Sacred Cows Give More Milk

At the ISKCON center in Mayapur they treat cows kindly. It's true for most of India, to be sure, but the Krishna Devotees have created an Old Cows Home that really does it right. I took walks there in the mornings last week while in India for the URI Global Assembly. The story goes like this: in West Bengal, if a cow gets old and stops giving milk, it's hard on the farmer's pocketbook to keep feeding her/him/it. But in India people rarely kill cows so what to do? The Krishna center at Mayapur decided to invite the farmers to donate their old, milkless cows to the Mayapur Goshala, or "Cow Home." The cows came, the devotees gave each cow its own name, its own stall (with name painted overhead) and sang the names of God to the cows all day long. Guess what happened? The cows started to give milk again. So much milk that it provided for all the yoghurt, ghee, and millk needs for the entire community, with surplus to sell.

When I walked in to take a look one early morning I was surrounded at once by the positive vibrations of 220 very large mammals, with their calves, hefty creatures who had absolutely no fear of me, because humans never eat them! The cows expected me to love them and were ready to love me back. What a positive, vibrant energy surrounds the Mayapur Cows Home!

One swami said, "Watch!" Then called out, "Laxmi! Laxmi!" and a large Brahma cow, feediing in its stall raised its head up, stepped out and came trotting over to us. The cow butted the Swami with the top of its head and then stretched its neck up like a cat, to invite a neck rub and a petting session. These were the REAL contented cows, not like the Carnation ads on TV.

See the pictures for yourselves!

Comments

[MYC]

Now, that's a picture worth a thousand words.
the cows look so healthy and happy and almost
holy....thank you for sharing those pictures.
I wish I could be there to witness all of that.

Amitofo.

[fen yu]

These cows look so lovely. They're really lucky. It's an amazing story. And you were very happy to be with the cows, weren't you? It's nice to see these pictures and read the story in this morning.

[ching]

loving kindness really works. I can also witness it in babies, who are always ready to love you back. My grandbaby is like that.

[suresh vyas]

The cow eaters should know this. The western coultrue have given them the paradigm by which they see cow as meat for eating. They need programs that give them a Vedic paradigm, that cow is mother, to be loved and cared, much more than they love and care dogs and cats.

At least in Bhaarat we have oppertunity to create goshaalaas or dairy farms where the cows could be treated in the Vedic manner.
If 90% of Bhaarat's cows could be taken care in the vedic manner, then we have something to influence the cow eating world.

Additionally, new education programs in schools could help set the paradigm that cow is not for meat but for milk, and cow is mother to be cared and loved.

jai sri krishna!
-sv

[Julia and Andrew]

Obviously happy cows don't come from California, but from India :D

[Mockingbird - Gadfly Revolution]

What an incredible story! We can learn from these devotees, and these cows. I think the world suffers just as much from lack of loving kindness as from people's unwillingness to receive blessings when they are pouring down upon us. Thanks for sharing this.