Once mother Yashoda decided to prepare butter for her little Krishna. As such being Nandrani, she had many maids to do this job but
that day, she wanted to make it herself for
her little Krishna! So, Yashodaji sent
all her Gopis out and sat down churning curd.
Krishna was enjoying a sound sleep at that time. Suddenly he
woke up and insisted for milk.
Mother Yashoda, leaving
her job of churning curd began to attend her lovely son with milk. When she
rushed to him, she had left some cow milk on the fireplace for boiling.
All of a sudden, the cow milk boiled and began to spill out of the vessel.
Seeing this, mother Yashoda ran towards the fireplace abandoning Krishna for a
while.
Krishna was still
hungry and wanted milk for some time more. He thought “Okay, so maiya prefers
milk more than me!?!” He got furious and hit on the pot of curd with a stick.
As a result, the pot got broken and the entire butter was spilt on the ground.
Still not satisfied, Krishna got to the room where butter was stored. Getting
onto a big mortar, he brought down a pot full of butter
and began to distribute among his sakhas and some monkeys that were frisking
about there.
When Yashodaji came back after removing the boiling milk from
over the fire, she found her churning pot broken. She understood that this type
of mischief can only be done by her naughty Krishna! She started looking for
Krishna but she couldn’t find him anywhere. When she discovered Krishna's
footprints, followed them with a stick in her hand. Reaching the room, she
found her son feeding his mates and monkeys with butter.
But Yashodaji was aged and after running for a while after
Him, she got tired. Little Krishna noticed that mother was sweating and
breathing high. So he decreased his running speed and the mother caught him easily.
She couldn’t understand that Krishna had deliberately got himself caught!
Now seeing mother with a stick in her hand, Krishna got
frightened. He started weeping, tears started coming out from his eyes. She could not see her Krishna with tears! She threw the stick.
After sometime, she thought if she
always let his mischieves go, that would spoil him ever more. So she desided to bind him with the mortar.
She caught Krishna by the hand and said, "Kanha, you
have become extremely naughty now. I must punish you today." Saying so, Yashodaji brought Krishna near the mortar on which he
was standing some time before. She started tying him to the mortar but the rope
fell short.
Now Yashodaji tried a
longer rope but it fell short too. She tried several ropes, each longer than
the previous one, but all of them failed to do the job. At last Yashodaji joined all the ropes through knots in order to
tie her son to the mortar. Strangely enough, such a long rope fell short too.
Not knowing what to do, Yashoda sat down weeping and said, "Krishna! Why
should you bother me to this extent? I won't speak to you at all." Finding
his Maiya helpless and troubled at heart, Krishna began to smile and tied
himself to the mortar with his own hands. Feeling satisfied, Yashodaji set about doing some household job. Krishna
sat down on his knees and caused the mortar to tumble down so that it could
roll when drawn.
It is also said that
when all the ropes of Vraj fell short to tie Krishna, Radhaji had given her
silk ribbon and Krishna got bound by that small ribbon...!!
Krishna can be bound
only by unalloyed devotion and love!!
