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Cow is your mother. You are drinking milk, therefore she is your mother. And the bull is helping you, producing your food, maintaining. As the father maintains you and mother gives you milk, and do you think it is good to kill them

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"Cow is your mother. You are drinking milk, therefore she is your mother. And the bull is helping you, producing your food, maintaining. As the father maintains you and mother gives you milk, and do you think it is good to kill them"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

The first challenge was Caitanya Mahāprabhu's that, "My dear uncle, what is your this religion that you're eating father and mother?" That was His first challenge. And the Kazi said: "What is that? What do You mean by that?" "You are eating a bull and cow. Cow is your mother. You are drinking milk, therefore she is your mother. And the bull is helping you, producing your food, maintaining. As the father maintains you and mother gives you milk, and do you think it is good to kill them?".

While departing, he would give us some money, four rupees, five rupees, in the hands of all our brothers and sister and offer respect to my mother as "Auntie." These feelings were there. This ill feeling was created by the Britishers. That when they saw that Gandhi is improving the Hindu-Muslim situation, they created a, what is called, a split. Anyway, that is political.

So this Chand Kazi informed Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "Nimāi, I call Your grandfather, Your mother's father, as my cācā, as my uncle. So in that way Your mother is my sister according to our village relationship, and You are my nephew. So how is that a nephew is so much angry upon his uncle? Is it not good?"

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu could understand that he has come down. He has now become uncle. So He said: "Yes, My dear uncle, I know that. It is not My duty to be angry with you, but how is that—I am your nephew, I have come to your home, and you went upstairs, you did not receive Me? So anyway, what is done is done. Forget." So then they sat down and talked.

The first challenge was Caitanya Mahāprabhu's that, "My dear uncle, what is your this religion that you're eating father and mother?" That was His first challenge. And the Kazi said: "What is that? What do You mean by that?" "You are eating a bull and cow. Cow is your mother. You are drinking milk, therefore she is your mother. And the bull is helping you, producing your food, maintaining. As the father maintains you and mother gives you milk, and do you think it is good to kill them?"

So Kazi, he was also learned. "Oh, Your Vedic scripture also, there is cow sacrifice." Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately said: "No, that is not killing. That was giving a new body to show the strength of the Vedic mantra." A cow was sacrificed in the fire, and by mantra, by chanting of the mantra, the cow will come out with a new body, young body. That was not killing.

So similarly, here also, Kṛṣṇa is giving the same argument that, "You are lamenting on your grandfather. He has got old body, but if he is killed in this battle, he'll have a new, fresh new body. So you should be joyful. Why are you lamenting?" So this argument was forwarded by Kṛṣṇa, that . . .

Now, just like this child. This child can hope many things. He has got immense duration of life now beginning, and what hope I have got? I am now this old body, say five years or ten years more. So I cannot expect, hope, anything more than this child. So Kṛṣṇa is giving that, "There is no question of lamentation for your grandfather. Your grandfather is going to have a new lease of life. Why should you be sorry?" So this argument He is forwarding, but nobody will agree to this argument.

Page Title:Cow is your mother. You are drinking milk, therefore she is your mother. And the bull is helping you, producing your food, maintaining. As the father maintains you and mother gives you milk, and do you think it is good to kill them
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-12-11, 12:37:44
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1