Text 15] Mother Yaéoda Binds Lord Krsna 159

advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-ripam
Gdyam purdna-purusam nava-yauvanam ca
vedesu durlabham adurlabham dtma-bhaktau
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
(Brahma-samhita 5.33)

Everything is one because Krsna is the supreme cause of everything.
Krsna cannot be measured or calculated by Vedic knowledge (vedesu
durlabham). He is available only to devotees (adurlabham datma-
bhaktau). Devotees can handle Him because they act on the basis of lov-
ing service (bhaktyad mam abhijanati yavan yas cdsmi tattvatah). Thus
mother Yasoda wanted to bind Him.

TEXT 15
aT TIA TAMAS SAMRA FATA: |
gaged TASTY TT ULM

tad dama badhyamanasya
svdrbhakasya krtagasah

dvy-arigulonam abhit tena
sandadhe ’nyac ca gopika

tat ddma—that binding rope; badhyamdnasya—who was being
bound by mother Yasoda; sva-arbhakasya—of her own son; krta-
agasah—who was an offender; dvi-arigula—by a measurement of two
fingers; unam—short; abhit—became; tena—with that rope; san-
dadhe—joined; anyat ca—another rope; gopika—mother Yasoda.

TRANSLATION

When mother Yasoda was trying to bind the offending child, she
saw that the binding rope was short by a distance the width of two
fingers. Thus she brought another rope to join to it.

PURPORT

Here is the first chapter in Krsna’s exhibition of unlimited potency to
mother Yasoda when she tried to bind Him: the rope was too short. The
