The Stealing of the Boys and Calves by Brahma 89

The mothers of the boys heard the vibration of their flutes before
their entrance, and to receive them, they came out of their homes and
embraced them. And out of maternal affection, milk was flowing from
their breasts, and they allowed the boys to drink it. However, their
offering was not exactly to their boys but to the Supreme Personality of
Godhead who had expanded Himself into such boys. This was another
chance for all the mothers of Vrndavana to feed the Supreme Personality
of Godhead with their own milk. Therefore Lord Krsna gave not only
Yasoda the chance of feeding Him, but this time He gave the chance to
all the elderly gopis.

All the boys began to deal with their mothers as usual, and the mothers
also, on the approach of evening, began to bathe their respective children,
decorate them with tilaka and ornaments and give them necessary food
after the day’s labor. The cows also, who were away in the pasturing
ground, returned in the evening and began to call their respective calves.
The calves immediately came to their mothers, and the mothers began to
lick the bodies of the calves. These relations between the cows and the
gopis with their calves and boys remained unchanged, although actually the
original calves and boys were not there. Actually the cows’ affection for
their calves and the elderly gopis’ affection for the boys causelessly in-
creased. Their affection increased naturally, even though the calves and
boys were not their offspring. Although the cows and elderly gopis of
Vrndavana had greater affection for Krsna than for their own offspring,
after this incident, their affection for their offspring increased exactly as it
did for Krsna. For one year continually, Krsna Himself expanded as the
calves and cowherd boys and was present in the pasturing ground.

As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna’s expansion is situated in
everyone’s heart as the Supersoul. Similarly, instead of expanding Himself
as the Supersoul, He expanded Himself as a portion of calves and cowherd
boys for one continuous year.

One day, when Krsna, along with Balarama, was maintaining the calves
in the forest, They saw some cows grazing on the top of Govardhana Hill.
The cows could see down into the valley where the calves were being
taken care of by the boys. Suddenly, on sighting their calves, the cows
began to run towards them. They leaped downhill with joined front and
rear legs. The cows were so melted with affection for their calves that they
did not care about the rough path from the top of Govardhana Hill down
to the pasturing ground. They began to approach the calves with their
milk bags full of milk, and they raised their tails upwards. When they were
coming down the hill, their milk bags were pouring milk on the ground
