Verse Text
tatraiva hāsyasya, yathā –
putras te navanīta-piṇḍam atanuṁ muṣṇan mamāntar-gṛhād
vinyasyāpasasāra tasya kaṇikāṁ nidrāṇa-ḍimbhānane |
ity uktā kula-vṛddhayā suta-mukhe dṛṣṭiṁ vibhugna-bhruṇi
smerāṁ nikṣipatī sadā bhavatu vaḥ kṣemāya goṣṭheśvarī ||
atrāpi mukhye gauṇasya | ||30||
Translation
An example with vatsala-rasa (primary) as aṅgī and hāsya-rasa (secondary) as aṅga: “O Yaśodā! Your son stole a big lump of butter from within my house, put a little of it in the mouth of my sleeping baby, and then ran away.” When an elderly woman complained in this way, Yaśodā threw a smiling glance at the face of Kṛṣṇa who had worried frown on His face. May that queen of Vraja shower auspiciousness upon you!
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
There is the following example of a mixture of parental love and laughter. A friend of Mother Yaśodā told her, “My dear Yaśodā, your son has very cunningly stolen a lump of butter from my home. And to make me blame my own son for His mischief, He has smeared some of the butter on my son’s face while he was sleeping!” Upon hearing this, Mother Yaśodā shook her curved eyebrows. She could only look at her friend with a smiling face. May Mother Yaśodā bless everyone with this smiling attitude. In this example the whole is the parental love, and the part is the laughter.