Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 [This message was in HTML format] Syamasundara, HK, The main point of this article on Chakra by what I recieved is that,.. Its just fine to buy commercial dairy milk as long as we offer it to God, because the cows are going to be killed anyway... ( So, why don't we help to purpetuate this...?) I will say I don't agree entirely.. I can see that you may have purified the milk and given the maker ( the cow ) some spiritual benifit... but at the same time purpetuate the killing of her daughter... When Ramachandara was on his way to Sri Lanka, there is the pastime of building the bridge of stones to Sri Lanka from South India.. they were being brought by various entities, at which one was a small squirrel of some sort, and someone critisized his efforts and then the Lord corrected the critisizer by claiming that even though he is bringing insignificant stones, to our scale or calculation, he is still involved in the eternal spiritual cause to purify... his stones though small are an addition and very significant, but to his proportion.... And to this would remind that even though one may ' think' that the population of Vegitarians or pious Hindu's (non-cow killers), are of a lesser number in terms of the world.. If they were to privetly and unanamously boycott, or refrain from having any dealings with the purchas of (slaughter- milk) (which is oftenly and variously infused with foreign substanses and not very pure anyway) the nunber in liters or gallons in demand of their milk would obviously have a significant decline.. Which nomatter the measurement, would be of great significants... Even if it were to save 1 cow, which in this case would be thousands... Then simultaniously locate, local dairy at your own findings, or fundings from protected cows. even if a bit of a distance to get your dairy needs. If none.. get a cow... If not possible, have someone send some dairy, if its not possible, just remain abstanant until a futher better situation arises by your endevours.... Anything for the cause is what gets things done.. like the cooperation of the bees in a hive for their stores of honey.... This would be the ideal... If you can't hold yourself so then buy it and offer it...Atleast if the greater number would hold them selves or find pure alternatives the effect would be great..... In the Bhagavad Gita, Krsna is explaining to Arjuna, in one sloka, of various articles of food stuff to offer him with love and he will except... This could be considered the ideal and in the mode of goodness... He then in the next sloka says, What ever you take, works, do, eat, ect..atleast offer them to me... We can see the rules are more linient and less of ideal, being a second degree from the first sloka... People who are more in passion or ingnorance, or between a rock and a hard place while desparate would follow this one... A great point to be made is that we are trying to purify.. not to remain dirty.. or accumulate more Karma for our tounge or lazyness.... There is an main point missing which pulled this response, and that be the Karmic interference... A little bad karma could possibly go a long way.. ( Just chant Hare Krsna and continue nonsense ?).. This will irradicate all... ( If you purify your existance before you check out, lets hope... and chant nicely).. from a story I heard if exact; Even when Krsna killed the demon in the form of a bull, the gopis wouldn't talk to him and they turned their backs, he then bathed in all the various products of the cows.. Dust, dung, urine, milk..... Even he needed the purification I guess..?? what to speak of us and he is God... The point is not to be implicated in their slaughter, if you can spare yourself the karma, and find another means of dairy, even if you think that your insignificant 1 pounds or 1 dollars worth of milk from the ' Slaughter barn' will not amount to much of a help to the perpetuation... IT HELPS.... every penny.... every farthing... supports the cost, and demand, and perpetuation of such pirates businesses.. And so like the one who kills, the one who packs, the one who transports, the one who sells, the one who buys, the one who eats, or supports in any way, is the same as the one who killed.... isn't that what is said... Prabhupada had on his hands the burdon of supplying milk for God in a country that he did not know.. using the sloka ' what ever you eat offer to me' most likely.. He strived for the Ideal and arranged farms with protected cows.. Now from this what ever matures from this ' should' be of the stance of improvement.. Like individuals taking on the responsibility of a cow and/or to eliminate, to their power the cow slaughter or atleast the help of it... Keep a cow, or find an alternative.... If I need to restock my shelves of bread in my store from the bakery, and the cost is 10 dollars for a minimum order.. and I only have earned 7.. I cannot restock my shelves... No, help keep the slaughter barn in business and offer the milk.... I'm lucky, I have a family 3.5 miles away, from where I buy or trade for my milk strictly. And if not, then not at all... There are others in the comunity who buy from the store.. But it seems their numbers are noticably becomming less being the pressure of the rest becomming more strict.. This is a good sign... Even there is'nt enough to go around... ITs pure.. and appreiciated even at its comparibly higher price... Hare Krsna, Derek- Need a shot of Hank Williams or Patsy Cline? The classic country stars are always singing on MSN Radio Plus. Try one month free!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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