Cow Protection Seminar

[Guest guest]

Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,

 

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

The Ministry of Cow Protection requests the honor of your presence at this

year's cow protection seminar in Mayapur. The dates and times of the seminar

are:

 

Friday, February 28th and Saturday, March 1st: Morning and afternoon sessions

totalling 7 hours each day.

 

Sunday, March 2nd and Monday, March 3rd: Hands-on cow/ox sessions from 6:15

A.M. to 7:45 A.M. and sessions from 9:50 A.M. to 1 PM (either hands-on

actvities or discussion, depending on the attendees' desires).

 

The purpose of this seminar is to bring cow protection out of the Krsna Book

into 21st century ISKCON. A general understanding of the practical,

spiritual, economic and environmental benefits of cow protection will be

presented and discussed. The subject of how cow protection can become an

integral part of ISKCON's infrastructure will follow. We highly recommend this

seminar for anyone who is either in a leadership role or participating in a cow

protection or farm program. Some items to be covered are:

 

Part 1: Benefits of Cow Protection:

 

a) Pleases Krsna

b) Supplies our own milk

b) Cow urine and dung products

c) Ox-Power:Alternative Energy

d) Attracts new devotees

e) Complements and supports brahminical culture

 

Part 2: Practical Planning for a Sustainable Farm Community:

 

a) Land: qualities/maintenance/amount

b) Cows: breeds/breeding/care

c) Housing: indigenous/environmentally sound

d) Economic development: food/cow products/restaurants/CSA/etc:

e) Social development = Krsna in the center/cowherds/village life

 

All attendees will receive materials in book format, containing spiritual and

practical information for presenting and maintaining cow protection.

 

Balabhadra das (ISCOWP president and ISKCON Minister for Cow Protection and

Agriculture) and Suresvara das (ISCOWP board member, BTG writer of 1980s

"Simple Living" articles) will be co-teaching the seminar. You can find out

more about them and the seminar, and also sign up if you wish, at:

 

http://www.mayapur.org/mihe/2003/2k3_balabhadra.htm

 

We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!

 

 

Your servants

at the Ministry of Cow Protection