Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.8.36

yady evam tarhi vyādehī-

ty uktah sa bhagavān harih

vyādattāvyāhataiśvaryah

krīdā-manuja-bālakah

SYNONYMS

yadi — if; evam — it is so; tarhi — then; vyādehi — open Your mouth wide (I want to see); iti uktah — in this way ordered by mother Yaśodā; sah — He; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; harih — the Supreme Lord; vyādatta — opened His mouth; avyāhata-aiśvaryah — without minimizing any potencies of absolute opulence (aiśvaryasya samagrasya); krīdā — pastimes; manuja-bālakah — exactly like the child of a human being.

TRANSLATION

Mother Yaśodā challenged Krishna, "If You have not eaten earth, then open Your mouth wide." When challenged by His mother in this way, Krishna, the son of Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā, to exhibit pastimes like a human child, opened His mouth. Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, who is full of all opulences, did not disturb His mother's parental affection, His opulence was automatically displayed, for Krishna's opulence is never lost at any stage, but is manifest at the proper time.

PURPORT

Without disturbing the ecstasy of His mother's affection, Krishna opened His mouth and displayed His own natural opulences. When a person is given varieties of food, there may be a hundred and one varieties, but if one likes ordinary śāka, spinach, he prefers to eat that. Similarly, although Krishna was full of opulences, now, by the order of mother Yaśodā, He opened wide His mouth like a human child and did not neglect the transcendental humor of maternal affection.

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