NOBLE COW: MUNCHING GRASS LOOKING CURIOUS AND JUST HANGING AROUND
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Cow
An Engine Of Progress And Prosperity
In last several decades, world economy has been globalized and its not the best thing to have happened to our finances. The economic system built on a need for constant growth obviously can't last long in a finite world. Small is beautiful...and sustainable. There are limits to growth and the world economy has crossed these limits.
The history is trying to repeat itself in last two years. Headlines are blaring - Financial markets in a free-fall, Chaos on Wall St. International markets in a tailspin, European bailout, More banks to fail, Investors shy away amidst growing fears, Congress approves bailout, 51 Million to loose jobs, China goes down in first quarter etc.
These foreboding headlines are indications of something coming out way, if we are willing to listen. Global Financial system is increasingly proving to be a farce and it has become exponentially more so as Treasury/Federal Reserve bailouts in the financial sector become the rule rather than the exception.
America's unquenchable materialistic appetite is the machine that fuels a global economy. Japan's economy would collapse if it were not for the billions of dollars per year gained in trading with America. When America goes into a recession, the world follows. When America's economy is doing fine, so does the world's.
War - A Fall out of Economic Collapse
An economic collapse is a devastating breakdown of a national, regional, or territorial economy. It is essentially a severe economic depression characterised by a sharp increase in bankruptcy and unemployment. A full or near-full economic collapse is often quickly followed by months, years, or even decades of economic depression, social chaos, and civil unrest. Such crises have both been seen to afflict capitalist market economies and state controlled economies.
Today it feels like the summer of 1931. The world's biggest financial institutions have had a heart attack. The global currency system is breaking down. The policy doctrines that got us into this mess are bankrupt. No world leader seems able to discern the problem, let alone forge a solution. The International Monetary Fund has abdicated into schizophrenia. All these does not forebode well for an already unstable world.
Historically, the causes for war have always been economic in nature, no matter what the official reasons were. Economic disintegration and war go hand in hand, as both have a similar, imperial root.
If world economies continue to disintegrate and fall apart, war would be a real threat. History is a witness that bucks have been the basis of the great wars. Two world wars were fought to counteract British colonialism and their financial exploitation of the whole world. Hitler termed the British as a ‘shopkeepers’ nation. The Germans made better and cheaper products but all the world markets were occupied by the British. This led to the World War II.
Cow
An Engine Of Progress And Prosperity
In last several decades, world economy has been globalized and its not the best thing to have happened to our finances. The economic system built on a need for constant growth obviously can't last long in a finite world. Small is beautiful...and sustainable. There are limits to growth and the world economy has crossed these limits.
The history is trying to repeat itself in last two years. Headlines are blaring - Financial markets in a free-fall, Chaos on Wall St. International markets in a tailspin, European bailout, More banks to fail, Investors shy away amidst growing fears, Congress approves bailout, 51 Million to loose jobs, China goes down in first quarter etc.
These foreboding headlines are indications of something coming out way, if we are willing to listen. Global Financial system is increasingly proving to be a farce and it has become exponentially more so as Treasury/Federal Reserve bailouts in the financial sector become the rule rather than the exception.
America's unquenchable materialistic appetite is the machine that fuels a global economy. Japan's economy would collapse if it were not for the billions of dollars per year gained in trading with America. When America goes into a recession, the world follows. When America's economy is doing fine, so does the world's.
War - A Fall out of Economic Collapse
An economic collapse is a devastating breakdown of a national, regional, or territorial economy. It is essentially a severe economic depression characterised by a sharp increase in bankruptcy and unemployment. A full or near-full economic collapse is often quickly followed by months, years, or even decades of economic depression, social chaos, and civil unrest. Such crises have both been seen to afflict capitalist market economies and state controlled economies.
Today it feels like the summer of 1931. The world's biggest financial institutions have had a heart attack. The global currency system is breaking down. The policy doctrines that got us into this mess are bankrupt. No world leader seems able to discern the problem, let alone forge a solution. The International Monetary Fund has abdicated into schizophrenia. All these does not forebode well for an already unstable world.
Historically, the causes for war have always been economic in nature, no matter what the official reasons were. Economic disintegration and war go hand in hand, as both have a similar, imperial root.
If world economies continue to disintegrate and fall apart, war would be a real threat. History is a witness that bucks have been the basis of the great wars. Two world wars were fought to counteract British colonialism and their financial exploitation of the whole world. Hitler termed the British as a ‘shopkeepers’ nation. The Germans made better and cheaper products but all the world markets were occupied by the British. This led to the World War II.
So actually, human opulence means not these tin cars. Once it is dashed with another car, it is finished, no value. Human opulence means the society must have enough gold,enough jewelry, enough silk, enough grains, enough milk, enough vegetables, like that. That is opulent. That is opulence. Formerly a person was considered rich by two things: dhanyena dhanavan. How much grain stock he has got at his home. A big, big barn, filled with grains. Still in India, if I am going to give my daughter to some family, to see the family’s opulence, I go to see the house, and if I see there are many, many barns’ stock of grains and many cows, then it is very good.
-Srila Prabhupada (Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.9.2 — Los Angeles, May 16, 1973)
Modern word for unscrupulous colonials is corporations. Corporatisation is the modern way of colonizing the world. Today’s world is getting ground under the corporate jackboot. These huge corporations make obscene profits out of human misery and they want the world to remain in misery. They run our health are industry. They run our oil and gas companies. They run our bloated weapons industry. They run Wall Street and the major investment firms. They run our manufacturing firms. They also, ominously, run our government. World is simply not a safe place in the shadows of these greedy monsters. They want profits - when economy thrives and they want profits - when economy dies. Profits in a dying economy means war. That’s the only way to go about it.
Simple And Healthy Economics
By Srila Prabhupada
Money is required for purchasing food, but the animals, they do not know that food can be purchased. They are searching after food. But we are civilized; we are searching after money. Money is required for purchasing food. Why don’t you produce food directly? That is intelligence. You are getting money, very good.
Simple And Healthy Economics
By Srila Prabhupada
Money is required for purchasing food, but the animals, they do not know that food can be purchased. They are searching after food. But we are civilized; we are searching after money. Money is required for purchasing food. Why don’t you produce food directly? That is intelligence. You are getting money, very good.
