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The moon, playful and mad with love, causes upheaval: cats lick its light, elephants pluck it like lotus, women steal it like a veil—it disturbs the c...
Just as impure water cannot be holy or cow’s milk impure, so also scripture loses power when its source is tainted. Context matters for sacredness.
How can the Lord of all worlds be bound with skulls? Only the ignorant fail to see the value of what seems ominous—like the moon’s poison becomes a co...
Applying the root of a specific plant on the feet acts as a fertility remedy. Ancient methods believed in such secret stimulations.
Another formulation with goat’s urine and a root enables union with an otherwise unattainable woman. Ancient folk medicine for desire fulfillment.
Better to live like a monkey gnawing fruit than flatter the arrogant wealthy. A life of integrity beats one spent under humiliation.
Even a drunken monkey becomes monstrous when bitten by a scorpion or possessed by a demon. How to describe its bizarre actions? A metaphor for uncheck...
A Shudra who studies Vedas, drinks cow's milk ritually, or approaches Brahmin women goes to hell, per orthodox rules. An example of caste-based discri...
Even if thousands of Kapila cows are given to Brahmins, it's not equal to saving a single life. Human life is supreme, says this wise statement to Yud...
Monkey bites or horse burns cause pain that disappears at sunrise. Suffering ends with new light—a metaphor for hope and healing.
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