Protection, not exploitation

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Link between the mentality, or lack thereof, of cow protection and child

abuse. Everything is connected to everything else. Of course, we could as

easily say, the mentality that produces a system in which children are

abused is also a system where cows would be neglected.

 

But a system based on the land where cows are protected is more likely to

produce a balanced, sane gurukula, then an attempt to simply make a gurukula

without connection to the land. And we have already tried the latter.

 

 

PURPORT

In the glorious days, or before the advent of the age of Kali, the brahmanas,

the cows, the women, the children and the old men were properly given

protection.

1. The protection of the brahmanas maintains the institution of varna and

asrama, the most scientific culture for attainment of spiritual life.

2. The protection of cows maintains the most miraculous form of food, i.e.,

milk for maintaining the finer tissues of the brain for understanding higher

aims of life.

3. The protection of women maintains the chastity of society, by which we can

get a good generation for peace, tranquillity and progress of life.

4. The protection of children gives the human form of life its best chance to

prepare the way of liberty from material bondage. Such protection of children

begins from the very day of begetting a child by the purificatory process of

garbhadhana-samskara, the beginning of pure life.

5. The protection of the old men gives them a chance to prepare themselves for

better life after death.

This complete outlook is based on factors leading to successful humanity as

against the civilization of polished cats and dogs. The killing of the

above-mentioned innocent creatures is totally forbidden because even by

insulting them one loses one's duration of life. In the age of Kali they are

not properly protected, and therefore the duration of life of the present

generation has shortened considerably.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.8.5