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Question

One day, the maidservants being engaged in other work, mother Yashoda was churning the yogurt into butter herself, and in the meantime Krishna came and requested her to allow Him to suck her breast milk. Of course, mother Yashoda immediately allowed Him to do so, but then she saw that the hot milk on the oven was boiling over, and therefore she immediately stopped allowing Krishna to drink the milk of her breast and went to stop the milk on the oven from overflowing. Krishna, however, having been interrupted in His business of sucking the breast, was very angry

Question: Why Mother Yashoda Stopped feeding/serving Krishna for the hot milk on the oven?

Source
http://vedabase.net/sb/10/9/
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 9

Answer 1

Hare Krishna,

Mother Yashoda wanted to save the milk because she planned to use that milk for preparing so many other sweets and dishes for lord Krishna. Being a devotee, her only intention is to please lord Krishna. And that's why all her activities are just centered around the pleasure of lord Krishna. She was churning for lord Krishna's pleasure, she was feeding lord Krishna for his pleasure and she wanted to save the milk also only for the pleasure of lord Krishna. That's how a devotee of lord Krishna is. All I need my lord is your unconditional devotional service birth after birth.

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Answer 2

Mother Yashoda was a personification of Durga. She was a mother with divine love. A true mother who emboddies divine love, views all children as her very own, even if they may belong to other parents. Had yashoda allowed Krishna to consume breast milk, the milk on the oven would have burned and thus become undrinkable for many others. However, by interrupting Krishna from drinking the milk and giving priority to the milk that many others would consume, she proved that she regards many other children as her own children and loves them just as much as she loves her own son.

Either that, or it may have been that the hot milk had been for religious purposes to be used as offerings.

Answer 3

Yashoda did not want the milk to over flow & fall on the fire & put it out. which would have been considered a bad omen.More over the tribe of Nanda were cowherds & milk was a sacred material,from which they prepared curds, butter, ghee etc.
She could have stopped the milk from over flowing by her divine power, but she wanted to remain as an ordinary lady .concerned about the boiling milk which in turn angered Krishna & led to the further episode..
Krishna didn't act as a divine personality.towards his mother as he wanted her to enjoy the bliss of motherhood totally

Answer 4

Everything in the household affairs of mother Yaśodā was meant for Kṛṣṇa. Although Kṛṣṇa was drinking the breast milk of mother Yaśodā, when she saw that the milk pan in the kitchen was overflowing, she had to take care of it immediately, and thus she left her son, who then became very angry, not having been fully satisfied with drinking the milk of her breast. Sometimes one must take care of more than one item of important business for the same purpose. Therefore mother Yaśodā was not unjust when she left her son to take care of the overflowing milk. On the platform of love and affection, it is the duty of the devotee to do one thing first and other things later. The proper intuition by which to do this is given by Kṛṣṇa.

teṣāḿ satata-yuktānāḿ

bhajatāḿ prīti-pūrvakam

dadāmi buddhi-yogaḿ taḿ

yena mām upayānti te

(Bg. 10.10)

In Kṛṣṇa consciousness, everything is dynamic. Kṛṣṇa guides the devotee in what to do first and what to do next on the platform of absolute truth.

It is natural that when a child becomes angry he can begin crying with false tears in his eyes. So Kṛṣṇa did this, and biting His reddish lips with His teeth, He broke the pot with a stone, entered a room and began to eat the freshly churned butter.
Seeing the pot broken and Kṛṣṇa not present, Yaśodā definitely concluded that the breaking of the pot was the work of Kṛṣṇa. There was no doubt about it. Mother Yaśodā was able to trace Kṛṣṇa by following His butter-smeared footprints. She saw that Kṛṣṇa was stealing butter, and thus she smiled. Meanwhile, the crows also entered the room and came out in fear. Thus mother Yaśodā found Kṛṣṇa stealing butter and very anxiously looking here and there.When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa saw His mother, stick in hand, He very quickly got down from the top of the mortar and began to flee as if very much afraid. Although yogīs try to capture Him as Paramātmā by meditation, desiring to enter into the effulgence of the Lord with great austerities and penances, they fail to reach Him. But mother Yaśodā, thinking that same Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, to be her son, began following Kṛṣṇa to catch Him and so on... then the pastime of damodara continued...

So, this is the reason. Krishna wanted his stealing pastime to continue and succeed. It is Krishna's plan, but not pure devotee's mistake.

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Srinivas Kumar
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Answer 5

Breast Feeding with some Tension makes Milk secretion unhealthy to Child. Hence ur mentioned thing happened that of Oven's Hotmilk Tension.

Answer 6

Milk is considered as nectar, hence spill over is a waste thus Yeshoda stopped feeding Krishna for a movement.
Shrikant S. K.

Answer 7

Yashoda Stopped feeding Krishna milk on the plea of saving the boiling milk, becuse she wanted to allow Krishna to eat the butter coming out of churing the Yogurt pot. This was one of the Pranks/Leelas of Lord Krishna, pretending as hungry for milk and then driving out Yasoda Maia to the kitchen to take the butter from the pot.-

Answer 8

I think it was becoz her attention was on the milk kept on the oven not on Krishna.

Regards


PS

There is another similar short story, i thought you might be interested in. Krishna visits Mahatma Vidur just before the war of Mahabharat and his wife offered food to Krishna. She took a banana to offer Him and instead of taking off the peel and offering him the banana, she chucked the banana and offered the banana peel.

another one about Shabri offering to Lord Rama.

Your views on this would be interesting to know.


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Dear Prahalad,

One of my friends (Krishna Devotee) has asked me to find out the source of this story. Could you please tell me from where have you read this story.

Regards

Answer 9

I am sorry that I was not present at that time to find out the reson I had perhaps gone toschool..But, however, since the questioner was present as seen from his narrration of the event and still raised the question , as he was unable to ask yasodah or quess it , I would say that she wanted to prevent the milk form spilling so that she could make moree curds and churn out more butter for krishna to consume .I learn that Krsihna was so fond of butter that he was stealing it from every household in around his house .If Yasodha could make more butter krishna would not have to steal it from other houses .Rt.?

Answer 10

She forgot that Krishna is never to be frustrated,and will see to any other business of the devotee!