तामात्तयष्टिं प्रसमीक्ष्य सत्वर- स्ततोऽवरुह्यापससार भीतवत् । गोप्यन्वधावन्न यमाप योगिनां क्षमं प्रवेष्टुं तपसेरितं मन: ॥ ९ ॥
tām ātta-yaṣṭiṁ prasamīkṣya satvaras tato ’varuhyāpasasāra bhītavat gopy anvadhāvan na yam āpa yogināṁ kṣamaṁ praveṣṭuṁ tapaseritaṁ manaḥ
- tām
- unto mother Yaśodā
- ātta-yaṣṭim
- carrying in her hand a stick
- prasamīkṣya
- Kṛṣṇa, seeing her in that attitude
- satvaraḥ
- very quickly
- tataḥ
- from there
- avaruhya
- getting down
- apasasāra
- began to flee
- bhīta-vat
- as if very much afraid
- gopī
- mother Yaśodā
- anvadhāvat
- began to follow Him
- na
- not
- yam
- unto whom
- āpa
- failed to reach
- yoginām
- of great yogīs, mystics
- kṣamam
- who could reach Him
- praveṣṭum
- trying to enter into the Brahman effulgence or Paramātmā
- tapasā
- with great austerities and penances
- īritam
- trying for that purpose
- manaḥ
- by meditation
When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa saw His mother, stick in hand, He very quickly got down from the top of the mortar and began to flee as if very much afraid. Although yogīs try to capture Him as Paramātmā by meditation, desiring to enter into the effulgence of the Lord with great austerities and penances, they fail to reach Him. But mother Yaśodā, thinking that same Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, to be her son, began following Kṛṣṇa to catch Him.