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Thank you for sending this Hari Sauri Prabhu.

 

Some of the excerpt that I found very interesting:

 

 

Nandi - the carrier (Vahan) of Shiva – the embodiment of Dharma

 

17. Nandi, the bullock is the carrier of Bhagwan Shiva. Shiva in Vedic

literature (Vangmay) is a synonym for the term ‘public welfare’ (Lok

Kalyan). Therefore, the bullock is the carrier of the Doer of Public

Welfare. Virtually the bullock is a brother of mankind, who does draught

work for man and, that too, without any remuneration. The male calf, after

attaining the age of 3 years, is castrated and becomes a bullock, which

serves mankind for the remainder of its life. Can there be any more

sacrifice of anybody for the cause of public welfare? That is why in each

and every Shiva temple in the world, one will always find the statue (Murti)

of Nandi along with the statue (Murthi) of Bhagwan Shiva.

 

18. ‘Vrishabh’ is the Sanskrit equivalent of the English word ‘Bullock’. The

word “Dharma” has no equivalent in English and according to great Saint and

Poet (Mahakavi) Tulsidas, there is no Dharma comparable to benevolence.

 

90% of our agriculture and rural transport still depend upon our bullocks.

Bullocks are thus the embodiment of our Dharma

 

 

 

Scope of the word ‘Cow’:

 

21. In Vedas and Smritis the word “Go”, which stands for the English word

‘cow’, has a broad meaning. It includes not only the male and female and

calves of the cow but also cow-milk, cow-urine and cow-dung. Similarly, the

word ‘Vrishabh’, which stands for the word ‘bullock’, is also used even for

the agriculture products produced with help of the bullock.

 

22. For us, ‘Cow’ basically means cows of our indigenous breeds, which

possess certain inherent divine virtues enumerated above, which are lacking

in the foreign breeds of the cow. There are more than 50 indigenous breeds,

the names of some of which are mentioned below:-

 

1.Gir; 2. Kakrej; 3. Haryana; 4. Nagauri; 5. Amritmahal; 6. Hallikar; 7.

Malavi; 8. Nimari; 9. Dajjal; 10. Alamhadi; 11. Bargur; 12. Krishnavalli;

13. Lal Sindhi; 14. Tharparkar; 15. Gangatiri; 16. Rathi; 17. Ongole; 18.

Dhanni; 19. Panwar; 20. Kherigarh; 21. Mewati; 22. Dangi; 23. Khillari; 24.

Bachhaur; 25. Gaolao; 26. Siri Kangayam.

 

Most of these breeds are multipurpose breeds i.e. they feed us with milk,

gives us calves for draught work, Gobar for use as manure/fuel and Gomutra

for use as pest-repellants and medicine

 

Plight of the Cow in modern India

 

 

103. Around one hundred worshipers of the cow laid down their lives in 1966,

during the agitation seeking for total ban on cow slaughter in Parliament

Street, Delhi, when they were shot down for raising slogans like “Gomata ki

Jai” They were all aching for rebirth to achieve their objects. But, so far,

neither have they got rebirth nor achieved the total ban on cow slaughter,

with the result that about 2 crores of cows, bulls, bullocks and cow-calves

continue to be slaughtered in India every year.

 

104. The National Commission on Cattle has been constituted by the Hon’ble

Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, who adorns the highest office in the land,

with the support of 100 crores of Indian souls. His strong will, burning

desire and firm determination is to wipe of every blot of blood of the cow

and its progeny and every tear from the eyes of the Holy Cow, who faces the

kinife of the butchers on her neck, instead of getting pats from Lord

Krishna, Rama, Mahavira, Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave and restore the piousness

of the sacred waters of Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswathi, Kaveri and Brahmaputra

and not to pollute them with cows’ blood any more.

 

y.s.

Hrimati dasi