सृष्टि के प्रारंभ में जब भगवान ने मनुष्य की उत्पत्ति की यानी मनुष्य को धरती पर भेजा तो उसके पालन के लिए उन्होंने गौमाता को भी धरती पर भेजा। सृष्टि की परिचालना के लिए ब्रह्मदेव ने अग्नि, वायु और आदित्यों की उत्पत्ति की ऐसा कहा जाता है। कहा जाता है कि उन्होंने होम के द्वारा मानव की उत्पत्ति की थी। इसे देख कर अग्नि, वायु, आदित्य ने भी हवन करने का निर्णय लिया और उनके हवन द्वारा गाय(गौमाता) की उत्पत्ति हुई। अत: गाय की पूजा के द्वारा ये तीन देवता भी खुश होते हैं। हिन्दु धर्म में यह माना जाता है कि अग्नि से ऋगवेद, वायु से यजुर्वेद और आदित्य से सामवेद निकले हैं। इसलिए यह भी मान सकते हैं कि इन देवताओं की शक्तियों से जन्मी गौमाता की पूजा से तीनों वेदों का अध्ययन फल प्राप्त होगा और साथ-साथ अग्निहोम का भी। गौ पोषण से अग्नि होम कर्मनिष्ठा फल प्राप्ति मिलने का उल्लेख भी वेदों में किया गया है। गाय विश्व की माता है, गौ सेवा द्वारा धर्म, अर्थ, काम और मोक्ष को प्राप्त किया है हमारे पूर्वजों ने।

आयुर्वेद ग्रंथ चरक, सुश्रुत, धन्वंतरी, भाव प्रकाश आदि ने गाय सेवा से प्राप्त पुण्य फलों में अनगिनत लोगों का उल्लेख किया है। समस्त उपनिषद अगर गाय हैं तो श्रीकृष्ण उस गाय के गोपालक रूप में वहन कर्ता, अर्जुन बछड़े के रूप में और ज्ञानी भक्तजन उस अमृतरूपी दुग्ध का पान करके धन्य हो पाए हैं। गीता के सार में कहा गया है

ज्ञान-मुद्राय कृष्णाय, गीतामृत-दुहे नम:

सर्वोपनिषदो गाव:, दोग्धा गोपाल-नन्दन:

पार्थो वत्सस्-सुधीर्भोक्ता, दुग्धं गीतामृतं महत्।

पवित्र गौमाता के तीन नाम और प्रचलित हैं- कामधेनु, सुरभि, नंदिनी यह तीनों प्रकार की गाय नहीं हैं यह व्यासकृत महाभारत में(अरण्य पर्व, अध्याय9,7,17 शलोक) में कहा गया है।

इनमें सुरभि और कामधेनु नाम गाय के लिए प्रयुक्त किये गये हैं। पुराणों में सुरभी को दक्ष प्रजापति की पुत्री और कश्यप ऋषि की पत्नी के रूप में वर्णित किया गया है। सुरभि की संतान ही

रोहिणी और गंधर्व हैं। समस्त विश्व में रोहिणी द्वारा गाय और गांधर्वों द्वारा अश्व जन्में हैं

गाय के मस्तक और कंठ के बीच गंगा रहती है। गाय के समस्त अंगों मे सकल देवता हैं। सप्त ऋषि, नदियां, तीर्थ सब गाय में हैं। गौ के चारों पैरों में धर्म, अर्थ, काम और मोक्ष है। इसीलिए गाय के चरणों को धोकर उस चरणोदक को सिर पर छिड़क लेते हैं। लोगों का ऐसा विश्वास है कि इससे समस्त पाप धुल जाते हैं। गाय के मुख में चारों वेद हैं। गौधूलि से नवग्रह दोष समाप्त होते हैं। सूर्य, चन्द्र, शिव आदि 33 करोड़ देवता गौमाता के शरीर में निवास करते हैं। गौमाता को आहार देने से देवता संतुष्ट होते हैं। गौ प्रदक्षिणा, भू-प्रदक्षिणा सम है। महार्षि वशिष्ट जिन्होंने गौ सेवा की थी। वही समस्त मानव जाति के लिए दार्शानिक बन पाये। महार्षि वेद व्यास का यह मानना था कि गाय जहां रहती है वहां पर शांत वातावरण होता है। कठोपनिषद का कथन है कि राजा बलि ने गौसेवा को अपना कर दैव चिंतन द्वारा मोक्ष की प्राप्ति की है। महाकवि कालिदास ने रघुवंश काव्य में राजा दिलीप की गौ-भक्ति का विस्तृत वर्णन किया है।

