Le Cow Quote Du Jour #10

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TRANSLATION

The brahmanas, the cows, Vedic knowledge, austerity, truthfulness, control

of the mind and senses, faith, mercy, tolerance and sacrifice are the

different parts of the body of Lord Visnu, and they are the paraphernalia

for a godly civilization.

 

PURPORT

When we offer our obeisances to the Personality of Godhead, we say:

 

namo brahmanya-devaya

go-brahmana-hitaya ca

jagad-dhitaya krsnaya

govindaya namo namah

 

When Krsna comes to establish real perfection in the social order, He

personally gives protection to the cows and the brahmanas

(go-brahmana-hitaya ca). This is His first interest because without

protection of the brahmanas and the cows, there can be no human civilization

and no question of happy, peaceful life. Asuras, therefore, are always

interested in killing the brahmanas and cows. Especially in this age,

Kali-yuga, cows are being killed all over the world, and as soon as there is

a movement to establish brahminical civilization, people in general rebel.

Thus they regard the Krsna consciousness movement as a form of

"brainwashing." How can such envious persons be happy in their godless

civilization? The Supreme Personality of Godhead punishes them by keeping

them in darkness, birth after birth, and pushing them lower and lower into

wretched conditions of hellish life. The Krsna consciousness movement has

started a brahminical civilization, but especially when it is introduced in

the Western countries, the asuras try to impede it in many ways.

Nonetheless, we must push forward this movement tolerantly for the benefit

of human society.>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 10.4.41