Post 3
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.
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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