भारतीय संस्कृति गौसेवा के बिना संपूर्ण नहीं है। भारत में वेदों के समय से पहले से ही गायों को अत्यन्त आदर और सम्मान मिला है। वेद, स्मृतियां, पुराण, इतिहास, बाद के अनेक ग्रंथ और काव्य आदि में गौ की प्रशंसा है।

उपाली अपराजिता रथ

Gou Bhakti leads to economic rejuvenation and cultural renaissance of villages; this, in turn, will cause up-liftment of the entire country at one go; it goes without saying that the economically-rejuvenated and culturally-vibrant Bharat would be in the best position to play its pre-destined role of Vishwa Guru. So, the root of Bharat’s cultural and economic revolution is in the protection of cow and its progeny,” says Sri Sri Raghaveshwar Bharati, the seer of Sri Ramachandrapura Mutt, in his exclusive conversation with Uday India at Bengaluru.

Some of the slogans which this seer has coined – Gou Vishwasya Maataraha; Gou Raksha Mama Deeksha; Gou Rakshati Rakshithaha; Chalo Gaon ki aur; Chalo Gou ki aur – have literally become the everyday mantra of millions of people throughout the country whose awareness about the importance of Cow and its progeny is phenomenal.

Awakened Society is perhaps, one of the reasons why there has been skirmishes between two groups – one, the people who are determined to save cow and another who, want to continue to indulge in the slaughter of the cow. “The only solution to stop this skirmish, often violent, is to declare cow as our national animal; give the cattle a constitutional identity; there is no question of fight on this issue,” says the seer. He asserts, “There is no mention of any religious denomination of having rights to eat beef in any religious scriptures or texts. This controversy has a political and electoral angle.”

In 2007, Sri Raghaveshwar Seer led the countrywide “Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yatra” thrice in order to create mass awareness about the importance of cow and its progeny. The yatra traveled the length and breadth of the country to the extent of 10 lakh kilometers and touched about 5.59 lakh villages. “In all, the seer has addressed about 1.23 lakh public meetings including 1000 big gatherings consisting of about 10,000 people,” Shri Krishna Prasad, secretary to Sri Raghaveshwar Seer, explained.

Campaign of Calumny

“This trial by fire has helped me to emerge stronger in purpose and clearer in mind. God has given me strength to take a charitable view of all the uncharitable remarks made against me in the media and with the police” – Sri Raghaveshwar Bharati.

The seer of Sri Ramachandrapura Mutt, Sri Sri Raghaveshwar Bharati was in dock for almost two years when – like a bolt from the blue – a lady (devotee of the same mutt) accused the seer of “raping” her several hundred times. The issue hit the national and state headlines, with the media – especially the electronic media – making a mince-meat of the seer in its own way with utter disregard for journalistic ethics and professional morals.

That the charge, by itself, per se, was so nauseating and so filthy needs no mention. The lady in question, Premalatha Diwkar, the Ramakatha Singer of the Mutt, had told the media and later the CID police that “the seer had raped her 162 times in one year”! That was being tutored by some vested interests who were having ulterior motive and who were perched in safe positions, goes without saying. But what is laughable and made the CID police become a butt of ridicule is the charge-sheet it filed in the district and sessions court – a verbatim statement made by Premalatha Diwakar.

