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Dear sri vaishNavap perunthagaiyeer,

We are searching the meaning of the `upanishadhs and vEdhaas tied in 
the grinding stones' lying in the houses of vallavees ? the gOpees. 
These ladies tie that meaning, my krishNa, and then name him 
as `dhoortha swamy'. Perhaps mother yasOdhaa leads these ladies, by 
example, in doing that act ? of punishing her own son - that dhoortha 
swamy ? that naughty krishNa. Since we are going to see more modern 
day management points from krishNa's child plays and from sreemadh 
bhaagavatham, I take this as the first point here. `leading by 
example' is one of the pet jargons of the present day management 
experts ? mother yasodha does that.

But, why all this tying in mortar etc, that too by that loving mother 
yasOdhaa, who loves her child most. Is it a punishment the lord gives 
to himself for he has done that mischief of stealing butter etc. Or 
is it punishment for that acts which earned him that name dhoortha 
swamy? Or is it a lesson to mother yasOdhaa and then as an extension, 
they're of to us? 

It was clear, there was the `lapse of concentration' on yasOdhaa's 
part, in NOT doing one thing at a time. As present day management 
experts say ? particularly while doing `time management' lessons or 
in sessions ? "do one thing at a time with full concentration and 
complete it", "then take up the next job" ? or prioritize your job 
and do top most one first and then do the second etc, in the order 
going down in priorities. 

Now let us see the situation: One day, since maidservants were 
engaged in other woks, Mother yasOdhaa was boiling milk on the oven. 
Also she had the comb in her head tucked in along with flowers for 
she has not finished her work with the hair. Meanwhile she started on 
churning curd in the pot to get the butter. While she was busy 
churning, Krishna, the child, came nearby and wanted himself to be 
breastfed. As a mother, that too an affectionate mother, she started 
feeding Krishna, leaving that work of churning midway [incidentally 
the first work of boiling milk is in progress]. 

Dear sirs and madams, these are not all my imagination. Bhaagavatham 
slOkams are given below to prove this point. While the child krishNa 
was being fed, suddenly the hot milk started flowing out from the pot 
kept on oven. She rushed to the place of oven, leaving aside the 
child krishNa in the middle of feeding, to remove the pot from oven, 
or to save the milk from overflowing and oven getting quenched by 
milk. Meanwhile child krishNa got angry, broke the pot, taken the 
butter and gave to monkeys. 

That shows 
-       she placed the milk pot on oven, - first job incomplete. 
-       Comb kept in hair ? that job is also incomplete.
-       without completing these two jobs, she started churning curd. 
That job started also remained incomplete, because another priority 
came up. 
-       Just stopping in the middle of churning, she started feeding 
the child, because he wanted feeding. 
-       Has this been completed? No. For she has to rush suddenly to 
save milk from spilling away. 
-       Has it fully done. Not sure ? for - since krishNa got angry 
in the middle and started breaking the pot, she rushed back to see 
what happened.

Now analyse the results.
1.      The hot milk kept for boiling spilt from pot on the oven- so 
milk lost.
2.      The churning work was incomplete, as she left that in the 
middle to feed.
3.      Feeding is also incomplete. Result is child krishna's anger. 
4.      Consequence - the curd pot was broken and the total contents 
of churning pot is lost and also the pot.
5.      The whole house is spread with spilled milk, buttermilk, and 
butter etc.
6.      Since hair combing also not complete her hair became loose 
and flowers comb etc fell down when she searched for more ropes in 
the house to tie krishNa.

It is but natural for any child to be angry with mother, when he is 
suddenly stopped of being fed. For all her lapses, as above, the 
height of all her actions, is, in punishing Krishna, by tying him to 
mortar. As already written by sri sadagopan iyengar ? Krishna became 
the scapegoat for his mother's inefficiencies or lapses of 
concentration to put it mildly. 

Since, she was not doing one at a time, she messed up a lot and also 
started punishing my poor krishNa. Has she succeeded at least in that 
with ease? NO. 
She had to undergo a lot of physical strain in searching for the 
ropes - since every time she tied the rope was less 
by `dhvayangulam' ? 2 inches or 2 finger width. ? [that description 
of her difficulty is another beauty of description.]

Now the slokams. Slokam 1 and 2 et al from chapter 9 dhasama 
skandham - srimadh bhaagavatham.

