गौ / 'The Cow'-4.
Some 25 years ago I met a beggar (mendicant) and my friend derided him, saying he is exploiting religious sentiments of people to earn a livelihood for himself. I asked the man with cow, (one like in this picture), and I knew he was but begging food only for him and the cow and offers the best to cow, whatever she likes to eat, while he himself feeds on the left overs. He keeps wandering from place to place and when the cow is on heat, he leaves her with some bull. After some-time, he gets her. He offers the milk to some needy, or consumes himself, only after the calf had left the udder and there is still some there. He moves with the cow and the calf and donates the calf to some pious people who could serve and protect it. This was his 'sadhana' as his Guru had directed him to practice. He was just a simple, perhaps not much learned one.
And he was the man who pointed out that गौ / 'The Cow' (and the Bull too). is the प्रत्यक्ष धर्म , the embodiment of 'dharma' visible on the earth, and as long गौ / 'The Cow' (and the Bull too). are protected and served, kept happy, all is well for every-one,
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Some 25 years ago I met a beggar (mendicant) and my friend derided him, saying he is exploiting religious sentiments of people to earn a livelihood for himself. I asked the man with cow, (one like in this picture), and I knew he was but begging food only for him and the cow and offers the best to cow, whatever she likes to eat, while he himself feeds on the left overs. He keeps wandering from place to place and when the cow is on heat, he leaves her with some bull. After some-time, he gets her. He offers the milk to some needy, or consumes himself, only after the calf had left the udder and there is still some there. He moves with the cow and the calf and donates the calf to some pious people who could serve and protect it. This was his 'sadhana' as his Guru had directed him to practice. He was just a simple, perhaps not much learned one.
And he was the man who pointed out that गौ / 'The Cow' (and the Bull too). is the प्रत्यक्ष धर्म , the embodiment of 'dharma' visible on the earth, and as long गौ / 'The Cow' (and the Bull too). are protected and served, kept happy, all is well for every-one,
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