Cow Quote #18

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Ch.10 text 4 (purport)

 

During the regime of Mah€r€ja Yudhi˜hira, 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?