158 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 9
indeed; ca—also; aparam—end; pirva-aparam—the beginning and the
end; bahih ca antah—the external and the internal; jagatah—of the
whole cosmic manifestation; yah—one who is; jagat ca yah—and who is
everything in creation in total; tam—Him; matvé—considering; dtma-
jJam—her own son; avyaktam—the unmanifested; martya-liigam—
appearing as a human being; adhoksajam—beyond sense perception;
gopikad—mother Yasoda; uliikhale—to the grinding mortar; damnad—by
a rope; babandha—bound; prdkrtam yatha—as done to a common
human child.
TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no beginning and no
end, no exterior and no interior, no front and no rear. In other
words, He is all-pervading. Because He is not under the influence
of the element of time, for Him there is no difference between
past, present and future; He exists in His own transcendental form
at all times. Being absolute, beyond relativity, He is free from dis-
tinctions between cause and effect, although He is the cause and
effect of everything. That unmanifested person, who is beyond the
perception of the senses, had now appeared as a human child, and
mother Yasoda, considering Him her own ordinary child, bound
Him to the wooden mortar with a rope.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita (10.12), Krsna is described as the Supreme Brah-
man (param brahma param dhama). The word brahma means “‘the
greatest.” Krsna is greater than the greatest, being unlimited and all-
pervading. How can it be possible for the all-pervading to be measured
or bound? Then again, Krsna is the time factor. Therefore, He is all-
pervading not only in space but also in time. We have measurements of
time, but although we are limited by past, present and future, for Krsna
these do not exist. Every individual person can be measured, but Krsna
has already shown that although He also is an individual, the entire cos-
mic manifestation is within His mouth. All these points considered,
Krsna cannot be measured. How then did Yagodad want to measure Him
and bind Him? We must conclude that this took place simply on the plat-
form of pure transcendental love. This was the only cause.
