The cow in the occult symbolism indicates Light or the consciousness—white indicates the purified or spiritual consciousness—the white Light. It is quite clear; it is the Vedic image. In the Veda the Cow is the Divine Light—the white Cow is the pure Consciousness in which there is the Light. The milk is the Knowledge and Power descending from the divine Consciousness. The Cow usually means the Higher Consciousness. Perhaps the calf indicates the truth of the higher consciousness (white) in the physical (red). The white calf is the sign of a pure and clear consciousness,—the cow or calf being the symbol of Light in the consciousness, something psychic or spiritual that you felt natural and intimate to you and inseparable. The vision of the cows must have taken place in the psychic world. It has also a symbolic significance. The sun is the symbol of the Divine Truth, the cows are its powers, rays of the sun, sources of true knowledge, true feeling, true experience. Milk is always the symbol of the flow of the higher consciousness.
GO in Sanskrit means COW, means Light of Wisdom. VINDA means discovering or Finding, meaning “GOVINDA = Discovering Light of Wisdom” meaning VISHNU.
The word Govinda, one who gives pleasure to the cows. The word go also means senses. The senses are always craving some satisfaction, and to get some satisfaction, the senses are always roving from one object to another, but only Krsna, Govinda, can give the senses unlimited satisfaction, for only Krsna is unlimited.
Pala means ruler and protector. A king suppose to be like this. GOPALA= “Protector of Light of Wisdom”.
Gopala - Gohu palayathi iti. The protector of cows/ the Go. Go is also the real Self as said earlier which is beyond the space and time. This cannot be achieved by the thought, as thought is predominantly a product of time. Go is something which is unaffected by space and time and it exists. To be that existence and to not get entangled with time and space is Gopala. Palayathi has meanings like to govern, to rule, to observe, to maintain to protect. It just means one who is constantly in the reminiscence of the Self.
Vardhana means one who nourishes. It is like Earth, mother etc. GOVARDHANA = One who nourishes Light of Wisdom To SEEKERS.
The Story
Gokulam depends upon rain and once there was good rains as usual people of Gokulam thank the rain God Indra. They want to conduct yang and praise Lord Indra. Krishna said that Govardhana Giri is the one who gives you all the riches not Indra. When Indra found out about this, he was furious, and he sent to Samvartaka clouds, which usually only appear in the Pralaya to destroy the world, to destroy the people of Vrindavana.
On Indra’s order the clouds of universal destruction, released untimely from their bonds, went to the cowherd pastures of Nanda Mahārāja. There they began to torment the inhabitants by powerfully pouring down torrents of rain upon them. Propelled by the fearsome wind-gods, the clouds blazed with lightning bolts and roared with thunder as they hurled down hailstones. As the clouds released torrents of rain as thick as massive columns, the earth was submerged in the flood, and high ground could no longer be distinguished from low. The cows and other animals, shivering from the excessive rain and wind, and the cowherd men and ladies, pained by the cold, all approached Lord Govinda for shelter. Trembling from the distress brought about by the severe rainfall, and trying to cover their heads and calves with their own bodies, the cows approached the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead: "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, O most fortunate one, please deliver the cows from the wrath of Indra! O Lord, You are so affectionate to Your devotees. Please save us also."
Seeing the inhabitants of His Gokula rendered practically unconscious by the onslaught of hail and blasting wind, the Supreme Lord Hari understood that this was the work of angry Indra. "Because We have stopped his sacrifice, Indra has caused this unusually fierce, unseasonable rain, together with terrible winds and hail. By My mystic power I will completely counteract this disturbance caused by Indra. Demigods like Indra are proud of their opulence, and out of foolishness they falsely consider themselves the Lord of the universe. I will now destroy such ignorance. Since the demigods are endowed with the mode of goodness, the false pride of considering oneself the Lord should certainly not affect them. When I break the false prestige of those bereft of goodness, My purpose is to bring them relief. I must therefore protect the cowherds by My transcendental potency, for I am their shelter, I am their master, and indeed they are My own family. After all, I have taken a vow to protect My devotees."
Having said this, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is Viṣṇu Himself, picked up Govardhana Hill with one hand and held it. "The Lord then addressed the cowherd community: O Mother, O Father, O residents of Vraja, if you wish you may now come under this hill with your cows. You should have no fear that this mountain will fall from My hand. And don’t be afraid of the wind and rain, for your deliverance from these afflictions has already been arranged."
Their minds thus pacified by Lord Kṛṣṇa, they all entered beneath the hill, where they found ample room for themselves and all their cows, wagons, servants and priests, and for all other members of Gokulam. Lord Kṛṣṇa, forgetting hunger and thirst and putting aside all considerations of personal pleasure, stood there holding up the hill for seven days as the people of Vraja gazed upon Him. When Indra observed this exhibition of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s mystic power, he became most astonished. Pulled down from his platform of false pride, and his intentions thwarted, he ordered his clouds to desist. Seeing that the fierce wind and rain had now ceased, the sky had become clear of rainclouds, and the sun had risen, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the lifter of Govardhana Hill, spoke to the cowherd community as follows. "My dear cowherd men, please go out with your wives, children and possessions. Give up your fear. The wind and rain have stopped, and the rivers’ high waters have subsided."
After collecting their respective cows and loading their paraphernalia into their wagons, the cowherd men went out. The women, children and elderly persons gradually followed them. While all living creatures looked on, the Supreme Personality of Godhead put down the hill in its original place, just as it had stood before. All the residents of Vṛndāvana were overwhelmed with ecstatic love, and they came forward and greeted Śrī Kṛṣṇa according to their individual relationships with Him — some embracing Him, others bowing down to Him, and so forth. The cowherd women presented water mixed with yogurt and unbroken barleycorns as a token of honor, and they showered auspicious benedictions upon Him.
The real secret of this story is as follows.
The hill represents tetrahedron or triangle, upside down of Naamam. Based on the meaning of GO, it is referred as Nourisher of light of wisdom. When Indra unleashes his Vajrayudham or Thunder Bolt onto Gokulam or Seeker, the Gopala or Protector comes to your rescue. Krishna Energy helps you the yogi to lift this GOVARDHANA mountain in meditation. Imagine all the wisdom is on the hill. You can’t reach out to it. Now you need to turn this hill upside down. Practically when the wisdom is hanging upside down, you can nourish on it. The entire hill you are balancing on your finger point or DOT or BINDU. From this point the entire hill glows. Now you are the Krishna who lifted a mountain.
Gokulam
So Vishnu is the protector, nourisher and discoverer of Light if Wisdom. So if you pray to him with any of the names, you are seeking the COW. Gokulam = A group or sect or cast who are part of this concept and seekers of COW.
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