However, recently the court dismissed the charge-sheet filed by the CID police and said, “there is no shred of evidence against the seer to proceed. The petition and the charge-sheet are dismissed.” That it was a great relief to the seer needs no mention. Thousands of devotees went into a rapturous joy and danced in front of the mutt at Girinagar, in South Bangalore, by shouting slogans, “Jai Sri Ram, Jai Sri Ram”.

The Seer, who is known for his calmness, poise, composure, modesty and humility, refused to comment but when insisted said, “When the charges were filed and allegations were made, it did not made me sad; when the court has dismissed the charges as frivolous and having no shred of evidence, it did not make me elated. I am above all these worldly aspects. Fire cannot burn me; water cannot drench me; I practice Advaitha Philosophy propounded by Adi Shankaracharya. Body is like clothes; Soul (Atman) is important.”

He said he will continue to serve the society and create awareness among the people about the need to protect Desh and Dharma; Desha is like our body; Dharms is our soul; without the soul there is no importance for the body; without Dharma the body (desh) will be a Zombie. My task is to ensure cultural renaissance; moral rejuvenation and ethical re-invention of the society in order to strengthen internal vitals of the country”

The yatra started at Kurukshetra, in Haryana and culminated at Nagpur. “Both at Kurukshetra as well as Nagpur, there were about one lakh people in the public meetings,” Krishna Prasad added.

In 2008, a similar yatra was taken out in Karnataka with the seer touching all the 987 hobli headquarters and addressing public meetings. “This had had a salutary effect as the people started demanding the government to provide them assistance for organic farming. The thrust of all our campaign is to encourage organic farming; depend less on chemicals and fertilizers; and protect cow and its progeny, both as economic value as well as sentimental value,” Sri Raghaveshwar Seer said.

To those who insist that old cows are of no use, the seer has a counter question. “Do you leave your parents in the lurch just because they are old, infirm, sick and of no use? Our demand is that give the cow a natural death; protect it if it is old; after all, just like our own mother who has looked after us when she was young, healthy and active, cow also has given enough for us throughout her life since our birth,” the seer said and added, “Slaughter of cow just because it is old is not inevitable; alternative is available; first let us make arrangement to protect cow, if it old.”

The seer maintained that the father of nation, Gandhi too was very keen for protection of cow and its progeny. “In fact, he went a step further and said that cow protection is more important than the freedom for me. In any case, we will get freedom but the question is whether we will be able to protect our cattle wealth after getting freedom,” the seer recalled.

On January 31, 2010, a delegation led by Sri Raghaveshwar Bharati called on the then President of India Smt Pratibha Patil and handed over a memorandum that contained 8.50 crore signatures of the people of Bharat that urged the Constitutional Head of the country to direct the government to ban cow slaughter.

The delegation consisted of Pejawar Seer, Baba Ramdev, Dr H.R.Nagendra and several other seers of various mutts and leaders of socio-cultural organisations.

The campaign for cow protection is not new. In fact, the Akhila Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), in 1952, had passed a resolution calling upon the government of the day headed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to take effective steps to protect Cow.

“The ABPS expresses its sense of disappointment at the muddled policy of the Central Government vis-à-vis the issue of cow protection. This is not merely an economic question for our country; it is a point of cultural sanctity and a symbol of national oneness”. (Verbatim Report taken out of RSS resolution).

The RSS called upon the people to launch mass movement to mount pressure on the government. Consequent to this resolution and vigorous campaign conducted throughout the country for several years, about two lakh people knocked the doors of Rashtrapathi Bhavan demanding “total and complete ban” on cow slaughter in 1965 under the banner of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh led by Pandit Deenadayal Upadhyaya and other leaders. Determined to take up this campaign more vigorously and to see its logical end, Sri Raghaveshwar Bharati seer has decided to go on a nation-wide tour once again in the last week of this year or in early 2017. “It is high time that the government is made to have a positive and good look at the demand of crores of Bharatiyas,” the seer signed off.

