The Supreme Personality of Giathead has no beginming and no end, no exerior and no interior, no front and no rear. In other words, He is all-pervading. Because He is not under
the influence of the element of time, for Him there is no difference between past, present, and future; He exists in His own transcendental form at all times. Being absolute, beyond relativity, He is free from distinctions between cause and effect, although He is the cause and effect of everything. That unmanifested person, who is beyond the perception of the senses, had now appeared as a human child, and mother Yaśodā, considering Him her own ordinary child, began binding Him to a wooden mortar with a roре.
When mother Yaśodā was trying to bind the offending child, she saw that the binding rope was short by a distance the width of two fingers. Thus she brought another rope to join it. This new rope also was short by a measurement of two fingers, and when another rope was joined to it, it was still two fingers too short. As many ropes as she joined, all of them failed; their shortness could not be overcome.
Thus mother Yaśodā joined whatever ropes were available in the household, but still she failed in her attempt to bind Kṛṣṇa. Mother Yaśodā's friends, the elder gopīs in the neighborhood, smiled and enjoyed the fun. Similarly, mother Yaśodā, although laboring in that way, also smiled. All of them were struck with wonder.
Because of mother Yaśodā's hard labor, her whole body became covered with perspiration, and the flowers and comb fell from her hair. When child Kṛṣṇa saw His Mother thus fatigued, He became merciful to her and agreed to be bound.
The entire universe, with its great, exalted demigods like Lord Śiva, Lord Brahmā, and Lord Indra, is under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yet the Supreme Lord has one special transcendental attribute: He comes under the control of His loving devotees. This was now exhibited by Kṛṣṇa in this pastime.