Cows are sacred

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Bhishma said:

No sacrifice can be performed without the aid of curds and ghee (clarified

butter). The very character of sacrifice which sacrifices have, depends upon

ghee. Hence ghee (or, the cow from which it is produced) is regarded as the very

root of sacrifice.

Cows have been said to be the limbs of sacrifice. They represent sacrifice

itself. Without them, there can be no sacrifice. With their milk and the Havi

produced therefrom, they uphold all creatures by diverse acts. Cows are

guileless in their behaviour. From them flow sacrifices and Havya and Kavya, and

milk and curds and ghee. hence cows are sacred.

 

 

 

Vyasa said:

Cows are sacred. They are embodiments of merit. They are

high and most efficacious cleansers of all.

One should for three days drink the hot urine of the cow. For the next three

days one should drink the hot milk of the cow. Having thus drunk for three days

hot milk, one should next drink hot ghee for three days. Having in this way

drunk hot ghee for three days, one should subsist for the next three days on air

only.

 

 

 

Vasishtha said:

By bathing in water mixed with cow-dung, people shall become sanctified. The

deities and men, shall use cow-dung for the purpose of purifying all creatures

mobile and immobile. One can sit on dried cow dung. One should never eat the

flesh of cows.

One should never show any disregard for cows in any way. If evil dreams are

seen, men should take the names of cows. One should never obstruct cows in any

way. Cows are the mothers of both the Past and the Future. Cows have become the

refuge of the world. It is for this that cows are said to be highly blessed,

sacred, and the foremost of all things. It is for this that cows are said to

stay at the very head of all creatures. Every morning, people should bow with

reverence unto cows.

By bathing in water mixed with cow-dung, people shall become sanctified. The

deities and men, shall use cow-dung for the purpose of purifying all creatures

mobile and immobile. One can sit on dried cow dung. One should never eat the

flesh of cows.

One should never show any disregard for cows in any way. If evil dreams are

seen, men should take the names of cows. One should never obstruct cows in any

way. Cows are the mothers of both the Past and the Future. Cows have become the

refuge of the world. It is for this that cows are said to be highly blessed,

sacred, and the foremost of all things. It is for this that cows are said to

stay at the very head of all creatures. Every morning, people should bow with

reverence unto cows.

Cows are the best Havi for the deities. The Mantras called Swaha and Vashat

are forever established in cows. Sacrifices are established in the cows. Cows

constitute the fruit of sacrifices.Cows are the future and the past, and

Sacrifices rest on them. Morning and evening cows yield unto the Rishis, Havi

for use in Homa (sacred fire ceremony).

Cows are always fragrant. The perfume emanated by the exudation of the Amytis

agallochum issues out of their bodies. Cows are the great refuge of all

creatures. Cows constitute the great source of blessing unto all. (Swastayana is

a ceremony of propitiation, productive of blessing and destructive of misery of

every kind). Cows are the source of eternal growth.

Cows are sacred. They are the foremost of all things in the world. They are

verily the refuge of the universe. They are the mothers of the very deities.

They are verily incomparable.

 

 

 

Cows are the mothers of the universe

The human infant is fed breast milk by its human mother for under three years.

After weaning, the cow acts as the surrogate mother providing milk for the rest

of the human life - through childhood, adult age and old age. Cow is verily the

mother of the world. One would be filled with repugnance at the ungrateful idea

of killing mother, whether surrogate mother or otherwise..

 

 

 

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