Giving up on Commercial Milk saves cows?

[Guest guest]

Tamäla Kåñëa: Morning, you are drinking milk? Is it...?

Prabhupäda: Very good.

Tamäla Kåñëa: Those cows are unique, that a cow can give her own weight in

milk in eleven days.

Prabhupäda: They are selling milk also.

Tamäla Kåñëa: In our farm?

Prabhupäda: Yes.

Tamäla Kåñëa: Yes, we make fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars a month.

Prabhupäda: So if there is more milk, you can sell more, get money.

Tamäla Kåñëa: Yes, we're getting nearly two thousand dollars a month.

 

George Harrison: Five hundred pounds!

Mukunda: Yes, for four acres.

George Harrison: That's quite cheap.

Mukunda: Yes, we were really surprised. But if it hadn't been for that,

we'd have had no cow pasture. Cows are out there.

Prabhupäda: We have got one cow, many cows in Philadelphia. The milk bags,

she gives hundred and two pounds daily.

George Harrison: Of milk? Who owns this? Who milks the cows?

Gurudäsa: Some of the devotees.

Prabhupäda: We have got tanks for storing milk, tanks.

George Harrison: Yes?

Prabhupäda: Yes. All up-to-date refrigerator and everything. That extra

milk they are selling. Similarly, in New Vrindaban we are getting one

thousand pounds milk daily. One thousand pounds.

Mukunda: That's our place in West Virginia.

George Harrison: How many cows? Must be hundred of them.

Prabhupäda: But the Philadelphia is more organized.

Jayatértha: Yes.

Prabhupäda: Through the nozzles, milk carrying, always hot water is washing

it.

Jayatértha: There's much better facility in that Pennsylvania place. New

Vrindaban's kind of.... They built it up from scratch by themselves.

Gurudäsa: Rustic.

Jayatértha: Yes, rustic is the word. (laughter) Pennsylvania they bought

this fabulous farm all made up.

Prabhupäda: Pradyumna, give him little, this one here.

George Harrison: Oh, no, no. Please, no more. I'm really full. I won't have

to eat for a few days. (laughter)

Prabhupäda: Sweets.

George Harrison: Very well.

Prabhupäda: Sweet will help you digest. Don't give three—at least four.

George Harrison: I won't be able to eat much more.

Prabhupäda: Three is given to the enemy. According to our Indian system, if

you give somebody three, that means he is enemy.

George Harrison: Oh, really? I always liked the number three.

Prabhupäda: (laughs) You must give at least four.

 

 

 

Once while Çréla Gadädhara däsa Prabhu was returning to Bengal from

Jagannätha Puré with Nityänanda Prabhu, he forgot himself and began talking

very loudly as if he were a girl of Vrajabhümi selling yogurt, and Çréla

Nityänanda Prabhu noted this. Another time, while absorbed in the ecstasy

of the gopés, he carried a jug filled with Ganges water on his head as if

he were selling milk.

[Guest guest]

Prabhupäda: So such an important... And besides that, from moral point of

view, you are drinking the milk of cow, and after that you are sending to

the slaughterhouse. Do you like to send your mother to the slaughterhouse?

And the bull is giving you, producing your food. Nowadays they have

invented tractor or engaging sometimes horse. But in India still, the bulls

are engaged for tilling the ground, the field, and produces. So from moral

sense, the bull is producing your food and the cow is giving milk to you;

therefore father and mother. Just like father produces food for the

children and the mother gives the milk. So if the human society has not

this simple brain of understanding, then where is brain?

[Guest guest]

O Kåñëa, O friend of Arjuna, O chief amongst the descendants of Våñëi, You

are the destroyer of those political parties which are disturbing elements

on this earth. Your prowess never deteriorates. You are the proprietor of

the transcendental abode, and You descend to relieve the distresses of the

cows, the brähmaëas and the devotees. You possess all mystic powers, and

You are the preceptor of the entire universe. You are the almighty God, and

I offer You my respectful obeisances.

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