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Narayaneeyam Dashakam 47

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  Dasakam 47 - Ulukala Bandhanam -    Yashodha Tying Krishna to the Mortar      Click here to listen to Narayaneeyam Dashakam 47 One day, Yashoda was churning curd. Krishna was hungry and he obstructed her from churning and climbed up on her lap to drink milk. Yashoda was feeding Krishna with all her love looking at his lotus face and charming smile. Suddenly she remembered the milk on the stove. She discontinued feeding, left Krishna down, and attended to the milk overflowing in her fireplace. Krishna dissatisfied with his mother leaving him hungry, took the churning rod and broke the butter pot with it in a fit of rage. Hearing the sound of pot breaking, Yashoda came running from the kitchen. She saw the broken pot and curd spread all over the floor, just like how Krishna's fame spreads in the universe. Sages search and get the vision of the Lord through the path of Vedas. Such a Lord was not spotted by poor mother Yashoda. Later she found him standing ne...

Narayaneeyam Dashakam 46

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  NARAYANEEYAM DASAKAM 46 (Yashoda sees the universe in the mouth of baby Krishna) Click here to listen to Narayaneeyam Dashakam 46 Once Krishna after taking a feed from Yashoda, was lying flat on back on her lap. He yawned and for a moment, Yashoda saw the entire universe in his mouth.  Later, Krishna was playing with his friends. He plucked fruits promising to share them with his friends but cheated them by eating all of them. Angered friends came to Mother Yasodha and complained that Krishna ate mud.  Lord consumes the earth, water and everything during pralaya or deluge. If he eats mud, nothing can happen to him. However, Yashoda is innocent of the fact that Krishna is the Lord himself and fears that he will fall sick if he eats mud and gets angry for the act. She repeatedly asked Krishna if he had eaten mud, but Krishna smilingly denied it again and again, very assertively. Yashoda told Krishna that Balarama and their friends were confirming that he had eaten mud. Sh...

Narayaneeyam Dashakam 45

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  NARAYANEEYAM DASAKAM 45 - BALA LEELA (Krishna's Childhood Pranks) Click here to listen to Narayaneeyam Dashakam 44 Balarama and Krishna started to crawl on their hands and knees. They were interested in hearing the rhythmic sound made by their anklets put in their beautiful lotus flower-like legs and crawled with great briskness. The duo smiled exposing their beautiful new teeth, hair locks falling on their faces and the lotus-like feet, armlets slipping down to the wrists, becoming like bracelets were very attractive for the onlookers. The people who watched the two crawl followed them everywhere. Both ran away after giving an enchanting smile. When people stopped following both, the duo turned their lotus faces back, casting a look and giving incredible joy to the people. While moving fast, Krishna would fall down and get smeared and tainted by mud, Sages in heaven witnessed these pranks of the Lord and worshipped them. Rohini and Yashoda came quickly lifted them up carefully a...