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You must be tired from playing for so long.” She also addressed Balarama
thus: “My dear, the glory of Your family, please come back with Your
younger brother Krsna immediately. You have been engaged in playing
since morning, and You must be very tired. Please come back and take
Your lunch at home. Your father Nandaraja is waiting for You. He has to
eat, so You must come back so that he can eat.”

As soon as Krsna and Balarama heard that Nanda Maharaja was waiting
for Them and could not take his food in Their absence, They started to
return. Their other playmates complained, “Krsna is leaving us just at the
point when our playing is at the summit. Next time we shall not allow Him
to leave.”

His playmates then threatened not to allow Him to play with them
again. Krsna became afraid, and instead of going back home, He went
back again to play with the boys. At that time, mother Yagoda scolded the
children and told Krsna, ‘““My dear Krsna, do You think that You are a
street boy? You have no home? Please come back to Your home! I see
that Your body has become very dirty from playing since early morning.
Now come home and take Your bath. Besides, today is Your birthday
ceremony; therefore You should come back home and give cows in charity
to the brahmanas. Don’t You see how Your playmates are decorated with
ornaments by their mothers? You should also be cleansed and decorated
with nice dress and ornaments. Please, therefore, come back, take Your
bath, dress Yourself nicely, and then again You may go on playing.”

In this way mother Yagoda called back Lord Krsna and Balarama who
are worshipable by great demigods like Lord Brahma and Lord Siva. She
was thinking of Them as her children.

When mother Yagoda’s children, Krsna and Balarama, came home, she
bathed Them very nicely and dressed Them with ornaments. She then
called for the brahmanas, and through her children she gave many cows
in charity for the occasion of Krsna’s birthday. In this way she performed
the birthday ceremony of Krsna at home.

After this incident, all the elderly members of the cowherd men
assembled together, and Nanda Maharaja presided. They began to consult
amongst themselves how to stop great disturbances in the Mahavana on
account of the demons. In this meeting, Upananda, brother of Nanda
Maharaja, was present. He was considered to be learned and experienced,
and he was a well-wisher of Krsna and Balarama. He was a leader, and he
began to address the meeting as follows: “My dear friends! Now we should
leave here for another place because we are continually finding that great
demons are coming here to disturb the peaceful situation, and they are
