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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
In attempting to bind her son, she became tired. She was perspiring, and the garland on her head fell down. Then Lord Krṣṇa appreciated the hard labor of His mother, and being compassionate upon her, He agreed to be bound up by the ropes. Krṣṇa, playing as a human child in the house of mother Yaśodā, was performing His own selected pastimes. Of course no one can control the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The pure devotee surrenders himself unto the lotus feet of the Lord, who may either protect or vanquish the devotee. But for his part, the devotee never forgets his own position of surrender. Similarly, the Lord also feels transcendental pleasure by submitting Himself to the protection of the devotee. This was exemplified by Krṣṇa's surrender unto His mother, Yaśodā.
Krṣṇa is the supreme bestower of all kinds of liberation to His devotees, but the benediction which was bestowed upon mother Yaśodā was never experienced even by Lord Brahmā or Lord Śiva or the goddess of fortune.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as the son of Yaśodā and Nanda Mahārāja, is never so completely known to the  yogīs  and speculators. But He is easily available to His devotees. Nor is He appreciated as the supreme reservoir of all pleasure by the  yogīs  and speculators.
After binding her son, mother Yaśodā engaged herself in household affairs. At that time, bound up to the wooden mortar, Krṣṇa could see a pair of trees before Him which were known as  arjuna  trees. The great reservoir of pleasure, Lord Śrī Krṣṇa, thus thought to Himself, "Mother Yaśodā first of all left without feeding Me sufficient milk, and therefore I broke the pot of yogurt and distributed the stock butter in charity to the monkeys. Now she has bound Me up to a wooden mortar. So I shall do something more mischievous than before." And thus He thought of pulling down the two very tall  arjuna  trees.
There is a history behind the pair of  arjuna  trees. In their previous lives, the trees were born as the human sons of Kuvera, and their names were Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva. Fortunately, they came within the vision of the Lord. In their previous lives they were cursed by the great sage Nārada in order to receive the highest benediction of seeing Lord Krṣṇa. This benediction-curse was bestowed upon them because of their forgetfulness due to intoxication. This story will be narrated in the next chapter.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Ninth Chapter of Krṣṇa, "Mother Yaśodā Binding Lord Krṣṇa."