The Rajasuya Yagna was complete and Yudhisthira as King must now perform the honour of washing the feet of the Kings and the saints present there.Custom has it that he must first appoint someone who would be the first to receive the honour then the others in accordance with their rank etc.

It was a very difficult task for Yudhishtira to select the number one person from such a crowd of great personalities.He thought it a wise decision to give the responsibility to Bhishma since he was the most senior family member there.

Bhishma immediately announced to the assembly that there is none amongst them who is more worthy for such an honour than Krishna.Most of the wise kings and the sages agreed with him and accepted his decision but there were a few who didn't and became a bit noisey.

Sishupal a cousin of Krishna was one of them.He concluded that Krishna was not the guru of the Pandavas nor was he a sage or the eldest person present there.Bhishma tried to cool him down but he became abusive to Bhishma too.

Sishupal became totally out of control and finally Krishna had to ask him to stop the nonesense.As was expected,he did not and in the twinkling of an eye the Sudarshana Chakra appeared in the finger of Krishna and severed the head of Sishupal.

Then a light came out of the corpse and merged into Krishna's body and everyone present there were left in awe.Krishna explained that Sishupal was once a divine being and a servant of Lord Vishnu.He was reborn as the evil king Hiranyakashipu,as Ravan and now as Sishupal.

He has now been released from that cycle and has returned to serve his Lord and Master.Only a very few in that assembly was able to understand who Krishna really was.

Pandit Bhadase Maharaj.

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