 By S.A.Hemantha Kumar, from Bengaluru

भारतीय देसी गाय के दूध को अमृत समान माना गया है। यदि पृथ्वी पर किसी भी खाद्य पदार्थ को संपूर्ण और सर्वोत्तम माना गया है तो वह गाय का दूध ही है। भारतीय गाय के दूध में वह सभी पोषक तत्व मौजूद हैं जो हमें विभिन्न भोज्य पदार्थों से प्राप्त होते हैं। मात्र गाय के दूध को पी कर ही व्यक्ति कई दिनों तक स्वस्थ्य और ताकतवर बना रह सकता है। किसी शीशु के लिये मां के दूध के बाद गाय का ही दूध है जो उसे सभी पोषक तत्व प्रदान कर सकता है। देसी गाय के दूध में आठ प्रकार के प्रोटीन, 6 प्रकार के विटामिन, 21 प्रकार के एमिनो एसिड, 11 प्रकार के चर्बीयुक्त एसिड, 25 प्रकार के खनिज तत्व, 16 प्रकार के नाइट्रोजन यौगकि, 4 प्रकार के फास्फोरस यौगिक, 2 प्रकार की शर्करा, इसके अलावा मुख्य खनिज सोना, तांबा, लोहा, कैल्शियम, आयोडीन, फ्लोरिन, सिलिकॉन आदि पाई जाती हैं।  इन सभी तत्वों के पाये जाने के कारण ही देसी गाय का दूध एक उत्कृष्ट प्रकार का रसायन है, जो शरीर में पहुंच कर रस, रक्त, मांस, मेद, अस्थि, मज्जा और वीर्य को समुचित मात्रा में बढ़ाता है।

यह पित्तशामक, बुद्धिवर्धक, और सात्विकता को बढ़ाने वाला है। गाय के दूध से कोलेस्ट्रोल बढऩे का खतरा भी नहीं रहता।

भारतीय नस्ल की गाय की रीढ़ की हड्डी में सूर्यकेतु नाड़ी होती हैं। सूर्य की किरणे जब गाय के शरीर को छूती हैं, तब सूर्यकेतु नाड़ी सूर्य की किरणों से सोना बनाती हैं। इसी कारण गाय के दूध और मक्खन में पीलापन होता है, गाय का दूध पीने से शुद्ध सोना शरीर में जाता हैं। गाय के दूध में विषनाशक तत्व होते हैं। यदि गाय कोई विषैला पदार्थ खा जाती है तो भी उसका प्रभाव उसके दूध में नहीं आता। गाय के शरीर में समान्य विष को पचाने की अद्भुत क्षमता होती है। ये जहर गाय के गले में नीचे लटकने वाले मांस (गलाकंबल) में ही रह जाता है। एक शोध के मुताबिक देसी गाय और अमेरिकन गाय को भोजन में थोड़ा-थोड़ा जहर दिया गया, जब उनका दूध निकाला गया तो देसी गाय के दूध में जहर का कोई प्रभाव नहीं देखा गया, जबकि अमेरिकन गाय के दूध में वही जहर पाया गया जो उसे खिलाया गया था। इन सभी कारणों से देसी गाय के दूध को अमृततुल्य माना जाता है।

• पेट के कैंसर को शुरुआती दौर में रोकने के लिये देसी नस्ल की गाय का दूध बेहद महत्वपूर्ण माना गया है। गाय का दूध कैंसर की कोशिकाओं को बढऩे से रोकता है। ट्यूमर को बढ़ाने वाले बेसिलन के प्रभाव को कम करने में दूध के पौष्टिक तत्व अहम भूमिका निभाते हैं। गाय के दूध में ए1 जीन पाया जाता है जो दिमाग के विकास के लिये महत्वपूर्ण है।
• गाय के दूध में 5 पीपल डालकर गर्म करके सुबह-शाम पीने से फेफड़ों की कमजोरी दूर होती है।
• गाय के ताजे दूध में नींबू का रस निचोड़ कर लगातार 5 से 6 दिन तक पीने से बवासीर ठीक हो जाता है।
• हकलापन दूर करने के लिये 10 ग्राम दूध में 250 ग्राम कालीमिर्च का चूर्ण मिलाकर रख लें। 2-2 ग्राम चूर्ण दिन में 2 बार मक्खन में मिला कर खाने से हकलेपन से निजात मिलती है।
• गाय के दूध में 50 ग्राम ब्राह्मी रस को मिलाकर दिन में 3 बार लेने से दिमागी रोग ठीक हो जाते हैं और याददाश्त मजबूत होती है।
• ह्दय रोगी के लिये गाय का दूध व घी फायदेमंद है इसलिये भोजन में इनका इस्तेमान नियमित करना चाहिए। गाय का दूध अन्य पशुओं के दूध से कहीं बेहतर और फायदेमंद है अत: आज कल के जीवन में आने वाली तमाम तरह की बीमारियों से बचने के लिये लोगों को गाय के दूध, दही, घी आदि का इस्तेमाल करना चाहिए ताकि निरोगी काया प्राप्त हो सके।

