HARE KRISHNA
Krishna was very mischivous , when he was young, but this nature of Krishna was devine and beautiful.
Krishna was very active and frolicsome by nature. Every minute a new mischief occurred to him. Indeed it was because o~ this mischievous nature that his childhood was so charming and fascinating. But Yashoda was always anxious regarding her son for the following two reasons. One reason was that he could hurt himself while making naughty movements carelessly and the second reason was that he could get to a distant place while playing and Kansa's men could easily catch him and whisk him away to Mathura. Whenever Yashoda tried to advise Krishna, he, very cleverly, involved her in his innocent talk and the mother could not help hugging h9r out of filial love. As soon as Yashoda turned her attention to some household job, he used to slink away giving her a slip. The helpless mother would again call out, "Kanhaiya! 'Kanhaiya!" and come to the doorstep to look for him. She felt satisfied only when some dame of the neighborhood would bring him to her catching him by the arm.
When anyone came to Yashoda with a complaint against her son saying, "Look Yashoda! Your son has broken my pots full of butter and spilt the whole of it on the ground," Krishna tried to slip away from the scene as soon as possible.Now Krishna had grown up a little more and consequently his mischiefs had also enlarged their proportions. He would steal into any house along with his friends, break the pots full of butter and curd with a rod and eat up all of if. One day a milkmaid saw Krishna and his friends stealing butter etc. from her house. She ran to Yashoda and complained to her saying, "Can't you advise your son z Come with me and see how he ho broken my pots full of butter and yogurt and spilt everything in the soil." Yashoda retorted helplessly, "Whet should I do, sister z I am really fed up with his pranks.
I have advised him hard many a time but he cares a fig for it. Now it is for you only to preserve your things carefully." The milkmaid went away and alerted all the other milkmaids as well. Each of them tried her best to protect her milk and milk-products from Krishna and his mates but all to no purpose. To tease the milk-maids by laying hands on their milk and butter had become Krishna's second nature indeed.
Performance of Indra-Yajana had been a practice in Vraj right since ancient times. These yajanas were performed to thank Lord India for timely rains. Gokul was also preparing for this yajana. So, Yashoda sent all her maids to make preparations for the afore-said Yajana and she sat down churning curd. Krishna was enjoying a sound sleep at that time. Suddenly he woke up and insisted on a suckle. Yashoda leaving her job of churning began to suckle her son. She had kept some milk on the fireplace for boiling. All of a sudden, the milk boiled and began to spill out of the Kettle. Seeing this, Yashoda ran towards the fireplace leaving Krishna where she was suckling him. Krishna was still hungry and wanted to suck milk for some time more. So, he got furious and struck the pot of curd with a piece of stone. As a result, the pot was broken and the entire yogurt was spilt on the ground. Still not satisfied, Krishna got to the cabin where butter was stored. Getting onto a big mortar, he brought down a pot full of butter and began to disburse 5t among his mates and some monkeys that were frisking about there.
When Yashoda came back after removing the boiling milk from over the fire, she found her churning pot broken but she could find Krishna nowhere. Suddenly she discovered Krishna's footprints and followed them with a stick in her hand. Reaching the cabin, she found her son feeding his mates and monkeys with butter.Seeing his mother with a stick in her hand, Krishna got down from the mortar and rushed outside followed by his mother. But when he got tired at last, he stopped and began to weep bitterly. The mother could not stand the sight of her weeping son and threw away her stick. She caught Krishna by the hand and said, "Sonny you have become extremely naughty now. I must punish you today." Saying so, Yashoda 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 Yashoda 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 Yashoda 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 that extent? I won't speak to you at all. " Finding his mother helpless and troubled at heart, Krishna began to smile and tied himself to the mortar with his own hands. Feellng satisfied, Yashoda 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. Now he began to crawl on his knees towards the twin trees standing in front of the house.The twin trees were, in fact, the two sons of Kubera--the god of wealth. Their names were Nal Kuber and Manigreeva. It was because of a curse that they had been turned to trees. The story goes that once these two brothers, after taking wine, were having their bath in the company of their wives. All of a sudden, Saint Narda happened to come there. Seeing him, both the ladies put on their clothes and got aside. But both the brothers, intoxicated as they were, kept standing naked before the saint. The saint could not tolerate their impertinence and uttered a curse on them," Go and stand as trees in Gokul for ever."
Hearing the curse, the wives of both the brothers got worried and they beseeched the saint to excuse their husband s. the saint replied, "They will be rid of this curse when Lord Vishnu appears in Gokul as Krishna." Since the curse was uttered these trees had been standing in front of Nand Baba's house. So, to keep up the word given by Saint Narda to the wives of the two brothers, Krishna dragged the mortar crawling in between the trees. The mortar got stuck up between them and when Krishna exerted force, the trees got uprooted and fell down. As soon as the trees fell down, they changed into their real forms as sons of Kubera. With folded hands, they began to praise Krishna and after seeking his permission, they returned to their place.Nand Baba and Yashoda came out running. They untied their son Krishna and fondled him time and again whereupon Krishna began to smile.
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