Cow abuse-how to stop?

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Dear Balbhadra and Chayadevi Prabhus,

Pamho, AGTSP, It seems that despite giving lip service to the cause of cow

protection in forming a GBC

committee for cow protection (of yourselves) and despite your laudable

effort of establishing Minimum Guidelines

for Cow protection, still the expected has come to pass. Close to zero

change. Next will come an infinity of

excuses- what you’re up against, and how you’ll deal with it and all with

zero support from above?!?!! You have

my unlimited respect and support (be it only verbal) from below on this

here, the bottom rung of the ISKCON

ladder. Anyway, the cows are mooing their support, and when they become

Krsna’s mothers in the spiritual world,

they’ll remember and bless unlimitedly servants like you, who tried to stop

them being abused in this world.

What is the next step for us bottom rungers? (if anything)

Dear devotees on the cow com, I have a few suggestions, open for discussion

with you.

1. Provided your farm manager is not violent (like the one here), you could

become a monitor on the farm in your

vicinity and report any abuses and neglect of cows and try to rectify. It

also means regularly counting them, which

means giving them names, and getting to know them. It’s the highest bliss,

compared to coming from Brahman

realization to Bhagavan:

1. Brahman realization- cows are shapeless dots on a field

2. Paramatma realization- they have a form!

3. Bhagavan realization- they have a personality, are loveable and

reciprocate in loving exchanges!

 

2. You could approach your GBC after observing or hearing about cow abuse or

neglect, and really put on pressure.

If you can get a few friends to back you up so much the better.

 

My point is if the leaders are going to turn a blind eye to all this

nonsense, why should we blindly follow? The

blind leading the blind and we all go into the ditch.

(Speaking of ditches, we have deep ones all over our farm, dug quite a few

months ago and though one or two cows

have died by breaking bones falling into them, still no one says a word .

If he does, the backlash intended to

quieten him varies cosiderably from threats and violence, to political

promotion!! All quite effective actually!)

So help poor cow out of ditch by your own hand! Or if you’re forbidden to by

people who are determined to keep

cow protection at level of lip service, or good PR, or sentimental, or

hypocritical, then make it known to your GBC.

Why should we just be angry at the cow abuse? We have every right to do

something about it. In fact, not doing

anything about unrighteous acts, itself brings on sinful reaction, like

those who witnessed Draupadi’s disrobing

and did not try to stop it and so became implicated and condemned.

Or we could pretend or imagine its not happening on our farm. Maybe it

isn’t. But we will never know if we keep

the cows at “safe””ignorance is bliss” distance- as shapeless dots on a

field. That could be compared to those in the

kuru assembly, during the disrobing, who just closed their eyes.

Solution is to keep eyes open and observe. Hopefully all is OK. or you may

be horrified with what you see, but if

you are able to do something about it, it is well worth the trouble. Anyway,

we probably all agree on that, but point

of discussion is- is this the best way to go about it (minimizing cow abuse)

or is there a better way? YS, Niscala.

 

 

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