Pastime 1 One day, the little child Krishna was playing with His Sakhas. Suddenly, He ate a handful of the dust of Vrindavan. The Sakhas saw this and said, “Kanhaiya! We will tell mother Yashoda what you have done! You ate mud!” Kanhaiya was quite afraid that mother Yashoda might beat Him with her stick today. Nonetheless, all the Sakhas took Kanhaiya to mother Yashoda and told her everything. The Sakhas thought that if they didn’t inform this to mother Yashoda, she would reprimand them later when He would fall sick or develop a stomach pain. “Mother Yashoda, Kanhaiya ate mud!” they said. Mother Yashoda became angry. “Kanhaiya! Did you eat mud?” she asked Kanhaiya. But Kanhaiya didn’t say anything since there was mud in His mouth and as soon as He would speak, mother Yashoda would see the mud. He just shook his head to say no. “Why don’t you speak? Say yes or no,” said mother Yashoda. But Kanhaiya still shook His head and made an “uh-oh” sound to deny it. At this point, He was terrif
Krishna performs His Lilas to relish Ānanda and give Ānanda to His devotees. These Ānanda Lilas are full of a variety of moods, events and details of Rasa called Vaichitri. All the pastimes of God are completely blissful, but through Lila Vaichitri, Ānanda is relished in various forms. Just like how boiling milk swells up, though it does not increase in volume, Ānanda swells up (or expands) through Lila Vaichitri. In Vrindavan Lilas, Krishna and Radharani are Mugdha. They are not omniscient. The Lord of the infinite universes, who is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, willingly gets veiled by Yogamaya and forgets His Lordship. He considers Himself as an ordinary person. He engages in an eternal drama with His devotees. The Director and Producer of this drama is His internal potency, Yogamaya. She not only creates each pastime of Radha Krishna but also makes it happen flawlessly. There are three potencies of Krishna: Swarupa Shakti (internal potency), Jiva/Tatasthā Shakti (margin