Text 10] Mother Yaésoda Binds Lord Krsna 153

TRANSLATION

When Lord Sri Krsna saw His mother, stick in hand, He very
quickly got down from the top of the mortar and began to flee as if
very much afraid. Although yogis try to capture Him as Paramatma
by meditation, desiring to enter into the effulgence of the Lord
with great austerities and penances, they fail to reach Him. But
mother Yasoda, thinking that same Personality of Godhead, Krsna,
to be her son, began following Krsna to catch Him.

PURPORT

Yogis, mystics, want to catch Krsna as Paramatma, and with great
austerities and penances they try to approach Him, yet they cannot. Here
we see, however, that Krsna is going to be caught by Yasoda and is run-
ning away in fear. This illustrates the difference between the bhakta and
the yogi. Yogis cannot reach Krsna, but for pure devotees like mother
Yasoda, Krsna is already caught. Krsna was even afraid of mother
Yasoda’s stick. This was mentioned by Queen Kunti in her prayers:
bhaya-bhdvanayé sthitasya (Bhag. 1.8.31). Krsna is afraid of mother
Yasoda, and yogis are afraid of Krsna. Yogis try to reach Krsna by jridna-
yoga and other yogas, but fail. Yet although mother Yasoda was a woman,
Krsna was afraid of her, as clearly described in this verse.

TEXT 10

MATT: «= WAT loll

anvaficamana janani brhac-calac-
chroni-bharakranta-gatih sumadhyama

jJavena visramsita-kesa-bandhana-
cyuta-prasiinadnugatih pardmrsat

anvaficamand—following Krsna very swiftly; janani—mother
Yasoda; brhat-calat-sroni-bhara-akranta-gatih —being overburdened by
