Conversation, Vrindavana, 3 Nov. ‘76

1. “Simply wasting time. There is a story about this. One man was canvassing . . . ‘Here is a book of cow protection, cow protection.’ He has written one book to take care of the cows. So one old man called him, ‘What you are selling?’ Now, ‘I am selling this book.’ ‘What is that book?’ ‘Maintaining the cow.’ So, ‘Why you are selling? First of all give this book to your mother because you are no better than cow, so she will learn how to give you protection.’ That means he wanted to impress upon him that ‘Cow protection doesn't require any education. You have written a book? So you are such a rascal, cow intelligence. Better give this book to your mother. She will maintain you. Don't sell it. Everyone knows how to give cow protection.’” Conversation, Vrindavana, 3 Nov. ‘76

2. Liquid Dharma • Srila Prabhupada’s Vision of Cow Protection and Dairy Consumption Within ISKCON Navina-Syama Dasa Festival of Inspiration New Vrindaban, West Virginia 11 May 2013

3. Part 1: The Instructions

4. Srila Prabhupada a. Extolled the virtues of cow’s milk

5. Milk “Milk means cow’s milk. If you want to derive milk profit, then it is cow’s milk.” Morning Walk, Los Angeles, 30 Apr. ’73 Conversation, Melbourne, 2 July ‘74

6. Milk “specifically meant for the human being . . . . What is ordained by Krishna, or God, you take it” • Lecture, Los Angeles, 15 May ‘70

7. Milk “very, very important thing” Lecture, Johannesburg, 20 Oct. ‘75

8. Milk “required every morning” Lecture, Melbourne, 22 May ’75 Conversation, Melbourne, 23 April ‘76

9. Milk “the most miraculous form of food” • SB 1.8.5 purport • SB 1.17.9 purport • CC Madhya 4.93 purport • Lecture, Los Angeles, 29 Dec. ‘73 • Morning Walk, Mayapur, 6 Apr. ‘75 • Morning Walk, Mumbai, 14 Aug. ‘76

10. Milk “gives the basic principle of palatable foodstuff” Interview, London, 27 July ‘76

11. Milk “can save your children . . . can save your diseased persons” • Lecture, Stockholm, 7 Sept. ‘73

12. Milk “without which no one can become healthy and strong” Letter to Rupanuga, Vrindavana, 7 Dec. ‘75 Morning Walk, Honolulu, 30 May ‘76

13. Milk “is compared to nectar, which one can drink to . . . increase the duration of one’s life” • SB 3.5.7 purport

14. Milk “maintain[s] the body in the mode of goodness” • SB 9.24.59 purport

15. Milk “brain-maintaining” Lecture, Los Angeles, 29 Dec. ’73 Conversation, Washington, D.C., 2 July ‘76

16. Milk “gives very nice brain, not pig’s brain” Lecture, Honolulu, 21 May ‘76

17. Milk “memory sharpen[ing]” Lecture, Mayapura, 17 Feb. ‘76

18. Milk “contains all the necessary vitamins to sustain human physiological conditions for higher achievements” • SB 1.16.4 purport

19. Milk “is particularly essential for developing the finer tissues of the human brain so that one can understand the intricacies of transcendental knowledge” • SB 3.5.7 purport • SB 1.8.5 purport

20. Milk “prolong one’s life, develop his brain, execute devotional service, and ultimately attain the favor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead” • SB 8.6.12 purport

21. Milk “the best food you can have in this material world” Lecture, London, 13 Sept. ‘69 Morning Walk, Nellore, 4 Jan. ‘76

22. Milk “the principles of religion in a liquid form” • SB 1.17.3 purport

23. Milk “You cannot reject [it] from the human society” • Lecture, Los Angeles, 4 Dec. ‘68

24. Milk “without [it] there is no civilization” • Lecture, Honolulu, 21 May ’76 • SB 2.5.37 purport • SB 1.19.3 purport

25. Srila Prabhupada a. Extolled the virtues of cow’s milk b. Condemned the predominant source, the commercial dairy industry

26. Honor thy mother “The bull helps in the agricultural process of producing grain, etc., and thus in one sense the bull is the father of humankind, whereas the cow is the mother, for she supplies milk to human society. A civilized man is therefore expected to give all protection to the bulls and cows.” SB 3.5.7 purport Lecture, London, 24 July ’73 Conversation, London, 14 Aug. ’71 Conversation, Geneva, 31 May ’74 Conversation, Los Angeles, 10 June ‘76

27. Honor thy mother “The Indians are not cow worshippers as other wrongly interpret it, but the Indians are grateful to the species of cow for supplying milk to the human babies and the sentiment is so fine that simply for supplying milk the cow is accepted as one of the seven mothers.” Letter to Harbanslal, Mumbai, 2 Aug. ‘58

28. Honor thy mother “We have to maintain the animals throughout their life. We must not make any program for selling them to the slaughterhouses. That is the way of cow protection.” Letter to Hayagriva, Montreal, 14 June ‘68

29. Honor thy mother “Cows are innocent; they give us milk. You take their milk-and then kill them in the slaughterhouse. This is sinful.” Conversation, Paris, July ’73 Conversation, Paris, 9 Aug. ’73

30. Matricide “In any civilized human society, no one would dare kill his father and mother . . . patricide and matricide.” CC Adi 17.154 purport SB 6.4.9 purport

31. Matricide “Nowadays the trade is that you take as much milk as you can, and then kill the animal and sell the flesh to other countries. That is going on. No. ‘Go-raksya.’ ‘Go-raksya.’” Lecture, Los Angeles, 29 Dec. ‘73

