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Cow is an ideal animal in Deity Bramha’s creation. As per spiritual science, the four Purushārthas, namely, Dharma, Artha, Kāma, and Moksha can be acquired by serving the cow. While praising the cow, the principal Deities, namely, Bramha, Vishṇu and Shiva have narrated the following shloka:
त्वं माता सर्व देवानां त्वं च यज्ञस्य कारणम् ।त्वं तीर्थ सर्वतीर्थानां नमस्तेस्तु सदानधे ।
Meaning: O Destroyer of sins! You are the mother of all Deities. You are the reason for yadnya (sacrificial fire). Among all Tirthas (Holy places), you are the holiest. I pay my obeisance to you.
Cow is not a mere animal for Hindus. They consider Cow as an adobe of 33 crore Hindu Deities and hence Cow is considered as sacred in Hindu Dharma. Cow has been treated as auspicious and also a symbol of compassion and piousness. Cow is treated as the highest and most pious animal and is given the utmost importance, being at the apex in the Animal world. The belief is that one can attain salvation (Moksha) by worshipping the Cow and serving her and both Lord Krishna and Balram spearheaded the “Cow worship and preservation” culture. The first Jain Tirthankar, Adinath was also named as Vrashbh meaning ‘Oxen Sorub’. Of all beings, the Cow is treated, in India, as the most sacred and sanctified. This sense of the unique sacredness of the Cow is expressed in the works of ancient Indian Rishis (like in the Vedas, Smritis, Srutis and Puranas, etc., as well as in later literature and folklore.
So highly were cows held in esteem by the Society that there were days fixed in the yearly calendar for exclusive worship of the Cow. Three days prior to the festival of Deepavali is called “Bachvaras (Vasubaras), which is a festival when cows are offered “Pooja”. Dhanteras is a day when cows are worshipped along with Dhanwantari the Sage and the diety of medicine) Balipratipada or Padwa is celebrated the day after Deepavali when, in many parts of India, cows are ceremoniously worshipped. Not only cows, but bulls also, were, and still are, the objects of worship. The last day of the month of Shravan, called POLA, is a day when bulls are decorated and taken in a procession to a public place for collective worship, after which they are then taken from house to house where each family offers ‘pooja’. The day after this is celebrated as Children’s Pola, when the children decorate and worship the wooden idols of bull and take them in a procession to a public place.
Cow (Important as is the descendent of Kamdhenu cow)
I Deepak Sharma would like to take this opportunity to share a beautiful story of me taking part in feeding Cow (Gaumata). It was longtime back I was in my car and was passing by a group of cows and then suddenly I looked through the window and it was really heartbreaking because what I saw was really horrible. I saw one cow was trying to gulp the whole plastic bag and I realized while the cow was picking it up from the ground few pieces of glass fell down and that innocent cow had no clue what she was eating. I was into tears and felt completely broke. I moved on for my destination but that image couldn’t go off my eyes what I saw a while ago. Throughout my way I kept on thinking as to what will happen to that cow as she has eaten the pieces of glass. She cannot talk and she cannot explain if something happens to her and this thought just stayed in head and somewhere down in my heart I had this bad feeling that why can’t I help these creatures as they equally have the right to survive and eat healthy.
So the next day I woke and without giving a second thought I ran to the vegetable market and bought some veggies and then I looked for cows around. Finally I was able to find some cows and I stopped there and I invited them to have these fresh vegetables that I bought for them. While watching them eating these veggies I could see that smile on their faces and that emotion was speechless. So from that very moment I began onto my journey of helping this beautiful creature called cow and I call it “MERI GAUMATA”. I can’t thank enough to My Lord Shiva; it is because of his blessings on me that I never stopped feeding my Gautama’s from the day I started. Now it has become a part of me and I see it as my vision. Now my vision is to take this process of feeding cows to a very big extent and I have already decided to buy a huge land in Vrindavan, Mathura by the end of this year and there I will open a Gaushala by the grace of My Lord Shiva.
I am sharing this story with the entire world not to seek any help as I believe am enough. I just want people to understand the importance of cow and treat them with love and affection. I thank everyday and every moment to My Lord Shiva that he chose me to help Gaumata’s. I take pride in what I have been doing for so many years and this would be everlasting. My vision is that this process of feeding, Loving, Caring Gaumata’s should never end even when I am gone. I work hard every day to feed my family and so does everybody do. Feeding your own family gives you satisfaction however feeding someone in need will give you immense pleasure and joy and the power to do more and more. That happiness, feeling and attachment will stay with you forever. Money is temporary but your work talks about you everything. You can earn and churn it no time and buy luxuries for yourself and your loved ones even when it is not required. I can also do it as I have enough by the grace of “My lord Shiva” but I see it in a different way because at the end no matter how rich you are, the food we eat remains same for the rich and poor. Yes, the only difference is the quality or may be the quantity nothing else.
I can keep talking as long as I want because this is a serious issue in our country and we all are responsible for the hell we are creating for these beautiful creatures. My Gaumata don’t deserve this. People see them as business, I am saying this out of my personal experience the people involved in dairy farm business they use cows for milking purposes only and when the cow stops producing milk they simply leave them on road to die. Is this how you treat your own family member or more importantly would anyone like to be treated like that? Just take a minute and think and imagine yourself in that situation would you be able to survive. I want people to stop being cruel to this innocent creatures, If you can’t help them or feed them then you have no right to harm them and the people running dairy farms should be checked by higher authorities on regular basis and if found doing any cruelty should be punished by the desired department under animals act regulation. All I want to say is when you get more than you expect from someone you bend on your knees to thank that person and starts thinking that what else can I do to thank that person but have you realized our Gaumata’s are helping us since ages and giving us so much. Almost each one of us in the entire world is consuming the dairy product that comes from her and we never thanked her. If you get into the details of what she produces and gives to the humankind and yet it is being unnoticed and “Our Gaumata” is still busy in helping us thanklessly.
Effect of Cow on the economy and agriculture
Indian agriculture has variety. There is no farm-product that we don’t cultivate. Our land grows all kinds of grains, pulses, vegetables, fruits, flowers, cotton and silk.About 70% of our population has embraced agriculture as profession. Cattle are integral part of the huge canvas of agriculture. We use oxen to plough, to pick and move harvested crops, in irrigation, cow manure as fertiliser, and cow urine as insecticide.