Krishna’s Little Complaint: Why Am I Dark?

Today Shri Krishna is pleading with mother Yashoda to make him fair complexioned.

Krishna – Maiya! Please make me light complexioned right now. All my friends tease me. They mock at Me, by clapping their hands and calling Me ‘Blacky Blacky’. I get very embarrassed. You produced both brother Balaram and Me. Brother Balram is light complexioned while I am dark. Maiya! Why were you so unfair towards Me?

Maiya was enchanted by the innocent pleading of her little child. Trying to explain and dissuade Him from asking for the impossible, she said, “My child! It is God who decides the complexion of a child, not the mother.”

Hearing this, He stood up in anger and asked, “Who is that God? Where does He live?”

Maiya was shocked, at this sudden anger and asked in astonishment, “Why do you want to know about God’s whereabouts?”

​Shri Krishna innocently replied, “I wish to beat him up for this partiality. Just tell Me where He lives and I will take care of the rest".

Hearing such innocent words, Maiya could not help but laugh.

​Seeing Maiya laugh Shri Krishn became bashful and threatened her by saying, “Mother! Please tell me soon; else I will never ever come in your lap.”