All glories to the devotees involved in cow protection!

[Guest guest]

Dear Prabhus and Matajis,

Dandavat pranams. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Go-mataji Ki Jaya!

 

I didn't want to start discussing without expressing how happy I am to see

old faces still here. It feels great to be back.

 

I left this conference last having discussed enough and wanted to get into

the field, literally. I have taken more of a top-down policy approach to cow

protection and am not doing much hands-on go-raksha.

 

What I hope becomes a valued contribution towards cow protection is a paper

I am calling, "The Vedic Agenda for Reestablishing Dharma".

 

I was planning for a book, but have deliberately kept it in a suta form,

like a "Sikshastaka for Cow Protection". The Vedic Agenda is a complete

model for a naturally sustainable cow-based economy (in 8 verses/agenda

items).

 

The Vedic Agenda has been extremely well received by several Indians leaders

I have discussed it with, and has been adopted by one cow protection society

in India as the basis for their entire program.

 

The chairman of this society, who I met at a go-raksha Pancha-Gavya

conference in Delhi IIT along with the Deputy Prime Minister of India,

called me after several months to tell me "That I have been reading the

Vedic Agenda everyday, and think it is exactly what needs to be done, and

want you to help us implement it in our 500 acre project in India."

 

The Vedic Agenda entirely correlates with Srila Prabhupada's 7 purposes of

ISKCON, which hint at several items of the Vedic Agenda. There was a need,

however, to "fluff-out" Srila Prabhupada's specific intentions contained

within his statement to "Teach a simpler more natural way of life", which

many of the Vedic Agenda's points correlate with.

 

I approached the development of the Vedic Agenda on the basis of the reality

that "Cow protection does not exist within a vacuum." In other words, it

takes a society to protect a cow. All the constituent elements of the

society must work in a cooperative and integrated manner in order to achieve

a sustainable state of protection for cows.

 

Those elements are 4 and include the society's: 1) philosophical system, 2)

social organization system, 3) economic system and 4) political system. The

Vedas describe an integrated social order some call the "4 Vidyas" that are

optimized for dharma (cow protection, self-realization, and so on).

 

I felt I needed to answer the hypothetical question by a head of state, who

might come to ISKCON to surrender one day and ask "What should our country

do?" (besides chant Hare Krishna and take prasadam, of course).

 

The answer I came up with is the Vedic Agenda, and if no one comes to ask

the question, then I believe we need to take the classic ISKCON approach in

our preaching by not only giving the answers, but also explaining what the

question should be. In other words, we need to train up leaders who are

prepared and empowered to implement the Vedic Agenda in total at least at

the village level (100-500 families).

 

I propose ISKCON should have at least one accesible model village

demonstrating the Vedic Agenda for Reestablishing Dharma on every continent,

if not every nation, or even state.

 

The Vedic Agenda is the basis for a ksatriya training program I am

developing for a planned "Global Administration College", that hopes to

augment the strides ISKCON has made in brahmincal education for the future

varnasrama college in every temple (yes I am still on that tirade...how many

days and counting since 1974? Is our master-time-keeper still here?).

 

I have attached the Vedic Agenda and would love to get your feedback. All

glories to your service.

 

Servant of all,

Prabhupadacarya Dasa

[Guest guest]

Dear Prabhupadaacarya Prabhu,

 

PAMHO. AGTSP.

 

We have read the Vedic Agenda and found it valuable and thank you for

submitting it. However, the real work is in the implementation on a

practical level. This is the greatest challenge. How is this to be done?

 

Your servant,

Chayadevi

 

Visit us at: www.iscowp.org

 

 

> [Original Message]

> Prabhupadacarya (das) (New Delhi - IN) <Prabhupadacarya (AT) pamho (DOT) net>

> Cc: Cow (Protection and related issues) <Cow (AT) pamho (DOT) net>

> 3/23/2004 4:20:03 PM

> All glories to the devotees involved in cow protection!

>

> Dear Prabhus and Matajis,

> Dandavat pranams. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

> Go-mataji Ki Jaya!

>

> I didn't want to start discussing without expressing how happy I am to see

> old faces still here. It feels great to be back.

>

> I left this conference last having discussed enough and wanted to get into

> the field, literally. I have taken more of a top-down policy approach to

cow

> protection and am not doing much hands-on go-raksha.

>

> What I hope becomes a valued contribution towards cow protection is a

paper

> I am calling, "The Vedic Agenda for Reestablishing Dharma".

>

> I was planning for a book, but have deliberately kept it in a suta form,

> like a "Sikshastaka for Cow Protection". The Vedic Agenda is a complete

> model for a naturally sustainable cow-based economy (in 8 verses/agenda

> items).

>

> The Vedic Agenda has been extremely well received by several Indians

leaders

> I have discussed it with, and has been adopted by one cow protection

society

> in India as the basis for their entire program.

>

> The chairman of this society, who I met at a go-raksha Pancha-Gavya

> conference in Delhi IIT along with the Deputy Prime Minister of India,

> called me after several months to tell me "That I have been reading the

> Vedic Agenda everyday, and think it is exactly what needs to be done, and

> want you to help us implement it in our 500 acre project in India."

>

> The Vedic Agenda entirely correlates with Srila Prabhupada's 7 purposes of

> ISKCON, which hint at several items of the Vedic Agenda. There was a need,

> however, to "fluff-out" Srila Prabhupada's specific intentions contained

> within his statement to "Teach a simpler more natural way of life", which

> many of the Vedic Agenda's points correlate with.

>

> I approached the development of the Vedic Agenda on the basis of the

reality

> that "Cow protection does not exist within a vacuum." In other words, it

> takes a society to protect a cow. All the constituent elements of the

> society must work in a cooperative and integrated manner in order to

achieve

> a sustainable state of protection for cows.

>

> Those elements are 4 and include the society's: 1) philosophical system,

2)

> social organization system, 3) economic system and 4) political system.

The

> Vedas describe an integrated social order some call the "4 Vidyas" that

are

> optimized for dharma (cow protection, self-realization, and so on).

>

> I felt I needed to answer the hypothetical question by a head of state,

who

> might come to ISKCON to surrender one day and ask "What should our country

> do?" (besides chant Hare Krishna and take prasadam, of course).

>

> The answer I came up with is the Vedic Agenda, and if no one comes to ask

> the question, then I believe we need to take the classic ISKCON approach

in

> our preaching by not only giving the answers, but also explaining what the

> question should be. In other words, we need to train up leaders who are

> prepared and empowered to implement the Vedic Agenda in total at least at

> the village level (100-500 families).

>

> I propose ISKCON should have at least one accesible model village

> demonstrating the Vedic Agenda for Reestablishing Dharma on every

continent,

> if not every nation, or even state.

>

> The Vedic Agenda is the basis for a ksatriya training program I am

> developing for a planned "Global Administration College", that hopes to

> augment the strides ISKCON has made in brahmincal education for the future

> varnasrama college in every temple (yes I am still on that tirade...how

many

> days and counting since 1974? Is our master-time-keeper still here?).

>

> I have attached the Vedic Agenda and would love to get your feedback. All

> glories to your service.

>

> Servant of all,

> Prabhupadacarya Dasa