Friday, October 7, 2011


6th October, 2011, Thursday
Ashwin Shukla Shri Vijaya Dashami,  Guruvar, Vikram Samvat 2068

Cow Protection - Our Eternal Duty 


(continued)  The cows of our country are amiable, and pure.  Thus their milk is also pure, drinking which the intellect becomes sharp and nature become calm and amiable.    The foreign cow's produce more milk, but those cows have a very angry nature, therefore drinking their milk man's nature becomes evil.  The buffalo produces lot more milk, but the milk is not pure and one does not get pure strength from it.  The horses of the military men were given cow's milk at one time;  by which those horses used to run very fast. One time for testing purposes the soldiers gave a few horses cow's milk and the other buffalo milk. The horses that drank the buffalo milk became fat and huge, but when it came time to cross the river then those horses sat down in the water. The buffaloes generally sit in the water;   this nature came in the horses as well. The camel's milk is also there, but that milk is not used for making curd (yoghurt) and butter.   Its milk is also "taamsi" (demonaic).  Therefore it is the kind that causes catastrophy. 

In all the religious events, cow is important.  Jaat karma, chuda karma, upanayan etc and all the sixteen purification and sanctification rites (sanskaars), the cow, the cow's milk, her "ghee"  (clarified butter),  cow-dung, etc have a special association.  Sacrificial fires are performed using cow's ghee.  For purification of the place, a layer of cow-dung is spread. Kheer (cow's milk, with rice boiled to thickness) is prepared as an offerings for those who have died.  To be saved from hell,  cows are donated.  In religious sacrifices "panchagavya" (five products made of cow), the following five are used in panchagavya -  milk, ghee, curd, urine, dung. 
The yagyas (in sacrificial fire), ghee made of cow is used for the fulfillment of desires.   Cow was predominant in the functioning of the Raghu dynasty.  The cow's milk and ghee hold a very important place among all items made for nourishment, vigor and strength.     

By serving a cow without any selfishness, one attains liberation.  By serving the cow, the inner-senses become purified. Lord Shri Krishna  had also enacted His divine play without any shoes while tending the cows, therefore He was called by the name "Gopal"  (Cowherd, a protector of mother earth).  In ancient times, the sages that used to live in the forests used to keep cows with them.  With the cow's milk, ghee, their intellect used to be very sharp, extra-ordinary, whereby they used to keep producing huge literary works and holy books.    Nowadays there are very few that can even understand these works.   Due to cow's milk and ghee, they had great longevity.  Therefore cow's ghee has also been given the name of "Aayu" (long life span).   Many great kings used to go to these sages for advice in ruling their kingdom. 
History and voluminous works dealing with ancient India are filled with tales of those who had sacrificed their lives for the protection of cows.  It is a very sad thing that today in our country, due to the greed for money,  daily thousands of cows are being killed!  If killing of cows continues like this then one time the cow succession will come to an end.     When there will be no more cows, then what will be the condition?  What difficulties will be faced -  one simply cannot even estimate and conjecture.  When cows will all be dead, then there will not be any more cow-dung and cow-dung fertilizer due to which the land will no longer be fertile.  When the land will lose its fertility, how will farming take place?   By lack of farming, how will food (grains) and clothes (cotton) be obtained?   For the sustenance of the body, it will be difficult for people to get food, water and clothing.    When there will be no more cows and their milk, ghee, dung etc.,  the citizens will suffer enormously.  Due to the lack of cows, the country will become dependent and weak.  At present too the main reason for droughts, famines,  starvation, quarrels and strives is the killing of cows.   Therefore applying your full strength, in all conditions protect the cows. It is our eternal duty to stop them from going to slaughter houses. 

For the protection of the cows brothers and sister should want that they should rear cows;  keep them in their farms.  Only drink the milk and eat the ghee of cows, not of buffaloes.   Use the gas that comes from cow-dung in your homes.   Open cow shelters only with the objective of protecting the cows, not with the objective of producing milk.  As many grazing places that are there for cows,  one must protect them, and make government release these grazing pastures.   Oppose the government laws around cow slaughter and appeal and insist that for the protection of the country, in the whole country immediately and entirely, stop the killing of cows, in all aspects.       

From book "Jivan ka Satya" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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