Passage 5

In English

We have the story in our mythology about the churning of the ocean of milk with the , a certain hill; and how many things like diamonds, like the , the tree that fulfils all your desires; like the , or the cow that gives you all that you want, , the immortal nectar, and many other precious things were got from it. In the same way, in modern times, we are churning the ocean of our life. By churning our life and by churning the bowels of the earth on which we live, we get many qualities and many things that we require, such as food, gems, and so on. If we look into the inner meaning of the parable or of our history, we note that there is a hill called and by putting this hill inside the ocean we churn it with the , or the bad qualities, on one side and the , or the good qualities, on the other side. Out of the ocean have come some good things and some bad things. This is the meaning of the story. You may ask if this story has also got an inner meaning.