Yaśodā

78 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

SB 10.11.15 Mother Yaśodā said: My dear son Kṛṣṇa, lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, come here and drink the milk of my breast. My dear darling, You must be very…
SB 10.11.16 My dear Baladeva, best of our family, please come immediately with Your younger brother, Kṛṣṇa. You both ate in the morning, and now You…
SB 10.11.17 Nanda Mahārāja, the King of Vraja, is now waiting to eat. O my dear son Balarāma, he is waiting for You. Therefore, come back to please…
SB 10.11.18 Mother Yaśodā further told Kṛṣṇa: My dear son, because of playing all day, Your body has become covered with dust and sand. Therefore,…
SB 10.11.19 Just see how all Your playmates of Your own age have been cleansed and decorated with beautiful ornaments by their mothers. You should…
SB 10.11.20 My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣit, because of intense love and affection, mother Yaśodā, Kṛṣṇa’s mother, considered Kṛṣṇa, who was at the peak of…
SB 10.11.21 Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Then one time, having seen the great disturbances in Bṛhadvana, all the elderly persons among the cowherd…
SB 10.11.22 At this meeting of all the inhabitants of Gokula, a cowherd man named Upananda, who was the most mature in age and knowledge and was very…
SB 10.11.23 He said: My dear friends the cowherd men, in order to do good to this place, Gokula, we should leave it, because so many disturbances are…
SB 10.11.24 The child Kṛṣṇa, simply by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, was somehow or other rescued from the hands of the Rākṣasī…
SB 10.11.25 Then again, the demon Tṛṇāvarta, in the form of a whirlwind, took the child away into the dangerous sky to kill Him, but the demon fell…
SB 10.11.26 Even the other day, neither Kṛṣṇa nor any of His playmates died from the falling of the two trees, although the children were near the…
SB 10.11.27 All these incidents are being caused by some unknown demon. Before he comes here to create another disturbance, it is our duty to go…
SB 10.11.28 Between Nandeśvara and Mahāvana is a place named Vṛndāvana. This place is very suitable because it is lush with grass, plants and creepers…
SB 10.11.29 Therefore, let us immediately go today. There is no need to wait any further. If you agree to my proposal, let us prepare all the bullock…
SB 10.11.30 Upon hearing this advice from Upananda, the cowherd men unanimously agreed. “Very nice,” they said. “Very nice.” Thus they sorted out…
SB 10.11.31-32 Keeping all the old men, women, children and household paraphernalia on the bullock carts and keeping all the cows in front, the cowherd…
SB 10.11.33 The cowherd women, riding on the bullock carts, were dressed very nicely with excellent garments, and their bodies, especially their…
SB 10.11.34 Thus hearing about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma with great pleasure, mother Yaśodā and Rohiṇīdevī, so as not to be separated from…
SB 10.11.35 In this way they entered Vṛndāvana, where it is always pleasing to live in all seasons. They made a temporary place to inhabit by placing…
SB 10.11.36 O King Parīkṣit, when Rāma and Kṛṣṇa saw Vṛndāvana, Govardhana and the banks of the river Yamunā, They both enjoyed great pleasure.
SB 10.11.37 In this way, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, acting like small boys and talking in half-broken language, gave transcendental pleasure to all the…
SB 10.11.38 Not far away from Their residential quarters, both Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, equipped with all kinds of playthings, played with other cowherd…
SB 10.11.39-40 Sometimes Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma would play on Their flutes, sometimes They would throw ropes and stones devised for getting fruits from the…
SB 10.11.41 One day while Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, along with Their playmates, were tending the calves on the bank of the river Yamunā, another demon arrived…
SB 10.11.42 When the Supreme Personality of Godhead saw that the demon had assumed the form of a calf and entered among the groups of other calves, He…
SB 10.11.43 Thereafter, Śrī Kṛṣṇa caught the demon by the hind legs and tail, twirled the demon’s whole body very strongly until the demon was dead,…
SB 10.11.44 Upon seeing the dead body of the demon, all the cowherd boys exclaimed, “Well done, Kṛṣṇa! Very good, very good! Thank You.” In the upper…
SB 10.11.45 After the killing of the demon, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma finished Their breakfast in the morning, and while continuing to take care of the…
SB 10.11.46 One day all the boys, including Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, each boy taking his own group of calves, brought the calves to a reservoir of water,…
SB 10.11.47 Right by the reservoir, the boys saw a gigantic body resembling a mountain peak broken and struck down by a thunderbolt. They were afraid…
SB 10.11.48 That great-bodied demon was named Bakāsura. He had assumed the body of a duck with a very sharp beak. Having come there, he immediately…
SB 10.11.49 When Balarāma and the other boys saw that Kṛṣṇa had been devoured by the gigantic duck, they became almost unconscious, like senses…
SB 10.11.50 Kṛṣṇa, who was the father of Lord Brahmā but who was acting as the son of a cowherd man, became like fire, burning the root of the demon’s…
SB 10.11.51 When Kṛṣṇa, the leader of the Vaiṣṇavas, saw that the demon Bakāsura, the friend of Kaṁsa, was endeavoring to attack Him, with His arms He…
SB 10.11.52 At that time, the celestial denizens of the higher planetary system showered mallikā-puṣpa, flowers grown in Nandana-kānana, upon Kṛṣṇa,…
SB 10.11.53 Just as the senses are pacified when consciousness and life return, so when Kṛṣṇa was freed from this danger, all the boys, including…
SB 10.11.54 When the cowherd men and women heard about the killing of Bakāsura in the forest, they were very much astonished. Upon seeing Kṛṣṇa and…
