who prayed to Krishna like this... and why?

Question

"Krishna, this is the opportune time. Now I am healthy. I am quite in good health so let me die immediately"

Answer 1

The idea is, Kulasekhara, King Kulasekhara is praying to Krsna, adyaiva visatu me manasa-raja-hamsah. Adyaiva. Prana-prayana-samaye kapha-vata-pittaih smaranam kutas te. He is praying, "Krsna, I am now in good health. So kindly award me death immediately." Adyaiva. "Immediately, so that my mind, who is just like a swan, he can take pleasure by entering into stem of Your lotus flower feet." Krsna's feet is always compared with lotus flower, and the lotus flower has got a stem. And the swans, they take pleasure being entangled with that stem. They go and dive into the water. This is their very good sporting. So he is taking that sporting, he is comparing his mind as the raja-hamsa. "So as the raja-hamsa takes pleasure by entangling him in the stem of the lotus flower, similarly Your lotus feet, there is a stem. So my mind, which may be compared with raja-hamsa, let it be entangled now, immediately. Otherwise I do not know." Prana-prayana-samaye kapha-vata-pittaih. "When everything bodily function will be mixed up, kapha-vata-pittaih, 'ghan ghan,' there will be some sound, how I will be able to remembering your lotus feet? So let me die immediately, immediately. Now I am quite fit. Otherwise I may not be able." This is the point. The mind should be kept in healthy condition. Samjna. Therefore one who dies with full sense remembering Krsna, oh, he is successful. In Bengali it is said, bhajana kara sadhana kara murti yanre haya. (?) You may be very great devotee. That's all right. But it will be tested at the time of your death, how you remember Krsna. That will be the test examination. At the time of death, if we forget, if we become parrotlike... Just like parrot, he chants also, "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna." But when the cat catches the neck, "Kanh! Kanh! Kanh!" No more Krsna. No more Krsna. So artificial practice will not help us. Then "Khan, khan." That kapha-pitta-vataih, kanthavarodhana-vidhau smaranam kutas te....

Answer 2

Maharaja Kulasekhara king, a great devotee, is praying to Krsna, "Krsna, this is the opportune time. Now I am healthy. I am quite in good health so let me die immediately, thinking of You, because my whole purpose is to think of You, of Your pastimes, at the time of death."

Generally, at the time of death, kapha-vata-pittaih, the whole system becomes disarranged. There is coughing, headaches, there is some pain. Sometimes it is so intolerable that the dying man cries. The system within the body is so complicated that at any time it can be disarranged, and it becomes a great source of pain. So, at the time of death means, the arrangement becomes so dangerously painful, that one leaves this body, "No more." This is death. Just like one commits suicide. When the situation is too painful he wants to commit suicide. Similarly, when the body pains are too severe, then the living entity can not live in this body. Tyaktva deham, he gives up this body. So we have to give up this body, that we forget.

Answer 3

King Kulasekhara, a great devotee of the Lord, prayed:

krishna tvadiya-pada-pankaja-panjarantam
adyaiva me visatu manasa-raja-hamsah
prana-prayana-samaye kapha-vata-pittaih
kanthavarodhana-vidhau smaranam kutas te

"My Lord Krishna, I pray that the swan of my mind may immediately sink down to the stems of the lotus feet of Your Lordship and be locked in their network; otherwise at the time of my final breath, when my throat is choked up with cough, how will it be possible to think of You?"
http://vedabase.net/sb/2/4/21/en1

King Kulasekhara wanted to give up his body while in a healthy state, and he thus prayed to Krishna to let him die immediately while he was in good health and while his mind was sound. When a man dies, he is generally overpowered by mucus and bile, and thus he chokes. Since it is very difficult to vibrate any sound while choking, it is simply by Krishna's grace that one can chant Hare Krishna at the time of death. However, by situating oneself in the muktasana position, a yogi can immediately give up his body and go to whatever planet he desires. A perfect yogi can give up his body whenever he desires through the practice of yoga.
http://vedabase.net/sb/4/23/13/en1

Answer 4

If one is a follower of krishna then birth, death all other things are in the hands of God,
Then why should he prey Like this.
This is ridiculous.
SORRY I HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION.

Answer 5

ditto as Nitai, level and mypresh