Payonidhi das:
\nThere is a wonderful pastime of Krsna staling butter from Garga Samhita from the 1
\ncanto chapter 17 of this book ,I like to share it as this is the month we meditate
\non Krsna as the butterthief:<\/p>\n
Chapter Seventeen<\/p>\n
Description of the Yogurt Theft<\/p>\n
Text 1<\/p>\n
Sri N\u00e4rada said: With Their pastimes the two handsome fair and dark boys, Krsna
\nand Balar\u00e4ma, made Nanda\\\u2019s palace beautiful.<\/p>\n
Text 2<\/p>\n
O king of Mithil\u00e4, They crawled on Their hands and knees and soon They were
\nspeaking sweet words in Vraja.<\/p>\n
Text 3<\/p>\n
Yasod\u00e4 and Rohini fed, fondled and caressed the two boys. When did the boys
\nleave their laps? To whose lap did They go?<\/p>\n
Text 4<\/p>\n
Tinkling Their anklets and small bells, They enchanted the three worlds as They
\nwent here and there. By the influence of Their Yogam\u00e4y\u00e4 potency They manifested the
\nforms of two small boys. <\/p>\n
Text 5<\/p>\n
When her son\\\u2019s limbs were dark, anointed with dust by playing in the courtyard
\nwith the boys of Vraja, Yasod\u00e4 took Him and bathed Him with great care.<\/p>\n
Text 6<\/p>\n
On His hands and knees crawling first to the courtyard and then to His mother\\\u2019s
\nlap, Krsna was like a lion cub splendidly playing in Vraja. <\/p>\n
Text 7<\/p>\n
Gazing at her son dressed in yellow garments decorated with gold and splendid
\nwith a crown of jewels, Yasod\u00e4 became happy.<\/p>\n
Text 8<\/p>\n
Forgetting their homes, leaving them behind and coming to King Nanda\\\u2019s cowherd
\nvillage, all the gopis gazed at the charming and playful child Mukunda and became
\nvery happy.<\/p>\n
Text 9<\/p>\n
When infant Krsna saw the statue of a lion at the entrance to King Nanda\\\u2019s home,
\nHe became frightened and began to cry. The gopis took Him inside and compassionately
\nspoke to Yasod\u00e4.<\/p>\n
Text 10<\/p>\n
The gopis said: O beautiful one, don\\\u2019t take this restless and playful boy
\ndecorated with crows\\\u2019 feathers and the milk still in His mouth out of the courtyard
\nto play. <\/p>\n
Text 11<\/p>\n
O Yasod\u00e4, your son\\\u2019s two front teeth have now appeared. Now his maternal uncle
\nshould perform a ceremony to ward off inauspiciousness, but your son has no maternal
\nuncle.<\/p>\n
Text 12<\/p>\n
.Therefore, to destroy all obstacles you should give charity, chant Vedic
\nprayers, and worship the cows, br\u00e4hmanas, demigods, and saintly devotees.<\/p>\n
Text 13<\/p>\n
Then, to bring auspiciousness to their sons, Yasod\u00e4 and Rohini regularly gave
\ngarments, jewels, and new grains in charity.<\/p>\n
Text 14<\/p>\n
. Now walking on their two feet among the gopas\\\u2019s homes, and their glances like
\nthose of a lion\\\u2019s cub, Krsna and Balar\u00e4ma grew in the village of Vraja.<\/p>\n
Text 15<\/p>\n
With the boys of Vraja, Their friends headed by Srid\u00e4m\u00e4 and Subala, They played
\non the Yamun\u00e4\\\u2019s sandy shore.<\/p>\n
Text 16<\/p>\n
In the Yamun\u00e4\\\u2019s forests opulent with kadamba groves and sturdy black tam\u00e4la
\ntrees, Krsna and Balar\u00e4ma walked.<\/p>\n
Text 17<\/p>\n
.Delighting the gopas and gop\u00e9s with His childhood pastimes, with His friends
\nLord Hari stole butter and ghee.<\/p>\n
Text 18<\/p>\n
One day Prabh\u00e4vati-gopi, who was Upananda\\\u2019s wife, came to Nanda\\\u2019s palace and
\nspoke to Yasod\u00e4.<\/p>\n
Text 19<\/p>\n
.Sri Prabh\u00e4vati said: O Yasod\u00e4, for the two of us there is no separate property
\nin butter, ghee, milk, yogurt, and buttermilk. By your kindness yours is also
\nmine.<\/p>\n
Text 20<\/p>\n
I don\\\u2019t say you taught Him to steal. You didn\\\u2019t teach Him. Your son steals
\nbutter on His own.<\/p>\n
Text 21<\/p>\n
When I try to give Him good instruction, Your arrogant son gives me bad words
\nand runs from my courtyard.<\/p>\n
Text 22<\/p>\n
He is the son of Vraja\\\u2019s king. He should not steal. O Yasod\u00e4, there are some
\nother things also that, out of respect for you, I have not told.<\/p>\n
Text 23<\/p>\n
Sri N\u00e4rada said: After hearing Prabh\u00e4vati\\\u2019s words, Yasod\u00e4, the wife of Nanda,
\nrebuked her son, and with great love gently spoke to Prabh\u00e4vati.<\/p>\n
Text 24<\/p>\n
Sri Yasod\u00e4 said: I have ten million cows. There is so much yogurt in the house I
\ncannot move. I do not know why my little boy never drinks any of the yogurt
\nhere.<\/p>\n
Text 25<\/p>\n
Bring this yogurt-thief to me. O Prabh\u00e4vati, there is no difference between your
\nson and my son.<\/p>\n
Text 26<\/p>\n
You bring that boy here with butter in His mouth and I will give Him a lesson. I
\nwill scold Him and tie Him up.<\/p>\n
Text 27<\/p>\n
Sri N\u00e4rada Muni said: Hearing these words, the gopi became happy and went home.
