Cow Quote 4

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Ch. 17 text 1

 

TRANSLATION

S™ta Gosv€m… said: After reaching that place, Mah€r€ja Par…kit observed

that a lower-caste ™dra, dressed like a king, was beating a cow and a bull

with a club, as if they had no owner.

PURPORT

The principal sign of the age of Kali is that lower-caste ™dras, i.e., men

without brahminical culture and spiritual initiation, will be dressed like

administrators or kings, and the principal business of such non-katriya

rulers will be to kill the innocent animals, especially the cows and the

bulls, who shall be unprotected by their masters, the bona fide vaiyas, the

mercantile community. In the Bhagavad-g…t€ (18.44), it is said that the

vaiyas are meant to deal in agriculture, cow protection and trade. In the

age of Kali, the degraded vaiyas, the mercantile men, are engaged in

supplying cows to slaughterhouses. The katriyas are meant to protect the

citizens of the state, whereas the vaiyas are meant to protect the cows and

bulls and utilize them to produce grains and milk. The cow is meant to

deliver milk, and the bull is meant to produce grains. But in the age of

Kali, the ™dra class of men are in the posts of administrators, and the

cows and bulls, or the mothers and the fathers, unprotected by the vaiyas,

are subjected to the slaughterhouses organized by the ™dra administrators.