I have always wondered why Krishna loved butter. Was it because he was brought up in Brindavan among cowherds? Usually one acquires the taste of what is fed to one as a child. But Krishna's love for butter was unique. Even after being fed adequately, he tried to consume butter by hook or crook. Why?
Then something struck my mind. Wasn't that a symbolism. Wasn't he trying to get the attention of the people to something profound, through this act. This is what i think of it.
Imagine the churning pot to be planet earth and milk /curd to be the life on earth. Churning represents the karmic cycle. And as the churning goes on butter surfaces and this butter symbolically represents the evolved souls that got detached from the karmic cycle. When one gets out of the karmic cycle one gets moksha. And what happens to such souls.They become one with the Supreme Parabrahman. Krishna here represents the Supreme Parabrahman. The Supreme Parabrahman is eagerly waiting for the evolved souls. Krishna's love for butter is a symbolic represention of the Supreme Parabrahman's unquenched love of the evolved souls.
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