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Saturday, December 08, 2018

A Politically Correct Excerpt from Krishna Book


Yasoda Prabhu Binding Lord Krsna

Once upon a time, seeing that her maidservant was engaged in different household duties, Yaśodā prabhu personally took charge of churning butter. And while she churned butter, she sang the childhood pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and enjoyed thinking of her son... 

Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared as a child. He felt hungry, and out of love for His prabhu, He wanted her to stop churning... 

Yaśodā prabhu took her son on her lap and pushed the nipples of her breasts into His mouth...

Suddenly, the milk which was on the oven began to boil over. Just to stop the milk from spilling, Yaśodā prabhu at once put Kṛṣṇa aside and went to the oven. Left in that state by His prabhu, Kṛṣṇa became very angry...and taking up a piece of stone, He immediately broke the butter...He began to eat the butter in a secluded place.

 In the meantime, Yaśodā prabhu returned to the churning place after setting the overflowing milk pan in order. She saw the broken pot...

After she sought all over, she found a big wooden grinding mortar which was kept upside down, and she found her son sitting on it. He was taking butter which was hanging from the ceiling on a swing, and He was feeding it to the monkeys...

Yaśodā prabhu chased Him to all corners, trying to capture the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is never approached even by the meditations of great yogīs. In other words, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, who is never caught by the yogīs and speculators, was playing just like a little child for a great devotee like Yaśodā prabhu. 

Yaśodā prabhu, however, could not easily catch the fast-running child because of her thin waist and heavy body. Still she tried to follow Him as fast as possible...

When He was caught, Kṛṣṇa was almost on the point of crying...

Yaśodā prabhu could understand that Kṛṣṇa was unnecessarily afraid, and for His benefit she wanted to allay His fears. Being the topmost well-wisher of her child, Yaśodā prabhu began to think, "If the child is too fearful of me, I don't know what will happen to Him."

Yaśodā prabhu then threw away her stick. In order to punish Him, she thought to bind His hands with some ropes...Yaśodā prabhu was thinking that Kṛṣṇa was her tiny child; she did not know that the child had no limitation...

 Still, Yaśodā prabhu was thinking of Kṛṣṇa as her child. Although He is beyond the reach of all senses, she endeavored to bind Him up to a wooden grinding mortar...

She ... connected all the ropes available at home, but when the final knot was added, she saw that it was still two inches too short.  

Yaśodā prabhu was smiling, but she was astonished. How was it happening? In attempting to bind her son, she became tired. She was perspiring, and the garland on her head fell down. Then Lord Kṛṣṇa appreciated the hard labor of His prabhu, and being compassionate upon her, He agreed to be bound up by the ropes. 

Kṛṣṇa, playing as a human child in the house of Yaśodā prabhu, was performing His own selected pastimes. Of course, no one can control the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The pure devotee surrenders himself unto the lotus feet of the Lord, who may either protect or vanquish the devotee. But for his part, the devotee never forgets his own position of surrender. Similarly, the Lord also feels transcendental pleasure by submitting Himself to the protection of the devotee. This was exemplified by Kṛṣṇa's surrender unto His prabhu, Yaśodā.