Guest guest Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Gentlemen, I have just joined this group and would like share some of my thoughts with you. as given below: 1. About Taliban /Muslim behavior The most outrage against civilized society is the brutal beheading of an innocent Indian engineer, working to rebuild a destroyed country. The response from the entire world is limited to 'expressing great shock' and universal condemnation of the behavior. Is this all that should be done? There should be no room for reaction to any such misdeeds. But there is no sign of even an intellectual debate as to why one large part of our society even in this 21st century is not affected by feelings of love, compassion, causing pain and suffering at least for all fellow human beings, if not for all living beings or for things created in nature. The psychologists have a branch of study called PSTD. Post Trauma Stress Disturbance. Circumcision has been a practice as a matter of faith among all ancient communities of 2.warm desert climates, which may not have abundance of water for sanitary and washing needs. The primitive societies also have the incidence of infant mortality. But circumcision was an overriding, felt need of the society. While the modern hospital and health care could ensure safe circumcision in first few weeks of delivery, the older less privileged communities had to evolve a tradition of circumcision to a safer and deferred prepuberty age. Thus Muslims evolved a tradition of circumcision around 8 years to 11 years, age of boys. This also came to be associated with coming of age. This is very impressionable age. The effects of resulting PTSD at this age can manifest as a near lack of 'civilized' behavior involving compassion, love and feelings for other humans. Let us not confuse ourselves in to seeing the Taliban, Alkaeda, Jihadi behavior as flowing from any religious belief. If at all circumcision is desired perhaps there should be a humanitarian call to do it at the earliest to reduce the PTSD, and protect the future human society from such deviant misdeeds. 2. --For and by Saving Cow 10.03.2006 ( SubodhKumar Email surmil2000 ) First of all, with great reverence I bow my head to all the great men who deliberated at Tirupati to 'Create Hindu Awakening'. As a very ordinary humble but a very concerned person, I would like to make a submission. Put together all the combined resources i.e. spiritual, moral, financial, at the command of these munnani are almost limitless. What our 'Hindu' suffers from is abysmal ignorance, complete loss of character and education, and that is the primary reason for his continuing weakness. And by Hindu I mean all who consider themselves as sons and daughters of this great civilization. And by education I do not mean paper certificates as are being granted by our schools and colleges, certifying doubtful proficiency in literacy if any. From this state of our society flows all the poverty of , character, spiritual, moral, and material life, which condemns our nation to a perpetual hell which is of our own making. I wonder if our munnani have ever thought of the truth behind our Rig Vedic dictum 'Nirundhano amatim gobhirashwinah' RV1-53-4. Amatim ie no mati total ignorance, gives rise to total poverty at all levels and its solution as per Vedas lies in good animal husbandry. Cows as Atharv Veda10.9.2 &3, say 'Yah shatodana pachate kam prena sa kalpate-- Sa swarga ma rohati dasti yatra divam diva' Those who maintain good cows earn the boon to fulfill all their projects and gradually move day by day to SWARGA. All 'developed' nations USA, Canada, Australia Denmark ... which our youth perceive as 'SWARGA' maintain SHATAUDANA i.e. good high yielding COWS. Vedas are still valid at all levels. Our great planners are all shouting from house tops that future of our country lies in 'CITIES' and they are joined in this conspiracy by the benevolent 'WEST. We trumpet that we are the largest milk producer in the world. But we do not tell, that this highest milk production figure is a mere 3% of total world milk production. Our average milk availability per capita is about the lowest in the world. We have 57% of world's buffaloes and 15% of world's cows, which when taken together come to about 30% of world cattle population. From this 30% of world cattle population our total milk production is a mere 3% of the world production of milk. So much for the truth behind our claim of white revolution. The average milk production of Indian cattle is about 1/10 th of the world average milk production. Does this not show that all our claim of 'WHITE REVOLUTION' is a false smoke screen to mislead our nation by vested interests like world Skimmed Milk Dry Powder export lobby in connivance with our Dairy Industry, and chemical fertilizer producing interests. With 90% of rural women toiling for our emaciated cattle the resulting material and social poverty is unimaginable. We had nearly 600 cows per 1000 Indians at independence. To day we are reduced to merely150 cows per 1000 Indians. Even with this lowest world level production of milk by our cows, the cow based products constitute nearly 25% of our total agriculture contribution to India's GDP. Our agriculture GDP has however