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Cow is our mother

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Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 1

Mahārāja Parīkṣit said "O mother cow, as long as I am living as the ruler and subduer of all envious men, there is no cause for you to cry. Everything will be good for you."

SB 1.17.9, Translation: O son of Surabhi, you need lament no longer now. There is no need to fear this low-class śūdra. And, O mother cow, as long as I am living as the ruler and subduer of all envious men, there is no cause for you to cry. Everything will be good for you.

Mahārāja Parīkṣit addresses the cow as mother, for he is a cultured, twice-born, kṣatriya king.

SB 1.17.9, Purport: Protection of bulls and cows and all other animals can be possible only when there is a state ruled by an executive head like Mahārāja Parīkṣit. Mahārāja Parīkṣit addresses the cow as mother, for he is a cultured, twice-born, kṣatriya king. Surabhi is the name of the cows which exist in the spiritual planets and are especially reared by Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. As men are made after the form and features of the Supreme Lord, so also the cows are made after the form and features of the surabhi cows in the spiritual kingdom. In the material world the human society gives all protection to the human being, but there is no law to protect the descendants of Surabhi, who can give all protection to men by supplying the miracle food, milk.

SB Canto 3

The cow is the mother because just as one sucks the breast of one's mother, human society takes cow's milk.

SB 3.2.29, Purport: Human society needs only sufficient grain and sufficient cows to solve its economic problems. All other things but these two are artificial necessities created by man to kill his valuable life at the human level and waste his time in things which are not needed. Lord Kṛṣṇa, as the teacher of human society, personally showed by His acts that the mercantile community, or the vaiśyas, should herd cows and bulls and thus give protection to the valuable animals. According to smṛti regulation, the cow is the mother and the bull the father of the human being. The cow is the mother because just as one sucks the breast of one's mother, human society takes cow's milk.

Page Title:Cow is our mother
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Matea, Labangalatika
Created:20 of Feb, 2009
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=4, CC=4, OB=1, Lec=16, Con=17, Let=1
No. of Quotes:43