|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya ||

Chapter – 177 – The legend of Lord Krishna – 28

One day, Krishna ordered his companions to bring afternoon meals with them on the next day onwards.  The children of cowherds sincerely followed the order of his little Master; they returned home and informed their mothers about their plan to take away meals to woods so that they can have it while grazing the cows.  As usual, Krishna and Balaram dressed up in their typical costume, attired in yellow silk garment and a beautiful blue upper clothe tied on the waist, flue and stick fastened to the upper clothe, adorned in various ornaments of pearl and gem all over the body, a beautiful knot of curly hair locks on the top of head decorated with peacock feathers and colorful flowers, adorned in armlets, bangles, ear ornaments, and magnificent anklets, his forehead is decorated with sandalwood paste and vermilion.  Balaram attired in blue silk clothe and yellow upper clothe tied around the waist, with simple decorations and his forehead are adorned in sandalwood paste and vermilion.  Krishna called for the cows and calves playing melodious music on flute, soon the children of Vraja also joined with him listening to the melodious music on flute.  All the children carried mud pot full of curd rice with pickles as their afternoon meal.  Thus, Krishna followed by thousands of children with a stick and a huge herd of cow and calves marched towards the woods, they were dancing and singing enthusiastically all through the way.  They reached the wood, kept their mud pot of meal under the tree, and left the cows and calves for grazing and began to play.  Eventually, they all got tired of the various pastimes, started feeling hungry.  They opened their mud pots and shared their meals with each other and happily consumed the meals, Krishna plays melodious music on flute, some children dances to the tunes of music, some children produce the sounds of birds, in this way they extreme pleasure in the company of Krishna.  Lord Bhrama astonished watching the cowherds who are taking immense pleasure in the Bhramam, which is not easily attainable even for the Yogis who undertake extreme penance and experience the bliss, but the cowherds, are truly fortunate to play with the Bhramam, it is impossible to attain the union with the Bhramam without the piousness earned in several births.  Lord Bhrama surprisingly watched the supreme Lord taking absolute bliss in the association of the illiterate cowherds, even the deities who consumed the nectar of immortality did not get that fortune.  Lord Bhrama surprisingly watched the little Krishna seated facing all the children of cowherds who seated half-circled form, shared the meal with each other.  Thus the Supreme Lord who receives oblation from fire sacrifices got extremely satisfied with partaking meals with the children of cowherds.