Text 39]
Lord Krṣṇa Shows the Universal Form
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yady evam tarhi vyādehī- ty uktaḥ sa bhagavān hariḥ vyādattāvyāhataiśvaryaḥ krīḍā-manuja-bālakaḥ
yadi—if; evam—it is so; tarhi—then; vyādehi—open Your mouth wide (I want to see); iti uktaḥ—in this way ordered by mother Yaśodā; saḥ—He; bhagavān—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; hariḥ—the Supreme Lord; vyādatta—opened His mouth; avyāhata-aiśvaryaḥ—without minimizing any potencies of absolute opulence (aiśvaryasya samagrasya); krīḍā—pastimes; manuja-bālakaḥ—exactly like the child of a human being.
TRANSLATION
Mother Yaśodā challenged Krṣṇa, “If You have not eaten earth, then open Your mouth wide.” When challenged by His mother in this way, Krṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā, to exhibit pastimes like a human child, opened His mouth. Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krṣṇa, who is full of all opulences, did not disturb His mother’s parental affection, His opulence was automatically displayed, for Krṣṇa’s opulence is never lost at any stage, but is manifest at the proper time.
PURPORT
Without disturbing the ecstasy of His mother’s affection, Krṣṇa opened His mouth and displayed His own natural opulences. When a person is given varieties of food, there may be a hundred and one varieties, but if one likes ordinary  śāka , spinach, he prefers to eat that. Similarly, although Krṣṇa was full of opulences, now, by the order of mother Yaśodā, He opened wide His mouth like a human child and did not neglect the transcendental humor of maternal affection.
TEXTS 37–39
सा तत्र ददृशे विश्वं जगत् स्थास्नु च खं दिशः।
साद्रिद्वीपान्धिभूगोलं सवाय्वग्रीन्दुतारकम् ॥३७॥