DHINAM ORU KATHAI - 3.

Among the cowherds, Shri Krishna was the personality of greatest virtue. His
younghood plays were not acts of mischief but great preaches. Gopikas,the
folkwomen who were under the influence of myth,maaya, thought that Shri Krishna
was a kid and did not realize that He was the almighty, the Parabrahma. One of the
Gopikas, who was fed-up with the mischief of Baalakrishna, complained to Yashoda
like this: O Maata! Yashoda! Your Son came to our house and realized that there
was not enough ksheeram (milk) for him. With great anger, pushing away small
babies in the house, he came out. The babies cried a lot. O! Yashoda! you are also a
mother. Cant you understand our pain?
Let us see what Jagadguru Shri Krishna wanted to teach us through this story:
Through this Story, Shri Krishna taught us about an important principle to be
adopted by married people that is Gruhastha-dharmam. Married ones must not only
look after their children and family but also satisfy the needs of those who come to
their house. Especially they must be in a position to satisfy basic needs of kids, the
aged, guests and the needy who come to their house. If not done, it will lead to the
downfall of the family that is Vamsha-naashanam. The Gruhastha, the married one
in the story took care about the needs of his kids but did not have enough milk to
give to kids, who are considered to be Bhagavat-svaroopams, coming to his house.
Hence Baalakrishna punished them as told in the story.
For exactly the same reason, our elders advise us to preserve always important
things like dhaanyam (rice/wheat), haridraa-chuurnam&kumkuma (turmeric and
kumkum), dadhi-ksheeram (curd-milk) etc in the house. Infact, in indian languagess,
we never say these things are nil . We always say they need to be filled. Their
intention was that such basic utilities should never be empty. In olden days, people
used to always leave little food and never empty the food vessels by consuming
everything, so that any needy can be fed if required. Thus the teaching of Jagadguru
Shri Krishna is that we must always keep the needy persons in mind and store the
basic utilities enough for them also.