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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
were not very tranquil. In a very short time, both Krṣṇa and Balarāma began to stand up and slightly move on Their legs. When Krṣṇa and Balarāma began to walk, other friends of the same age joined Them, and together they began to give the highest transcendental pleasure to the  gopīs , specifically to mother Yaśodā and Rohiṇī.
All the  gopī  friends of Yaśodā and Rohiṇī enjoyed the naughty childish activities of Krṣṇa and Balarāma in Vṛndāvana. In order to enjoy further transcendental bliss, they all assembled and went to mother Yaśodā to lodge complaints against the restless boys. When Krṣṇa was sitting before mother Yaśodā, all the elderly  gopīs  began to lodge complaints against Him so that Krṣṇa could hear. They said, “Dear Yaśodā, why don’t you restrict your naughty Krṣṇa. He comes to our houses along with Balarāma every morning and evening, and before the milking of the cows They let loose the calves, and the calves drink all the milk of the cows. So when we go to milk the cows, we find no milk, and we have to return with empty pots. If we warn Krṣṇa and Balarāma about doing this, They simply smile charmingly. We cannot do anything. Also, your Krṣṇa and Balarāma find great pleasure in stealing our stock of yogurt and butter from wherever we keep it. When Krṣṇa and Balarāma are caught stealing the yogurt and butter, They say, ‘Why do you charge us with stealing? Do you think that butter and yogurt are in scarcity in our house?’ Sometimes They steal butter, yogurt and milk and distribute them to the monkeys. When the monkeys are well fed and do not take any more, then your hoys chide, ‘This milk and butter and yogurt are useless—even the monkeys won’t take it.’ And They break the pots and throw them hither and thither. If we keep our stock of yogurt, butter and milk in a solitary dark place, your Krṣṇa and Balarāma find it in the darkness by the glaring effulgence of the ornaments and jewels on Their bodies. If by chance they cannot find the hidden butter and yogurt, They go to our little babies and pinch their bodies so that they cry, and then They go away. If we keep our stock of butter and yogurt high on the ceiling, hanging on a swing, although it is beyond Their reach, They arrange to reach it by piling all kinds of wooden crates over the grinding machine. And if They cannot reach, They make a hole in the pot. We think therefore that you better take all the jeweled ornaments from the bodies of your children.”
On hearing this, Yaśodā would say, “All right, I will take all the jewels from Krṣṇa so that He can not see the butter hidden in the darkness.” Then the  gopīs  would say, “No, no, don’t do this. What good will you do by taking away the jewels? We do not know what kind of boys these are, but even without ornaments They spread some kind of effulgence so that