Thursday, October 6, 2011


5th October, 2011, Wednesday
Ashwin Shukla Dashami,  Budhvar, Vikram Samvat 2068

Cow Protection - Our Eternal Duty 


From all perspectives, for human beings, a Cow is worth protecting.   All the four main goals of man (purushaarth) -  Dharma (righteousness), Arth (prosperity), Kaam  (desires) and Moksha (liberation) can be accomplished through the cow.  In present times, due to the predominance of material wealth, a cow is extremely useful.  By rearing cows,  cow milk, clarified butter, cow-dung and other  wealth can be increased.  In our Country where there is predominance of agriculture "krushi-pradhaan,"  the extent to which the cows and bulls are significant, the other animals are not.  Farming can also be done with buffaloes, but the amount of work a bull can do, the buffalo cannot.  A buffalo is strong, but it cannot tolerate intense heat. When the Sun is hot, the buffalo sticks out its tongue, whereas the bulls continue to work tirelessly.  This is because the buffalo does not have strength of purity, whereas, the bull has strength that is pure.  The requirements of a bull are lesser than those of buffalo.  Similarly a camel can also be used in farming, but camels are lesser  in numbers than the buffalo, and they are expensive.  Every farmer cannot afford to buy a camel.   Nowadays, due to young, healthy and good bulls getting killed, they too have become expensive, than too they are not as expensive as the camel.  Here if people kept cows then bulls will be born and you will not need to go and buy them.  The bulls from foreign cows,  are not useful in farms, since they do not have a hump on their back, the yoke "jua" cannot be placed on their back. 
Cow is very pure.  Even the air that touches her body is pure.  The urine and dung of the cow are also pure.  The homes that are smeared with cow-dung are protected from plague, cholera and other deadly diseases.  Besides this during war, houses that are smeared with cow-dung are not affected so much by bombs, compared to cement homes.  Cow-dung has immense powers to absorb the poisons.  In Kashi some person died from snake bite poisoning.  People took his body to the banks of Gangaji to perform his last rites.   An ascetic (sadhu) was living there.  He asked what happened to this person? People informed that he died of snake bite poisoning.  The sadhu said he is not dead,  go quickly and get cow-dung.  The cow-dung was brought.  The sadhu smeared his entire body with cow-dung, all over applied a layer of cow-dung. After about half hour once again applied a second layer of cow-dung.  Soon after the person was able to start breathing and he was saved.  For getting rid of heart related diseases, cow-urine is very useful.  Drinking the urine of a young calf, about 11 to 22 gms all stomach problems can be cured.   One saint was complaining about asthama, he gained immensely from taking cow-urine.  Nowadays from cow-dung and urine of cow, many medicines are being made.  Even gas is being made from cow-dung.   The gas is used in cooking stoves. 
The foods and grains that are produced from cow-dung in the farms is also very pure.  The soil that is fertilized with cow urine and cow-dung, is far superior than the soil fertilized with chemical fertilizers.  One time a farmer who had grape farms, experimented and shared that with cow-dung fertilizer, the bunch of grapes is far thicker and each grape size is bigger than with foreign chemical fertilizers.   After application of imported chemical fertilizers, in a few years the soil becomes barren, in other words,  it loses its growing potential.  However with cow-dung and urine,  the fertility of the land continue to remain as-is.    In foreign countries due to chemical fertilizers, much land has been spoilt.  To correct this problem, many of them are importing cow-dung from India, and many ship loads of cow-dung are regularly departing to foreign lands.  
From book "Jivan ka Satya" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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