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In your country the dog is protected and the cow is killed.

Hari Sauri Dasa: Prabhupada is very eager to begin go-raksha, or cow protection. This morning he told Akshayananda Swami to construct a shed on our spare land and immediately buy some cows. He sees this program as an essential aspect of our preaching work and is encouraging us to establish it on a worldwide basis. Then, while hearing this morning's mail, the topic of cow protection came up again in Rupanuga's October monthly GBC report. (All GBC men have to send detailed monthly reports, which His Divine Grace listens to with careful attention.) Rupanuga mentioned that the cows on our Pennsylvania farm are giving forty-eight pounds of milk a day per cow and have even won some awards. Pleased with this report, Prabhupada wrote an encouraging response. "Our cows are happy, therefore they give plenty of milk. Vedic civilization gives protection to all living creatures, especially the cows, because they render such valuable service to the human society in the shape of milk, without which no one can become healthy and strong. In your country the dog is protected and the cow is killed. The dog is passing stool and urine in the street, he is considered best friend of man. And the cow is all pure stool, urine and milk? but they are taken to the slaughterhouse and killed for food. What kind of civilization is this? Therefore we have to preach against all this nonsense." Prabhupada also asked him for a report on the newly acquired eleven-story building in New York. He is concerned that this large building be correctly managed, as recent reports have suggested difficulties. 
 
Prabhupada explained how such people cannot imagine a life without sense gratification, wanting to eat, sleep, and have sex almost unlimitedly. He recalled how in the early days of ISKCON in New York his neighbors would protest at the morning chanting. "In the beginning, in that Second Avenue 26, when our morning prayer was going on at seven, not very early. And so many other tenants, half-naked, would complain to the landlord. 'Mr. Judah, what is this going on? What is going on? Stop it! Stop it! Stop!' So Mr. Judah used to say, 'No, no, they'll not stop. I cannot say. You go to the police.' "So sometimes police were coming to stop us, but we did not stop." This brought a laugh to the assembled devotees. Srila Prabhupada went on, "So ajitatmanah. The human life is meant for gaining victory over the senses. 'No, better be victimized by the senses.' This is modern civilization." He warned of the danger of becoming too attached to family life, which the Vedas compare to a dark well. He told us that in Vedic civilization it was compulsory that at age fifty one must give it up. Otherwise, one becomes an atma-ghatam, a killer of the soul. There are an increasing number of householders and women with children staying in our asrama now, and many seem to have come here to settle. Living in Vrindavana and raising one's children here is certainly very appealing for any devotee, but Prabhupada warned us that we must be very careful how we conduct our activities in the holy dhama. "So those who do not observe these rules and regulations, they are called ajitatmanah, victimized by the senses. Their business is to sleep as much as possible. They are passing their days without any benefit-nishphalam, without any result. If one is not serious about the value of this human form of life, he may waste his time by sleeping. But no. If we follow our predecessors, our Gosvamis, who were all ministers, they came to Vrindavana to practice?what? Nidrahara viharakadi vijitau, to conquer over sleeping, eating, and mating. And coming to Vrindavana, if we indulge in that way, then what is the use of coming to Vrindavana? Go to hell and live there."


Reference: Transcendental Diary Volume 1 by Hari Sauri Dasa