Once, Yashoda reprimanded child Krishna saying, Oh! My dear Krishna! You dont eat the food I prepared or you. You go to the houses of the milkmaids and stealthily eat the butter stored in their houses. You are creating problems for me. Is it that the butter suffused with mother's love does not taste good for you?. So saying, she tied Krishna to a mortar with a rope. It is everybody's experience in the world that we do not like the food cooked in our own house. The items cooked in others houses will appear to be tasty. This is quite natural.
However, Krishna did not steal the butter from others houses for its taste. There is an underlying message in this leela. Here, butter symbolises a pure heart. Wherever such a pure heart is available, Krishna takes it. Such a pure heart will be soft and sweet. The hearts of Gopis were ripened with devotion. They were pure, soft and sweet. Hence, Krishna had gone to their houses to steal their hearts. - taken from Swami's Krishnastami Discourse in 2004... Sai Ram __._,_.___