Ample food grains can be produced through agricultural enterprises, and profuse supplies of milk, yogurt and ghee can be arranged through cow protection. Abundant honey can be obtained if the forests are protected. Unfortunately, in modern civilization, men are busy killing the cows that are the source of yogurt, milk and ghee, they are cutting down all the trees that supply honey, and they are opening factories to manufacture nuts, bolts, automobiles and wine instead of engaging in agriculture. How can the people be happy? They must suffer from all the misery of materialism. Their bodies become wrinkled and gradually deteriorate until they become almost like dwarves, and a bad odor emanates from their bodies because of unclean perspiration resulting from eating all kinds of nasty things. This is not human civilization. If people actually want happiness in this life and want to prepare for the best in the next life, they must adopt a Vedic civilization.
~Srila Prabhupada (Srimad Bhagavatam 5.16.25)
What is that money? A paper. You are being cheated. It is written there, “hundred dollars.” But what is that hundred dollars? It is a piece of paper only. But because we are so foolish, we are accepting a piece of paper, hundred dollars, and the struggle for existence for a piece of paper. Why don’t you be intelligent — “Why shall I take the piece of paper? Give me food”? But that intelligence you have lost. Therefore my Guru Maharaja used to say the present human society is combination of cheaters and cheated, that’s all. No intelligent person. Formerly money was gold and silver coins. It had some value. But what is the present currency? Simply piece of paper. Bunch of papers. During the last war the government failed in Germany, and these bunch of papers were thrown in the street. Nobody was caring. Nobody was caring.
So our civilization is based on that way. You require food. That’s fact. Therefore Krsna says, annad bhavanti bhutani [Bg. 3.14]. You produce your food. Anywhere you can produce your food. There is enough land. In Australia you have got enough land. In Africa you have enough land, uncultivated. No. They’ll not produce food. They will produce coffee and tea and slaughter animals. This is their business. I understand that in your country animals are slaughtered and exported for trade. Why export? You produce your own food and be satisfied. Why you are after that piece of hundred dollars paper? Produce your own food and eat sumptuously, be healthy and chant Hare Krsna. This is civilization. This is civilization. (Lecture, Bhagavadgita 9.4 — Melbourne, April 22, 1976)
Living Cows - Better Than Dead Ones
A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich. "Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster." "You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day."
So our civilization is based on that way. You require food. That’s fact. Therefore Krsna says, annad bhavanti bhutani [Bg. 3.14]. You produce your food. Anywhere you can produce your food. There is enough land. In Australia you have got enough land. In Africa you have enough land, uncultivated. No. They’ll not produce food. They will produce coffee and tea and slaughter animals. This is their business. I understand that in your country animals are slaughtered and exported for trade. Why export? You produce your own food and be satisfied. Why you are after that piece of hundred dollars paper? Produce your own food and eat sumptuously, be healthy and chant Hare Krsna. This is civilization. This is civilization. (Lecture, Bhagavadgita 9.4 — Melbourne, April 22, 1976)
Living Cows - Better Than Dead Ones
A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich. "Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster." "You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day."
India's civilization was based on village residence. They would live very peacefully in the villages. In the evening there would be bhagavata-katha. They will hear. That was Indian culture. They had no artificial way of living, drinking tea, and meat-eating and wine and illicit sex. No. Everyone was religious and satisfied by hearing -- what we are just introducing -- Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita, Puranas, and live simple life, keeping cows, village life as it is exhibited by Krsna, Vrndavana
~Srila Prabhupada (Morning Walk -- Durban, October 13, 1975)
So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like any other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.
This is among the best known of Aesop's Fables and use of the phrase has become idiomatic of an unprofitable action motivated by greed.
Cow killing bears resemblance to the man’s folly in the story. We are slaughtering cows to get beef. But cows can give much more daily. It is our obstinacy or ignorance of her contributions that makes us kill and eat her.
In 1971 Stewart Odend’hal of the University of Missouri conducted a detailed study of cows in Bengal and found that far from depriving humans of food, they ate only inedible remains of harvested crops (rice hulls, tops of sugarcane, etc.) and grass. “Basically”, he said, “the cattle convert items of little direct human value into products of immediate utility.” This should put to rest the myth that people are starving in India because they will not kill their cows. Interestingly enough, India seems to have surmounted her food problems, which have always had more to do with occasional severe drought or political upheaval than with sacred cows. A panel of experts at the Agency for International Development, in a statement cited in the United States Congressional Record for December 2nd 1980, concluded “India produces enough to feed all its people.”
If allowed to live, cows produce High quality, protein rich foods in amounts that stagger the imagination. It is abundantly clear that cows (living ones) are one of mankind’s most valuable food resources.
Life Line of A Nation
India has thirty percent of the world's cattle and there are twenty six breeds. The cow is a symbol of wealth and abundance and has a place everywhere in India. Cows can be seen wandering along the city streets and country sides, on posters and carved from wood and stone. They are allowed to roam freely and subsist on garbage or grass along the roadside. Of course all this is changing now and apathy towards cows is growing.
This is among the best known of Aesop's Fables and use of the phrase has become idiomatic of an unprofitable action motivated by greed.
Cow killing bears resemblance to the man’s folly in the story. We are slaughtering cows to get beef. But cows can give much more daily. It is our obstinacy or ignorance of her contributions that makes us kill and eat her.
In 1971 Stewart Odend’hal of the University of Missouri conducted a detailed study of cows in Bengal and found that far from depriving humans of food, they ate only inedible remains of harvested crops (rice hulls, tops of sugarcane, etc.) and grass. “Basically”, he said, “the cattle convert items of little direct human value into products of immediate utility.” This should put to rest the myth that people are starving in India because they will not kill their cows. Interestingly enough, India seems to have surmounted her food problems, which have always had more to do with occasional severe drought or political upheaval than with sacred cows. A panel of experts at the Agency for International Development, in a statement cited in the United States Congressional Record for December 2nd 1980, concluded “India produces enough to feed all its people.”
If allowed to live, cows produce High quality, protein rich foods in amounts that stagger the imagination. It is abundantly clear that cows (living ones) are one of mankind’s most valuable food resources.
Life Line of A Nation
India has thirty percent of the world's cattle and there are twenty six breeds. The cow is a symbol of wealth and abundance and has a place everywhere in India. Cows can be seen wandering along the city streets and country sides, on posters and carved from wood and stone. They are allowed to roam freely and subsist on garbage or grass along the roadside. Of course all this is changing now and apathy towards cows is growing.
“I don’t care how many pails of milk I lose, as long as I don’t lose the cow”
~ Russian Proverb
Cow slaughter is banned in India except in two states, West Bengal and Kerala. Cows are regularly shipped to these two states for slaughter even though it is illegal to transport them across borders. Cow transport in India is extremely cruel and many get injured and die in the process. For days and weeks together, cows and bulls travel in trucks or railway wagons, crammed and without food or water. This sort of treatment to a gentle and innocent animal is the last frontier of inhumanity.
