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The Nectar of Devotion
Jaṭilā, the mother of Abhimanyu, immediately believed that Kṛṣṇa was her own son and thus became very angry at her real son who was coming home. She began to drive away her real son, who was crying, “Mother! Mother! What are you doing?” Seeing this incident, all the girl friends of Rādhārāṇī, who were present there, began to smile, and a portion of their teeth was visible. This is an instance of  hasita  smiling.
When the teeth are distinctly visible in a smile, that is called  vihasita . One day when Kṛṣṇa was engaged in stealing butter and yogurt in the house of Jaṭilā, He assured His friends, “My dear friends, I know that this old lady is now sleeping very profoundly because she is breathing very deeply. Let us silently steal butter and yogurt without making any disturbance.” But the old lady, Jaṭilā, was not sleeping; so she could not contain her smiling, and her teeth immediately became distinctly visible. This is an instance of  vihasita  smiling.
In a state of smiling, when the nose becomes puffed and the eyes squint, the smiling is called  avahasita . Once, early in the morning when Kṛṣṇa returned home after performing His  rāsa  dance, Mother Yaśodā looked upon Kṛṣṇa’s face and addressed Him thus: “My dear son, why do Your eyes look like they have been smeared with some oxides? Have You dressed Yourself with the blue garments of Baladeva?” When Mother Yaśodā was addressing Kṛṣṇa in that way, a girl friend who was nearby began to smile with a puffed nose and squinting eyes. This is an instance of  avahasita  smiling. The  gopī  knew that Kṛṣṇa had been enjoying the  rāsa  dance and that Mother Yaśodā could not detect her son’s activities nor understand how He had become covered with the  gopīs ’ makeup. Her smiling was in the  avahasita  feature.
When tears from the eyes are added to the smiling, and the shoulders are shaking, the smile is called  apahasita . When child Kṛṣṇa was dancing in response to the singing of the old maidservant Jaratī, Nārada was astonished. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who controls all the movements of great demigods like Brahmā and others, was now dancing to the indications of an old maidservant. Seeing this fun, Nārada also began to dance, and his shoulders