Preserving the Cow Culture

Cow is an extraordinary animal. We call her as Gau Mata and to attract the word “animal” is a clear disrespect to her. Cows are gentle and sacred to all the humanity and they give to all more than they take. Cows have organs and by-products like dung and urine which have medicinal properties. Man is a highly selfish being but he scarcely knows the magic qualities of dung and urine, for he is concerned with only with the milk and disposes of the dry cow to killing agents. Apart from milk the dung and urine are lifelong products which a cow produces for entire life time but very few are aware of them much less make use of these. Latterly the Govt had issued an extraordinary notification restricting the sale of cows to slaughter houses. This had encouraged the activities of “Gau Rakshak” and even law-and-order problem had crept up, giving some unscrupulous people to join these squads meant for holy purpose. Thus they started troubling even the genuine cow traders and creating bad name for the “Gau Mata”. No Hindu ritual is complete without five sacred elements from cow-milk, ghee, curd, dung and urine.