Cow products like milk, yogurt, ghee, buttermilk and cheese are indispensable ingredients in Indian cuisine. Indian kitchens require liberal stock of these valuable products on day to day basis. Male calves are highly valued by Indian farmers unlike in West where they are slaughtered at a very young age. Male calves as oxen form the backbone of Indian agriculture and rural transport. In post harvest operations, they stomp through mounds of cut wheat and rice. A
farmer's loss of cattle can affect his livelihood and when a cow dies she is mourned like a family member.
One living cow gives in a year 230 kg. of methane gas, organic fertilizers for 3-4 acres land and 600-3000 liters of milk. But unfortunately every day in India over a hundred thousand cows are killed now.
Traditionally in India, cow was reared mainly for her urine and manure. Milk was considered a byproduct. As the science of utilizing these products was lost, cow’s utility came to be confined to her milk. As a result, as soon as she goes dry, she is a burden and ends up in a slaughter house. Fortunately, India is
Cow products like milk, yogurt, ghee, buttermilk and cheese are indispensable ingredients in Indian cuisine. Indian kitchens require liberal stock of these valuable products on day to day basis. Male calves are highly valued by Indian farmers unlike in West where they are slaughtered at a very young age. Male calves as oxen form the backbone of Indian agriculture and rural transport. In post harvest operations, they stomp through mounds of cut wheat and rice. A
farmer's loss of cattle can affect his livelihood and when a cow dies she is mourned like a family member.
One living cow gives in a year 230 kg. of methane gas, organic fertilizers for 3-4 acres land and 600-3000 liters of milk. But unfortunately every day in India over a hundred thousand cows are killed now.
Traditionally in India, cow was reared mainly for her urine and manure. Milk was considered a byproduct. As the science of utilizing these products was lost, cow’s utility came to be confined to her milk. As a result, as soon as she goes dry, she is a burden and ends up in a slaughter house. Fortunately, India is
The economic development requires cow protections, but these rascals do not know. Their economic development is cow killing. Just see, rascal civilization. Don't be sorry. It is sastra. Don't think that I am criticizing the Western civilization. It is sastra says. Very experienced.
~Srila Prabhupada (Lecture, Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.3 -- Stockholm, September 9, 1973)
seeing a revival of cow product manufacturing. In various cow shelters and villages across the country, dozens of products are being produced from cow urine and dung. Products like medicines, fertilizers, pesticides, soaps, toothpowder, paper, tiles, coils, incense, phenyl, hand wash, glass cleaner etc. are becoming popular. If this aspect of cow economics is rightly promoted, the Indian villages once again can become prosperous. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are wreaking havoc on agriculture and thousands of farmers are committing suicide every year.
India’s ‘Development’ - An Evaluation
Since post independence liberalisation of the economy, India has been blindly imitating the Western economic model (especially in terms of opening slaughterhouses).Local conditions have been completely ignored. Anything indigenous or traditional is considered crap. Leaders are living in a ‘made in London’ dream world. As a result the benefit of economic growth has been cornered by a small minority. This minority lives lavishly while the vast majority continues to rot in abject poverty and deprivation.
India’s ‘Development’ - An Evaluation
Since post independence liberalisation of the economy, India has been blindly imitating the Western economic model (especially in terms of opening slaughterhouses).Local conditions have been completely ignored. Anything indigenous or traditional is considered crap. Leaders are living in a ‘made in London’ dream world. As a result the benefit of economic growth has been cornered by a small minority. This minority lives lavishly while the vast majority continues to rot in abject poverty and deprivation.
Dhanyena dhanavan. If you have got grain, then you are rich. And if you have got cows, then you are rich. This is the standard of Vedic richness. Dhanyena dhanavan gavayo dhanavan. They don’t say, “Keep some papers and you become rich.” All rascal, one thousand dollar I promise to pay, a piece of paper. Practical, we have got enough food grains. We have got enough... That is richness. What is use of paper? Even gold you have got, you have to exchange. And if you have grain, immediate food. Just boil with milk, and it is nectarean, param anna, immediately. Take some wood collected from the woods and have fire, put the milk and the grains-oh, you’ll get so nice food, nutritious, full of vitamin, and so easily made. It is practical. So tasteful, so nutritious, and don’t require. If you simply boil little milk and little grain, whole day, so much sweet rice, you take. You don’t require any more. And if you add little apples and fruits, oh, it is heavenly. Your whole day free from any food anxiety, and you can work. And you can work. You can chant Hare Krsna. Make this ideal life here. America has got good potency. We have got so much land here. We can have hundreds of New Vrindabans or farms like that. And people will be happy. And invite all the world, “Please come and live with us. Why you are suffering congestion, overpopulation? Welcome here.
-Srila Prabhupada ( Room Conversation — June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban)
In Vrindavan, the cows, the bulls and the calves were thoroughly smeared with a mixture of turmeric and oil, mixed with varieties of minerals. Their heads were bedecked with peacock feathers, and they were garlanded and covered with cloth and golden ornaments.
(Srimad Bhagavatam 10.5.7)
(Srimad Bhagavatam 10.5.7)
According to Forbes, the number of billionaires in India doubled to 52 in 2009, their combined net worth reached $ 276 billion or a quarter of the country’s GDP.
The National Commission for Enterprises in Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), chaired by Arjun Sengupta, has found that 836 million Indians are poor and vulnerable, living on less than Rs 20 (40 cents) per day and have hardly experienced any improvement in their living standard since the early 1990s.
What can Rs 20 possibly fetch? For 836 million Indians, Rs 20 per day, or Rs 600 a month, buys them their daily sustenance.
Technically, a large chunk of these 836 million Indians 77 per cent of the country’s population are above the poverty line at Rs 12 (25 cents) per day.
Published in 2007, this was the first authoritative study on the state of informal or unorganised employment in India, compiled by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), a government-affiliated body.
Shameless Planning Commissions
In September 2011, in an affidavit before the Supreme Court the Planning Commission said that an individual income of just Rs. 25 (50 cents) a day constitutes adequate “private expenditure on food, education and health.”
The affidavit bases its assertion on the findings of the Suresh Tendulkar Committee, which pegged the poverty line at Rs. 447 ($10) a month, or about Rs. 15 (30 cents) a day, at 2004-2005 prices.
Experts reacted with dismay to the affidavit. National Advisory Council member Aruna Roy said it reflected the government's lack of empathy for the poor. “This extremely low estimated expenditure is aimed at artificially reducing the number of persons below the poverty line and thus reduce government expenditure on the poor,” she alleged.
