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First written on February 22, 2005 Revised and Updated on June 16, 2007 Srimad Bhagavatham - Chapter 7 - Yashoda binding Krishna with a rope One day, Mother Yashoda personally engaged in household chores. She began to churn butter while she had kept some milk for boiling on the oven. She was also feeding baby Krishna, when milk boiled over. She put Krishna aside and went to the oven to remove the milk from boiling over or burning completely. Milk boiling over or getting burnt is considered to be a bad omen. This angered the child who was hungry. To show his anger, Krishna broke the pot in which she was churning the butter and ran away from the scene. When Yashoda returned, she found the pot broken and understood the handiwork of Krishna. She decided to punish him and started searching for him. She saw Krishna sitting on a big wooden grinding mortar. She silently approached him with a stick. When Krishna saw her coming with a stick, he quickly began to flee from the scene. Mother Yashoda started chasing and tried to capture him but could not so easily. After considerable efforts, she finally caught up with him. She decided to bind him with a rope to the mortar as a sort of punishment for his misbehavior. She collected a rope and while tying she found the rope short. She collected more ropes but the same thing happened and she found the rope short and unable to tie the knot. Krishna was playing with her. Being the supreme lord, he has no beginning or end and it would be impossible for anyone to bind him. Yashoda was flabbergasted and unable to understand what was happening. She was a simple soul and Krishna was her baby. She hardly knew his divine origin. Finally, after considerable time and labor, Krishna allowed her to tie him up. He than decided to drag the wooden mortar and got stuck between two trees. These two trees were two angels cursed by Sage Narada and were to be relieved of their curse by Lord Krishna . When Krishna dragged the mortar hard, the two trees fell down and two dazzling angels came out offered their respects to him. They disappeared afterwards. When villagers were upset about the trees falling, the other children assured them that it was due to Krishna pulling the mortar stuck between the two trees and that two dazzling angels had come out of them and spoke to Krishna. The villagers thought it was the children's wild imagination and did not believe them. Mother Yashoda again thought that some calamity was avoided and again started praying for the welfare of her child.      End of Chapter 7 Written by Madhavan T Gopalachary The views, opinions and interpretations are personal. Sponsorship does not mean that the sponsors endorse them. Editorial Policy © Copyright, Jun-07 . www.madgopes.com . Without prejudice. All rights reserved www.mmgindia.com is the official website of Madras Management Group, Chennai, India. www.madgopes.com and www.mmg.name are personal websites and all editorials are published under their banner to retain editorial independence. We would highly appreciate feedback from readers and it may be sent to feedback@mmg.name