The bell tied to Baby Krenain wait andankles sounded fascinating hend Hle would move around very pleasingly. Sometimes, imitating an ordinary child, he would pretend to be
frightened by others and immediately hurry to His mother for protection. Sometimes He would fall into the clay and mud of Vṛndāvana and would approach His mother smeared with clay and saffron. He had been smeared with saffron and sandalwood pulp by His mother, but due to crawling over muddy clay He would also smear His body with clay. As soon as He would come crawling to His mother, Yaśodā would take Him on her lap and allow Him to suck her breast. When Kṛṣṇa was sucking her breast, mother Yaśodā would see small teeth coming in. Thus her joy would be intensified to see her child grow.
Within the house of Nanda Mahārāja, the cowherd ladies would enjoy seeing the pastimes of Baby Kṛṣṇa. The baby would catch the end of a calf's tail, and the calf would drag Him here and there. When the ladies saw these pastimes, they stopped their household activities and laughed and enjoyed the fun.
Mother Yaśodā felt she was unable to protect Baby Kṛṣṇa from calamities threatened by horned cows, fire, animals with claws and teeth such as monkeys, dogs, and cats, and by thorns, swords, and other weapons on the ground. Thus she was always in anxiety, and her household engagements were disturbed. At that time she was fully absorbed in the transcendental ecstasy known as the distress of maternal affection for the Lord.