(From Madhurya-Tattva-Vijnana, by Sri Ananta Dasa Babaji Maharaja)
The quality of madhurya is extraordinarily displayed in Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna's human-like pastimes whether his boundless power is manifest or not. Having described the sweetness of nara-lila within the demon-killing pastimes, which contain manifestations of aisvarya, in Bhag.10.8.22 Sripada Shukamuni paints a beautiful picture of the unprecedented sweetness of Krishna’s crawling pastimes, beginning after Gargacarya performed the name-giving ceremony for both Krishna and Baladeva:
tAv aGghri-yugmam anukRSya sarIsRpantau
ghoSa-praghoSa-ruciraM vraja-kardameSu |
tan nAda-hRSTa-manasAv anusRtya lokaM
mugdha-prabhItavad upeyatur anti mAtroH ||
Subjugated by Sri Nanda-Yasomati’s parental love, Sri Krishna and Sri Baladeva, the abodes of all power, fulfilled their parents’ wishes by sometimes sitting in their laps or at other times lying in bed with them. Continuously crawling around inside their home, they gradually got stronger and soon began crawling around the courtyard. They crawled this way and that, dragging their lotus feet through the courtyard muddied by milk and urine from Nanda Maharaja’s cows. Overjoyed to hear the tinkling of their own anklets and waist-bells, they murmured sweet sounds and crawled even faster. Sometimes the boys would follow the affectionate ladies of Vraja as they passed by and then, as though perplexed and afraid, they would hurry back and dive into their mothers’ laps. Feeling deep motherly affection, Yasoda and Rohini would embrace their mud-smeared sons and hold them at their breasts, filling the boys’ mouths with a continuous stream of milk. Seeing a few beautiful, delicate teeth adorning the smiling mouths of their breast-feeding sons, the two mothers floated in an ocean of joy.
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