Protection of Cows is Man's Eternal Duty

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Protection of Cows is Man's Eternal Duty

Swami Ramsukhdas

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From all perspectives, a cow is worth protecting for human beings. All the four main goals of man (known as Purushaarth) Dharma(Righteousness), Arth (Prosperity), Kaam (Desires) and Moksha (Final Liberation) can be accomplished through the cow. In the present times, due to the predominance of material wealth, a cow is extremely useful. By rearing cows, cow milk, clarified butter, cowdung and other wealth can be increased. In our country, where there is predominance of agriculture, the extent to which the cows and bulls are important, 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


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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 the buffalo. Similarly, a camel can also be used in farming, but camels are even less in number 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, though they are not as expensive as the camel. If people kept cows, then bulls will be born and you will not need to buy them. The bulls from foreign cows are not useful in the farms, because they do not have a hump on their back, the yoke cannot be placed on their back. Cow is very pure. Even the air that touches her body becomes pure. The urine and dung of the cow are also pure. The homes that are smeared with cowdung are protected from plague, cholera and other deadly diseases. Besides this, during war, houses that are smeared with cowdung are not affected so much by bombs, when compared to cement homes. Cowdung has immense powers to absorb poisons. In Kashi, a person died from snake bite poisoning. People took his body to the banks of Gangaji to perform his last rites. A sadhu (Ascetic) was living there. He enquired what had happened to this person. People replied that he had died of snake bite poisoning. The sadhu said, “He is not dead, go quickly and get cowdung”. When the cowdung was brought, the sadhu smeared this person’s entire body with cowdung. All over he applied a layer of cowdung. After about halfhour he applied a second layer of cowdung. Soon after, the person was able to start breathing and he was saved. In getting rid of heartrelated diseases, cowdung is very useful. Drinking the urine of a young calf, about 11 to 22 grams, all stomach problems can be cured. One Saint was complaining about asthma; he benefited immensely from drinking cowurine. Nowadays, many medicines are being made from cowdung and cowurine. Even gas is being made from cowdung. This gas is used in cooking stoves.


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The food and grains produced from cowdung in the farms are also very pure. The soil fertilized with cowurine and cowdung is far superior to the soil fertilized with chemical fertilizers. Once a farmer who had grape farms, experimented and shared that with cowdung fertilizer, the crop of grapes is far thicker and the size of each grape is bigger than what we get by using foreign chemical fertilizers. After application of imported chemical fertilizers, the soil becomes barren in a few years. In other words, it loses its growing potential. However, with cowdung and cowurine, the fertility of the land continues to remain as it is. Due to chemical fertilizers, much land has been spoilt in foreign countries. To rectify this problem, many foreign countries are importing cowdung from India, and shiploads of cowdung are regularly being sent to foreign lands. The cows of our country are amiable and pure, thus their milk is also pure. Drinking cow’s milk, the intellect becomes sharp and one’s nature becomes calm and amiable. The foreign cows produce more milk, but those cows have a very angry nature; therefore, by drinking their milk man’s nature too becomes irate. The buffalo produces plenty of milk, but this milk is not pure and one does not get pure strength from it. Once, the horses of some military men were given cow’s milk, which led to those horses running very fast. For testing purposes, once the soldiers gave cow milk to some horses and buffalo milk to some other horses. The horses that drank buffalo milk became fat and huge, but when the time came to cross a river, these horses sat in the water. The buffaloes generally sit and wade in the water, and this very same nature came in the horses as well ! Camel’s milk is also there, but this milk is not used for making curds (meaning, yoghurt) and butter. Camel’s milk istamasik (Demoniac), and the kind that causes catastrophe. In all the religious events, cow is important. Jaatkarma, chudakarma, upanayan etc. and all the sixteen sanskars, the cow, the cow’s milk, her ghee (Clarified butter), cowdung, etc. have a special association. Yadnyas


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(Sacrificial fires) are performed using cow’s ghee. For purification of the place, a layer of cowdung is spread. Kheer (An Indian sweet made from cow’s milk, with rice boiled to thickness) is prepared as an offering for those who have died. To be saved from being sent to hell, cows are donated. In religious sacrifices panchagavya (A mixture made from cow’s milk, ghee, curd, urine and dung) is used. In the Yadnyas, cow’s ghee is used for fulfillment of desires. Cow was predominant in the functioning of the Raghu dynasty. The cow’s milk and ghee hold a very important place in all items made for nourishment, vigour and strength. By serving a cow selflessly, one attains liberation. By serving a cow, the innersenses become purified. Bhagawan Shri Krishna had also enacted His Divine play without any footwear while tending to cows; therefore, He was called by the name of Gopal (meaning, a cowherd, a protector of mother earth). In the ancient times, the Sages living in the forests used to keep cows with them. With the cow’s milk and ghee, their intellect used to become very sharp, extraordinary, whereby they used to keep creating huge literary works and Holy books. Nowadays, there are very few people who can even understand these works. Due to cow’s milk and ghee, the Sages had great longevity. Therefore, cow’s ghee has also been given the name of Aayu (Long lifespan). 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 people who sacrificed their lives to protect cows. It is very distressing to see that today in our country, due to greed for money, thousands of cows are being killed daily ! If killing of cows continues like this, then there will come a time when the cow lineage will cease to exist. What will happen when there are no cows ? What difficulties will be faced one simply cannot even estimate and conjecture. When all cows will be dead, there will no more cowdung and cowdung fertilizer, due to which the land will no longer


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be fertile. When the land will lose its fertility, how will farming take place ? Without 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 cows and their milk, ghee, dung etc., the people will suffer enormously. In the absence of cows, the country will become dependent and weak. Even today, the main reason for droughts, famines, starvation, quarrels and strife is the killing of cows. Therefore, applying all your strength, protect the cows under all circumstances. It is our eternal duty to stop the cows from being sent to slaughterhouses. Brothers and sisters ! For the protection of cows, you should rear cows; keep them in farms. Only drink the milk and eat the ghee of cows, not of buffaloes. Use the gas that comes from cowdung in your homes. Open cowshelters only with the objective of protecting the cows, not with the objective of producing milk. People should protect the grazing pastures for the cows, and make the Government release these pastures. Oppose the Government laws around cowslaughter, appeal and insist that for the protection of the country, the killing of cows must stop in the whole country immediately and entirely.

नारायण ! नारायण ! नारायण !

From ’Jivan ka Satya’ in Hindi and English by Swami Ramsukhdasji


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