Brahmanda Ghata
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Sri Brahmanda Ghata is situated one km south of Sri Mahavana. This is a very famous ghata that has been glorified throughout the Vedic literatures as well as innumerable songs and poems of the Vaishnava saints. This pastime at Brahmanda Ghata reveals Krishna to be a small helpless child in the care of his mother, while simultaneously being the Supreme Creator of the entire universe. In regard to this pastime, the word ‘brahmanda’ refers to the ‘material universe’, as well as to Krishna’s ‘universal form’.
One day, when Krishna and Balarama were playing with their friends by the sacred banks of the Yamuna, some of the boys accused Krishna of eating clay. Even Balarama supported the boys and said that He had eaten clay. Krishna however denied this, but nevertheless some of the boys ran off to tell mother Yashoda that Krishna had eaten clay. Mother Yashoda came immediately to chastise Krishna for His naughty behaviour, if indeed He had eaten clay as the boys had claimed. Krishna denied before His mother that He had eaten clay and complained against the other boys, saying that for some reason they were not happy with Him, perhaps having lost in some game, and had therefore lodged a false complaint. Krishna informed mother Yashoda that if she cared to look inside His mouth, she could see for herself whether He had eaten clay or not.
Mother Yashoda agreed to this proposal and when Krishna opened His mouth, she looked inside. To her utter astonishment she saw the gigantic universal form including the whole cosmic manifestation with all its divisions of planets and shining stars, the sun and moon, the total material elements, eternal time, outer space, all the great mountains and rivers, the demigods, the living entities, and she could also see herself, with Krishna sitting on her lap drinking her breast milk. Yashoda was totally bewildered by what she saw in Krishna’s mouth, and began to wonder whether she was dreaming or seeing some play of the illusionary energy, or was it some kind of mystic power being displayed by her unusual child. She then began philosophizing in various ways about how she was under the illusion of the bodily concept, thinking King Nanda of the cowherd men to be her husband and Krishna to be her son, and all the wealth and riches within Nanda’s kingdom to be her property. At that moment Krishna expanded His internal yogamaya potency and mother Yashoda immediately forgot about all the weighty philosophical thoughts she was having, and seeing her darling little Krishna sitting before her, took Him on to her lap and once again became overcome in the ecstasy of motherly affection.