How can we take the cow’s milk, and then kill her? Which religion supports this kind of ingratitude? How can we be so inhuman as to kill and eat the flesh of cows, bulls, and calves? Do we not see how this is causing havoc in human society? Please protect cows, and be peaceful and happy!
Sometimes, we see that people eat meat of animals, and that makes us sad.
We are sad because the killer becomes responsible for being killed. This cycle of violence can continue endlessly.
Sometimes we are shocked to see that they eat the meat of cows and bulls, calves too. It’s called “beef”.
They don’t seem to feel anything about this. Sometimes they even say their religion “supports” or “encourages” such meat eating.
But do you know that the cow is our mother? The bull is our father. All the calves are our brothers and sisters.
Sounds strange?
Well, when you were born, did you take the milk of your mother? Did your father contribute to your birth in this world? At least some of you have brothers and sisters older or younger to you? Do you kill them and eat their flesh?
Most of us take cow’s milk when we are babies. We continue when we are children. In most cases, we even continue as adults. We take yoghurt, buttermilk, cheese, milk sweets, and so many preparations made with cow’s milk.
If we take the cow’s milk, is the cow not our mother? Do we not owe a debt of gratitude to mother cow in return for her milk? How can we take the cow’s milk, then slaughter her?
The cow gives milk when she gives birth to a calf… then is the calf not our brother or sister?
The bull is responsible for making the cow pregnant. So, is the bull not our father?
What civilization is this? In our modern “animalization”, we have forgotten these debts to so many living entities.
We mercilessly slaughter the poor cow and her family.
But beware my dear reader – what goes around, comes around, it’s the law of karma.
We are cruelly slaughtering the cows, bulls, and calves. Similarly, our other “brothers and sisters” will slaughter us.
It will happen as war, it will happen through exploitation, it will happen as mass shootings. But happen it will.
For every hair on each body of every cow, bull, or calf we have killed, we will face the consequences. We have killed them unnecessarily. We will suffer slaughter ourselves. We will endure the same fate.
The war in Palestine is a result of cow killing.
The war in South Sudan is a result of cow killing.
The war in Ukraine is a result of cow killing.
Do we want more?
Which religion allows you to kill and eat your father, your mother, your brothers and sisters?
No religion of God!
A society devoid of cow protection and brahminical culture is not under the direct protection of the Lord, just as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of a severe agent of the king. https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/14/34/ Purport
Why is the middle east always in turmoil? Why is Africa always so violent? Why are the Muslims killing the Christians, the Christians killing the Muslims? The Jews killing the Muslims, the Muslims killing the Jews? Why are the Muslims killing each other?
Is a Muslim who kills unnecessarily even a Muslim?
Is a Jew who kills unnecessarily even a Jew?
Is a Christian who kills unnecessarily even a Christian?
Are Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists who tolerate such killing even Hindus, Sikhs, or Buddhists?
Is it really necessary to kill the cows, bulls, calves in the presence of so much other less violent food?
Only a demonic understanding of religion would allow you to kill your own mother, father, brother, and sister, and eat their flesh.
If your “religion” is encouraging you to kill your family members, then it is questionable. What type of religion promotes such acts?
Do you regularly eat the flesh of your mother, father, brothers, and sisters in the form of beef? Can you answer whose religion you are following?
Look deeper into your respective scriptures, find gratitude and compassion
Stop it! I implore you! Most of the heinous violence in the world is caused by this… until we stop killing cows, bulls, and calves, there will never be peace on earth.
God Loves Cows! God does not like to see cows killed. Please protect cows!
God says, in His Song of God (Bhagavad Gita)
कृषिगोरक्ष्यवाणिज्यं वैश्यकर्म स्वभावजम् ।
Farming, cow protection and business are the natural work for the vaiśyas…
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Where does that leave us all? And if we don’t want to get involved, what can we do instead?
