Text 22] Lord Kṛṣṇa Shows the Universal Form
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Kṛṣṇa;  jānubhyām —by the strength of Their knees;  saha pāṇibhyām —resting on Their hands;  riṅgamāṇau —crawling;  vijahratuḥ —enjoyed childhood play.
TRANSLATION
After a short time passed, both brothers, Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, began to crawl on the ground of Vraja with the strength of Their hands and knees and thus enjoy Their childhood play.
PURPORT
One  brāhmaṇa  devotee says:
śrutim apare smṛtim itare bhāratam anye bhajantu bhava-bhītāḥ aham iha nandaṁ vande yasyālinde paraṁ brahma
“Let others, fearing material existence, worship the  Vedas , the Vedic supplementary  Purāṇas  and the  Mahābhārata , but I shall worship Nanda Mahārāja, in whose courtyard the Supreme Brahman is crawling.” For a highly exalted devotee,  kaivalya , merging into the existence of the Supreme, appears no better than hell ( narakāyate ). But here one can simply think of the crawling of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma in the courtyard of Nanda Mahārāja and always merge in transcendental happiness. As long as one is absorbed in thoughts of  kṛṣṇa-līlā , especially Kṛṣṇa’s childhood pastimes, as Parikṣit Mahārāja desired to be, one is always merged in actual  kaivalya . Therefore Vyāsadeva compiled  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam .  Lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām  ( Bhāg. 1.7.6 ). Vyāsadeva compiled  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , under the instruction of Nārada, so that anyone can take advantage of this literature, think of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes and always be liberated.
śrutim apare smṛtim itare bhāratam anye bhajantu bhava-bhītāḥ aham iha nandaṁ vande yasyālinde paraṁ brahma
TEXT 22
तात्रङ्घ्रियुग्ममनुकृष्य सरीसृपन्तौ घोषप्रघोषरुचिरं त्रजकर्दमेषु ।