video credit: Ralph Laurino, http://protectacow.typepad.com/
May 23 2011, Cape Town — Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Guru and Gauranga.
After reading the article from Care for Cows, by Kurma Rupa Prabhu, Sustainable cow protection, my plea to all devotees is to protect a cow or two.
If you live in a rural area, there is no harm to purchase one or 2 cows and keep them. My husband and I own 2 cows that have not had calves, nor do we milk them, but they are 2 cows that won’t end up being slaughtered.
If every follower of Krishna or even every animal lover owned one or two cows, people will notice and see practical cow protection in action.
More importantly, as devotees of Krishna we actually have to start LIKING cows…and I don’t mean just the random “Jai Gomata!”…We actually have to care about Gomata. Care abouth the fact that most countries are just horrible concentration camps for our Mothers. Either they are cramped up in horrible so called “farming” conditions or they live “peacefully” in lush padocks surrounded by electric fencing! Only to eventually end up being tortured when taken to slaughter.
Prabhupada has stated in His books that without cow protection, human civilization is doomed.
It’s not at all difficult to maintain a cow. If you live in the city, please try to donate a cow to someone or support those who are protecting cows.
All glories to our sacred Mother Cow.
All glories to Guru and Gauranga.
your servant
Suvarna Manjari dasi
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