A journey started after the darshan of cow comes out successful. Even the shadow of the cow is considered to be highly anspicious. Darshan of a cow suckling her calf is particularly beneficial.
(Describing the auspiciousness of the mount, Tulsidasji says) ‘The cows were suckling their calves.’
The cow is supremely holy; even the wind touching her body becomes pure and hallowed. The service to cow by itself purifies the heart.
There is no fertiliser equalling the manure prepared from urine and dung of the cow. The benefits we get from the cow cannot be enumerated. Bullocks have Sattvic strength. Tractors are not as efficient in ploughing the fields as bullocks are. Seemingly, tractors and chemical fertilisers finish the work in much shorter time, but quality is lacking. The food-grains produced with the help of bullocks are hallowed and so are the food-grains produced using the manure prepared from urine and dung of the cow.
The cow and farming are closely related. The grass etc. growing in the fields provides food for the cow and the cow’s dung and urine nurtures the fields. Chemical fertilisers damage the productivity of the soil and make it completely barren in a few years but the manure prepared from urine and dung of the cow keeps the productivity of the land intact. That is why in olden days, there was a custom of not using any kind of fertiliser at all and the land produced food-grains for a hundred years or more. In other countries, many lands have been spoilt by the use of chemical fertilisers. Manure is being used to bring the productivity back to such lands.
Army horses are given cow’s milk, which makes them extraordinarily fast. Once, the army people carried out an experiment. Some horses were given had to cross a river, they sat down in water as a buffalo does. This buffalo trait had travelled into the horses as well.
A she-camel too gives milk but curd or butter is never prepared from it. its milk is Tamasic and takes one to a fallen condition (therefore camel-milk should not be given even to others). The scriptures ordain that the camel, the dog and the ass etc. are impure and should not be touched.the goat’s milk is easily digestible and health-giving but it is not Sattvic like the cow’s milk nor does it strengthen intellectual analytical faculties like the cow’s milk does.
The ghee prepared from cow’s milk is considered equal to Amrit, the divine nectar. When Urvashi, the celestial damsel, came to King Pururava on earth, she preferred the ghee prepared from cow’s milk to Amrit.
‘Give me ghee prepared from cow’s milk.’
Question: Why is the spirit of saving the cow waning in the society?
Swamiji: Many allopathic medicines are prepared from the cow’s liver, flesh and blood. By taking these medicines, people have ingested cow’s flesh and blood etc. this has corrupted their intellects and they have lost the reverence they had for the cow.
Then, people earn wealth by evil means and eat the food bought there from. How can their intellect be pure; and without a pure intellect and made it Tamasic in nature. These perverted minds suspect the good advice given to them.
‘That which, enveloped in darkness, views Adharma as Dharma and sees all things perverted - that intellect, O Arjuna, is called Tamstic!’
(Describing the auspiciousness of the mount, Tulsidasji says) ‘The cows were suckling their calves.’
The cow is supremely holy; even the wind touching her body becomes pure and hallowed. The service to cow by itself purifies the heart.
There is no fertiliser equalling the manure prepared from urine and dung of the cow. The benefits we get from the cow cannot be enumerated. Bullocks have Sattvic strength. Tractors are not as efficient in ploughing the fields as bullocks are. Seemingly, tractors and chemical fertilisers finish the work in much shorter time, but quality is lacking. The food-grains produced with the help of bullocks are hallowed and so are the food-grains produced using the manure prepared from urine and dung of the cow.
The cow and farming are closely related. The grass etc. growing in the fields provides food for the cow and the cow’s dung and urine nurtures the fields. Chemical fertilisers damage the productivity of the soil and make it completely barren in a few years but the manure prepared from urine and dung of the cow keeps the productivity of the land intact. That is why in olden days, there was a custom of not using any kind of fertiliser at all and the land produced food-grains for a hundred years or more. In other countries, many lands have been spoilt by the use of chemical fertilisers. Manure is being used to bring the productivity back to such lands.
Army horses are given cow’s milk, which makes them extraordinarily fast. Once, the army people carried out an experiment. Some horses were given had to cross a river, they sat down in water as a buffalo does. This buffalo trait had travelled into the horses as well.
A she-camel too gives milk but curd or butter is never prepared from it. its milk is Tamasic and takes one to a fallen condition (therefore camel-milk should not be given even to others). The scriptures ordain that the camel, the dog and the ass etc. are impure and should not be touched.the goat’s milk is easily digestible and health-giving but it is not Sattvic like the cow’s milk nor does it strengthen intellectual analytical faculties like the cow’s milk does.
The ghee prepared from cow’s milk is considered equal to Amrit, the divine nectar. When Urvashi, the celestial damsel, came to King Pururava on earth, she preferred the ghee prepared from cow’s milk to Amrit.
‘Give me ghee prepared from cow’s milk.’
Question: Why is the spirit of saving the cow waning in the society?
Swamiji: Many allopathic medicines are prepared from the cow’s liver, flesh and blood. By taking these medicines, people have ingested cow’s flesh and blood etc. this has corrupted their intellects and they have lost the reverence they had for the cow.
Then, people earn wealth by evil means and eat the food bought there from. How can their intellect be pure; and without a pure intellect and made it Tamasic in nature. These perverted minds suspect the good advice given to them.
‘That which, enveloped in darkness, views Adharma as Dharma and sees all things perverted - that intellect, O Arjuna, is called Tamstic!’
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