Cow Dung

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All Vedic knowledge is infallible, and Hindus accept Vedic knowledge to be

complete and infallible. For example, cow dung is the stool of an animal, and

according to småti, or Vedic injunction, if one touches the stool of an animal

he has to take a bath to purify himself. But in the Vedic scriptures cow dung

is considered to be a purifying agent. One might consider this to be

contradictory, but it is accepted because it is Vedic injunction, and indeed by

accepting this, one will not commit a mistake; subsequently it has been proved

by modern science that cow dung contains all antiseptic properties. So Vedic

knowledge is complete because it is above all doubts and mistakes, and

Bhagavad-gétä is the essence of all Vedic knowledge.

 

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

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