Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 25


Sanskrit:

श‍ृङ्‌ग्यग्निदंष्ट्र्यसिजलद्विजकण्टकेभ्य:क्रीडापरावतिचलौ स्वसुतौ निषेद्धुम् ।गृह्याणि कर्तुमपि यत्र न तज्जनन्यौशेकात आपतुरलं मनसोऽनवस्थाम् ॥ २५ ॥

ITRANS:

śṛṅgy-agni-daṁṣṭry-asi-jala-dvija-kaṇṭakebhyaḥkrīḍā-parāv aticalau sva-sutau niṣeddhumgṛhyāṇi kartum api yatra na taj-jananyauśekāta āpatur alaṁ manaso ’navasthām

Translation:

When mother Yaśodā and Rohiṇī were unable to protect the babies from calamities threatened by horned cows, by fire, by animals with claws and teeth such as monkeys, dogs and cats, and by thorns, swords and other weapons on the ground, they were always in anxiety, and their household engagements were disturbed. At that time, they were fully equipoised in the transcendental ecstasy known as the distress of material affection, for this was aroused within their minds.

Purport:

All these pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, and the great enjoyment exhibited by the mothers, are transcendental; nothing about them is material. They are described in the Brahma-saṁhitā as ānanda-cinmaya-rasa. In the spiritual world there is anxiety, there is crying, and there are other feelings similar to those of the material world, but because the reality of these feelings is in the transcendental world, of which this world is only an imitation, mother Yaśodā and Rohiṇī enjoyed them transcendentally.