The Butter Thief!

Anecdotes

oi-Priya Devi

By Priya Devi

Monday, May 17, 2010, 17:33

Yes, the most popular thief in the world is coming, beware! And look at the irony of it! He is the darling of one and all! People just fall head over heels in love with Him, ladles in particular. They go all out to do anything to please Him. In fact they vie with each other, just to get a passing glance from Him.

Now come to think of it, what's so great about Him? The more I think about it, the more puzzled I become. So. I start' asking Him directly – Hey, what's the big deal, putting up all those pranks?

Wasn't it meant only to get all the more attention for yourself? You think it was a big achievement, kicking the cart and breaking it to pieces? (Shakatasura). Huh! my neighbour's child is capable of bringing the very house down, kicking up tantrums! What do you say for that? You say you bashed up your uncle (Kamsa when you were hardly out of your teens). I can show you hundreds of tiny tots from the near by Karate School, each one of them capable of bashing a hundred Kamsas a day.

Calling out to all ladies. by your flute in the middle of the night, to come and dance with you in the moonlight? How many hearts did you break? Don't you have at least the heart to repair the damaged hearts? And with all this to your credit, yet you have the cheek to call yourself the heart-throb of women!

All these questions, instead of fetching me the answers, took me back to square one, right where I started from. As I sat thinking more and more, all of a sudden, in a flash came the answer to me.

Mind you. He is not any ordinary thief. He Is a Maha-Chor, who steals away the very Navaneetha, the cream of our lives, which is our own ego, which one is not willing to give up even when the Lord of Death, Yama Dharmaraja is knocking at the front door.

So when we see people falling in love with this Navaneeetha Chor, ready to do anything, just for a fleeting glance from Him shouldn't we say "Hats off to you, folks! "because they have given away the very cream of their lives, the EGO, to Him, the most popular thief! Darling Krishna!