bhaktachris Posted September 13, 2003 Report Share Posted September 13, 2003 Hare Krsna dear Prabhus and Matajis, I am writing this post with some pride,i am still a conditioned soul after all! My family has been greatly influenced by my life in some ways.Since my service to Krsna has always been Goraksya or Cow Protection i have spoken out on THIS issue most when with my material family. When i became a vegetarian in "76" out of high school my mother was very concerned about my diet.She said i could not be healthy that way and was very short on protein.But my mom is also honest and smart so she studied up on vegetarian diets and others.And one day when i was living at the temple community i got a letter from her.In the letter she appoligized for what she said and then she even wrote that my diet (as given by Srila Prabhupada)was the healthiest diet actually! Now many years later in the 90's she also became a vegetarian,and since she is the cook,my step dad is also a vegetarian. My influence has also spread to my brothers and sisters and step mom,though they are not so strict as my mom. So today i went to visit my mom and she had recently returned from a town fair.At the fair there was a barn labeled "beef".She went in and looked at the beef animals and was enchanted by their beauty.She said that she cant even understand how any one could eat meat from a beautiful animal such as that.And then she said this is my fault!Jokingly ofcourse,but actually it is Srila Prabhupada's influence giving us such a service as "cow protection".So again i realize that Srila Prabhupada is Jagat Guru, influencing the whole world. And i see how the "Gita Nagari" as given by Srila Prabhupada is so important.And how great Goraksya devotees are helping the world to become more on the platform of goodness by bringing those cows and oxen to Hare Krsna festivals and parikrams around the world. We are not devoting our lives to dogs and cats,not even horses.Prabhupada instructed that the mother and father of "civilized" man is the cow and oxen. So i pay my flat out obeisances to those who perfectly protect the mothers and fathers of civilization. /images/graemlins/wink.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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