When you poke around in fresh cow manure, your hands get dirty. The same way in life, if something is upsetting us and we poke away at it, we dirty only ourselves, by indulging the fantasies of the mind.
With detachment, if we leave the source of aggravation alone. Like the cow manure, which left out in the sun dries out and can be put to so many great uses, we can be healed by the very thing that upset us.
The thing that troubles us, can also be the thing that frees us, when it's left alone to settle of its own accord.
Cow dung is offered into the sacred fire and is part of the Vibhuti that we apply to our foreheads to help us receive The Divine more fully.
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