Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 113

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TRANSLATION

Thereafter they offered the brahmanas highly delicious foodstuffs first

offered to the Personality of Godhead and offered their respectful

obeisances by touching their heads to the ground. They lived perfectly by

protecting the cows and the brahmanas.

 

PURPORT

The behavior exhibited by the descendants of Yadu in the pilgrimage site of

Prabhasa was highly cultured and exactly to the point of human perfection.

The perfection of human life is attained by following three principles of

civilization: protecting the cows, maintaining the brahminical culture and,

above all, becoming a pure devotee of the Lord. Without becoming a devotee

of the Lord, one cannot perfect one's human life. The perfection of human

life is to be elevated to the spiritual world, where there is no birth, no

death, no disease and no old age. That is the highest perfectional aim of

human life. Without this aim, any amount of material advancement in

so-called comforts can only bring the defeat of the human form of life.[...]

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.3.28