SB 10.11.55 The cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, began to contemplate: It is very astonishing that although this boy Kṛṣṇa has many times faced…
SB 10.11.56 Although the causes of death, the daityas, were very fierce, they could not kill this boy Kṛṣṇa. Rather, because they came to kill…
SB 10.11.57 The words of persons in full knowledge of Brahman never become untrue. It is very wonderful that whatever Garga Muni predicted we are now…
SB 10.11.58 In this way all the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, enjoyed topics about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma with great…
SB 10.11.59 In this way Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma passed Their childhood age in Vrajabhūmi by engaging in activities of childish play, such as playing…
SB 10.12.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, one day Kṛṣṇa decided to take His breakfast as a picnic in the forest. Having risen early in the…
SB 10.12.2 At that time, hundreds and thousands of cowherd boys came out of their respective homes in Vrajabhūmi and joined Kṛṣṇa, keeping before…
SB 10.12.3 Along with the cowherd boys and their own groups of calves, Kṛṣṇa came out with an unlimited number of calves assembled. Then all the boys…
SB 10.12.4 Although all these boys were already decorated by their mothers with ornaments of kāca, guñjā, pearls and gold, when they went into the…
SB 10.12.5 All the cowherd boys used to steal one another’s lunch bags. When a boy came to understand that his bag had been taken away, the other…
SB 10.12.6 Sometimes Kṛṣṇa would go to a somewhat distant place to see the beauty of the forest. Then all the other boys would run to accompany Him,…
SB 10.12.7-11 All the boys would be differently engaged. Some boys blew their flutes, and others blew bugles made of horn. Some imitated the buzzing of…
SB 10.12.12 Yogīs may undergo severe austerities and penances for many births by practicing yama, niyama, āsana and prāṇāyāma, none of which are…
SB 10.12.13 My dear King Parīkṣit, thereafter there appeared a great demon named Aghāsura, whose death was being awaited even by the demigods. The…
SB 10.12.14 Aghāsura, who had been sent by Kaṁsa, was the younger brother of Pūtanā and Bakāsura. Therefore when he came and saw Kṛṣṇa at the head of…
SB 10.12.15 Aghāsura thought: If somehow or other I can make Kṛṣṇa and His associates serve as the last offering of sesame and water for the departed…
SB 10.12.16 After thus deciding, that crooked Aghāsura assumed the form of a huge python, as thick as a big mountain and as long as eight miles.…
SB 10.12.17 His lower lip rested on the surface of the earth, and his upper lip was touching the clouds in the sky. The borders of his mouth resembled…
SB 10.12.18 Upon seeing this demon’s wonderful form, which resembled a great python, the boys thought that it must be a beautiful scenic spot of…
SB 10.12.19 The boys said: Dear friends, is this creature dead, or is it actually a living python with its mouth spread wide just to swallow us all?…
SB 10.12.20 Thereafter they decided: Dear friends, this is certainly an animal sitting here to swallow us all. Its upper lip resembles a cloud…
SB 10.12.21 On the left and right, the two depressions resembling mountain caves are the corners of its mouth, and the high mountain peaks are its…
SB 10.12.22 In length and breadth the animal’s tongue resembles a broad traffic-way, and the inside of its mouth is very, very dark, like a cave in a…
SB 10.12.23 The hot fiery wind is the breath coming out of his mouth, which is giving off the bad smell of burning flesh because of all the dead…
SB 10.12.24 Then the boys said, “Has this living creature come to swallow us? If he does so, he will immediately be killed like Bakāsura, without…
SB 10.12.25 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is situated as antaryāmī, the Supersoul, in the core of everyone’s heart, heard the…
SB 10.12.26 In the meantime, while Kṛṣṇa was considering how to stop them, all the cowherd boys entered the mouth of the demon. The demon, however,…
SB 10.12.27 Kṛṣṇa saw that all the cowherd boys, who did not know anyone but Him as their Lord, had now gone out of His hand and were helpless, having…
SB 10.12.28 Now, what was to be done? How could both the killing of this demon and the saving of the devotees be performed simultaneously? Kṛṣṇa,…
SB 10.12.29 When Kṛṣṇa entered the mouth of Aghāsura, the demigods hidden behind the clouds exclaimed, “Alas! Alas!” But the friends of Aghāsura, like…
SB 10.12.30 When the invincible Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, heard the demigods crying “Alas! Alas!” from behind the clouds, He immediately…
SB 10.12.31 Then, because Kṛṣṇa had increased the size of His body, the demon extended his own body to a very large size. Nonetheless, his breathing…
SB 10.12.32 When all the demon’s life air had passed away through that hole in the top of his head, Kṛṣṇa glanced over the dead calves and cowherd…
SB 10.12.33 From the body of the gigantic python, a glaring effulgence came out, illuminating all directions, and stayed individually in the sky until…
SB 10.12.34 Thereafter, everyone being pleased, the demigods began to shower flowers from Nandana-kānana, the celestial dancing girls began to dance,…
SB 10.12.35 When Lord Brahmā heard the wonderful ceremony going on near his planet, accompanied by music and songs and sounds of “Jaya! Jaya!” he…
SB 10.12.36 O King Parīkṣit, when the python-shaped body of Aghāsura dried up into merely a big skin, it became a wonderful place for the inhabitants…
SB 10.12.37 This incident of Kṛṣṇa’s saving Himself and His associates from death and of giving deliverance to Aghāsura, who had assumed the form of a…
SB 10.12.38 Kṛṣṇa is the cause of all causes. The causes and effects of the material world, both higher and lower, are all created by the Supreme…
SB 10.12.39 If even only once or even by force one brings the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead into one’s mind, one can attain the supreme…