All over the world, whether between nations, or between adherents of different religious traditions, or persons of different ideological beliefs, or even competing business interests, there is constant strife. This strife is increasing, not just disagreements but heinous acts of violence, including war.
The idea behind this is that “they harmed us, we must get them back”. But what is perceived as righteous by one group is perceived as an atrocity by another. That incident is then recorded and narrated as something that must be avenged.
And so the cycle continues.
For example, as I write this, there is a full-scale war going in Palestine between Hamas and Israel. There is another one going in Ukraine between the Russian and the Ukrainian governments. Similar conflicts rage on in parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, The Americas, and Europe.
Neither are these conflicts are localized… for example some supporters of Palestine are openly manifesting aggression against Jewish people. Some Ukrainians and Russians in other parts of the world don’t get along with each other, even if they belong to other common groups, such as nationality or profession.
Many unrelated parties have taken sides, looked at the available facts, and made a decision in their minds as to who is right, and who is wrong. They support the conflict by adding fuel to the fire, either with their thoughts, words, or deeds. Some may supply money and weapons, or intelligence.
Everyone who has taken sides has become implicated in these conflicts, sure to be drawn in just as a moth is drawn to a flame.
I don’t know how far back in time the seeds of hatred were sown in these conflicts. But I surely know that many many, countless seeds are being sown now. Many of those trees will bear innumerable trees, thorns, flowers, and fruit.
Based on our violent past, we have a violent present. Based on the violent present, we are sure to experience a violent future.
It is not that conflict is unavoidable. In the material world, where everyone has arrived with a “I’m #1, me first, me me me” consciousness, conflict is inevitable. Nor can violence be prevented, in a world in which simply to breathe or move or eat means to commit horrendous violence on other living entities.
Of course, not all violence is created equal. There is violence that comes naturally through the acts of God, and there is violence we beget on our own accord, often quite against the injunctions of God.
For example, in the Middle East, there are supposed to be at least 3, yes, three major “religions of peace”. They are all supposed to be “brothers of the book”… they all share the same prophets, and the same sets of instructions. And yet, they fight worse than cats and dogs. Yes, I’m talking about the Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle East.
Why do they fight so?
So what is one to do with all this?
First of all, we must recognize that the Law of Karma dictates the” eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” idea. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, whether desirable or undesirable. The law of karma is infallible and inescapable.
What goes around, indeed does come around.
But more importantly, as my mentor Rupanuga Prabhu likes to say “Who died and made you judge”, in other words, we are not meant to intentionally try and become instruments of the Law of Karma.
Everyone will suffer earthquakes, pestilence, famine, heat, cold, and other vagaries of nature. Everyone is sure to grow old, get sick, and die. We don’t have to enforce any karmic reaction on anyone… their own genes are already encoded with the results of their karmic reactions.
The Law of Karma, according to the Universal arrangements of God, takes it’s own course. Horrible incidents will happen, even if we don’t try to cause them!
For example, a person who has wronged others will naturally end up being wronged himself. A cheater will surely get cheated. A merchant of death will surely reap death as profit.
A person will be born in the specific time, place, and circumstance that has been cooked up for them to experience the results of their past activities… no one needs to explicitly serve them justice…
Have you ever thought why one child is born in the relative safety of a country like Norway, and another is born in Gaza in the middle of the eye of the storm? It’s called karma, both individual and collective.
Why is one child born a prince and another born as the daughter of a prostitute?
Even so, due to our attachments with the external designations of the body, we surely may find ourselves getting involved, in one way or another, even if it may be well outside of our duty. How can we avoid getting swept away?
First of all, we must remember not to identify ourselves as this body.
The moment we identify ourselves as this body, then insults and injustices done to the body become part of our consciousness. Injustices done to bodies related to our bodies become as if our own. Even though the body is temporary, and is meant to bite the dust, still, the adopted consciousness that we, the riders of these bodies acquire, lasts well beyond the destruction of this body.
