Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.7.6
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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autthānika-autsukya-manāḥ
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mind absorbed in celebrating the utthāna ceremony
Autsukya (eagerness) + manāḥ (mind). Even devotional duty can crowd out direct remembrance if attention drifts to the ceremony's mechanics. Yaśodā's lapse is gentle and Kṛṣṇa-arranged — the verse warns sādhakas without scolding the mother.
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stana-arthī
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hankering to drink His mother's milk
Stana (breast) + arthin (one seeking). Kṛṣṇa, the supreme enjoyer (paramaṁ-bhoktā), allows Himself to appear as one in need of His devotee's offering. The reversal — God as artha-arthin — is the heart of Vraja-bhāva. He is the receiver who depends on the giver.
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caraṇau udakṣipat
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out of anger, threw His two legs upward
Caraṇau (the two feet) + udakṣipat (threw upward). The same lotus feet that the four Kumāras and Vedic mantras worship are here kicked angrily in a tantrum. Yoga-māyā veils the aiśvarya so that vātsalya may unfold — the Gauḍīya principle that aiśvarya hides for the sake of mādhurya.
Kṛṣṇa had been placed underneath a household handcart, but this handcart was actually another form of the Śakaṭāsura, a demon who had come there to kill the child. Now, on the plea of demanding to suck His mother’s breast, Kṛṣṇa took this opportunity to kill the demon. Thus He kicked Śakaṭāsura just to expose him. Although Kṛṣṇa’s mother was engaged in receiving guests, Lord Kṛṣṇa wanted to draw her attention by killing the Śakaṭāsura, and therefore He kicked that cart-shaped demon. Such are the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa wanted to draw the attention of His mother, but while doing so He created a great havoc not understandable by ordinary persons. These narrations are wonderfully enjoyable, and those who are fortunate are struck with wonder upon hearing of these extraordinary activities of the Lord. Although the less intelligent regard them as mythological because a dull brain cannot understand them, they are real facts. These narrations are actually so enjoyable and enlightening that Mahārāja Parīkṣit and Śukadeva Gosvāmī took pleasure in them, and other liberated persons, following in their footsteps, become fully jubilant by hearing about the wonderful activities of the Lord.
Because she was busy exchanging pleasantries and giving ornaments, garlands, candana, oil and sindhura to the village women who had assembled for the festival, Yasoda did not hear the child crying from hunger on waking (stanarthi). He kicked up his feet in anger, with the thought "You cannot hear me cry, so the sound of the cart breaking will catch your attention."
The reason that Yaśodā did not hear Kṛṣṇa crying was her attention (manasvinī), care, skill and faith in worshipping the guests since she had a generous heart. She was anxious that all the actions were done properly at the special celebration of her son rising from bed. Thus she worshipped the assembled people of Vraja with sandalwood and ornaments. The children who came there were kept at Kṛṣṇa’s side. She did not hear him cry at all (eva). Vai indicated certainty, like an oath. Otherwise she would have come, giving up the remaining duties. Wanting milk he cried. Since she was not there and kicked his feet in the air. This aptly describes the actions of an infant. According to Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, he did this to kill the demon within the cart. Let that be. Because, as the Lord, he has the natural power to resolve everything, he cried because he wanted his mother’s milk (and this accomplished his purpose of killing the demon). Keeping in mind Kṛṣṇa’s infant nature, Śukadeva has described him in this way. Kṛṣṇa was absorbed in his infant pastimes controlled by parental affection, since his nature is to be controlled by the particular type of love within his devotee. Lokaval līlā-kaivalyāc ca: as we see in the world, the Lord’s motive is sport. (Brahma-sūtra 2.1.33)
- Notice the moment in your day when hospitality, hosting, or 'good work' eclipses direct remembrance of Kṛṣṇa, and pause to chant His name before resuming.
- Identify one śakaṭa-shaped obstacle parked over your bhakti — a habit, a device, a worry — and decisively kick it aside this evening.
- Refuse to dismiss the Lord's pastimes as mythology; read this verse aloud with Prabhupāda's purport and let yourself be struck with wonder.
A potter so absorbed in shaping the rim of one pot does not hear the wheel-baby crying for milk — but the wheel is His, and He kicks it to remind her. So Kṛṣṇa, ignored even in the festival held for Him, lifts His soft foot to bring His mother's attention back to the center of the celebration.
Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi, long-lived through his japa, was once given a vision of pralaya. Floating on the cosmic waters, distracted by terror, he had forgotten the little child resting on the banyan leaf — until the child's toe gleamed and drew his attention back (SB 12.9).
Kṛṣṇa's small foot, whether kicking a cart in Vraja or shining on a banyan leaf in pralaya, is the same instrument: it pulls the absorbed mind back to its proper center, the personal Bhagavān.
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