Kamdhenu The Wish Cow

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Ahimsa Research Foundation

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KAMADHENU
four principles of protection are like the warp and the weft of the fabric of Hindu Civilisation. If even one of these four principles is hurt, then all four will collapse and the future of India's population wil be doomed.”
The Western mechanical economy is replete with the sins of violence, abuse and injustice. The existence of that economy cannot be imagined without getting into violence, abuse and injustice. Terrible consumerism, destruction of animals, abuse of natural resources, and the abuse of universal wealth through destructive machines is built into the western mechanical economy.
There is no place for the cattle in the mechanical economy except for killing and eating it up. For them cow is but a device to be abused for its milk. Except for extracting the maximum amount of milk from the cow in the least time and then killing and eating it up, they have no other use for cows.
The Acharyas of ancient India, who considered Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha as the four pillars of civilisation, have given a noble concept of 'glorious justice' to economics, where in every activity or project has to be evaluated not just from the viewpoint of monetary gain but from a holistic view.
In the enhancement and rearing of the cow, in addition to the concepts of economy, health, ecology and agriculture, the concepts of religion, compassion and jeevdaya also find a place.
In this country, cow is not for killing but for veneration, for the very existence of Hindu population is dependent on the cow. The Hindu civilisation developed along the