 Hi, Shiva here. Hope you had a great week. I am very happy and excited to be back with yet another Monday motivational story. This is the ninth story in the series in which I am presenting the motivational stories drawn from the scriptures. If you like stories from the scriptures, please do subscribe to my YouTube channel and click on the bell icon there so that you get notified and you don't get to miss the opportunity of seeing them. Right? Let me begin today's motivational story asking a question. Does Mother's love have the ability to bind the God? It's possible. It is possible. Listen to this story. Lord Krishna's childhood was spent in the home of his foster parents, Nanda Baba and Ashodama in the village of Gokal. Lord Krishna spent his time happily there, playing with the gopis, his friends in the cows. He always loved roaming around in those beautiful forests of Lundavan. But he was a very mischievous kid as a child and he was very fond of eating butter. So one day Krishna broke the part of butter and started eating that. Not only that, he was also feeding it to the monkeys. Ashodama saw the broken part and thought it must be the work of Krishna. Fared up with this work of Krishna and also several of the complaints received from her neighbors about Krishna's pranks and mischievous deeds, she decided to tie him up so that he would not move around and indulge in such deeds. But how could she chase him? How could she tie him up when he was not an ordinary child? But it was possible. It was possible when Ashodama started chasing him, Krishna became compassionate because of her love for him. He did not want to trouble his mother and he allowed himself to be caught and tied. So Ashodama caught him and tied a rope around his belly to a wooden mota. And there is a reason why he is called Damodara. Damodara, the words dama and udara. Dama means the card rope. Udara means ballet. Damodara means one who is tied around his belly with a rope. According to Srimad Bhagavatam, Radharani, having understood this, how Krishna surrenders himself with that kind of mother's love, she also wanted to express a similar kind of love for him so that she could also bind him. So during the month of Kathika Maasam, one day Krishna turned up late for a rendezvous meeting with Radharani. So taking that opportunity, Radharani in that loving anger, she took a rope and tied Krishna around his belly. And Krishna again allowed her to do that. And thus Radharani's desire of tying Krishna with a rope was fulfilled. Krishna is a supreme giver. He blesses his devotees. He takes good care of his devotees. But the kind of benediction that he bestowed upon Ashodama and Radharani was of the highest order. That is because of their pure love for him. God even surrendered when that kind of mother's love was shown to him. Yes, God can be tied with mother's love, with pure love because he loves it. But we, the humans, we are not alien to love. We also love to be loved. Everyone loves to be loved. Be it your colleagues at your office, be it your family members at home, be it anybody. Everybody loves to be loved. And with love you can win the hearts of the people because it is a love that can pierce into the hearts of the people and melt them. But more importantly, that kind of mother's love is very powerful because mother's love is the purest of all. It's unconditional and it is the best of all. So with pure love and the love of a mother, you can win the hearts of the people. Love, love your family members, love your colleagues, love your neighbors, love the nation, love the work you are doing. But remember, loving yourself is also important and learn to love yourself more and more from today. Will you learn yourself more and more from today? Yes or yes? Yes? Thank you. Nice talking to you and we'll be back with another Monday motivational story next Monday. Till that time, take good care of yourself. Stay happy and stay healthy. Remember, you are awesome. Thank you. Bye bye.