KRISHNA WAS BOUND ON DIPAVALI DAY

KRISHNA WAS BOUND ON DIPAVALI DAY
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srila Viswanath Chakravarti Thakur, quoting from the Vaisnava-tosanī of Srila Sanatan Goswami, says that the incident of Krishna’s breaking the pot of yogurt and being bound by mother Yasoda took place on the Dīpāvalī day, or Dīpa-mālikā. Even today in India this festival is generally celebrated very gorgeously in the month of Kārtika by fire-works and lights, especially in Bombay.
It is to be understood that among all the cows of Nanda Maharaja, several of mother Yasoda’s cows ate only grasses so flavorful that the grasses would automati-cally flavor the milk. Since Mother Yasoda thought that the child Krishna was going to the houses of neighborhood gopas and gopīs to steal butter because He did not like the milk and yogurt ordinarily prepared, she wanted to collect the milk from these special cows, make it into yogurt, and per-sonally churn it into butter.
While churning the butter, mother Yasoda was singing about the childhood activities of Krishna. It was formerly a custom that if one wanted to remember something constantly, he would transform it into poetry or have this done by a professional poet. It appears that mother Yasoda did not want to forget Krishna’s activities at any time.
Therefore she poeticized all of Krishna’s childhood activities, such as the killing of Putana, Aghasura, Sakatasura and T_navarta, and while churning the butter, she sang about these activities in poetical form. This should be the practice of per-sons eager to remain Krishna conscious twenty-four hours a day. This incident shows how Krishna conscious Mother Yasoda was. To stay in Krishna conscious-ness, we should follow such persons.
— Purport to Bhāg. 10.9.1-2.

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