Verse Text
atha anubhāvāḥ –
anubhāvāḥ śiro-ghrāṇaṁ kareṇāṅgābhimārjanam |
āśīrvādo nideśaś ca lālanaṁ pratipālanam |
hitopadeśa-dānādyā vatsale parikīrtitāḥ ||41||
Translation
The anubhāvas in vatsala-rasa are smelling Kṛṣṇa’s head, rubbing His body with one’s hands, giving blessings to Him, giving Him orders, caring for Him, protecting Him, and giving beneficial instructions.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Lālanam (caring for Him) refers to actions such as bathing Him. Pratipālanam means “protecting.”
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
In enjoying Kṛṣṇa’s attitude of stealing butter very stealthily, Mother Yaśodā experienced the ecstasy of maternal love by smelling His head, sometimes patting His body with her hand, sometimes offering blessings, sometimes ordering Him, sometimes gazing at Him, sometimes maintaining Him and sometimes giving Him good instructions not to become a thief. Such activities are in maternal ecstatic love. An important point to be observed in this connection is that the childish propensity of stealing is there even in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore this propensity is not artificial. However, in the spiritual relationship there is no inebriety to this stealing propensity, as there is in the material world.