Dipavali Day

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Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: One day when mother Yasoda saw

that all the maidservants were engaged in other household affairs, she

personally began to churn the yogurt. While churning, she remembered

the childish activities of Krsna, and in her own way she composed songs

and enjoyed singing to herself about all those activities.

 

PURPORT

 

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, quoting from the

Vaisnava-tosani of Srila Sanatana Gosvami, says that the incident of

Krsna's breaking the pot of yogurt and being bound by mother Yasoda

took place on the Dipavali Day, or Dipa-malika. Even today in India,

this festival is generally celebrated very gorgeously in the month of

Kartika by fireworks 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

automatically flavor the milk. Mother Yasoda wanted to collect the milk

from these cows, make it into yogurt and churn it into butter

personally, since she thought that this child Krsna was going to the

houses of neighborhood gopas and gopis to steal butter because He did

not like the milk and yogurt ordinarily prepared.

 

While churning the butter, mother Yasoda was singing about the

childhood activities of Krsna. 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 Krsna's activities at any time. Therefore

she poeticized all of Krsna's childhood activities, such as the killing

of Putana, Aghasura, Sakatasura and Trnavarta, and while churning the

butter, she sang about these activities in poetical form. This should

be the practice of persons eager to remain Krsna conscious twenty-four

hours a day. This incident shows how Krsna conscious mother Yasoda was.

To stay in Krsna consciousness, we should follow such persons.

 

-SB 10.9.1-2