Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 5


Sanskrit:

तमङ्कमारूढमपाययत् स्तनंस्‍नेहस्‍नुतं सस्मितमीक्षती मुखम् ।अतृप्तमुत्सृज्य जवेन सा यया-वुत्सिच्यमाने पयसि त्वधिश्रिते ॥ ५ ॥

ITRANS:

tam aṅkam ārūḍham apāyayat stanaṁsneha-snutaṁ sa-smitam īkṣatī mukhamatṛptam utsṛjya javena sā yayāvutsicyamāne payasi tv adhiśrite

Translation:

Mother Yaśodā then embraced Kṛṣṇa, allowed Him to sit down on her lap, and began to look upon the face of the Lord with great love and affection. Because of her intense affection, milk was flowing from her breast. But when she saw that the milk pan on the oven was boiling over, she immediately left her son to take care of the overflowing milk, although the child was not yet fully satisfied with drinking the milk of His mother’s breast.

Purport:

Everything in the household affairs of mother Yaśodā was meant for Kṛṣṇa. Although Kṛṣṇa was drinking the breast milk of mother Yaśodā, when she saw that the milk pan in the kitchen was overflowing, she had to take care of it immediately, and thus she left her son, who then became very angry, not having been fully satisfied with drinking the milk of her breast. Sometimes one must take care of more than one item of important business for the same purpose. Therefore mother Yaśodā was not unjust when she left her son to take care of the overflowing milk. On the platform of love and affection, it is the duty of the devotee to do one thing first and other things later. The proper intuition by which to do this is given by Kṛṣṇa. In Kṛṣṇa consciousness, everything is dynamic. Kṛṣṇa guides the devotee in what to do first and what to do next on the platform of absolute truth.