52 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

however, became angry because He was hungry and His mother was not
paying attention to Him. So He lifted His legs and began to kick His lotus
feet just like an ordinary child. Baby Krsna had been placed underneath a
hand-driven cart, and while He was kicking His legs, He accidently touched
the wheel of the cart, and it collapsed. Various kinds of utensils and brass
and metal dishes had been piled up in the hand cart, and they all fell down
with a great noise. The wheel of the cart separated from the axle, and the
spokes of the wheel were all broken and scattered hither and thither.
Mother Yasoda and all the gopis, as well:as Maharaja Nanda and the
cowherd men, were astonished as to how the cart could have collapsed by
itself. All the men and women who were assembled for the holy function
crowded around and began to suggest how the cart might have collapsed.
No one could ascertain the cause, but some small children who were
entrusted to play with baby Krsna informed the crowd that it was due to
Krsna’s striking His feet against the wheel. They assured the crowd that
they had seen how it happened with their own eyes, and they strongly
asserted the point. Some were listening to the statement of the small
children, but others said, “How can you believe the statements of these
children?” The cowherd men and women could not understand that the
all-powerful Personality of Godhead was lying there as a baby, and
He could do anything. Both the possible and impossible were in His
power. While the discussion was going on, baby Krsna cried. Without
remonstration, mother Yasoda picked the child up on her lap and called
the learned brahmanas to chant holy Vedic hymns to counteract the evil
spirits. At the same time she allowed the baby to suck her breast. If a
child sucks the mother’s breast nicely, it is to be understood that he is out
of all danger. After this, all the stronger cowherd men put the broken cart
in order, and all the scattered things were set up nicely as before. The
bradhmanas thereafter began to offer oblations to the sacrificial fire with
yogurt, butter, kusa grass, and water. They worshiped the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead for the good fortune of the child.

The brahmanas who were present at that time were all qualified because
they were not envious; they never indulged in untruthfulness, they were
never proud, they were nonviolent, and they never claimed any false
prestige. They were all bona fide brahmanas, and there was no reason to
think that their blessing would be useless. With firm faith in the qualified
brahmanas, Nanda Maharaja took his child on his lap and bathed Him with
water mixed with various herbs while the brahmanas chanted hymns from
the Rk, Yajus and Sama Vedas.

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