Nobody goes… but that I have seen nowadays garbage is also collected. I have seen in Hong Kong one woman is finding out something valuable from the garbage. This is Kali-yuga. It is untouchable, but still people are trying to get something from the garbage. So downtrodden, this Kali-yuga. So matrvat para-daresu para-dravyesu lostravat atmavat sarva-bhutesu. All other living entities think like yourself. That means your pains and pleasure that you feel, you should take others pains and pleasure. Not that you protect yourself from all danger and you cut the throat of the poor animals on the plea that it has no soul. This is not education. This is education, that whether the animal has soul or not soul, we shall consider later on. But when knife is on my throat I cry, and he also cries. Why shall I say that it has no soul and let me kill it? So that means he does not know how to see other living entity like himself. Buddha philosophy is based on this, that whatever you feel pain you should not inflict to others. This is education. Matrvat para-daresu para-dravyesu lostravat.
So this is moral education, and in the sastra it is also said that there are seven mothers:
adau mata guru-patni brahmani raja-patnika dhenur dhatri tatha prthvi saptaita matarah
Real mother and guru-patni, the wife of spiritual master or teacher. Adau mata guru-patni, brahmani, the wife of a brahmana, and raja- patnika, the queen, she is also mother, raja. Dhenu, cow. Dhenu, dhatri, nurse. Dhenur dhatri tatha prthvi, as well as the earth. Earth is mother because she is giving us so many things, fruits, flowers, grains for our eating. Mother gives for eating, cow gives us milk. This is sense.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.22
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Honolulu, May 22, 1976
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