One day, a year after Krishna had appeared, mother Yasoda was patting Him on her lap when suddenly she felt the child to be heavier than a mountain peak, and she could no longer bear His weight. Thinking that perhaps the child was being attacked by some ghost or demon, the astonished mother Yasoda put the child down on the ground and began to think of Narayana. 

Foreseeing disturbances, she called for the brahmanas to counteract this heaviness, and then she engaged in her other household affairs. She felt she had no alternative but to remember the lotus feet of Narayana. 

While child Krishna sat on the ground, a demon named Travarta came there disguised as a whirlwind and very easily carried the Him away into the air. Obscuring the whole land of Gokula with dust, Tmavarta began vibrating a greatly fearful sound everywhere. In a moment the whole pasturing ground was overcast with dense darkness from the dust storm, and mother Yasoda was unable to find her son Krishna where she had placed Him. 

Greatly disturbed, she fell down on the ground and began to lament very pitifully, like a cow who has lost her calf. When the force of the dust storm and the winds had subsided, the gopi friends of mother Yasoda heard her pitiful crying and approached her. Not seeing Krishna, they too felt very much aggrieved and joined mother Yasoda in crying, their eyes full of tears. 

Having assumed the form of a forceful whirlwind, the demon Travarta took Krishna very high in the sky, but when Krishna became heavier than the demon, the demon had to stop his force and could go no further.