She never worried about the loss of curds or milk or butter,
but the very thought of Krishna’s tender feet walking
over the hard stones in the sun was something she could not
bear. The divine Love that Krishna showered made everyone
forget everything else. He too gave such disarming replies
to the queries of the mother and the Gopis that no
one could have anything but divine love towards Him. That
is the characteristic of Divine Incarnations, at all times.
“She was carrying the milk to the
temple to be offered to God; perhaps God Himself took the
vessel away from her,” He would say, announcing indirectly
His own Reality. “I was sleeping by your side, Mother.
How then could I have gone away to their houses, to steal
their butter?” He would plead,—suggesting that
He could be in more than one place at a point of time. When
caught in the act of searching for butter, He would say that
He had put His hand in the pot, just to find out if a calf
that had run away was inside it! With such lovely retorts,
He won a place in every heart and the Gopis vied with
each other in fondling Him and serving Him.
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