Baby Damodara and the broken pot – Binding took place on the Diwali Day SB
10:9:1-2.
when mother Yasoda 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 Krsna, and in her own
way she composed songs and enjoyed singing to herself about all those
activities.
PURPORT: Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, quoting from the
Vaisnava-tosani of Srila Sanatana Gosvami, says that the incident of Krsna’s
breaking the pot of yogurt and being bound by mother Yasoda took place on
the Dipavali Day, or Dipa-malika. Even today in India, this festival is
generally celebrated very gorgeously in the month of Kartika by fireworks
and lights, especially in Bombay. It is to be understood that among all the
cows of Nanda Maharaja, several of mother Yasoda’s cows ate only grasses so
flavorful that the grasses would automatically flavor the milk. Mother
Yasoda wanted to collect the milk from these cows, make it into yogurt and
churn it into butter personally, since she thought that this child krsna was
going to the houses of neighborhood gopas and gopis to steal butter because
He did not like the milk and yogurt ordinarily prepared.
While churning the butter, mother Yasoda was singing about the childhood
activities of Krsna. It was formerly a custom that if one wanted to
remember something constantly, he would transform it into poetry or have
this done by a professional poet. It appears that mother Yasoda did not
want to forget Krsna’s activities at any time. Therefore she poeticized all
of Krsna’s childhood activities, such as the killing of Putana, Aghasura,
Sakatasura and Trnavarta, and while churning the butter, she sang about
these activities in poetical form. This should be the practice of persons
eager to remain Krsna conscious twenty-four hours a day. This incident
shows how Krsna conscious mother Yasoda was. To stay in Krsna
consciousness, we should follow such persons. (A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada. Srimad Bhagavatam 10:9:1-2. purport.)
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