Ksheerabdhi mathhanam -A spiritual comparison -1

Ksheerabdhi mathhanam -A spiritual comparison -1

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Ksheerabdhi mathhanam can be compared to the churning of our own manOsaagaram, in which the eternal divinity is uniformly distributed just like how butter is present in every drop of milk. 

Let us begin.

1. Kaheeraabdhi mathhanam or churning of the milky ocean - Spiritual efforts to win over our mind or to churn our mind and attain liberation. 

It can be compared to the spiritual churning (by observing austerities, vrathaas and saadhaanaas and leading a dhaarmic life) to experience the cream of  Eternal Bliss or to experience the Absolute Truth. 

2. White color of the milk - Mind filled with Saathvic qualities and a mind filled with Shubha sankalapam or optimiism.(white represents Satva Gunam.)

Minds of  all of us are originally full of goodness, Because of the accumulated tendencies of several previous lives, it gets contaminated with less pure RajOgunam and impure ThamOgunam. But the cream of immortality is spread all over the mind.

Mathhanaanantharam Maadhava darshanam. After the successful spiritual churning of the mind, we get to see LOrd Maadhava or we become a self-realized soul ever experiencing the Eternal Bliss!!

3. DEvAs and AsurAs - Positive and Negative tendencies arising in our mind. 

Mind or the whole Universe gets going on the "principle of opposites". Even the creation happens as the equilibrium of the three GunAs are tilted by Bhagavaan"s MAya. So to churn the mind we need the help of both negative and positive tendencies and has to continue until the negative forces fade out leaving the mind strong with the positive forces. In the end positive forces also are wiped out by  the eternal bliss!. The principle of "A thorn to remove a thorn and discarding of  both thorns" or KantakEnaiva kantakam. is used here. 

DEvAs represent our higher self with virtues like  Dharmam, sathyam, kindness etc where as AsurAs are our lower self  with forces like KAma- krodha-mOha-lObha-mada-maathsaryam.