Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 28

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TRANSLATION

During the reign of Maharaja Yudhisthira, 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 Maharaja Yudhisthira, 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? Maharaja Pariksit, grandson of Maharaja Yudhisthira, 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 Maharaja Yudhisthira'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-gita 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, Sri Krsna. 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.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.10.4