Protect A Cow

Prabhupada's Lectures Bhagavad-gita 1974

So this Vedic civilization was that keep some land and keep some cows. Then your whole economic question is solved.

That is Vedic economic system. Gavayah dhanavan. Gavayah means by possessing some number of cows one is supposed to be rich. It is actually the fact. Everyone should possess some land for growing food grains and some cows to take milk. Then the whole economic problem is solved.

The whole world must learn from Krsna how to live happily without scarcity simply by producing food grains (annad bhavanti bhutani) and giving protection to the cows (go-raksya).

Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 9: Chapter Fifteen,Verse 25 Srila Prabhupada's Translation and Purport

The most important word in these verses is maha-gunam, indicating that the brahmanas were offered very palatable food of exalted quality. Such palatable dishes were generally prepared with two things, namely food grains and milk products.

  Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 10: Chapter Seven, Verse 13-15  English Translation and Purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Bhagavad-gita (18.44) therefore enjoins that human society must give protection to the cows and encourage agriculture (krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma svabhavajam). Simply by expert cooking, hundreds and thousands of palatable dishes can be prepared from agricultural produce and milk products.

By God's arrangement, anyone in any part of the world can live very peacefully if he has some land and a milk cow.

Still in India, anyone who possesses some land, he is called king, raja.

Prabhupada's Lectures   Srimad-Bhagavatam 1974 Mayapura