One day,
Mother Yashoda personally engaged in household chores. She
began to churn butter while she had kept some milk for
boiling on the oven. She was also feeding baby Krishna, when
milk boiled over. She put Krishna aside and went to the oven
to remove the milk from boiling over or burning completely.
Milk boiling over or getting burnt is considered to be a bad
omen. This angered the child who was hungry. To show his
anger, Krishna broke the pot in which she was churning the
butter and ran away from the scene. When Yashoda returned,
she found the pot broken and understood the handiwork of
Krishna. She decided to punish him and started searching for
him.
She saw
Krishna sitting on a big wooden grinding mortar. She
silently approached him with a stick. When Krishna saw her
coming with a stick, he quickly began to flee from the
scene. Mother Yashoda started chasing and tried to capture
him but could not so easily. After considerable efforts, she
finally caught up with him. She decided to bind him with a
rope to the mortar as a sort of punishment for his
misbehavior. She collected a rope and while tying she found
the rope short. She collected more ropes but the same thing
happened and she found the rope short and unable to tie the
knot. Krishna was playing with her. Being the supreme lord,
he has no beginning or end and it would be impossible for
anyone to bind him. Yashoda was flabbergasted and unable to
understand what was happening. She was a simple soul and
Krishna was her baby. She hardly knew his divine origin.
Finally, after considerable time and labor, Krishna allowed
her to tie him up.
He than
decided to drag the wooden mortar and got stuck between two
trees. These two trees were two angels cursed by Sage Narada
and were to be relieved of their curse by Lord Krishna .
When Krishna dragged the mortar hard, the two trees fell
down and two dazzling angels came out offered their respects
to him. They disappeared afterwards. When villagers were
upset about the trees falling, the other children assured
them that it was due to Krishna pulling the mortar stuck
between the two trees and that two dazzling angels had come
out of them and spoke to Krishna. The villagers thought it
was the children's wild imagination and did not believe
them. Mother Yashoda again thought that some calamity was
avoided and again started praying for the welfare of her
child.
End of
Chapter 7
