Light of the Bhagavata Quote

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Light of the Bhägavata

 

LoB Preface

 

TRANSLATION:

 

During the reign of Mahäräja Yudhiñöhira, the clouds showered all the water

that people needed, and the earth produced all the necessities of man in

profusion. Due to its fatty milk bag and cheerful attitude, the cow used to

moisten the grazing ground with milk.

 

PURPORT:

 

The basic principle of economic development is centered on land and cows. The

necessities of human society are food grains, fruits, milk, minerals, clothing,

wood, etc. One requires all these items to fulfill the material needs of the

body. Certainly one does not require flesh and fish or iron tools and

machinery.

 

During the regime of Mahäräja Yudhiñöhira, all over the world there were

regulated rainfalls. Rainfalls are not in the control of the human being. The

heavenly King Indradeva is the controller of rains, and he is the servant of

the Lord. When the Lord is obeyed by the king and the people under the king’s

administration, there are regulated rains from the horizon, and these rains are

the causes of all varieties of production on the land. Not only do regulated

rains help ample production of grains and fruits, but when they combine with

astronomical influences there is ample production of valuable stones and

pearls.

 

Grains and vegetables can sumptuously feed a man and animals, and a fatty cow

delivers enough milk to supply a man sumptuously with vigor and vitality. If

there is enough milk, enough grains, enough fruit, enough cotton, enough silk

and enough jewels, then why do the people need cinemas, houses of prostitution,

slaughterhouses, etc.? What is the need of an artificial luxurious life of

cinema, cars, radio, flesh and hotels? Has this civilization produced anything

but quarreling individually and nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the

cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men into a hellish

factory and the war fields at the whims of a particular man?

 

It is said here that the cows used to moisten the pasturing land with milk

because their milk bags were fatty and the animals were joyful. Do they not

require, therefore, proper protection for a joyful life by being fed with a

sufficient quantity of grass in the field? Why should men kill cows for their

selfish purposes? Why should man not be satisfied with grains, fruits and milk,

which, combined together, can produce hundreds and thousands of palatable

dishes. Why are there slaughterhouses all over the world to kill innocent

animals?

 

Mahäräja Parékñit, grandson of Mahäräja Yudhiñöhira, while touring his vast

kingdom, saw a black man attempting to kill a cow. The King at once arrested

the butcher and chastised him sufficiently. Should not a king or executive head

protect the lives of the poor animals who are unable to defend themselves? Is

this humanity? Are not the animals of a country citizens also? Then why are

they allowed to be butchered in organized slaughterhouses? Are these the signs

of equality, fraternity and nonviolence?

 

Therefore, in contrast with the modern, advanced, civilized form of government,

an autocracy like Mahäräja Yudhiñöhira’s is by far superior to a so-called

democracy in which animals are killed and a man less than an animal is allowed

to cast votes for another less-than-animal man.

 

We are all creatures of material nature. In the Bhagavad-gétä it is said that

the Lord Himself is the seed-giving father and material nature is the mother of

all living beings in all shapes. Thus mother material nature has enough

foodstuff both for animals and for men, by the grace of the Father Almighty,

Çré Kåñëa. The human being is the elder brother of all other living beings. He

is endowed with intelligence more powerful than animals for realizing the

course of nature and the indications of the Almighty Father. Human

civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without

artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of

artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and

sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs.

 

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