MW BOM 1976-08-14 Cow Care
ANNOUNCER: Next are excerpts from a morning walk conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on August 14th, 1976, in Bombay, India.
PRABHUPĀDA: I’m coming from London, Paris, and Tehran.
All fields yellow.
And Europe, so much scorching heat and sunshine, I never seen.
Especially in London.
This time I saw everything has become yellow.
No, there is scarcity of water also.
They're killing the animal premature.
They cannot do it.
It has come to this point.
In the lower stage of human civilization when they cannot produce food,
they do not know how to do it, so the animals are killed.
What can they do?
But actual food is anna, food grains.
Even for the animals.
annād bhavanti bhūtāni [Bg 3.14]
And: yajñād bhavati bhū… So there is no yajña.
There is no yajña.
So this saṅkīrtana-yajña is the only yajña in Kali-yuga.
So if they perform, everything is all right.
There will be cloud, there will be rain.
DR. PATEL: Yajña karma samudbhava. [?]
Yes.
This is yajña in this…
yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ [SB 11.5.32]
In the Kali-yuga, the other yajñas are not possible.
First of all, there is no yājñika-brāhmaṇa and paraphernalia, so many things.
Perhaps if we perform yajña and pour ghee on it,
immediately government arrest.
Ghee can be produced immense.
I have studied.
Immensely, you can by keeping cows.
Kṛṣṇa has recommended, go-rakṣya. Kṛṣi-go-rakṣya The go-rakṣya is essential.
It is not that animal slaughter stopping, no.
Kṛṣṇa could have said paśu-rakṣya.
No, Kṛṣṇa has not said.
Go-rakṣya.
Those who are animal eaters,
they can indulge in eating other insignificant animals.
I think go-rakṣya must be the backbone of the economy.
No, health, brain, everything.
Milk is miracle food.
And we are practically experiencing
in our farms that if the cows are protected nicely, they can supply immense milk.
We are getting in our farms, extra milk.
Everyone is eating so many preparations, sandeśa, rasagullā, rābrī.
They are surprised.
In their history they have not eaten all these things.
They are eating the milk- producing animal so milk will not…
No, they advertise milk is bad.
Who?
These Europeans, Americans.
- Really? - Yes.
“Don’t eat milk.”
So we see practically in our farm the cows give more milk than other farms.
- The satisfaction of animal. - They are very satisfied.
You have been in New Vrindaban with me?
No, you were not.
So, the cows are so happy that… Just like in India.
They are walking here and there.
So we have got cows, they are supplying more than hundred pounds.
INDIAN: This cost is three thousand rupees, one cow.
HARI-ŚAURI: Those cows we have in the Pennsylvania farm, the two best ones,
they’re the two best pedigree cows in the whole of America.
They have their pedigree traced back two hundred and fifty years
to when the first cows came to America.
Purebreds.
Here in our Philadelphia farm we are selling fifteen hundred dollars extra milk.
Fifteen hundred dollars per month.
So if cow is properly protected, it can supply immense…
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