The shameless committee said its “proposed poverty lines have been validated by checking the adequacy of actual private expenditure per capita near the poverty lines on food, education and health by comparing them with normative expenditures consistent with nutritional, education and health outcomes.”
This is the outcome of the decades of ‘development and progress’ and scams and squanderings. Shameless ‘planning’ commission members, living on fat salaries and sitting in plush offices, can hardly be more insensitive and insensible. They have overlooked the fact that trillions are stashed away in foreign accounts and trillions are being wasted in useless games and swallowed in scams while millions starve.
India Needs Cow
Agriculture, the NCEUS report found, was a fertile ground for poverty, especially for small and marginal farmers, 84 per cent of whom spent more than they earned and were often caught in debt traps.
The National Commission for Enterprises in Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), chaired by Arjun Sengupta, has found that 836 million Indians are poor and vulnerable, living on less than Rs 20 (40 cents) per day and have hardly experienced any improvement in their living standard since the early 1990s.
What can Rs 20 possibly fetch? For 836 million Indians, Rs 20 per day, or Rs 600 a month, buys them their daily sustenance.
Technically, a large chunk of these 836 million Indians 77 per cent of the country’s population are above the poverty line at Rs 12 (25 cents) per day.
Published in 2007, this was the first authoritative study on the state of informal or unorganised employment in India, compiled by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), a government-affiliated body.
Shameless Planning Commissions
In September 2011, in an affidavit before the Supreme Court the Planning Commission said that an individual income of just Rs. 25 (50 cents) a day constitutes adequate “private expenditure on food, education and health.”
The affidavit bases its assertion on the findings of the Suresh Tendulkar Committee, which pegged the poverty line at Rs. 447 ($10) a month, or about Rs. 15 (30 cents) a day, at 2004-2005 prices.
Experts reacted with dismay to the affidavit. National Advisory Council member Aruna Roy said it reflected the government's lack of empathy for the poor. “This extremely low estimated expenditure is aimed at artificially reducing the number of persons below the poverty line and thus reduce government expenditure on the poor,” she alleged.
The shameless committee said its “proposed poverty lines have been validated by checking the adequacy of actual private expenditure per capita near the poverty lines on food, education and health by comparing them with normative expenditures consistent with nutritional, education and health outcomes.”
This is the outcome of the decades of ‘development and progress’ and scams and squanderings. Shameless ‘planning’ commission members, living on fat salaries and sitting in plush offices, can hardly be more insensitive and insensible. They have overlooked the fact that trillions are stashed away in foreign accounts and trillions are being wasted in useless games and swallowed in scams while millions starve.
India Needs Cow
Agriculture, the NCEUS report found, was a fertile ground for poverty, especially for small and marginal farmers, 84 per cent of whom spent more than they earned and were often caught in debt traps.
Gandhi wanted it ... Village organization. He started that Wardha Ashram. But you have rejected. What Gandhi can do? That was good proposal -- to remain satisfied in one's own place. That was Gandhi's proposal. That "Don't go to the city, town, for so-called better advantage of life. Remain in your own home, produce your food, and be satisfied there." That was Gandhi's policy. The economic problem he wanted to solve by keeping cows, by agriculture, by spinning thread. "You want food, shelter and cloth? Produce here, and remain here. Don't be allured by the capitalists and go to cities and engage in industries." But Jawaharlal Nehru wanted, overnight, to Americanize the whole India. That is the folly.
-Srila Prabhupada (Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London)
Reintroduction of cows can drastically change the rural landscape in India but the entire government machinery is geared towards killing and exporting cows. After independence, it took 65 long years for the Indian leaders to realize their cherished dream - to make India a world leader in beef export. This feat was achieved in year 2012 under the able leadership of a cow eating leader. And now finally the founders of modern India can rest in peace. Having realized their dreams, these founders must be reveling in their graves.
Wealth Means Land, Cows and Grains
According to the Vedic Scriptures real wealth means to possess some land, cows and a store of grains. These things are practical. The land and the forests in conjunction with cows and food grains provide all the necessities of life. Financial adviser Howard Ruff and survivalist Sally Harrington, are more down to earth. In a world spinning toward political, economic, and ecological disaster, Ruff explains why grains and beans are at least as good an investment as silver and gold.
Wealth Means Land, Cows and Grains
According to the Vedic Scriptures real wealth means to possess some land, cows and a store of grains. These things are practical. The land and the forests in conjunction with cows and food grains provide all the necessities of life. Financial adviser Howard Ruff and survivalist Sally Harrington, are more down to earth. In a world spinning toward political, economic, and ecological disaster, Ruff explains why grains and beans are at least as good an investment as silver and gold.
Formerly even in the villages you would see that a common man has very good stock of foodgrains and cows, dhanvena dhanavan, gavaya dhanavan. Formerly the standard of richness was considered how many morai.. the bank, what is called? Where grain is stocked? Silo. So in India it is called morai, grain stock. And how many cows one has got in stock. Then he is rich man. Nowadays how much paper money he has got. Actually it has no value. Suppose you have got some papers. Each paper it is written there “one thousand dollars.” But if there is no grain, what will this one-thousand-dollars paper will do? It actually so happened in the last war in Germany. Their money was thrown in the street. Nobody cared to take it, because it has no exchange. So long the paper money you can exchange, there is value. Otherwise it is paper only. But if you have got actual commodity—grains and cows—then you can eat in any circumstances. Never mind war is going on; you don’t care. You get sufficient food. What you will do with the paper money?
~Srila Prabhupada (Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam 5.5.3, Vrindavan, October 25, 1976)
"You spend hundreds of dollars every year to insure your cars against the accident you fully expect not to have," says Ruff, "and you can't eat the cancelled checks. Your money is wasted unless you're 'lucky' enough to have an accident. Food storage is the insurance you can eat."
Adds Harrington, "Wheat, if kept dry and protected from rodents and insects, will last for two or three thousand years. Some that was found in King Tut's tomb was still edible, and it even germinated."
The forests provide building materials for dwellings, honey, flowers, fruits and medicinal herbs and drugs. The rivers provide fresh drinking water and are a source of natural fertilizer and gems. By the arrangement of nature the rivers flood the land periodically, thus replacing the lost nutrients in the soil.
If you have grains, fruits and dairy products like milk, cheese, cream, yogurt and butter, you can live happily ever after. Fact is, you can not eat your currency notes or computer chips.
