Cow Quote #23

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Srimad Bhagavatam canto 7 ch. 2 text 35

 

Because of ignorance only, the queens thought of the dead body as their

husband and somehow or other thought that if the body were kept their

husband would remain with them. Such a conception of the self is certainly

for go-khara-cows and asses. We have actually seen that sometimes when a

cow's calf has died the milkman cheats the cow by presenting before her the

dead body of her calf. Thus the cow, who would not otherwise allow milking,

licks the dead body of the calf and allows herself to be milked. This

substantiates the description of the çästra that a foolish man in the bodily

concept of life is like a cow.