Yashoda the Mother, Krishna the Child.

 

The Universe in his mouth


0ne day while Krishna was playing with His playmates and Balarama, all His friends joined Balarama in lodging a complaint with mother Yasoda. "Krishna has eaten earth."
Mother Yasoda, anxious over Krishna's welfare, picked Krishna up to look into His mouth and chastise Him. Her eyes fearful, she asked "have eaten dirt in a solitary place?"

Lord Krishna replied, "My dear mother, I have never eaten dirt. All My friends are liars. If you think they are being truthful, you can directly look into My mouth and examine it." Yasoda challenged Krishna: "then open Your mouth wide."

He immediately opened His mouth. Yasoda saw within His mouth the complete opulence of creation. She saw outer space in all directions, mountains, islands, oceans, seas, planets, air, fire, moon, and stars. Indeed, mother Yasoda saw within the mouth of her child everything necessary for the cosmic manifestation. She became struck with awe and wondered whether she was dreaming. The Lord Krishna expanded His internal energy, and Yasoda forgot all speculation and accepted Krishna once again as her own beloved child.

All Yasoda friends enjoyed the naughty childish activities of Krishna in Vrindavana. In order to enjoy further transcendental bliss, they all assembled and went to mother Yasoda complaining against the boys. They said, "Dear Yasoda, why don't you restrict your naughty Krishna He comes to our houses with Balarama every morning and evening, and before the milking of the cows They free the calves, and the calves drink all the cows' milk. So when we go to milk the cows, we find no milk, and we have to return with empty pots. He steals the butter, yogurt, and milk and distributes them to the monkeys. When the monkeys are well fed and do not take any more, your boys chide, `This milk and butter and yogurt are useless - even the monkeys won't take it.' Then They break the pots and throw them hither and thither. If we warn Krishna He smiles charmingly. We cannot do anything. "Krishna finds great pleasure in stealing our stock of yogurt and butter from wherever we keep it.


When Krishna is caught stealing the yogurt and butter,
He says "Why do you charge Me with stealing? Do you think
that butter and yogurt are in scarcity in "Our house".
There is all the abundance of plenty."

 

The Universal Relationship.

The child Krishna, that child that lives within each, naughty and mischievous, enjoys fun, pleasure, that child that loves a little teasing and a little mischief, that child whose all embracing love for his mother can remove all the anger that the mother feels. And Krishna is that child within you that looks for joy in small things, the simple curd, the butter and the broken pot. How simple can joy be?

And yet, the mother that symbolizes the human in which the child is trapped is unable to see the joy that Krishna gets from this pot that Krishna has broken because the human embodiment is enveloped in anger and the mother looks at the little Krishna and wishes to punish him. But Krishna cannot be stilled and Krishna knows how to win over this anger. Krishna has to but smile and say, "Oh mother mine, forgive me. I am but a child, your child, dear mother. However can you strike at your beloved Krishna?" And the raised hand of the mother stills and lowers itself in embrace. For that brief moment, the child has overcome the ego state of the mother.

Here we are looking at two aspects of the mother, the physical embodiment, which the child lives in and also the relationship between us and the feminine part of ourselves. Our large all-encompassing energy, which has both aspects living simultaneously, masculine and feminine.





 
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