BUTTER, THE MIND

There was an engineering college located in the holy city of Dwaraka. The college was known for producing excellent minds as admissions were open only for the bright students unlike the current educational system in India. The college along with the usual portions
taught the students ancient values, values only ancient in their birth although. In that college studied two girls, Meera and Radha who bonded really well and got very close. Everybody believed they added a new meaning to the term friendship. Out of the two, Meera lived in a village while Radha, born with a silver anklet, earrings, chain apart from spoon lived in the same city of Dwaraka. When the vacations came, Meera invited Radha to their village. The rich Radha had gone to Meera’s village for the first time from her city-dwelling. On the first day, before retiring to bed, Radha opened a pot in which there was cow’s milk and added little buttermilk to it. Radha asked Meera– “Hey, that was butter milk; and why have you mixed it with Milk? The milk may be spoilt!”
“God!Radha” answered Meera “ Since it is Krishna-jayanthi tomorrow, we require butter and by adding buttermilk to milk, we get butter.”
“But where is butter in it, Meera?”
“It is in every drop of the milk, dear Radha; but you can’t see it now. I will show you in the morning.” In the morning Radha, to her astonishment saw that what was liquid(milk) had become solid overnight(curd).
Meera put a churning rod into the vessel and started churning the curd vigorously. Butter began to float on the surface of the curd. Then she gathered it all up and presented it to the wonderment of Radha.
Meera explained-“The addition of buttermilk curdles the milk. Milk is transformed into curd. Then you have to churn it. By this process the butter which was all-pervasively hidden in the milk appears. At first you were not able to see it; it was hidden. From where has it come now? It has indeed come from the milk only.Do you understand now that it was there all the time? It awaited the process of churning to reveal itself to your great joy.”
Then Radha too followed the same process and got the butter for herself.

Eternal-happiness or supreme bliss like the butter lies within the mind which is the curd. However the search for the same must be begun as early as possible for nobody ever waits when on a journey of finding supreme-priceless treasure.Do we?
Questions such as how,when,why,where will be answered in the posts to come
Apart from Radha learning the nuances of butter-making from milk, the story incidentally points out at another fact ie : people living in the city may be better in terms wealth and technology though the lack of knowledge in a lot of basic things is definitely for the worse.

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Hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
Hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare

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