The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
Beginning and end are part of a single ring and no one can comprehend its principle. This is called Heaven the Equaliser.
A man becomes pure through sincerity of intellect; thereupon, in meditation he beholds Him who is without parts.
A disciple in training will comprehend this earth, the realm of death and the realm of the gods. A disciple in training will investigate the well-taught Path of Virtue, even as an expert garland-maker picks flowers.
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