By nature’s perfect arrangement, land and cows compliment each other in maintaining the cycle of life. Land supports cow by supplying her feed and she replenishes the land with her manure. When the cow population swells, the soil in the area comes alive. If cows are allowed to graze on waste or barren land, gradually its fertility returns. This is because Goddess of Prosperity resides in cow dung. In India of yesteryears, there were so many happy cows they used to moisten the ground with their milk. Today its their blood that is splattered all over.
Adds Harrington, "Wheat, if kept dry and protected from rodents and insects, will last for two or three thousand years. Some that was found in King Tut's tomb was still edible, and it even germinated."
The forests provide building materials for dwellings, honey, flowers, fruits and medicinal herbs and drugs. The rivers provide fresh drinking water and are a source of natural fertilizer and gems. By the arrangement of nature the rivers flood the land periodically, thus replacing the lost nutrients in the soil.
If you have grains, fruits and dairy products like milk, cheese, cream, yogurt and butter, you can live happily ever after. Fact is, you can not eat your currency notes or computer chips.
By nature’s perfect arrangement, land and cows compliment each other in maintaining the cycle of life. Land supports cow by supplying her feed and she replenishes the land with her manure. When the cow population swells, the soil in the area comes alive. If cows are allowed to graze on waste or barren land, gradually its fertility returns. This is because Goddess of Prosperity resides in cow dung. In India of yesteryears, there were so many happy cows they used to moisten the ground with their milk. Today its their blood that is splattered all over.
When we produce food grains and vegetables, we can give protection to the cows; while giving protection to the cows, we can draw from them abundant quantities of milk; and by getting enough milk and combining it with food grains and vegetables, we can prepare hundreds of nectarean foods. We can happily eat this food and thus avoid industrial enterprises and joblessness.
~Srila Prabhupada (Srimad Bhagavatam 8.6.12)
Currency Notes, Share Certificates - Bunch of Papers
Magic of Modern Economy - From Prince To Pauper In Minutes
Story of 1929 Wall street crash was repeated in India on 21st January 2008. On a day, known as Black Monday, investors lost Rs 6 trillion within minutes of the Indian stock exchange’s opening in Mumbai. The authorities immediately suspended the trading for one hour. The sensex tumbled 2,029 points within minutes of the start of trading.
This loss of Rs 6,54,887 crore came on top of over Rs 11 trillion loss suffered by investors at Dalal Street in the last six days. Small investors were advised to stay away from the markets. Investors' wealth - measured in terms of cumulative market capitalisation of all the listed companies - declined by a whopping Rs 18,40,173 crore.
As per information available on the Bombay Stock Exchange website, the total market capitalisation stood at Rs 59,53,525 crore at the end of the Black Monday's trading against Rs 71,38,810 crore before the stock exchange began business on January 14. The cause for this was attributed on concerns regarding the US economy going into recession. Many people suffered heart attacks and several committed suicide.
A land and cow based economy is definitely more stable and offers better scope for an anxiety free living. The stress of modern life is responsible for a lifestyle disease pandemic. In preindustrial mode of living, these diseases are unknown.
Apart from the story of January 2008 in India, by October 2008, investors across the world lost more than $10 trillion - an amount more than 10 times of the entire investor wealth in India.
All 52 equity markets of the world suffered a loss of $10.5 trillion in 2008 as per the leading rating agency and financial data provider, Standard and Poors.
Magic of Modern Economy - From Prince To Pauper In Minutes
Story of 1929 Wall street crash was repeated in India on 21st January 2008. On a day, known as Black Monday, investors lost Rs 6 trillion within minutes of the Indian stock exchange’s opening in Mumbai. The authorities immediately suspended the trading for one hour. The sensex tumbled 2,029 points within minutes of the start of trading.
This loss of Rs 6,54,887 crore came on top of over Rs 11 trillion loss suffered by investors at Dalal Street in the last six days. Small investors were advised to stay away from the markets. Investors' wealth - measured in terms of cumulative market capitalisation of all the listed companies - declined by a whopping Rs 18,40,173 crore.
As per information available on the Bombay Stock Exchange website, the total market capitalisation stood at Rs 59,53,525 crore at the end of the Black Monday's trading against Rs 71,38,810 crore before the stock exchange began business on January 14. The cause for this was attributed on concerns regarding the US economy going into recession. Many people suffered heart attacks and several committed suicide.
A land and cow based economy is definitely more stable and offers better scope for an anxiety free living. The stress of modern life is responsible for a lifestyle disease pandemic. In preindustrial mode of living, these diseases are unknown.
Apart from the story of January 2008 in India, by October 2008, investors across the world lost more than $10 trillion - an amount more than 10 times of the entire investor wealth in India.
All 52 equity markets of the world suffered a loss of $10.5 trillion in 2008 as per the leading rating agency and financial data provider, Standard and Poors.
"Wheat, if kept dry and protected from rodents and insects, will last for two or three thousand years. Some that was found in King Tut's tomb was still edible, and it even germinated."
~Harrington
Indian stock market valuation nearly halved in 2008. 2009 might offer some relief but situation remains volatile as ever before. For two square meals, mankind is undergoing so much anxiety and frustration. Even animals live far more peacefully though they have no banking, industries or fiscal systems. An elephant requiring 300 kgs of food daily has no anxiety whereas human beings consuming 300 gms daily are dying from anxiety.
Coming back to America’s crash of 1929; America was having an economic explosion. Immigrants were pouring in. There were more jobs than people. Farmers were leaving their fields for factories, making twice the income for half the labor. Politicians confidently portrayed a picture of an endless era of unprecedented prosperity. The prophets of gloom and doom were ignored as crazies.
Fall is a beautiful time of year. A time of thanksgiving, a remembrance of God's blessing upon the birth of a Christian country. The leaves are in full bloom, ready to fall. It is a time for Sunday drives through the country without a thought of the oncoming winter. Splashes of color cover the hills and valleys. As the squirrels wisely gather food for a cold long winter, a nation is borrowing and spending because of a thriving economy that can promise only spring and summer.
Coming back to America’s crash of 1929; America was having an economic explosion. Immigrants were pouring in. There were more jobs than people. Farmers were leaving their fields for factories, making twice the income for half the labor. Politicians confidently portrayed a picture of an endless era of unprecedented prosperity. The prophets of gloom and doom were ignored as crazies.
Fall is a beautiful time of year. A time of thanksgiving, a remembrance of God's blessing upon the birth of a Christian country. The leaves are in full bloom, ready to fall. It is a time for Sunday drives through the country without a thought of the oncoming winter. Splashes of color cover the hills and valleys. As the squirrels wisely gather food for a cold long winter, a nation is borrowing and spending because of a thriving economy that can promise only spring and summer.