\nThen one day Krsna went to her home to steal yogurt.<\/p>\n
Text 28<\/p>\n
Grasping it with one hand after another, Krsna and His boy friends gradually
\nscaled the outer wall and entered the courtyard.<\/p>\n
Text 29<\/p>\n
Seeing the yogurt was in a jug hanging on ropes beyond His hand\\\u2019s reach, by
\narranging a footstool, a grinding mortar, and the gopa boys, Lord Hari climbed up to
\nit.<\/p>\n
Text 30<\/p>\n
When even from that height the yogurt-jar hanging from ropes could not be
\nreached, Sridama and Subala hit the jar with sticks.<\/p>\n
Text 31<\/p>\n
As all the beautiful yogurt flowed from the broken jug to the ground, Krsna,
\nSubala, the boys, and some monkeys, all ate it.<\/p>\n
Text 32<\/p>\n
Hearing the sound of the jug breaking, the gopi Prabh\u00e4vati came. As the boys
\nfled, she grabbed Lord Hari\\\u2019s beautiful hand.<\/p>\n
note; Krsna is allowing Prabhavati to catch him <\/p>\n
Text 33<\/p>\n
As frightened Krsna shed false tears, she brought Him to Nanda\\\u2019s palace. Seeing
\nNanda standing there, she covered Krsna\\\u2019s face with the edge of His garment.<\/p>\n
Text 34<\/p>\n
Lord Hari thought, \\\u201dMy mother will hit Me with a stick.\\\u201d The Supreme
\nPersonality of Godhead, who can do whatever He likes, then manifested the form of
\nPrabh\u00e4vati\\\u2019s son.<\/p>\n
Text 35<\/p>\n
Yasod\u00e4 quickly came. The angry gopi said, \\\u201dHe broke a jug and stole all the
\nyogurt in it.\\\u201d<\/p>\n
Text 36<\/p>\n
Seeing Her son, Yasod\u00e4 smiled and said to the gopi, \u201cO gopi, take the edge of
\nthe garment from His face and tell the mischief He has done.<\/p>\n
note:seeing Prabhavatis own son instead of Krsna , Mother Yasoda is getting
\nangry:<\/p>\n
Text 37<\/p>\n
\\\u201dWhen it may be said my son has done mischief you may throw Him out of my
\nhouse. Your son did the theft you say my son did.\\\u201d<\/p>\n
Text 38<\/p>\n
Ashamed of what people might think, she took the cloth from His face. Seeing her
\nown son, she was surprised at heart and said:<\/p>\n
Text 39<\/p>\n
\\\u201dHow did you come here without walking? I have the treasure of Vraja in my
\nhand!\\\u201d Saying this, and taking him with her, she left Nanda\\\u2019s palace.<\/p>\n
note :Prabhavati Gopi is obviously confused how her own son was there ,when she
\nhad actually brought Krsna with her.<\/p>\n
Text 40<\/p>\n
Yasod\u00e4, Rohini, Nanda, Balar\u00e4ma, and the gopas and gopis laughed, saying, \\\u201dToday
\nwe saw a great injustice in Vraja.\\\u201d<\/p>\n
Text 41<\/p>\n
On the path outside again becoming Nanda\\\u2019s son, the Supreme Personality of
\nGodhead, smiling, confident, and His eyes restless, spoke to the gopi
\nPrabh\u00e4vati.<\/p>\n
Text 42<\/p>\n
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O gopi, if you capture Me again, I will
\ntake the form of your husband. There is no doubt of it.<\/p>\n
Text 43<\/p>\n
O king of Mithil\u00e4, when she heard this, the astonished gopi went home. From then
\non, in every home, impelled by fear of embarrassment, the gopis would not capture
\nKrsna.<\/p>\n
note: Prabhavati Gopi must have spread the news of Krsna\\\u2019s trick to other
\nelderly Gopis thus from that point on no one would restrict His sweet lilas of
\nstealing butter.
\nSrila Prabhupada mentions in the Krsna book how full the boys are even critiquing
\nthe butter and yogurt (being completely full of eating freshly churned butter and
\nyoughurt.):\\\u201d This butter and yogurt is so useless see even the monkeys do not like
\nit\\\u2019 ( even the monkeys being complete full of eating this butter and yogurt)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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