प्रीति ठाकुर

Babar in his will Tuzuk-e- Babari tells his son that, “Humayun should respect the sentiments of the Hindus and hence should not allow the cow to be sacrificed or killed anywhere in the Mughal Empire. The day any Mughal emperor ignores this will, the people of India will reject him”.

Many other Mughal Emperors like Akbar, Jahangir, had banned cow slaughter in their kingdom. Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan who ruled the Mysore State in the present day Karnataka had made cow slaughter and beef eating a punishable offence and the crime would be punished by cutting off the hands of the person who committed the crime!

Today in India we have over 36000 slaughterhouses!  How did this massive turn around take place? To understand that first we need to get back to the importance of cow in the ancient Hindu civilization of India. Cows are the most sacred animals to the Hindus and this is not without any reason. In fact the very word cow in English is derived from the Sanskrit word Gau for cow. So why are the cows so sacred to the Hindu civilization?

Cattle–The backbone of Indian Agriculture

One of the most important reasons is that cows have been the backbones of Indian families and the Indian agricultural system ever since the dawn of this ancient Hindu civilization. Apart from the extensively used cow’s milk which the ancient Indians used to collect only after the calf has had its share, the most important use of cows was in Agriculture. Without cow the Indian agriculture in those days was as good as gone, and this was one of the prime reasons why Hindus being nature worshipers also worshiped cow. Cow’s urine was a natural pesticide, cow manure was a natural fertilizer. Cattle in ancient India had ensured that Indian civilization did not need any artificial pesticides or artificial fertilizers, both of which are extremely harmful for the farm soil and degrade soil quality over time.

Cows had their own shelters called gaushalas (large places where the cows lived) which were many a times larger than the homes where people lived. There used to be people exclusively to look after the well being of the cows here and many a times they used to be the cow owners themselves who used to clean the gaushalas every day, feed the cows, take care of their health and so on. Every single festival of harvest had cow worship, house warming ceremonies had the ritual of taking the cow inside the house first and then pray to it to make the house prosper and flood with food grains, milk and butter.

Note that those were the days when food was grown in a healthy natural process. There was no industrial revolution, no artificial fertilizers, no chemical pesticides and insecticides. The entire Indian agriculture was based on the nature’s best fertilizer – cow dung, and one of the nature’s best pesticide – cow’s urine (along with the neem based solutions) were used extensively in the agriculture. Buttermilk again which is a derivative of cow’s milk was used as an effective fungicide and weedicide.

And not without any reason, the Indian agriculture in those days was extremely productive thanks to the cow products. Farmers were happy, crops came on time, yield was high, prices were low for food crops, kingdoms even used to export their agricultural output, granaries were always filled, milk was abundantly available and so were its derivatives like Butter, Ghee etc which formed an important part of the Indian diet. Every religious institution, big farms, farmers, diary owners all had thousands of cows – the cows which had made India a Sone Ki Chidiya.

Cow slaughter and slaughterhouses are banned even today in Nepal. In India, very few are aware of the fact that Article 48 of the Indian Constitution (Directive Principles of State Policy) says clearly that the government must protect the cow, its progeny and other cattle used in agriculture, not just because the cows are sacred to Hindus but because cows have been the backbone of Agriculture and milk production in this country ever since the dawn of civilization. To millions of poor families in India, even today cow’s milk is the only source of nutrient to their kids and babies.

