Chapter 9: Mother Yaśodā Binds Lord Kṛṣṇa

Synonyms

na—not; ca—also; antaḥ—interior; na—nor; bahiḥ—exterior; yasya—whose; na—neither; pūrvam—beginning; na—nor; api—indeed; ca—also; aparam—end; pūrva-aparam—the beginning and the end; bahiḥ ca antaḥ—the external and the internal; jagataḥ—of the whole cosmic manifestation; yaḥ—one who is; jagat ca yaḥ—and who is everything in creation in total; tam—Him; matvā—considering; ātmajam—her own son; avyaktam—the unmanifested; martya-liṅgam—appearing as a human being; adhokṣajam—beyond sense perception; gopikā—Mother Yaśodā; ulūkhale—to the grinding mortar; dāmnā—by a rope; babandha—bound; prākṛtam yathā—as done to a common human child..

Translation

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no beginning and no end, no exterior and no interior, no front and no rear. In other words, He is all-pervading. Because He is not under the influence of the element of time, for Him there is no difference between past, present and future; He exists in His own transcendental form at all times. Being absolute, beyond relativity, He is free from distinctions between cause and effect, although He is the cause and effect of everything. That unmanifested person, who is beyond the perception of the senses, had now appeared as a human child, and Mother Yaśodā, considering Him her own ordinary child, bound Him to the wooden mortar with a rope.

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