remained almost stagnant in the post green revolution period. The reason being that our planners have not considered the role of cows in non dairy sector in our GDP. We hear that we have no land for pastures for cows to feed. There is acute shortage of fodder and feed for our cows, and it is no wonder that our cows starve and perhaps we should be grateful for the cow slaughter supporting communities and industry, which by reducing our cow population is helping us to make more cow feed available for the existing cows. There can not be a bigger travesty of truth. A mere 5% of our nearly 320 million hectares of farm land, Waste lands and peripheral forest lands, i.e just from about 18 million hectares of land by good well managed pasture farming strategies and hydroponics fodder complementary support, as already being practiced in countries like Australia and New Zealand, can ensure adequate feed for our cows, and boost the contribution by our cows to our agriculture GDP in a very significant manner, without any cost to Govt. Only technical support strategies in good green fodder production and good cow keeping practices have to be propagated for which only private community initiatives are needed for rural SEWA and VOCATIONAL EDUCATION work, which have never formed part of any body's initiative so far. We are a nation of big Gobhaktas. We want laws to be changed to ban cow slaughter, good. But are we concerned that we starve our mother cows to death by disease and hunger ,allow them to drink sewer water . which makes the cows infertile, while still paying our lip service worship to 'mother cow'? We are indifferent to the sight of hungry cows loitering on our streets. We are happy to open Gosadans, but Gosamwardhan and proper veterinary care is not in our agenda. Our Gosadans allow most of the cows to die because a dead cow is worth more than Rs 1000, while a live cow not giving any milk costs money to look after and feed. We see every day on road sides, thousands of cows migrating out of draught stricken areas to perhaps Bangladesh. Except for Govt granting thousands of crores of money every year for draught relief, has any thing been ever thought of, to take care of starving cows? Yes we worship cows, but only lip service survives and not the mother cow. But I assert with full reasoning that we have failed to address the issue on all counts. And whatever measures, how so ever well meaning, were initiated, by way of Exotic Cross Breeding, Artificial Insemination, Production of High Yielding Pedigree Bulls, Production of very High yielding Cows, concentrate feeds, have all met with very little success on the ground, in spite of huge effort and expense in the last 40 years. In fact many in the professional community have now started admitting in private that most of these strategies have either been discarded in the developed world by giving preference to miniature cows, natural breeding, organic and only pasture fed cow's raw milk ( all in line with our ancient Indian wisdom) as a result of latest scientific researches. The measures introduced in India, were often not suitable models for being transplanted in our ground situation. This is one constructive area I will pray for our Tirupati conclave munnani to do some thing about in addition to building huge brick and mortar edifices like akshardham in Delhi, and Ram Janmabhumi mandir. As Vedas say, immense boons will flow to our society by better nutrition, health, organic agriculture and disease free society, automatically from cow. And as Rig Veda says 'Madhu Vidhya' harmony in life follows from 'Gomahima'. Good cow keeping changes the very personality of the society. Psychologists confirm that by keeping a pet the personality of an individual undergoes great change and make him more tolerant of intrusion in to his privacy, more loving and affectionate , more inclusive than exclusive. Indian had a tradition of keeping cows in their homes as pets and that accounts for the difference in the character of Hindu culture from others. This change is being observed in Americans who have started keeping cows as their pets. To start with all of them are tending to become vegetarians. The experiment by Madhya Pradesh Govt by entrusting the care of their stray cows to their Jail inmates is a shining confirmation of this Vedic wisdom. I would like the munnani to share a very small part of their strength, resources and wealth, in poverty and ignorance alleviation of our country by GOSAMWARDHAN in rural areas. We have been clamoring that our Govt should set up a cow mission. What prevents all our munnani to combine and evolve a cow mission of our own. What has Govt got to do with this? Subodh Kumar --- This is an information resource and discussion group for people interested in the World's Ancient Vedic Culture, with a focus on its historical, archeological and scientific aspects. Also topics about India, Hinduism, God, and other aspects of World Culture are welcome. Remember, Vedic Culture is not an artificial imposition, but is the natural state of a society that is in harmony with God and the environment.Om Shantih, Harih Om Terms of Service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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