In India states like Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka etc have already banned Cow slaughter (Karnataka being a very recent addition). Cuba banned cow slaughter after its people virtually ate up all the cattle leading to a scarcity of dairy products. Even Iran has banned cow slaughter and note that it was at the request of a non-Muslim – Seth Merwanji Framji Pandey that Iran – a muslim dominated nation had banned cow slaughter. Now compare this with India today where in the name of secularism we are killing our agriculture and degrading the farm soil.

British Rule and Slaughterhouses

Both Mahathma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru had declared before Independence that they would ban cow slaughter in India after Independence. But later Gandhi remarked “I do not doubt that Hindus are forbidden the slaughter of cows. I have been long pledged to serve the cow but how can my religion also be the religion of the rest of the Indians? It will mean coercion against those Indians who are not Hindus. We have been shouting from the house-tops that there will be no coercion in the matter of religion. …if anyone were to force me (religiously) I would not like it. How can I force anyone not to slaughter cows unless he is himself so disposed?” Obviously they didnt impose it. Why? Thanks to Robert Clive who had converted the Indian Muslims into believing that beef eating was their religious right. Cow slaughter had become a vote bank issue.

Robert Clive – the so called Founder of the British Empire in India who was twice the Governor of Bengal too – on entering India was astonished and amazed to see the success of the agricultural system here. He went on researching the reasons for the success of the Indian agriculture and discovered the root – The Holy Indian Cow. The entire Hindu life style revolved around this animal, not just religiously, but socially. Cow was an integral part of a Hindu family as was any other human member in the family. He even found that in many places the total number of cattle was more than the number of humans living there.

So Robert Clive decided to break the backbone of agriculture in India – the holy cows have to be targeted. And thus was opened the first slaughterhouse of cows in India in 1760 by Robert Clive at Kolkata. It had a capacity to kill 30,000 cows per day. And anyone can guess within a year’s time how many cows would have been killed. And within a century India had very little cattle left to sustain its agricultural needs. And Britain as an alternative started offering artificial manure, and in this manner urea, phosphate etc started getting imported from England. Indian agriculture had started becoming dependent on west invented artificial products and was forced to give up home grown natural practices.

Guess what, till 1760 most of India had banned not only cow slaughter, but also prostitution and drinking wine. Robert Clive made all three legal and removed the ban.

Now the British had hit two birds with a single stone by this move. The first was to break the backbone of the Indian agriculture i.e. making cattle not available for agriculture. And the second? The British were well known for their divide and rule policies which they practiced throughout their colonial kingdoms then. So what did they do? Well, they hired Muslims as butchers and this was done in almost every slaughterhouse they opened. And this slowly pushed the Muslims into believing that beef eating was their religious right.

Rioting History

According to Metcalf, a British historian, with the advent of British rule in India, eating beef along with drinking whiskey, in English-language colleges in Bengal, became a method of fitting in into the British culture. Some Hindus, in the 1830s, consumed beef to show how they “derided irrational Hindu customs.

The reverence for the cow played a role in the uprising of 1857 against the British East India Company. Hindu and Muslim sepoys in the army of the East India Company believed that their cartridgeswere greased with cow and pig fat. The consumption of swine is forbidden in Islam. Since loading the gun required biting off the end of the paper cartridge, they concluded that the British were forcing them to break edicts of their religion.

Historians argue that the symbol of the cow was used as a means of mobilizing Hindus. In 1870, the Namdhari Sikhs started the Kukua Revolution, revolting against the British, and seeking to protect the cows from slaughter. A few years later, Swami Dayanand Saraswati called for the stoppage of cow slaughter by the British and suggested the formation of Go-samvardhani Sabhas.  In the 1870s, cow protection movements spread rapidly in Punjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Oudh (now Awadh) and Rohilkhand. The Arya Samaj had a tremendous role in skillfully converting this sentiment into a national movement.