Next we must remember that God does not take sides
God is One. However, you may know God, we should know that God is God of all Creation, not just mine or yours. God is beyond all understandings of religion, God is beyond the limitations of space and time, and is the loving father of us all. If I commit an injustice, no matter whether I do it on my own account, or in the name of God, God does not take sides!
नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभु: । अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तव: ॥ १५ ॥
nādatte kasyacit pāpaṁ na caiva sukṛtaṁ vibhuḥ ajñānenāvṛtaṁ jñānaṁ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ
Nor does the Supreme Lord assume anyone’s sinful or pious activities. Embodied beings, however, are bewildered because of the ignorance which covers their real knowledge.
Finally, we must remember that as we are not the Centre of the Universe.
Everyone acts according to what they think is in their greatest self interest. A thief may think that a fat stolen wallet is in his own best interest. A child may think that not going to school is in her own best interest. A politician might think that pitting one group of people against another is in his own best interest.
But they would all be sadly mistaken… because the thief doesn’t know that the owner of the wallet suffers and he himself will suffer too, the child does not know that without education she will suffer in the future, and the politician does not know that he will have to reap the same hatred he sows.
The real problem is that everyone is seeing the whole world as theirs to enjoy, to do with as they please. They don’t understand that indeed, they are not the owner…
Our world has become an unspeakable nightmare. Peace is destroyed replaced by brutal warfare. All hell is breaking loose on this planet right now, And for stopping it the leaders have no idea how.
But here is the peace formula. Please take it my friends. Please take it. You’ll see. It will not fail. Here is the peace formula. Please take it, my friends. Please take it. Surely peace will prevail.
We come into this world possessing nothing. And we leave from this world with absolutely nothing. But in the middle we fight and kill claiming this is mine. Ignoring the real owner who reclaims everything in time.
Yes, Here is the peace formula. Please take it my friends. Please take it. You’ll see. It will not fail. Here is the peace formula. Please take it, my friends. Please take it. Surely peace will prevail.
Now listen here all of you world leaders. If you want real peace, this you must now understand. There’s a Supreme Proprietor to whom everything belongs. What you think is yours is just now slipping through your hands. Acknowledge that Supreme Owner, Enjoyer, and Friend. Peace will come and this turmoil will completely end.
Yes, Here is the peace formula. Please take it my friends. Please take it. You’ll see. It will not fail. Here is the peace formula. Please take it, my friends. Please take it. Surely peace will prevail. Please take it. Worldwide peace will prevail.
Competition is encouraged in our world, in fact, it is ruthlessly cultivated through education, culture, and society… but is competition with ourselves as the centre based on envy of others, ultimately based on envy of God, worth the cost?
We cannot get rid of this scourge unless we co-operate with, instead of competing against each other. In fact, unless we co-operate with God, we cannot co-operate with others in the truest sense of the word.
But this co-operation is impossible unless we all have a single centre, the same goal.
Unless we all agree and keep a single centre, our efforts will always compete and clash against each other.
What is the way to escape this eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth then?
The only way to escape this eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth world, is to re-enter the spiritual realm, where birth, death, old age, and disease are absent, and the effects of time are conspicuous by their absence. That world is one where everyone is trying to give more than they receive, where everyone is trying to serve one another in their service to the Supreme, who I know as Krishna. That is a world where every step is a dance, and every word, a song, every tree is desire fulfilling, where the earth is made of touchstone, and water is the elixir of immortality. That is a world where the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna plays His flute, where every entity is fully conscious and ecstatically in love with Him. That is a world in which infinite cows make oceans of nectarean milk, where even the wild beasts are saintly, where there is no lamentation or anxiety from the past or future. That world is where everyone lives in the eternal ever present. That world is known as Goloka, and cannot be reached by those who remain in bodily consciousness or without pure devotion to God. Chanting Hare Krishna is the surest and fastest way to get there.
A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.
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