“Oh, mother will bind me”.

His tears flow right away, erasing the mascara from his eyes. With respectful eyes, He pleads with heart:

“Forgive Me, mother, I know how to have offended you”.

With that, He bends his head on the spot. Seeing how much Krishna fears her, Yashoda is also troubled. She does not want Krishna to suffer from her punishment; that is not his goal.

When He still walked on all fours, He disturbed his mother in her household duties, and to punish him, she tied him to a mortar. But the mischievous child dragged the mortar to the point of wedging it between two very tall arjuna trees which adorned the garden; Krsna fired at the mortar, and the two trees fell down with a terrible crash. When Yasodamayi saw her child safe and sound, she believed that He had been saved by the mercy of the Lord, without knowing that this same Lord was playing in His garden and He Himself had caused this catastrophe.

Such is the nature of the love-loving relationships that unite the Lord to his devotees. Yasodamayi had wished to have the Lord as a child, and in response, he behaved exactly like a little child in his mother's arms, although he displayed his omnipotence when he deemed it necessary. The wonderfulness of these Divertures comes from the fact that the Lord fulfills everyone's desires. In fact, when He caused the huge arjuna trees to fall down, He had set himself the task of rescuing the two sons of Kuvera whom the curse of Narada had condemned to take the form of trees; but at the same time, he played on all fours in the garden of Yasoda, which, to see it thus, tasted a purely spiritual pleasure. Sri Krsna remains in all circumstances the Lord of the universe, and He can act as such whatever his size ...

One day, Krishna was bothering Mother Yasoda so much that she wanted to tie the turbulent child to punish him. But her rope was too short, and although she tried to join other strings to make it longer, it was still missing a few centimeters. While lassitude won her, the Lord opened his mouth, and his loving mother could see all the universes together. What a stupefaction! But through her deep affection for Krishna, Mother Yasoda thought that Narayana, the almighty Lord, was kindly watching over her son to protect him from all the calamities that were continually falling upon Him. Because of her love for Krishna, she could never have conceived that her own son was Narayana himself, the Supreme Lord. This is the yogamaya, the internal power of the Supreme Lord, which serves to perfect all the Entertainment He shares with his various devotees.

Who could accomplish such wonders except God Himself?

The mentality that reigns in Vrindavan is therefore perfectly suited to devotees. The inhabitants of Vrindavan do not care to understand Krishna. They prefer to love Him unconditionally.