Krishna & Butter

We all have seen pictures of Krishna enjoying butter & stories of Krishna stealing butter.

But why butter?

Is it because he loved cows? Then why not milk or yoghurt ??

Cows represent the satvik qualities - white, calm, caring and so on.

Well butter is the outcome of churning milk/cream/yoghurt.

So to reach Krishna the output from the satvik cow, goes thru the various stages and needs to go thru the churning process and then it reaches Krishna.

Now maybe when we see / think of Krishna and butter, we may have a new perspective.

Another way to understand is that Krishna used to steal butter. What does this signify? Butter is the final product of a process: the milk is first made into curd and then the curd that is well churned becomes butter. And like milk or curd, life is the process of churning through so many events, happenings and instances. Finally butter comes out, which is the saintliness in you