Sri sukha uvaacha
Ekadha grha-dhaasisu yasOdhaa nandha-gEhinee
karmaanthara-niyukthaasu nirmamantha svayam dhaDhi
yaani yaaneeha geethaani thadh-baala-charithaani cha
dhadhi-nirmanthanE kaalE smaranthi thaany agaayatha

meaning: Sri Sukha maharshi said: One day when mother YasOdhaa 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 KrishNa, and in her own way she 
composed songs and enjoyed singing to herself about all those 
activities.

Slokam 4
thaam sthanya-kaama aasaadhya mathnantheem jananeem hari:
grhithvaa dhaDhi-manthanam nyasEDhath preethim aavahan ||

meaning: While mother YasOdhaa was churning butter, Lord KrishNa, 
desiring to drink the milk of her breast, appeared before her, and in 
order to increase her transcendental pleasure, He caught hold of the 
churning rod and began to prevent her from churning.

Slokam 5
tham ankam aaruDam apayayath sthanam snEha-snutham sa-smitham 
eekshathi mukham
athruptham uthsrjya javEna sa yayaav uthsichyamaanE payasi 
thvadhisrithE

meaning:  Mother YasOdhaa, then embraced Krsna, allowed Him to sit 
down on her lap, and began to look upon the face of the child krishNa 
with great love and affection. Because of her intense affection, milk 
was flowing from her breast. But when she saw that the milk pan on 
the oven was boiling over, she immediately left her son, to take care 
of the overflowing milk, although the child was not yet fully 
satisfied with drinking the milk of His mother's breast.

Slokam 6
sanjaatha-kOpa: sphuritha aruna adharam sandhasya dhadhbhir dhaDhi-
mantha-bhaajanam
bhiththva mrsa asrur dhrsadh-asmana rahO jaghasaa haiyangavam 
antharam gatha:

meaning: Being very angry and biting His reddish lips with His teeth, 
Krsna, with false tears in His eyes, broke the container of yogurt 
with a piece of stone. Then He entered a room and began to eat the 
freshly churned butter in a solitary place.

Slokam 15
thadh dhaama badhyamaanasya svaarbhakasya krtha aagasa:
dhvyangulOnam abhoot thEna sandhaDhE'nyach cha gOpikaa

meaning: When mother YasOdhaa was trying to bind the offending child, 
she saw that the binding rope was short by a distance, the width of 
two fingers. Thus she brought another rope to join to it.

Slokam 16
yadhaaseeth thadh api nyoonam thEna anyadhapi sandhaDhE
thadh api dhvy-angulam nyoonam yadh yadh adhaththa bandhanam

meaning: This new rope also was short by a measurement of two 
fingers, and when another rope was joined to it, it was still two 
fingers too short. As many ropes as she joined, all of them failed; 
their shortness could not be overcome.

Slokam 17
Evam sva-gEha-dhaamani yasOdhaa sandhaDhathyapi
gOpeenaam susmayantheenaam smayanthi vismithaa abhavath
meaning:  Thus mother YasOdhaa joined whatever ropes were available 
in the household, but still she failed in her attempt to bind 
KrishNa. Mother YasOdhaa's friends, the elderly gOpees in the 
neighborhood, were smiling and enjoying the fun. Similarly, mother 
YasOdhaa, although laboring in that way, was also smiling. All of 
them were struck with wonder.

Point: The positive result came when she is focused fully ? in that 
one act ? that act of tying him. As modern management experts say ? 
results are easy when work is done with full concentration and at 
full energy levels. 

So the best lesson for us while "searching in mortar" is "to do one 
thing at a time in full concentration ? then success is assured. 
There also, yet another minor point is to be picked up - [? or major 
point?] He that supreme lord ? krishNa - must also help us, for our 
success, by showering his grace ? like helping his mother by allowing 
himself to be tied. 

Slokam 18
sva-maathu: svinna-gaathraya visrastha-kabaara-sraja:
dhrshtva parisramam krshNa: krpayaa aaseeth sva-bandhanE ||

meaning: Because of mother YasOdhaa's hard labor, her whole body 
became covered with perspiration, and the flowers and comb were 
falling from her hair. When child KrishNa saw His mother thus 
fatigued, He became merciful to her and agreed to be bound.

Point: See that `binding description' ? he agreed to be bound. That 
is the result of focused attention. 

Is that all in searching? No sir we have not yet seen that 
dhaamOdhara vaibhavam. That is in next post.

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g.








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