Lord Krishna’s childhood was spent with His mother, Yashoda and His father, King Nanda, in the city of Gokul. Mother Yashoda never hit Lord Krishna. However, once, when He stole butter and fed it to the monkeys, she tied Him to a grinding mortar (a mortar is a strong bow-like vessel in which substances are crushed or pounded). As she tried to tie him, the rope was too short. Amazingly, she kept using a longer rope, but it always came up to be too short. Finally, Lord Krishna appreciated the hard labor of His mother, and being compassionate, He agreed to be bound up by the ropes.

    After some time, Lord Krishna tried to crawl away. As He did so, at one place the mortar stuck between two trees in the courtyard. As He moved forward, the trees fell and two splendorous Deities emerged and offered prayers to Him. The Deities told Lord Krishna that long ago, a sage had cursed Them to stand as trees for one hundred years. Now, finally, because of Lord Krishna’s Divine power, the Deities were freed of the curse.

Cured of a wart after prayer

    For the past few months, I have been attending the children’s satsangs held in Woodbridge. I try to chant* everyday as taught in the satsang.

    Some time back, I was getting a wart on my foot. It would not go even after going to the doctor’s and taking medicine. It would go for some time, but come right back in a few days. In the satsang we were encouraged to ask God for help when we needed it. So I prayed to God to cure me of the wart. After saying the prayer, my wart disappeared and did not come back.