Residents of Vrndavana had become highly prosperous simply by protecting cows, since Indra wanted to destroy their so-called pride based on wealth by killing their animals. Well-tended cows produce large quantities of milk, from which come cheese, butter, yogurt, ghee and so on. These foods are delicious by themselves and also enhance other foods, such as fruits, vegetables and grains. Bread and vegetables are delicious with butter, and fruit is especially appetizing when mixed with cream or yogurt. Dairy products are always desirable in civilized society, and the surplus can be traded for many valuable commodities. Thus, simply by a Vedic dairy enterprise, the residents of Vrndavana were wealthy, healthy and happy, even in the material sense.
~Srila Prabhupada (Srimad Bhagavatam 10.25.6)
A ship sails to England in the early part of October 1929, full of wealthy entrepreneurs, a sign of absolute faith in a thriving American economy. While they were on their carefree vacation, enjoying the pleasure away from the stress of their jobs, a powerful economic tremor rippled through the United States. On October 24, 1929, 12,000,000 shares of common stocks traded in a single afternoon. By Monday, October 28th, the trading averages had dropped by 20 points. On Tuesday, October 29th, virtually all trades were to sell. It became ‘A Nightmare On Wall Street.’ Investors became panic– stricken, resulting in a huge economic land slide. AT&T was down a hundred points, General Electric, 90 points and General Motors, plummeted 150 points. Sixteen million shares were traded at a loss of 10 billion dollars. This was equivalent to twice the amount of currency of the entire USA. Headlines proclaimed, Wall Street Crashes. Tens of millions of people's life savings became completely useless. Millionaires were reduced to the unemployed. On Wall Street, it rained the bodies of men jumping from their offices high above. When the ship returned full of happy–go–lucky entrepreneurs, they were worth the clothes on their backs. An economic winter had fallen upon America which would effect the entire earth. An ice age that would last four long years. Full recovery came only after World War II. Life blood of modern economics is war and violence. Nothing invigorates our economic system like a war.
At the close of World War II, many countries did not return to a civilian economy, but kept to a ‘permanent war economy.’ The term ‘permanent war economy’ refers to the economic component within the military-industrial complex whereby the collusion between militarism and war profiteering are manifest as a permanently subsidized industry. Today the world retains the character of a global war economy; even in peacetime, with massive military expenditure.
Wars always existed in human society but for thousands of years the methodology of war practically remained the same. It was a part time activity at best.
Paraphernalia of war was produced by decentralised small scale industries but these industries also had practical peacetime applications. For example, industries making swords in times of war could make plowshares in times of peace. It was not until the late 19th to early 20th century that military weaponry became so complex as to require a large subset of industry dedicated solely to its procurement. Firearms, artillery, steamships, and later aircraft and nuclear weapons were markedly different from their ancient predecessors.
At the close of World War II, many countries did not return to a civilian economy, but kept to a ‘permanent war economy.’ The term ‘permanent war economy’ refers to the economic component within the military-industrial complex whereby the collusion between militarism and war profiteering are manifest as a permanently subsidized industry. Today the world retains the character of a global war economy; even in peacetime, with massive military expenditure.
Wars always existed in human society but for thousands of years the methodology of war practically remained the same. It was a part time activity at best.
Paraphernalia of war was produced by decentralised small scale industries but these industries also had practical peacetime applications. For example, industries making swords in times of war could make plowshares in times of peace. It was not until the late 19th to early 20th century that military weaponry became so complex as to require a large subset of industry dedicated solely to its procurement. Firearms, artillery, steamships, and later aircraft and nuclear weapons were markedly different from their ancient predecessors.
It is very important to note in this connection how wealthy the inhabitants of Vrndavana were simply by raising cows. All the cowherd men belonged to the vaisya community, and their business was to protect the cows and cultivate crops. By their dress and ornaments, and by their behavior, it appears that although they were in a small village, they still were rich in material possessions. They possessed such an abundance of various kinds of milk products that they were throwing butter lavishly on each other’s bodies without restriction. Their wealth was in milk, yogurt, clarified butter and many other milk products, and by trading their agricultural products, they were rich in various kinds of jewelry, ornaments and costly garments. Not only did they possess all these things, but they could give them away in charity lavishly, as did Nanda Maharaja.
~Srila Prabhupada (Krishna Book 5: The Meeting of Nanda and Vasudeva)
These newer, more complex weapons required highly specialized labor, knowledge and machinery to produce. The time and supporting industry necessary to construct weapon systems of increasing complexity and massive integration, made it no longer feasible to create assets only in times of war. Instead, nations dedicated portions of their economies for the full time production of war assets. The increasing reliance of military on industry gave rise to a stable partnership—the military–industrial complex.
War and violence and death and destruction lie at the heart of modern economic system. World economies would collapse if the wars are stopped. If you are looking for economics of peace, you have to look somewhere else.
Vrindavan - An Affluent Pastoral Community
India of yesteryears is exemplified by Vrindavan, an ancient pastoral village. Vrindavan is a typical representation of Vedic India, known for her immense wealth and a highly advanced culture. Cows formed its backbone and Indian culture was rightly called ‘cow culture’.
When the British colonized India, the Governor Robert Clive made a careful study of India’s economic and agricultural systems. He observed how Indian society was firmly rooted in its age-old customs and sound economic and agricultural practices. He was very impressed with the civilizational setup of India.
His mood is reflected in a letter written by Lord MCLau dated February 2, 1835.
“I have traveled across the length and breath of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber (of noble character), that I do not think we would ever conquer this country………..unless we break the very backbone of this nation which is her spiritual and cultural heritage.”
War and violence and death and destruction lie at the heart of modern economic system. World economies would collapse if the wars are stopped. If you are looking for economics of peace, you have to look somewhere else.
Vrindavan - An Affluent Pastoral Community
India of yesteryears is exemplified by Vrindavan, an ancient pastoral village. Vrindavan is a typical representation of Vedic India, known for her immense wealth and a highly advanced culture. Cows formed its backbone and Indian culture was rightly called ‘cow culture’.
When the British colonized India, the Governor Robert Clive made a careful study of India’s economic and agricultural systems. He observed how Indian society was firmly rooted in its age-old customs and sound economic and agricultural practices. He was very impressed with the civilizational setup of India.
His mood is reflected in a letter written by Lord MCLau dated February 2, 1835.
“I have traveled across the length and breath of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber (of noble character), that I do not think we would ever conquer this country………..unless we break the very backbone of this nation which is her spiritual and cultural heritage.”
