Yashoda Jayanti

Yashoda Maiya did not give birth to Shri Krishna but raised him like her own son. Do you know who Yashoda Maiya was in her previous birth? Even after not giving birth, she became the mother of Shri Krishna ji throughout his childhood and pampered him.

In Treta yuga, when Shri Vishnu ji incarnated in the form of Lord Ram in the city of Ayodhya, his mother was Kaushalya. Mother Kaushalya pampered Lord Shri Ram till his childhood and showered her motherly love on him, but when Mother Kaikeyi asked King Dasharatha in her words for the 14 years of exile of Shri Ram and the coronation of Bharat. Then Purushottam Shri Ramchandra, after getting his father's permission, went to the forest with Lakshman and Sita. After his departure, Dashrath ji was so overcome with grief that he died. When Shri Ram returned to Ayodhya after 14 years, Mother Kaikeyi asked Shri Ram ji for her repentance that Ram! I have created a stigma that will never be erased. To repent for me, you will have to take the next birth from my womb, only then I will understand that you have forgiven me. Shri Ram said that I will take birth as a mother, but after taking birth, I will go to my mother Kaushalya.I will not be able to have fun with you. For this reason, Kaikeyi became Devaki, sister of Kansa in Dvapara Yuga. Kansa was a cruel king who imprisoned his own sister Devaki. Kansa's atrocities were increasing, to destroy Kansa's cruelty, Lord Krishna was born from the womb of his sister Devaki and mother Yashoda is Kaushalya, who has seen all the childhood pastimes of the Lord despite not giving birth to him.

In this way we know that who was Yashoda Mata. Now we will know why Yashoda Jayanti is celebrated.

With the blessings of Lord Brahma, Yashoda Maiya was born in Braj on the sixth day of Krishna Paksha of Phalgun month. His father's name was Sumukh and mother's name was Patla. She was married to Nand, the king of Braj. Mother Yashoda's love for Lord Krishna shows a unique combination of affection and maternal affection. To remember this kind of love of Mother Yashoda and the pastimes of Lord Krishna, the birthday of Mother Yashoda is celebrated as Yashoda Jayanti. Yashoda Mata is worshiped on this day.

There are many stories of the pastimes of Lord Krishna and Mother Yashoda, reading which makes the mind happy, one of them here which shows the aspect of Yashoda Maiya's affection towards Shri Krishna. Mother Yashoda's love has been described in this story. The scene of the childhood story of Shri Krishna ji is as follows-

Once upon a time, Nandrani Yashoda ji engaged the maids of the house in other work and started churning curd herself. At the same time Lord Shri Krishna came to his mother who was churning curd to drink milk. Increasing the love and joy in his mother's heart, he caught hold of the curd churner and stopped her from churning it. Shri Krishna sat in the lap of Mother Yashoda. Due to abundance of love and affection, milk itself was flowing from the breasts of Mother Yashoda. She started feeding milk to Lord Krishna and started looking at his face with a slow smile. Meanwhile, the milk kept on the fireplace started boiling. Seeing the overflow of milk, Yashoda ji quickly went to near boiling milk, leaving Lord Krishna unsatisfied. Due to this, Krishna ji created a Leela. He pretended to be angry, his red lips started quivering. By pressing them with his teeth, Shri Krishna broke the pot of curd with the stone lying nearby, filled his eyes with artificial tears and went to another house and started eating stale butter alone.

When Yashoda ji came back, she saw that the pot of curd had been broken into pieces. She understood that all this was the work of my son. Also, not seeing him there, Yashoda Mata started laughing. After searching here and there, it was found that Shri Krishna was standing on an overturned mortar and was sharing the butter with the monkeys. he was also afraid that their theft might get exposed, so he was also remain alert and looking around. Seeing this, Yashoda slowly approached him from behind. When Shri Krishna saw that my mother was coming towards him with a stick in her hand, he immediately jumped off the mortar and started running away like a scared little child.

Yashoda ji ran after the Lord to catch him, even after making his mind very subtle and pure through penance, which he could not even enter into, leave alone attain. Somehow Yashoda Mata caught him. Holding Shri Krishna's hand, she started scolding him. At that time the tableau of Shri Krishna was becoming unique.

Lord Krishna had already committed a crime; hence the crying would not stop even if he tried to stop it. He was rubbing his eyes with his hands, hence the ink of kajal had spread on his face, due to the fear of being beaten, his eyes had moved upwards, indicating restlessness. When Yashoda ji saw that Lalla was very scared, her heart swelled with love and affection. He threw the stick. After this the mother thought that he should be tied with a rope once, otherwise he would run away somewhere. When the mother started tying her unruly son with a rope, the rope became two fingers short! Then she took another rope and added to it. When that rope also became shorter, then more were added to it, thus as they kept bringing more ropes and adding more, even with every addition, they all became two fingers shorter. Yashoda tied all the ropes in the house, yet she could not tie Lord Shri Krishna. The Gopis who saw her failure started smiling and they themselves were surprised by smiling.

Lord Shri Krishna saw that my mother's body was drenched in sweat, the garlands braided in her braid had fallen and she was also very tired; Then he himself was bound by his mother.

Lord Shri Krishna is supremely independent. This entire world along with Brahma, Indra etc. is under his control. Yet by being tied in this way he showed the world that he was under the control of his loving devotees.

By reading or listening to the stories of Lord Krishna and Mother Yashoda on Yashoda Jayanti, a person gets the blessing of having a child. Yashoda ji raised Lord Krishna as her son and provided a wonderful example of love and devotion in her soul. Therefore, by reading their stories, people who wish to have a child get special results and by reading the stories of the pastimes of Lord Krishna and Mother Yashoda to pregnant women, they get a bright and lucky child.

Yashoda Jayanti

Mother Yashoda did not give birth to Shri Krishna, but the whole world still knows Mother Yashoda as the mother of Shri Krishna.

Yashoda Jayanti

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