Pasum paalum-murungakaiyum (cow's milk and drumstick)- A short story

Pasum paalum-murungakaiyum

(cow's milk and drumstick)- A short story

It intrigued me what this person in this video about vedic dharma actually means and you all might be wondering what has this video got to do with pasum paal and murungakai (cow's milk and drumstick).

Well, the story began with gusting wind and thickening clouds. Myself and my in laws were travelling to see my house and we all were waiting to get keys from neighbor house who has gone out. In the meantime we all went to terrace and as soon as I saw the long, slender, green drumsticks hanging down calling for the owner to pluck them and make a delicious sambar out of them, unfortunately it was neighbors . I couldn't resist plucking it so I silently plucked it and saved it in our car. Our goal was to purchase cow's milk which is very famous there and healthy too. We all planned this trip around this and so I took a container which was looking decent. We purchased milk for 40 bucks and we could see the 2 drumsticks should be around 30 bucks. I kept the purchased milk beneath the front seat since the small fellow was fully packed. We had a nice dinner and while boarding the rain was down pouring that we hardly thought of the milk. in a traffic jam the driver had to use his brakes suddenly that the whole milk got split leaving just for one person. We all were mentally disturbed because of it.

My mother in law started to explain, people with clean habits and selfless attitude if they suddenly do stealthy things end up losing something like this, see for 30 bucks we got drumsticks and approximately the same 30 bucks equivalent we lost the cows milk. My father in law argued if so there is no profit or loss in it.It got tallied.

Yes friends it got tallied not just materialistically but philosophically as well. People who are prone to do bad things suddenly if they do good , for the amount they do good they immediately get reward equal to that similar to how good people do silly mistakes and get punished in silly way. 

MORAL: It is not the material which gave this enlightenment nor our reactions to the spilled milk but for the agony we all had that O! the milk got spilled because of us and it was may be due to our foolish karma, we dint get punished  physically or materialistically but psychologically .

The vedic dharma teaches this , such is the greatness of vedic dharma which came long back as Anadhi, Anama , sruti svarupam.