Damodarashtakam Verse 02 – The Lord can be bound by nothing but love

Hare Krishna Damodarashtakam verse 2 rudantam muhur netram yugmam rujantam karambhoja yugmena satanka netram muhu shvasa kampa tri rekha kanta sthita graivam damodaram bhakti baddham so in this meditation on the Damodarashtakam Satyavrata Muni as in the first was described the extraordinariness of the situation that the Lord who is Ishwara is caught paramrishtam todutya gopya is God Gopi Yashodamayi ran faster than him and caught him now in this verse is continuing the past time rudantam and now when the Lord is caught the Lord is crying rudantam muhur netram so Krishna tells Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita that tears and crying is a sign of ignorance of the bodily conception of life so how is it that Krishna can cry actually it is not crying that itself is a sign of bodily conception it is material emotions that is a sign of bodily conception so there is in the spiritual world also crying so just crying itself is not extraordinary so what can make the Lord cry actually the concept of Leela has no parallel in world history Leela is the unique contribution of the Vedic literature to the world's understanding of God if we ask people in other religions Christians Muslims they also believe in God but what does God do in the spiritual world there is very little clear description of that the Bhagavatam the Vedic literature in general the Bhagavatam in particular describe how God in his highest abode does not delight in the display of his Godhood God covers his Godhood so that love can reign supreme actually if people are aware of his Godhood then there will be so much reverential that the intimacy of the love will be checked by that so to have intimacy and intensity to the love the Lord covers his Godhood he uses his own inner potency and by that his devotees think of themselves as his guardians as his consorts as his equal friends so Krishna also takes an appropriate role in connection with those devotees so Krishna is taking here the role of a small child and not just a child but a fearful child not just a fearful child but a teary eyed child Rudantam Mohur Netram so Rudantam is crying Rudantam Mohur again and again is crying Netram Yugmam Rajantam with his Yugmam Rajantam Karambhoja Yugmena so Yugma means two so his two Netra Yugmam Rajantam Karambhoja with his two lotus hands with his two lotus eyes what is he doing Yugmena Karambhoja Yugmena Saatanka Netram so he is rubbing his eyes and rubbing his eyes why is he rubbing his eyes looking down but his eyes are Aatanka Saatanka Aatanka means terror Krishna is terrified of what his mother will do Saatanka Netram Sanatanga so Swami explains Rudantam Muhur Netram this can have two meanings he says one is that actually Krishna is caught and he wants to avoid punishment and to avoid punishment Vishudham has also caught a stick so I will punish you with the stick Vishudham can never hurt or hit Krishna but she uses a stick to create a little bit fear by which there will be some discipline so Krishna wants to avoid punishment and to avoid punishment he is making a show of crying so he is making a show of crying by way and while crying he is also looking down as if he is very fearful looking up acting as if there is fear in his eyes so that Mother Yashoda will decrease her punishment but the other understanding which is also given by Vishudham in his explanation to similar words in the first canto in Kunti's prayers 1.8.31 there he describes that actually Krishna has become fearful it is not that Krishna is just pretending he has actually become fearful I did mischief and mother has caught me and mother is angry and she will punish me as a child becomes panicky so Krishna has become panicky and is frantically crying frantically crying 1.8.31 it's a terror and 1.8.31 so 1.8.31 now when a person is very agitated the breath becomes faster and so he's just been running running running running away from his mother that itself has made him breathless and further being caught has also taken his breath away because of fear so first it was because of exertion now it is because of fear and trembling and so in Vedic culture there are different signs of beauty so one of the signs of beauty is that there are three when a person is.