Protect A Cow

Food and Freedom - Produce Your Own - Lecture by Srila Prabhupada

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This demonic world is the greatest enemy of cows

730505SB.LA                  Lectures  
So Govinda..., so what is the business of Govinda? Now, go-dvija-surarti-haravatara. Surarti, go. This demonic world is the greatest enemy of cows. Just see how they are maintaining hundreds and thousands of slaughterhouse. Hundreds and thousands of slaughterhouse. Innocent animals, giving you milk, the most important foodstuff. Even after death, it is giving you its skin for your shoes, and you are so rascal that you are killing. And you want to be happy in this world. You see? How sinful they are! They have no consideration that this animal... Why cow protection is so much advocated? Because it is very, very important. Therefore... There is no such injunction that "You don't eat the flesh of the tiger." You can eat. Because those who are meat eaters, those who are meat eaters, they have been recommended to eat the flesh of goats or other lower animals--sometimes dogs also, they eat, or the hogs--you can eat. But never the flesh of cows.

So, innocent animal, the most important animal, giving service even after death... While living, giving service, so important service, giving you milk, even after death she is giving service by supplying the skin, the hoof, the horn. You utilize in so many ways. But still, the present human society is so ungrateful and rascal that they are killing cows. So Krsna comes to punish them, these rascals. Therefore it is said that go-dvija-surarti-hara. Krsna comes to... Therefore we worship Krsna, namo brahmanya-devaya go-brahmana-hitaya ca. Brahmana.
   So to make a perfect human society, there must be protection of the go-dvija. Dvija means brahmana. Brahmana means one who knows Brahman, God. These two classes must be given first protection. Therefore Krsna is worshiped with this word,

                      namo brahmanya-devaya
                      go-brahmana-hitaya ca
                      jagad-dhitaya krsnaya
                      govindaya namo namah

See, the same thing is there. Govindaya, go-dvija arti-hara, dvija. Dvija, when the brahmana class, when the cows, they are too much troubled by this rascal, demon, and Krsna comes, yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, abhyutthanam adharmasya. These are all adharmas.
So in this age, Kali-yuga, the people are so sinful, so suffering also, therefore Krsna has incarnated in the form of His name: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. That's all.