In plain words
Kṛṣṇa leaves the body
Arjuna had gone to bring Kṛṣṇa, and when he did not come back however many days passed, his mother Kuntī Devī grew more and more anxious. She was very old; her eyes could not see, and the strength of her body had wholly wasted away. The moment Arjuna came back: “My son! Where is Kṛṣṇa? How is He?”: she showered him with questions. By then Kṛṣṇa had already left the body. In grief he could not hold back, Arjuna: “Mother, what can I say? Kṛṣṇa, our kinsman, friend, guru and God, is no more,” he said. The instant she heard those words, Kuntī gave up her life. She was a great devotee; she had held Kṛṣṇa as dear as her own life. After Kṛṣṇa left the body, the Yādavas fought among themselves and died. A curse given by a ṛṣi was the cause of all this. Dharmarāja decided to give up the kingdom, crown Parīkṣit, son of Abhimanyu, and set out with his brothers for the Himālaya. On one side, a son's coronation; on the other, a mother's funeral rites! Such a scene is found in the Bhārata alone, nowhere else. Dharmaja held his mother's head on his lap and said to Bhīma, “Dear one, make the arrangements fit for the prince's coronation.” He told Arjuna to make ready what was needed for their mother's funeral rites. To Nakula and Sahadeva he said, “Make the arrangements for us to go to the Himālayas.” The mother's funeral rites, Parīkṣit's coronation, the Pāṇḍavas leaving for the Himālayas… All three took place on one and the same day. None but those with unshakeable Bhakti and faith in the Paramātma could act like that.
Swami's boyhood
When this body was in its childhood, conditions in the village were in great turmoil. With contagious diseases like cholera and plague raging, people passed their days in fear and dread.