Wishesh Magazine August 2016

Krishna
and
his naughtiness
When Krishna grew a little older, at
around five, six years of age, his butter
stealing pranks got more organized
and people who were losing their
butter got more and more distressed.
Constantly, people were coming to his
mother and complaining, “Your boy,
please keep him at home!”
So, mother Yashodha scolded
him, but he had his way with
her. If she scolded him, he
knew how to cry immediately.
He would put his face down on
the floor and just cry and bawl,
waiting for her to attend.
He even goes to the extent of
saying, “I did get angry but not
like other people. When other
people got angry, for example
my elder brother Balarama,
he screamed, he stamped his
foot, he paced up and down;
I could see he was wasting
a lot of his energy. Even my
mother used to get angry.
When she really got angry she
wasted her energy knitting her
brows, twitching her nose and
throwing herself around. I did
not get angry like that. I just
got angry to the extent it was
necessary.”
He continued to play all his
tricks but one day he got a
real scolding. Then he decided
that these people who are
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