Cow protection is recommended in the Vedic literature because it is giving the most valuable foodstuff, milk. Apart from other sentiments, it is supplying, and in exchange of nothing. She simply eats some grasses from the ground. That’s all. You don’t have to provide cows with foodstuff. The things which you refuse, you take the grain and you supply the skin. You take the fruit pulp, you supply the skin. You take the, I mean to say, from paddy. You take the rice. You supply the straw and she delivers you a very nice foodstuff.
~ Srila Prabhupada (Lecture, Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.3 , Boston, May 4, 1968)
So during his surveys in 1740, Robert Clive found in Arcot District of Tamil Nadu, 54 Quintals of rice was harvested from one acre of land using cow manure and pesticides. Cow was the foundation of this great nation and cows greatly outnumbered men. He realized that unless this foundation was shaken up, they could not keep their hold on this country for too long. This inspired him to open the first slaughterhouse in India in 1760. This slaughterhouse was capable of processing hundreds of cows every week. Cow slaughter was initiated as a part of the master plan to destabilize India.
Prior to the British, Moghuls ruled India for 800 years. During their rule, cow killing was sporadic. Many Moghul kings like Babar, Akbar and Jahangir banned cow killing. When not banned, number of cows killed in a year never exceeded more than a few thousand. Cow slaughter in India has a British origin.
To this extent, the British were quite successful. Cow slaughter, engineered by them, divided Hindu and Muslim communities which had coexisted peacefully for the last 800 years. Millions died in ensuing riots which lasted for decades. To this day, India and Pakistan are locked in bitter enmity and continually suffering.
Robert Clive started a number of slaughter houses before he left India. By 1910, 350 slaughterhouses were working day and night. India was reduced to severe poverty. Millions were dying from hunger and malnutrition. Age-old cottage industries were devastated and village artisans took up jobs as coolies in cities. Manchester cloth effectively destroyed Indian handlooms enterprise. Using Indian money and men, British were expanding their empire all over the world.
Bereft of its cattle wealth, India had to approach England for industrial manure. Thus industrial manures like urea and phosphate made their way to India. Indian villages, where flowed streams of butter and milk, became haunted hamlets, wretched and starving. A Paradise was lost. An India where horses and bullocks were made to drink ghee, was now suffering from a scarcity of margarine. It was total devastation of a great civilization.
The British established an educational system which decried anything connected with Indian tradition. This was a crafty engineering by Macaulay who said, “We must at present do our best to form a class of persons Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect.” He did this so effectively that even after sixty years of independence Indians still continue to exist in a state of stupor, unable (and even unwilling!) to extricate themselves from one of the greatest hypnoses woven over a whole nation.
By the time British departed from India, thousands of slaughterhouses were in operation and now its hard to keep a count. The result - 40000 suicides by Indian farmers every year. Prosperity and affluence of Vrindavan, a representative Indian village based on cow protection, is immortalized in pages of Srimad Bhagavatam:
Sukadeva Gosvami said: Nanda Maharaja was naturally very magnanimous, and when Lord Sri Krsna appeared as his son, he was overwhelmed by jubilation. Therefore, after bathing and purifying himself and dressing himself properly, he invited brahmanas who knew how to recite Vedic mantras. After having these qualified brahmanas recite auspicious Vedic hymns, he arranged to have the Vedic birth ceremony celebrated for his newborn child according to the rules and regulations, and he also arranged for worship of the demigods and forefathers.
Nanda Maharaja gave numerous cows, completely decorated with cloth and jewels, in charity to the brahmanas. He also gave them seven hills of grain, covered with jewels and with cloth decorated with golden embroidery.
The brahmanas recited auspicious Vedic hymns, which purified the environment by their vibration. The experts in reciting old histories like the Puranas, the experts in reciting the histories of royal families, and general reciters all chanted, while singers sang and many kinds of musical instruments, like bheris and dundubhis, played in accompaniment.
Vrajapura, the residence of Nanda Maharaja, was fully decorated with varieties of festoons and flags, and in different places, gates were made with varieties of flower garlands, pieces of cloth, and mango leaves. The courtyards, the gates near the roads, and everything within the rooms of the houses were perfectly swept and washed with water.
The cows, the bulls and the calves were thoroughly smeared with a mixture of turmeric and oil, mixed with varieties of minerals. Their heads were bedecked with peacock feathers, and they were garlanded and covered with cloth and golden ornaments.
O King Pariksit, the cowherd men dressed very opulently with valuable ornaments and garments such as coats and turbans. Decorated in this way and carrying various presentations in their hands, they approached the house of Nanda Maharaja.
The gopi wives of the cowherd men were very pleased to hear that mother Yasoda had given birth to a son, and they began to decorate themselves very nicely with proper dresses, ornaments, black ointment for the eyes, and so on.
Their lotuslike faces extraordinarily beautiful, being decorated with saffron and newly grown kunkuma, the wives of the cowherd men hurried to the house of mother Yasoda with presentations in their hands. Because of natural beauty, the wives had full hips and full breasts, which moved as they hurried along.
In the ears of the gopis were brilliantly polished jeweled earrings, and from their necks hung metal lockets. Their hands were decorated with bangles, their dresses were of varied colors, and from their hair, flowers fell onto the street like showers. Thus while going to the house of Maharaja Nanda, the gopis, their earrings, breasts and garlands moving, were brilliantly beautiful.
Offering blessings to the newborn child, Krsna, the wives and daughters of the cowherd men said, “May You become the King of Vraja and long maintain all its inhabitants.” They sprinkled a mixture of turmeric powder, oil and water upon the birthless Supreme Lord and offered their prayers.
Now that the all-pervading, unlimited Lord Krsna, the master of the cosmic manifestation, had arrived within the estate of Maharaja Nanda, various types of musical instruments resounded to celebrate the great festival.
In gladness, the cowherd men enjoyed the great festival by splashing one another’s bodies with a mixture of curd, condensed milk, butter and water. They threw butter on one another and smeared it on one another’s bodies.
The great-minded Maharaja Nanda gave clothing, ornaments and cows in charity to the cowherd men in order to please Lord Visnu, and thus he improved the condition of his own son in all respects. He distributed charity to the sutas, the magadhas, the vandis, and men of all other professions, according to their educational qualifications, and satisfied everyone’s desires.
~(Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto-10, Chapter-5)
Prior to the British, Moghuls ruled India for 800 years. During their rule, cow killing was sporadic. Many Moghul kings like Babar, Akbar and Jahangir banned cow killing. When not banned, number of cows killed in a year never exceeded more than a few thousand. Cow slaughter in India has a British origin.
