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Beneath
the oppressive glitter of a weird prosperity based on a ruthless
exploitation and a reckless destruction of sub-human, harmless
life in an unimaginable number, stands the cow-an erstwhile
neighbour unto man, bearing in her serene mien the dignity of a
mother, with eyes evoking and overflowing with compassion,
harbouring within her the light of the divine. Born of her sattvic
(auspicious) disposition and selfless services and therefore,
sacred.
A silent representative of the sub-human world, undergoing
ignominious treatment and inhuman cruelty at the hands of those
very ‘humans’, whom she has fed all along with that
live-giving elixir-milk, the cow has served mankind from the dawn
of history in a variety of ways, that has not only made
civilization possible for the world, but India’s
characteristically moral and spiritual culture.
A symbol of higher
nature-‘aditi’, a sensitive fulcrum holding the balance
between good and evil, the cow is not only a moral bridge between
man’s real self (his potential soul, a part of the supreme soul)
and his unsubdued ego. (the actually selfish animal, armed with a
calculating intellect-a stooge of illusionating Maya), but also a
truly divine power destined to be a spearhead of a spiritual
movement, aimed at the emancipation of all beings including man
from the scourge of his own inhumanity, and the establishment on
earth, of the sanctity of and the reverence for all life.
SAT-CHIT-ATMAN
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