from Murari Gupta das

[Guest guest]

Dear (Murari Gupta? Nanda-kisora?),

 

Have you got a copy of the recently GBC approved Minimum Cow Standards? Many

of your questions may be addressed there. If you were to read them, and

then ask specific questions based on your particular circumstance, it may be

a more productive exchange.

 

There are so many variables, but a common mistake on ISKCON farms has been to

just breed cows for immediate milk production, but this has created so many

long term problems and heart breaks.

 

COM: Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

 

> [Text 2492663 from COM]

>

> > I am worried for a specific problem: how to have our own milk (in long

> > terms)? What to do with the calves if there are no devotees to use them

> > for ploughing? Shall we keep barren cows just for the dung and keep

> > buying milk in the store in the middle of the farm, just because we don't

> > know what to do with calves? This is the biggest problem of the ISKCON

> > farm communities and I did not hear any solution was found. Do you know

> > anything about this? To have our own milk means to have more than 50% of

> > foodstuffs.

>

> I have added the ISKCON com cow protection conference as a receiver to this

> query.

[Guest guest]

Dear Maharaja, Prabhus and Prabvis,

Please accept my most humble obeisances . All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

Unfortunatelly I cannot answer the question how to have our own milk on the

farms, but maybe the answer on the question whether we shall keep barren

cows,calves and oxen, although there are no devotees to use them for

ploughing, may help.

 

Thanks to Balabhadra and Chayadevi Prabhus, my great teachers and persons

who have been helping me for years in my endeavour to take care of

"useless" cows and oxen, and who have repeated over and over again for

years the solution for my problem, untill I have understood, I can tell it

to you now. We should not see the cows and oxen as animals, but the

simbols of relligious principles and we should take care of them and

protect them with great enthusiasm. We should also not protect them in

order to have some use from them, but for the satisfaction of our Lord

Krsna, Who loves them so much.

 

I thank again and again to Balabhadra and Chayadevi Prabhus that I can take

care of my cows and engage others in this activity of protecting relligious

principles with joy in my heart and not with a burden.

 

Your humble servant,

Paramesvari dd (RSD)

 

At 09:22 AM 7/22/99 -0400, you wrote:

>[Text 2496923 from COM]

>

>Dear (Murari Gupta? Nanda-kisora?),

>

>Have you got a copy of the recently GBC approved Minimum Cow Standards? Many

>of your questions may be addressed there. If you were to read them, and

>then ask specific questions based on your particular circumstance, it

may be

>a more productive exchange.

>

>There are so many variables, but a common mistake on ISKCON farms has

been to

>just breed cows for immediate milk production, but this has created so many

>long term problems and heart breaks.

>

>COM: Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

>

>> [Text 2492663 from COM]

>>

>> > I am worried for a specific problem: how to have our own milk (in long

>> > terms)? What to do with the calves if there are no devotees to use them

>> > for ploughing? Shall we keep barren cows just for the dung and keep

>> > buying milk in the store in the middle of the farm, just because we don't

>> > know what to do with calves? This is the biggest problem of the ISKCON

>> > farm communities and I did not hear any solution was found. Do you know

>> > anything about this? To have our own milk means to have more than 50% of

>> > foodstuffs.

>>

>> I have added the ISKCON com cow protection conference as a receiver to this

>> query.

>

>

>