Recently, I read article in newspaper that, M.P state government has enacted the law “ban on cow slaughter” and those who not abide the law will be imprisoned for 7 years as a maximum punishment. There was the time when people considered the cow as holy but it was long ago, now people want to eat animal’s flesh and drink their blood like asuras (sinful and materialist). In nature every species has the certain specified foods and for human being milk, vegetable, fruit are prescribed in vedas. Milk, the unique food available in nature because it nothing but blood converted naturally from cow’s body. Then, is it justified to kill a cow whose milk human being drink. Is it like if cow stop giving milk then sends her to slaughter house?
One may ask the question, what is mother?
atma-mata guru patni
brähmani raja-patnika
dhenur dhätré tathä prithvi
[vedas, saptaita matarah smrtah]
In vedas, it is mentioned that one has seven mothers. Seven kinds of mothers according to Vedic injunction are Birth Mother, Mother Nature, Mother Cow, Mother Nurse, Mother of Brahman, Mother Queen, and Mother Wife of spiritual guru. Cow considers as our mother because she nourishes us with her mighty milk and in whole life time one depend on her. We all drink cow’s milk therefore cow is our mother. So, is it justified to send her for slaughter when she became old and stopped giving us the milk? You wouldn't send your mother to slaughter, would you?
Now the time has come to think over inner or internal life, and search for the perfect answer of following question. Are we going to struggle to fit ourselves within the so called development, where our mother cows are sending to slaughter? Aren’t we going to follow the life as supreme personality God-head instructed us? Without Ram, how can there be a Ramrajya?
||Hare Krsna||
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