…In this movement, our one program is to respect the cows. We chant this mantra, namo brahmanya
brahmana-hitaya ca. The brahminical culture and the cows…Why they have selected the cows? There are so many animals. Why cow protection is so important in Krishna Consciousness? Why Krsna personally Himself became a cowherd boy and was taking care of the cows and the calves? Oh, that is very essential.
And here also, we see that the Dharmaraja is inquiring about the comforts of the cow. Amba, kaccid bhadre,
anamayam atmanas te. Amayam means disease. So, “Whether you are quite comfortable by your health?” This is very essential to keep cows very comfortably. If they feel comfortable, then you get the most nourishing food, We are practically seeing in our New Vrindavan center, because the cows are feeling secure in our custody, they’re delivering milk up to eighty pounds daily. You’ll be surprised. So if you get milk products, milk, then you can prepare so many preparations full of vitamins, which will nourish your brain.
-Srimad Bhagavatam 1:16:19—Hawaii, January 15, 1974.
There are so many facilities afforded by cow protection, but people have forgotten these arts. The importance of protecting cows is therefore stressed by Krsna in Bhagavad Gita (krsi-go-rakshya-vanijyam vaisya-karma svabhavajam [BG.18.44]). Even now in the Indian villages surrounding Vrndavana, the villagers live happily simply by giving protection to the cow. They keep cow dung very carefully and dry it to use as fuel. They keep a sufficient stock of grains, and because of giving protection to the cows, they have sufficient milk and milk products to solve all economic problems. Simply by giving protection to the cow, the villagers live so peacefully. Even the urine and stool of cows have medicinal value. [Srimad-Bhagavatam. 10.6.19 Purport]
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