers despatched by Kamsa, each day a new miracle, a novel wonder! The cowherd boys came to feel it as supreme sport. They were no longer amazed; they realised deep in their hearts that His skills and powers were superhuman and incomprehensible. So, they were ready at any time to accompany Him anywhere without any fear."

"Hearing that Gopala had killed Bakasura who had planned to get near Him and swallow Him whole, the brother of Bakasura got so incensed that he swore revenge and came into the forests where the pastures lay, as a python. It lay across the jungle track, with wide open mouth scheming to swallow whole, the cows and the cowherd boys, as well as Balarama and Krishna. To all appearance, it looked like a long cave and, unaware of the fact that it was a trap, cows and cowherds walked into it. Gopala recognised it as another wicked ogre; He too entered the python's body, only to hack it open and save the lives that had been entrapped. They lost all fear and moved on to their homes, secure under Gopala's protection."

"From that day, the cowherds had no trace of fear; they believed that Gopala will certainly safeguard them against all danger, for He was omnipotent. So, they cared for nothing on the way, they never watched the sides of the road, but walked confidently on in the direction Krishna took."

"The sport of the boy Krishna was every moment a wonder, a miracle, an amazing event, a heroic adventure. What can I describe about them? Can ordinary humans perform such wonders? Those who do not have faith, in spite of seeing such events, are but burdening the earth, they are fruits that have no taste and no kind of use."

Suka had his face lighted by a deep inner smile as he said this; his eyes shone as if he saw the vision of the resplendent one, as he fixed them intently for long on one spot.

Parikshith asked him, "Master! While even Danavas (subhuman monsters) develop faith in God and worship Him, how is it that human beings forget Him and neglect to worship Him? They put trust in the ears that hear, rather than eyes that see. I consider this to be the consequence of some great sin they have committed. Or, it may be the effect of some curse."

At this, Suka said, "O king your words are true. Monstrous individuals like Kamsa, Jarasandha, Salya and Sisupala saw with their own eyes evidence of Krishna's supra-human powers, but, the falsehood that He was just a cowherd boy was so overpoweringly echoing inside their ears that they were always aware only of the Akashvani they heard from the sky rather than what they saw with their eyes. As a consequence they lost their lives, ignominiously. They ignored the miracles, the wondrous events, the amazing achievements that they witnessed, the successive defeats that their emissaries suffered at His hands and neglected the duty to the God before them; what other explanation can we give for this, except that they were cursed so to behave. And, that curse must have fallen upon them as a result of sin."