PLATE FOUR
One day, when mother Yaśodā was sitting with Kṛṣṇa on her lap, she suddenly observed that He had assumed the weight of the entire universe. Astonished, she had to put the child down. Then she left Kṛṣṇa sitting in the courtyard and she engaged in her household duties. All at once a demon named Tṛṇāvarta, who was a servant of King Kaṁsa's, came there in the form of a whirlwind and very easily carried the child up into the air. Covering the whole land of Gokula with particles of dust, Tṛṇāvarta began vibrating everywhere with a greatly fearful sound. For a moment, the whole pasturing ground became overcast with dense darkness from the dust storm, and mother Yaśodā, unable to find her son where she had placed Him, began to lament pitifully. Meanwhile, the whirlwind demon took Kṛṣṇa very high into the sky, but Kṛṣṇa suddenly became heavier than the demon and stopped him from going any farther. To Tṛṇāvarta, Kṛṣṇa felt as heavy as a mountain or a huge hunk of iron. But because Kṛṣṇa was tightly holding on to the demon's neck, the demon was unable to throw Him off. ( pp. 60-68 )