Why Lord Krishna is called Makhan Chor

Krishna in our body represents pure consciousness and a child is always born with pure consciousness with no influence of mind, intellect and ego.  The duality of mind starts at the age of 5 and the intellect start developing at early adolescence and ego at late adolescence.

In the first few years of childhood, the child has pure consciousness and has no power to discriminate between good and bad.  For her/him everything is eternal unconditional love. He is loving and lovable.  This phase in the birth of Krishna is called the phase of Makhan Chor. The child eats, sleeps or talks or steals nothing but love.

A loveable person always steals love from other and that is why Lord Krishna is called Makhan Chor.  The word Makhan is symbolized with the essence of love. 

This is one of the reasons, why in our judicial system a child up to the age of 5 is taken as granted that he would never speak a lie. 

After Krishna’s birth, a ritual is often performed by Krishna devotees, i.e. the ritual of breaking Dahi-Handi, where all the Krishna devotees gather at one place, climb on each other and then hit on the Dahi-handi and break it. 

It also has a spiritual significance.  In internal Krishna childhood perception Gopis represents your thoughts, who when gather together in harmony and churn (climbing up on each other) the milky curd (concentrated thoughts) produce butter (makhan), which is nothing but the essence of love.

The message is very clear that we must meditate or churn our mind with positive thoughts focusing on the purpose of life and use the resultant love in our day to day life.