Hare krishna,
I have been battleing on the faithfreedom.org website trying to explain things to pple defaming Hinduism and all theologies that come under it.
One question was about why the cow is sacred? Now I can answer that from my own background knowledge, much of it from Srila Prabhupad's writings, but I cannot find Vedic scripture explaining why the cow is sacred?
All I have found in the Sri Bhagavad Gita is mention of the duties of vaisyas, one of which being cow-protection.
Can anyone help?
There are various other matters which i cannot fully explain. You might say I should not bother replying to these people, but then should they be allowed to carryon and influence other pple, without us ? (or me) attempting to educate them?
Oh I have so many questions, can I just asked another:
When i read about caste - the varnashrama system it seems to be to refer to a person displaying qualities according to his/ her nature. Therefore caste is determined by ones nature and not birth? Is that not right? The reason being that so many so -called Brahmins do not at all display or live by the qualities described in scripture.
