Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.8.21

kālena vrajatālpena

gokule rāma-keśavau

jānubhyām saha pānibhyām

rińgamānau vijahratuh

SYNONYMS

kālena — of time; vrajatā — passing; alpena — a very small duration; gokule — in Gokula, Vraja-dhāma; rāma-keśavau — both Balarāma and Krishna; jānubhyām — by the strength of Their knees; saha pānibhyām — resting on Their hands; rińgamānau — crawling; vijahratuh — enjoyed childhood play.

TRANSLATION

After a short time passed, both brothers, Rāma and Krishna, began to crawl on the ground of Vraja with the strength of Their hands and knees and thus enjoy Their childhood play.

PURPORT

One brāhmana devotee says:

śrutim apare smritim itare bhāratam anye bhajantu bhava-bhītāh

aham iha nandam vande yasyālinde param brahma

"Let others, fearing material existence, worship the Vedas, the Vedic supplementary purānas and the Mahābhārata, but I shall worship Nanda Mahārāja, in whose courtyard the Supreme Brahman is crawling." For a highly exalted devotee, kaivalya, merging into the existence of the Supreme, appears no better than hell (narakāyate). But here one can simply think of the crawling of Krishna and Balarāma in the courtyard of Nanda Mahārāja and always merge in transcendental happiness. As long as one is absorbed in thoughts of krishna-līlā, especially Krishna's childhood pastimes, as Parīkshit Mahārāja desired to be, one is always merged in actual kaivalya. Therefore Vyāsadeva compiled Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Lokasyājānato vidvāmś cakre sātvata-samhitām (Bhāg. 1.7.6). Vyāsadeva compiled Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, under the instruction of Nārada, so that anyone can take advantage of this literature, think of Krishna's pastimes and always be liberated.

śrutim apare smritim itare bhāratam anye bhajantu bhava-bhītāh

aham iha nandam vande yasyālinde param brahma

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