Damodara Lila: Mother Yaśodā binds Lord Sri Kṛṣṇa

Sri Krsna-Lila from Srimad Bhagavatam, 10th canto:
Seeing that her maidservant was engaged in different household duties, Mother Yaśodā personally took charge of churning butter. And while she churned butter, she sang the childhood pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and enjoyed thinking of her son. There were drops of perspiration on her face, and the flower garland which was on her head scattered here and there. Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared as a child. He felt hungry, He wanted her to stop churning and indicated that her first business was breastfeeding him.

Mother Yaśodā chasing Kṛṣṇa with a stick in her hand

Mother Yaśodā took her little son on her lap and started to breastfeed him. While Kṛṣṇa was sucking the milk, she was smiling, enjoying the beauty of her child’s face. Suddenly, the milk which was on the stove began to boil over. Just to stop the milk from spilling, Mother Yaśodā at once put Kṛṣṇa aside and went to the stove. That made Kṛṣṇa became very angry, and His lips and eyes became red in rage. He pressed His teeth and lips and taking up a piece of stone, He immediately broke the butter pot. He took the butter out of it, He began to eat the butter. In the meantime, Mother Yaśodā returned to the churning place, she saw the broken pot, in which the churning yogurt had been kept. Since she could understand that the broken pot was her son's work. She thought, “The child is very clever. After breaking the pot He has left this place, fearing punishment.” After she sought all over, she found her son taking butter from a pot which was hanging from the ceiling on a swing, and He was feeding it to the monkeys. After seeing her son so engaged, she very silently approached Him from behind. Kṛṣṇa, however, saw her coming toward Him with a stick in her hand, and He immediately got down from the grinding mortar and began to flee in fear. Mother Yaśodā chased Him to all corners, trying to capture the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never approached even by the meditations of great yogīs. She tried to follow Him as fast as possible. Her hair loosened, and the flowers in her hair fell to the ground. Although she was tired, she somehow reached her naughty child and captured Him. When He was caught, Kṛṣṇa was almost on the point of crying. The child saw His mother’s face while she stood over Him, and His eyes became restless from fear.

Mother Yaśodā binding Kṛṣṇa to grinding motor 

Being the topmost well-wisher of her child, Mother Yaśodā thought, “If the child is too fearful of me, I don’t know what will happen to Him.” She then threw away her stick. In order to punish Him, she thought to bind His hands with some ropes. Mother Yaśodā was thinking that Kṛṣṇa was her tiny child; she did not know that the child is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself and had no limitation. Still, She was thinking of Kṛṣṇa as her child. Although He is beyond the reach of all senses, she endeavored to bind Him to a wooden grinding mortar. But when she tried to bind Him, she found that the rope she was using was too short—by two inches. She gathered more ropes from the house and added to it, but still, she found the same shortage. In this way, she connected all the ropes available at home, but when the final knot was added, she saw that the rope was still two inches too short. Mother Yaśodā 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 mother and being compassionate upon her, He agreed to be bound up by the ropes.

Kṛṣṇa, playing as a human child in the house of Mother Yaśodā, was performing His own selected pastimes. Of course, no one can control the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But the Lord also feels transcendental pleasure by submitting Himself to the protection of the devotee. This was exemplified by Kṛṣṇa’s surrender unto His mother, Yaśodā. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as the son of Yaśodā and Nanda Mahārāja, is never so completely known to the yogīs and speculators. But He is easily available to His devotees. 

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