32. Matricide “So these rascals are doing that. Taking milk as much as possible from the cows, and then as soon as . . . they see that the cow . . . "Now they were giving thirty kilos. Now it has decreased, twenty kilos or ten kilos. Oh, economic development. Cut its throat." Economic development. Just see how rascal civilization it is. Therefore, it is called ‘nunam pramattah kurute vikarma.’ ‘Vikarma.’ ‘Vikarma’ means criminalities.” Lecture, Stockholm, 9 Sept. ’73 (quoting SB 5.5.4)

33. Matricide “Just like they are taking last drop of milk from the cow and after exacting everything, then send to the slaughterhouse. So the whole world is engaged in sinful activities.” Lecture, London, 25 July ‘76

35. Not Just Killing “If the cow knows that you are going to kill it, she is always afraid, always fearful: ‘Oh, this man will kill.’ They can understand.. . Just like here we see, there are so many open fields and the cows are grazing. But they cannot be happy because they know that they are simply raised for being killed. They cannot be happy.” Lecture, London, 25 Nov. ’73 Conversation, Stockholm, 5 Sept. ‘73 Lecture, Melbourne, 22 May ‘75

36. Gross Ignorance “In the Vedic literature the words ‘gobhih prinita-matsaram’ indicate that one who, being fully satisfied by milk, is desirous of killing the cow is in the grossest ignorance.” BG 14.16 purport (quoting Rg Veda 9.46.4)

37. Ungrateful “Can anyone kill his own mother? ‘Oh, mother is old and useless. Let her be killed. Burden.’ Is that very gratitude for the mother by the son?” Conversation, London, 14 Aug. ’71 Conversation, Philadelphia, 13 July ‘75

38. Ungrateful “She is . . . supplying the most nutritious food—milk—and in exchange you are cutting throat. How you can be happy? . . . So if we human beings, if we forget even ordinary mercy, compassion and gratefulness, then what is that human life?” Lecture, London, 13 Dec. ‘69

39. Shameful “You are drinking milk, you are taking so much butter, milk product, and as gratitude you are killing cows? You should be ashamed. Even if you have no human feelings. You suck the breast of your mother and kill? Is that humanity?” Lecture, Los Angeles, 27 Dec. ‘68

40. Brainless “[F]rom moral point of view, you are drinking the milk of cow, and after that you are sending to the slaughterhouse. Do you like to send your mother to the slaughterhouse? . . . So if the human society has not this simple brain of understanding, then where is brain?” Conversation, Geneva, 31 May ’74 Conversation, Paris, 11 June ‘74

41. Uncivilized “Is that your civilization? Killing mother? ‘Mother is old, and mother is no more supplying milk. Kill.’ Is there any such sanction? . . .What is this philosophy?” Conversation, Los Angeles, 23 June ’75 Interview, London, 27 July ‘76 Conversation, Vrindavana, 6 Nov. ‘76

42. Uncivilized “But what is this civilization, killing mother? Hm? Is that civilization? Take from mother whatever she can deliver up to the last drop of milk, and then kill her. Advanced civilization, scientific. Killing scientifically. This is not civilization.” Conversation, Los Angeles, 10 June ‘76

43. Brutish “And how it is that you take the cow's milk and send it for slaughterhouse? Oh, this is not, not at all human civilization.” Lecture, Stockholm, 7 Sept. ‘73

44. Brutish “We are drinking the milk of the cow, and in exchange, if we cut the throat of the mother, that is not civilization. That is barbarism, less than animal. Animals also, they have respect for mother.” Lecture, Gita Nagari, 15 July ‘76

45. Brutish “So from the very beginning of my life I am subsisting by the foodstuff given by mother, cow, and when I am grown up, I kill. This is my gratitude. Just see. And they are called civilized. Less than lowest animal, ‘naradhama’ . . . They are not human being. Less than animal. They have no gratitude.” Lecture, Los Angeles, 19 Sept. ‘72

46. Bad Karma “What is this justice, that after taking milk from the animal and kill it? Is that very good justice? So it is very, very sinful, and we have to suffer for that.” Lecture, Melbourne, 22 May ‘75

47. Bad Karma “Because we are drinking milk from the cows, so we are indebted. But instead of paying our indebtedness, we are killing. You see? These are all reactions. We are creating reactions.” Lecture, New York, 20 May ‘66

48. Bad Karma “You cannot take any service from anyone without being indebted . . . So we are becoming entangled, complicated with indebtedness. That is called karma. If you don't pay bill, then you have to suffer . . . These rascals, they do not know. They are so much ungrateful. They are taking milk from the cows, and when the milk is no more supplied, ‘All right, send it to the slaughterhouse.’ Once he has taken milk, he's indebted; again, it is being killed by him. So how much he has become entangled in his karma he does not know. ‘Mudha.’ ‘Duskrtino mudhah.’” Lecture, Mayapura, 29 Oct. ‘74

49. Social Havoc “Poor cows, they deliver milk, and later on they become slaughtered. How much sinful the modern society is, and they still want peace and prosperity. That is not possible.” Lecture, London, 13 July ‘73

50. Social Havoc “This is simply animal civilization. Taking the last drop of milk from the cow and immediately send it to the slaughterhouse. . . Mother-killing civilization. And they want to be happy. And periodically there is great war and wholesale massacre, reaction.” Conversation, Detroit, 14 June ‘76