Krsna book, chapter 5

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Dear conference,

 

Jai Radhe

 

I was just doing some light reason, so I took up the Krsna book again. Chapter

5, p58 of my book:

 

"It is very important to note in this connection how wealthy the inhabitants of

Vrndavana were simply by raising cows. All the cowherd men belonged to the

vaisya community, and their business was to protect the cows and cultivate

crops. By their dress and ornaments, and by their behaviour, it apears that

although they were in a small village, they still were rich in material

possessions. They possessed such an abundance of various kinds of milk products

that they were throwing butter lavishly on each other's bodies without

restriction. Their wealth was in milk, yogurt, clarified butter and many other

milk products, and by trading their agricultiral products, they were rich in

various kinds of jewelry, ornaments and costly dresses. Not only did they

possess all these things, but they could give them away in charity, as did

Nanda Maharaj."

 

If we compare this to HKDD's famous article quoting Bhismadeva saying that he

who sells milk will go to hell, it can obviously be seen that the flowery words

of the Vedas have confusing elements to them.

 

I would find it most enlightening to know which side of the fence is the

conference on, as for me it is quite obvious that a niche market in milk and

milk products from protected cows is quite obviously the right choice. And if

it is the right choice, why are the devotees not doing it like I see on

mothercow.org and protectionfarms.org ?

 

I see a dilema, that has probably been talked about a lot on the conference,

but I certainly see no reason why we do not have farms with protected cows

springing up all over the world as people are much more likely these days to

actually pay a market price, if there is one. Does anyone actually know the

market price for products from a herd of protected cows?

 

Yours in sincerity,

 

Gopananda dasa

 

 

 

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