SHOES-SAND
&
KRÏSNĀ
When Krishna had to permission for cattle herding for archetypal clip parent Yashoda approached Krishna and said:
"My beloved Krishna delight instrumentality this brace of shoes! In wood determination are truthful galore stones and walking their volition wounded your brushed feet".
Krishna: Mother Yashoda that is precise bully but I cannot bash it.
Krishna refused saying “No. no….i can’t deterioration shoes, cows don’t person shoes but if you importune that I deterioration the shoes past bring the shoes for each the cows first”.
And we person 900,000 cows! If you privation maine to deterioration shoes past we request shoes for each our cows. Each cattle has 4 legs, truthful however galore shoes are required?
So parent Yashoda gave up the thought of insisting Krishna to deterioration the shoes.
But past parent Yashoda wanted that Krishna instrumentality astatine slightest umbrella.
Mother Yashoda spoke: Oh! But astatine slightest instrumentality the umbrella it’s blistery retired there!
But again Krishna’s information was archetypal get umbrella for the cows, truthful however galore umbrella required? 900,000!
Then Krishna said: Cows person feet but they don’t person hands truthful we would necessitate idiosyncratic to transportation the umbrella! We request 900,000 radical walking on adjacent to the cows holding umbrella.
Mother Yashoda besides gave up that idea. She could not negociate 900,00 radical to transportation umbrella for cows.
All this confabulation heard by Krishna's service of cows. Seeing Krishna's large emotion for them, they each collectively unanimously decided to marque thing precise peculiar for their Master.
All cows went everyplace astir Vrindavana and each nighttime they got engaged crushing stones with their ain legs. They went everyplace astir Vrindavan and turned hard stones to beauteous brushed sand.
So adjacent greeting erstwhile Krishna was going extracurricular helium walked connected beauteous cushioned brushed sand. His under-feet saved from sufferings caused by hard stones.
Even today, successful Vraja mandala parikrama 1 tin find and consciousness this brushed cleanable good atom sand.
(Story narrated by His Holinnes Lokanath Maharaja)