Cowherd-friendly communities

[Guest guest]

Samba prabhus recent lengthy imput has some interesting presentations and

some probaby imotive. In particular the views on bringing up children. I

think in these areas it is better to take the words of experience from those

with children through and over the teen mountain. A householder with young

children or no children can often have idealistic unliveable views. The

stark reality of balancing the needs of a distracted youth and the

responsibilities for self krishna conscious preservation are sobering.

 

My reading of Srila Prabhupadas letters indicates a variety of cow

protection models. Some of which follow:

 

1. A buiseness from cow protection with the profits used for Gurukula.

 

2. A self sufficient lifestyle for all asramas and particularly primarily

brahmacaris, vanaprasthas and sanyasis.

 

3. Huge goshallas supported and managed by the gujarati and marwari

communites.

 

In other words we may be more beficial to the society by actually

establishing liveable cowprotection models of any description (as long as

they are actually protecting cows-I am assuming it is understood over

generations of cows and not just when the first few years of milk comes).

 

If there are models of self relience and simple life for householders

(hungarian farm for example) fantastic our society needs them. If there are

large well maintained goshallas established, fantastic, our society needs

them. If the Brahmacaris' vanaprasthas and sanyasis adopt a simple lifestyle

and are satisfied with living off the land, fantastic, our society needs

them. If there is a successful buiseness established were the cows are fully

protected and there is profit, fantastic, our society needs them.

 

The point I am making is that conversion to a particular method is better

from the point of being succesful rather than from a position of hopeful

idealism.

 

Just some brief points to consider

 

ys syam