Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 52

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So in this movement, our one program is to respect the cows. We chant this

mantra, namo brahmanya-devaya go-brahmana-hitaya ca. The brahminical culture

and the cows... Why they have selected the cows? There are so many animals.

Why cow protection is so important in Krsna consciousness? Why Krsna

personally Himself became a cowherd boy and was taking the care of the cows

and the calves? Oh, that is very essential.

 

And here also, we see that the Dharmaraja is inquiring about the comforts of

the cow. Amba, kaccid bhadre, what is, anamayam atmanas te. Amayam means

disease. So "Whether you are quite comfortable by your health?" This is very

essential to keep cows very comfortably. If they feel comfortable, then you

get the most nourishing food, milk. We are practically seeing in our New

Vrindaban center, because the cow are feeling secure in our custody, they're

delivering milk up to the eighty pounds daily. You'll be surprised. So if

you get milk products, milk, then you can prepare so many preparations full

of vitamins, which will nourish your brain. Dull brain cannot understand

what is spiritual knowledge. Therefore, that Mr. Bernard Shaw, he wrote a

book. Perhaps you know it. You Are What You Eat. If you keep your brain

dull, then how you can understand? Because without becoming very intelligent

man, one cannot understand Krsna consciousness. That is stated in the

Caitanya-caritamrta, krsna yei bhaje sei bada catura: "One who takes to

Krsna consciousness seriously and perfectly, he must be very, very

intelligent." Dull brain cannot accept it. Bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan

mam prapadyate [bg. 7.19]. So we have to make our brain very clean. And for

that purpose you require to drink not very much, at least, one pound or

half-pound milk daily. That is essential. But no meat-eating. This is

intelligence. The milk is also conversion of the blood, everyone knows. Just

like we drink the milk of our mother. The color of the milk is white, but

everyone knows that milk is produced from the red blood, red corpuscle. So

this is the process, that people are very much anxious to drink the blood of

cows from the slaughterhouse. They sometimes drink fresh blood, is it not?

Bali-mardana: Yes.

Prabhupada: That is not very good intelligence. You drink the blood of the

cow by natural process, which turns into white milk. You'll get better

brain, better strength. Therefore cow protection is very essential in Vedic

civilization. Therefore we offer respect Krsna: "Krsna is the benefactor of

cows and the brahmanas." Namo brahmanya-devaya go-brahmana-hitaya ca.

Go-brahmana-hitaya ca. Krsna is well-wisher first -- go, cow. You'll find

Krsna always with cows. Here is Krsna's picture, you see how He's loving the

cow and the calf. He's personally teaching from His childhood, from His

boyhood. So we should follow. If we want to become Krsna conscious, we must

give... The calf is also seeing to the face of Krsna for protection, and

Krsna is giving protection, "Yes, I'll give you protection."

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.19 -- Hawaii, January 15, 1974