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| Damodarastakam (20 x 30") SKU: GDA=2030 |
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| by Syamarani dasi |
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["I worship that Damodara who, afraid of the stick in His mother’s hand, cries and time and again rubs His eyes with both His lotus hands, whose eyes express extreme fearfulness, whose sobbing makes the jeweled and pearl necklaces upon His neck marked with three lines shake, and whose belly is bound only by His mother’s devotion." (Sri Damodarastakam, verse 2)]
Sri Krsna knew the upper part of the clay pot was very thick and the lower part was thin. He hit the pot with the stone used for grinding spices, and easily smashed a hole in the lower area. He watched with great pleasure as the butter flowed out in a steady stream like a river, because He was so naughty.
At this time Yasoda was standing at the stove where the milk was boiling. Taking some cold water and sprinkling it over the milk to stop it from boiling over she said, "Oh milk, don't worry. Don't commit suicide by jumping into the fire. I will save you, and engage you in the service of my boy." Hearing this and having water sprinkled on it, the boiling milk subsided and became peaceful.
Mother Yasoda then returned to where Krsna had broken the butter pot. Seeing the wreckage she cried out, "What has happened? Where is that naughty boy?" She began to look for her son, and then she saw His buttery footprints. The footprints were very little and there were many auspicious symbols in them, and seeing them she could understand where Krsna had gone.
Following Krsna's footprints she thought, "He has entered this room." She then also entered the room, just like a cat, without a sound. She saw Krsna standing on the upturned grinding mortar. As He was watching the door, out of the corner of His eye, to see whether His mother was coming with a stick, He was distributing butter from the pot among the monkeys and crows.
Watching this scene Yasoda thought, "As He gets older He will become a criminal if don’t try to rectify Him in His youth." Taking a little stick, she very slowly and silently, like a cat, entered the room to try to catch hold of Him, but He had one eye focused towards the door. He was thinking, "If Mother comes, what will I do?"
Krsna was naked, wearing only tinkling bells tied around His waist. He was running, looking back towards His mother from the corner of His eyes in fear and thinking, “Mother is coming, and she will surely beat Me!” Lord Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He has unlimited power, but now He was running in fear as He saw His mother coming to beat Him with a stick. He thought, “What should I do?” and begged, "Mother! Don't beat Me!”
Holding up the stick she was carrying, she told Krsna, “Stop! I have my stick!”
Frightened, Krsna replied, "O, lovely Mother! Please don't beat Me!
“Why shouldn’t I beat You?”
“What offences have I made? Can you tell Me?"
"Yes, I can tell You. Why have You broken the pot?"
"Mother, what is this? I have not broken any vessel. But someone has. Who could have done it?"
"You have done it."
"Mother, you are wearing heavy golden ornaments on your ankles. I think that when you were running they must have broken the pot."
"I have not broken it. You are a big liar.”
"I am the son of Nanda-Baba; I am not a liar. You are a liar.
"Why?"
"In our dynasty there are no thieves or liars. It may be that liars and cheaters have come in your dynasty, but in My dynasty, there are no cheaters."
Hearing this, Yasoda began to smile.
Krsna then said, "Mother! Lovely mother, don't beat me!"
Yasoda replied, “Oh, yes. I want to teach You a good lesson."
In order to catch Him, Mother Yasoda would have had to run faster than Him, and she did so.
Yasoda was running faster than Krsna. Krsna loves her, but His love and affection is divided into millions of fractions. It is divided among all His devotees. Mother Yasoda's running faster than Krsna means that her love for Him was not divided. This is the siddhanta (conclusive established truth) of Damodara-lila. |
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·About the Artist
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After graduating from Music and Art High School in 1964, Syamarani dasi became a student at New York City College, majoring in art and history. In 1966, at the age of 19, she met her spiritual master. ...
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·Her Inspiration
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The elaborate details of the beautiful paintings created by Syamarani dasi do not come from the artist’s imagination. Rather, all the details come from descriptions found in the Sanskrit texts of the ancient ...
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