JOn the occasion of Namastami, I miss Krishna and his butter leela. Although Lord Krishna's entire life is full of leela, but his butter leela has always attracted me the most. Face is seen smeared with butter, Krishna is holding ears. How Shri Bhagwan is decorated in the child form. Actually, in childhood, mother used to make me also Kanha. Early in the morning, like Yashoda Maiya, she used to apply a wide black tilak on the forehead. When we used to reach home in the evening after roaming around in the dust of the streets of the locality the whole day, then mother used to not see the black tilak applied by us. We used to appear in front of mother, looking black from head to toe! We did not go to graze the cows, but yes, we also had groups of people who used to roam around grazing the street dogs. We also used to get butter. The butter described in Krishna Leelas had a similar form which we used to call Loni Ghee. Early in the morning, while churning curd, mother used to put a big lump of ghee on our roti. This was our rich breakfast. At that time, we did not know that this is called butter. We were sure that there must be some divine formula hidden in Kanha's butter recipe which we could not understand. Anyway, we did not even have to lie that Maa Mori, I did not eat butter.
Krishna loved butter and would even steal it, but nowadays the democratic system has made it so easy that you just need to have the desire to eat butter and the one who feeds you is ready. You will get to eat according to your status and the need of the hour. There is a system for both in democracy, the eaters are sitting in government departments, courts, offices, parliament, legislature, the one who feeds you is the common public. The eaters are cheating democracy, but are paying the dues for your butter. No one is eating salt, what is the point of eating such a tiny salt, we will eat a pinch of it, the one who eats it will sing to his heart's content. No brother no, if we don't praise the salt after eating it, we will keep calling Namak Halal.
The right of salt is not paid, so now we will eat butter! If we eat butter, we will look as greasy as mamakhan. Kanha used to steal butter and would lie blatantly. Maa Mori, I did not eat butter. There is no need to lie, the one who fed him will also be caught, he will keep saying; I swear to the inspector, I did not feed him butter; and if you have to eat, then eat properly, friend, at least if you get caught, then some news will come; friend, eat like this gentleman, what does he eat, he does not eat anything less than thousands, lakhs and crores; by the way, it is not necessary that everyone can digest butter, as soon as one eats, one starts having indigestion, stomach starts bloating, it becomes difficult to walk in society. If smelly gas starts coming out, then the whole street and neighborhood gets disturbed.
Many have started applying butter instead of eating butter, they are happy with the smell of butter itself, whether it is applied with myrobalan or alum the color comes in it. Those who eat butter never say that they ate butter. Now if they eat coal then the face will get soot and they will be recognized. Hands get blackened in coal dealing. If you eat butter then at least there is no risk of this, hands or rather the pure hem appears clean. If you eat butter then one will not even know of it. If it comes on the face then apply it considering it as cream, the face will glow more. Wah butter your play; useful for eating as well as applying.
The work of eating and feeding butter is going on continuously, butter is being poured in abundance in the foundation of all the four pillars of democracy, due to this all the four pillars of democracy are strong. Some people have butter, but they want to eat all the butter themselves, so they have taken up the work of applying butter. Sometimes they even take butter on credit for applying. Applying butter is proving to be more effective than feeding butter. My neighbor is Makhan Lal ji, butter is in his every vein.
Whenever he talks, he always talks about butter. Whether to apply or to curse someone, to abuse or to praise, he puts butter in everything. One day he was praising his boss's wife on the phone, Bhavi ji, have you got cheeks like butter, exactly like butter, we have brought a new buffalo, so we have extracted butter, exactly like butter, if you say, I can send it to your house. What is it, I see the boss, he has become very thin, the glow has disappeared from his face, you feed him these butter laddoos, Bhavi ji, you will see that he will become bright in two days. Our Makhan Lal ji's promotion, increment, T.A.D.A., everything runs smoothly like butter because of this butter leela.
He took loan by buttering the bank people. He might have fed them a little too. The butter on loan is also like; rub the free sandalwood, my son; he got his ancestral house repaired. Got tiles laid on the floor, so it is as smooth as butter. He said to me; look, come to our house once to eat butter, to eat butter! No, I mean to have tea, I will show you the new floor, it shines exactly like butter. I said; let it be Makhan Lal ji, our feet slip easily on butter.
Brother, I know it is not right to slip at this age. My hip bone will break and now I will not go around getting my bones joined by others. I don't know why I like the Loni Ghee of my childhood. The butter of today, no baba no, I can't trust it. It is so adulterated. Loni Ghee did not shine as much as the butter of today. Adulterated things shine more. I see on TV ads, ads of incense sticks, candles, ghee, lamp, puja thali with Lord Krishna eating butter and sugar candy. The ad makers also know that if they sell the product by making the person to be served the brand ambassador, it will sell more.
These days' celebrities, in the name of ads, are using lime instead of butter. The hero who sells deer oil, olive oil, desi soap bars, cowprint black toothpaste, is using oil and soap of expensive foreign companies. This is wrong. Applying lime is not a good thing. When applying butter can do the job, then use that only. People point fingers at my business. Stop using lime and use butter. I will also request the plaster bandage manufacturing companies to make bandages of butter instead of lime. People consider applying lime a compulsion. They also serve some curse words along with the fee.
If there is butter, he will be happy, maybe he will even pay double the fee. This Makhan Lal ji of ours, his bone also broke once. He cursed me, friend you are my neighbor, yet my bone broke, you must have done some magic; seeing his love for butter, I gave him a free advice, you should eat lots of butter, the bone will heal quickly; instead he pounced on me, hey doctor sahab, don't you know that by eating butter the ends of the bones will become smooth, they will slip among themselves, they will not set. That day I felt very guilty about the triviality of my knowledge of bone fractures.
– / Written By Top News Bulletin
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