Glories of Mother Yashoda

2012-06-08
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.09.16-17 - Glories of Mother Yashoda (download mp3) , (download flv) and (download mp4)
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SB 10.9.16

yadasit tad api nyunam

tenanyad api sandadhe

tad api dvy-angulam nyunam

yad yad adatta bandhanam

Translation:

This new rope also was short by a measurement of two fingers, and when another rope was joined to it, it was still two fingers too short. As many ropes as she joined, all of them failed; their shortness could not be overcome.

SB 10.9.17

evam sva-geha-damani

yasoda sandadhaty api

gopinam susmayantinam

smayanti vismitabhavat

Translation:

Thus mother Yasoda joined whatever ropes were available in the household, but still she failed in her attempt to bind Krsna. Mother Yasoda’s friends, the elderly gopis in the neighborhood, were smiling and enjoying the fun. Similarly, mother Yasoda, although laboring in that way, was also smiling. All of them were struck with wonder.

Purport:

Actually this incident was wonderful because Krsna was only a child with small hands. To bind Him should have required only a rope not more than two feet long. All the ropes in the house combined together might have been hundreds of feet long, but still He was impossible to bind, for all the ropes together were still too short. Naturally mother Yasoda and her gopi friends thought, “How is this possible?” Seeing this funny affair, all of them were smiling. The first rope was short by a measurement the width of two fingers, and after the second rope was added, it was still two fingers too short. If the shortness of all the ropes were added together, it must have amounted to the width of hundreds of fingers. Certainly this was astonishing. This was another exhibition of Krsna’s inconceivable potency to His mother and His mother’s friends.