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Cows are special
Dear Deena
Hello. Hare Krishna! Thanks for visiting my home-page and sending your letter
on cow protection. It is a very important thing. Of course killing any animal
is a great sin -- but killing cows is even more sinful. The Vedic (Indian)
culture protects cows over any other animal. Even if one is a meat-eater he
cannot kill cows. The reason is Krishna (God) is a cowheard boy. It is hard to
believe -- God is a cowherd boy!! By why not? His business is enjoying, he is
eternally youthful and he is engaged in loving pastimes with His cows,
parents, boy friends and girl friends in Vrndavana... Krishna is the supreme
enjoyer...
The movement you suggest to stop the cow-killing is nice... Showing the young
people the suffering and torture that goes on in the slaughter-houses. But it
is a negative thing. They have a taste for blood, you have to give them some
better food, a "Higher Taste"... So in Krishna consciousness we offer sumptuous
vegetarian foods to Krishna and in that way they become spiritual and very
delicious. So much so that once tasting such nice food one looses his taste for
the disgusting rotting corpses of dead animals. I was a meat-eater before I
came to Krishna consciousness and I had heard the arguments of the vegetarians
but it didn't have much impact on me at all... But when I started eating
Prasadam (spiritual food offered to Krishna) at the Hare Krishna restaurants in
Australia I automatically lost my taste for meat and McDonnalds. That was over
10 years ago -- now and I would never dream of eating meat again. So I am
convinced that this is the real way to get the message across to people. Give
them Prasadam (food offerd to Krishna), let them chant Hare Krishna and read
Srila Prabhupada's books and very soon they will be vegetarian, but not only
that they will be very happy and understand the purpose of life, to reestablish
our lost relationship with God, Krishna.
We have to give a positave alternative, you can't just stay "stop killing". You
might like to use the "search" function on my home-page <http://w
ww.krishna.org/balarama> (the magnifying glass on the button-bar on top of the
screen) to search for vegetarian, vegetarinaism, etc -- there are quite a few
other letters and articles there so have a read and write back with your
thoughts...
Thanks for writing. Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
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