Text 39] Lord Krsna Shows the Universal Form 121
yady evar tarhi vyadehi-
ty uktah sa bhagavan harih
vyddattavyahataisvaryah
kridd-manuja-balakah

yadi—if; evam—it is so; tarhi—then; vyddehi—open Your mouth
wide (I want to see); iti uktah—in this way ordered by mother Yaégoda;
sah—He; bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; harih—the
Supreme Lord; vyddatta—opened His mouth; avydhata-aisvaryah—
without minimizing any potencies of absolute opulence (aisvaryasya
samagrasya); krida—pastimes; manuja-bdlakah—exactly like the child
of a human being.

TRANSLATION

Mother Yasoda challenged Krsna, “‘If You have not eaten earth,
then open Your mouth wide.” When challenged by His mother in
this way, Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda, to exhibit
pastimes like a human child, opened His mouth. Although the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, who is full of all opu-
lences, did not disturb His mother’s parental affection, His opu-
lence was automatically displayed, for Krsna’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, Krsna
opened His mouth and displayed His own natural opulences. When a per-
son is given varieties of food, there may be a hundred and one varieties,
but if one likes ordinary saka, spinach, he prefers to eat that. Similarly,
although Krsna was full of opulences, now, by the order of mother
Yasoda, He opened wide His mouth like a human child and did not
neglect the transcendental humor of maternal affection.

TEXTS 37-39
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