60 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

were not very tranquil. In a very short time, both Krsna and Balarama
began to stand up and slightly move on Their legs. When Krsna and
Balarama began to walk, other friends of the same age joined Them, and
together they began to give the highest transcendental pleasure to the
gopis, specifically to mother Yasoda and Rohini.

All the gopi friends of Yasoda and Rohini enjoyed the naughty childish
activities of Krsna and Balarama in Vrndavana. In order to enjoy further
transcendental bliss, they all assembled and went to mother Yasoda to
lodge complaints against the restless boys. When Krsna was sitting before
mother YaSsoda, all the elderly gopis began to lodge complaints against
Him so that Krsna could hear. They said, “Bear Yasoda, why don’t you
restrict your naughty Krsna. He comes to our houses along with Balarama
every morning and evening, and before the milking of the cows They let
loose the calves, and the calves drink all the milk of the cows. So when we
go to milk the cows, we find no milk, and we have to return with empty
pots. If we warn Krsna and Balarama about doing this, They simply smile
charmingly. We cannot do anything. Also, your Krsna and Balarama find
great pleasure in stealing our stock of yogurt and butter from wherever we
keep it. When Krsna and Balarama are caught stealing the yogurt and
butter, They say, ‘Why do you charge us with stealing? Bo you think that
butter and yogurt are in scarcity in our house?’ Sometimes They steal
butter, yogurt and milk and distribute them to the monkeys. When the
monkeys are well fed and do not take any more, then your heys chide,
‘This milk and butter and yogurt are useless—even the monkeys won’t take
it.” And They break the pots and throw them hither and thither. If we keep
our stock of yogurt, butter and milk in a solitary dark place, your Krsna
and Balarama find it in the darkness by the glaring effulgence of the
ornaments and jewels on Their bodies. If by chance they cannot find the
hidden butter and yogurt, They go to our little babies and pinch their
bodies so that they cry, and then They go away. If we keep our stock of
butter and yogurt high on the ceiling, hanging on a swing, although it is
beyond Their reach, They arrange to reach it by piling all kinds of wooden
crates over the grinding machine. And if They cannot reach, They make a
hole in the pot. We think therefore that you better take all the jeweled
ornaments from the bodies of your children.”

On hearing this, YaSoda would say, “All right, I will take all the jewels
from Krsna so that He can not see the butter hidden in the darkness.”
Then the gopis would say, “‘No, no, don’t do this. What good will you do
by taking away the jewels? We do not know what kind of boys these are,
but even without ornaments They spread some kind of effulgence so that