To this extent, the British were quite successful. Cow slaughter, engineered by them, divided Hindu and Muslim communities which had coexisted peacefully for the last 800 years. Millions died in ensuing riots which lasted for decades. To this day, India and Pakistan are locked in bitter enmity and continually suffering.
Robert Clive started a number of slaughter houses before he left India. By 1910, 350 slaughterhouses were working day and night. India was reduced to severe poverty. Millions were dying from hunger and malnutrition. Age-old cottage industries were devastated and village artisans took up jobs as coolies in cities. Manchester cloth effectively destroyed Indian handlooms enterprise. Using Indian money and men, British were expanding their empire all over the world.
Bereft of its cattle wealth, India had to approach England for industrial manure. Thus industrial manures like urea and phosphate made their way to India. Indian villages, where flowed streams of butter and milk, became haunted hamlets, wretched and starving. A Paradise was lost. An India where horses and bullocks were made to drink ghee, was now suffering from a scarcity of margarine. It was total devastation of a great civilization.
The British established an educational system which decried anything connected with Indian tradition. This was a crafty engineering by Macaulay who said, “We must at present do our best to form a class of persons Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect.” He did this so effectively that even after sixty years of independence Indians still continue to exist in a state of stupor, unable (and even unwilling!) to extricate themselves from one of the greatest hypnoses woven over a whole nation.
By the time British departed from India, thousands of slaughterhouses were in operation and now its hard to keep a count. The result - 40000 suicides by Indian farmers every year. Prosperity and affluence of Vrindavan, a representative Indian village based on cow protection, is immortalized in pages of Srimad Bhagavatam:
Sukadeva Gosvami said: Nanda Maharaja was naturally very magnanimous, and when Lord Sri Krsna appeared as his son, he was overwhelmed by jubilation. Therefore, after bathing and purifying himself and dressing himself properly, he invited brahmanas who knew how to recite Vedic mantras. After having these qualified brahmanas recite auspicious Vedic hymns, he arranged to have the Vedic birth ceremony celebrated for his newborn child according to the rules and regulations, and he also arranged for worship of the demigods and forefathers.
Nanda Maharaja gave numerous cows, completely decorated with cloth and jewels, in charity to the brahmanas. He also gave them seven hills of grain, covered with jewels and with cloth decorated with golden embroidery.
The brahmanas recited auspicious Vedic hymns, which purified the environment by their vibration. The experts in reciting old histories like the Puranas, the experts in reciting the histories of royal families, and general reciters all chanted, while singers sang and many kinds of musical instruments, like bheris and dundubhis, played in accompaniment.
Vrajapura, the residence of Nanda Maharaja, was fully decorated with varieties of festoons and flags, and in different places, gates were made with varieties of flower garlands, pieces of cloth, and mango leaves. The courtyards, the gates near the roads, and everything within the rooms of the houses were perfectly swept and washed with water.
The cows, the bulls and the calves were thoroughly smeared with a mixture of turmeric and oil, mixed with varieties of minerals. Their heads were bedecked with peacock feathers, and they were garlanded and covered with cloth and golden ornaments.
O King Pariksit, the cowherd men dressed very opulently with valuable ornaments and garments such as coats and turbans. Decorated in this way and carrying various presentations in their hands, they approached the house of Nanda Maharaja.
The gopi wives of the cowherd men were very pleased to hear that mother Yasoda had given birth to a son, and they began to decorate themselves very nicely with proper dresses, ornaments, black ointment for the eyes, and so on.
Their lotuslike faces extraordinarily beautiful, being decorated with saffron and newly grown kunkuma, the wives of the cowherd men hurried to the house of mother Yasoda with presentations in their hands. Because of natural beauty, the wives had full hips and full breasts, which moved as they hurried along.
In the ears of the gopis were brilliantly polished jeweled earrings, and from their necks hung metal lockets. Their hands were decorated with bangles, their dresses were of varied colors, and from their hair, flowers fell onto the street like showers. Thus while going to the house of Maharaja Nanda, the gopis, their earrings, breasts and garlands moving, were brilliantly beautiful.
Offering blessings to the newborn child, Krsna, the wives and daughters of the cowherd men said, “May You become the King of Vraja and long maintain all its inhabitants.” They sprinkled a mixture of turmeric powder, oil and water upon the birthless Supreme Lord and offered their prayers.
Now that the all-pervading, unlimited Lord Krsna, the master of the cosmic manifestation, had arrived within the estate of Maharaja Nanda, various types of musical instruments resounded to celebrate the great festival.
In gladness, the cowherd men enjoyed the great festival by splashing one another’s bodies with a mixture of curd, condensed milk, butter and water. They threw butter on one another and smeared it on one another’s bodies.
The great-minded Maharaja Nanda gave clothing, ornaments and cows in charity to the cowherd men in order to please Lord Visnu, and thus he improved the condition of his own son in all respects. He distributed charity to the sutas, the magadhas, the vandis, and men of all other professions, according to their educational qualifications, and satisfied everyone’s desires.
~(Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto-10, Chapter-5)
Cow In Vedas
There Is No Wealth Whatsoever Like Cows
Cows live in forest, eat grass, drink water here and there, give us milk, carry our goods, dispel our sins and sustain the life of living beings by gorasa, the milk.
When pleased by service, they destroy our sinful reactions.
When given in charity, they lead us to heavenly planets. When cared for properly, cows are wealth personified. There is no wealth whatsoever like cows.
In exchange of ordinary grass, cow gives countless bounties.
Cow is an engine of peace and prosperity in society. Bull sustains the creation by ploughing the fields. The worlds subsist on grain grown by the bull. There is no wealth whatsoever like cows.
Feeding on dry straw and drinking water from ditches, cows deliver the elixir of life, milk. Cows purify the three worlds with gomaya and gomutra (cow dung and urine). There is no wealth whatsoever like cows.
Cow In Vedas
There Is No Wealth Whatsoever Like Cows
Cows live in forest, eat grass, drink water here and there, give us milk, carry our goods, dispel our sins and sustain the life of living beings by gorasa, the milk.
When pleased by service, they destroy our sinful reactions.
When given in charity, they lead us to heavenly planets. When cared for properly, cows are wealth personified. There is no wealth whatsoever like cows.
In exchange of ordinary grass, cow gives countless bounties.
Cow is an engine of peace and prosperity in society. Bull sustains the creation by ploughing the fields. The worlds subsist on grain grown by the bull. There is no wealth whatsoever like cows.
Feeding on dry straw and drinking water from ditches, cows deliver the elixir of life, milk. Cows purify the three worlds with gomaya and gomutra (cow dung and urine). There is no wealth whatsoever like cows.