Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 39

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TRANSLATION

While herding the very beautiful bulls, the Lord, who was the reservoir of

all opulence and fortune, used to blow His flute, and thus He enlivened His

faithful followers, the cowherd boys.

 

PURPORT

As He grew to six and seven years old, the Lord was given charge of looking

after the cows and bulls in the grazing grounds. He was the son of a

well-to-do landholder who owned hundreds and thousands of cows, and

according to Vedic economics, one is considered to be a rich man by the

strength of his store of grains and cows. With only these two things, cows

and grain, humanity can solve its eating problem. Human society needs only

sufficient grain and sufficient cows to solve its economic problems. All

other things but these two are artificial necessities created by man to kill

his valuable life at the human level and waste his time in things which are

not needed. Lord Krsna, as the teacher of human society, personally showed

by His acts that the mercantile community, or the vaisyas, should herd cows

and bulls and thus give protection to the valuable animals. According to

smrti regulation, the cow is the mother and the bull the father of the human

being. The cow is the mother because just as one sucks the breast of one's

mother, human society takes cow's milk. Similarly, the bull is the father of

human society because the father earns for the children just as the bull

tills the ground to produce food grains. Human society will kill its spirit

of life by killing the father and the mother. It is mentioned herein that

the beautiful cows and bulls were of various checkered colors -- red, black,

green, yellow, ash, etc. And because of their colors and healthy smiling

features, the atmosphere was enlivening. [...]

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.2.29