Cow protection sentiment reached its peak in 1893. Large public meetings were held in Nagpur, Haridwar and Benares to denounce beef-eaters. Plays were conducted to display the plight of cows, and pamphlets were distributed, to create awareness among those who sacrificed and ate them. Riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims in Mau and Azamgarh district; it took 3 days for the government to regain control. The rioting was precipitated by contradictory interpretations of a British local magistrate’s order. He had apparently asked all the Muslims interested in cow slaughter to register, which undertaking was in fact performed to identify problem-prone areas. However, Muslims had interpreted this as a promise of protection for those who wanted to perform sacrifices.

The series of violent incidences also resulted in a riot in Bombay involving the working classes, and unrest occurred in places as far away as Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar). An estimated thirty-one to forty-five communal riots broke out over six months and a total of 107 people were killed.

Queen Victoria mentioned the cow protection movement in a letter, dated 8 December 1893, to then Viceroy Lansdowne, writing, “The Queen greatly admired the Viceroy’s speech on the Cow-killing agitation. While she quite agrees in the necessity of perfect fairness, she thinks the Muhammadans do require more protection than Hindus, and they are decidedly by far the more loyal. Though the Muhammadan’s cow-killing is made the pretext for the agitation, it is, in fact, directed against us, who kill far more cows for our army than the Muhammadans.”

In 1944, the British placed restrictions on cattle slaughter in India, on the grounds that the shortage of cattle was causing anxiety to the Government. The shortage itself was attributed to the increased demand for cattle for cultivation, transport, milk and other purposed. It was decided that, in respect of slaughter by the army authorities, working cattle, as well as, cattle fit for bearing offspring, should not be slaughtered. Accordingly, the slaughter of all cattle below 3 years of age, male cattle between 3 and 10 years, female cattle between 3 and 10 years of age, which are capable of producing milk, as well as all cows which are pregnant or in milk, was prohibited.

There was a large increase in the number of cattle slaughtered in the years preceding Independence, according to statistics given by Pandit Thakur Dass, during the debate in the Constituent Assembly on 24 November 1948. The number of oxen killed in 1944 was 6,091,828, while in 1945, sixty five lakhs were slaughtered, an increase of more than 4 lakhs. He further stated that the population of oxen in the country decreased by 37 lakhs in 5 years from 1940 to 1945. However, the figures are much lower according to the Dater Singh Committee Report which states that 2,791,828 and 3,167,496 oxen were slaughtered in 1944 and 1945 respectively.

What the Mughal empire had banned had been turned into a practice by the British empire. What Babur and Akbar termed as a crime was converted into a norm by Robert Clive. And today the soil of India is filled with artificial fertilizers and pesticides while the holy Cow cries in the slaughterhouses. While there were over 70 breeds of cows in the country at the time of independence, today we have only 33 and even among them many breeds are facing extinction.

by Nilabh Krishna

गाय का स्थान हमारे समाज में ऊंचा है। वार्षिक पंचांग में गोपूजा के लिए विशेष पर्व और दिन निर्धारित कर दिए गए हैं। जैसे दीपावली से तीन दिन  पहले बछवारस औषधि के देव धन्वन्तरी के साथ, दीपावली से अगले दिन बलिप्रतिपदा-गोवर्धन पर गौपूजन किया जाना निश्चित है। न केवल गौ बल्कि नंदी भी पूजे जाते हैं। जैसे श्रवण मास का अंतिम दिन बैल को सजा कर घर-घर ले जाया जाता है और उसकी पूजला की जाती है। गोदान सबसे पवित्र और महान माना गया है। मकर संक्रांति में गाय और नंदी की विभिन्न रूपों में पूजा अर्चना की जाती है। गोपदम व्रत आषाढ़ ढोकला एकादशी से कार्तिक शुक्ल तक नित्य, गौवत्स द्वादशीव्रत, गोवर्धनपूजा, गौपाष्टमिव्रत, प्रयोव्रत, वैतरणी एकादशी व्रत आदि संस्कार गौपूजा , गोदर्शन, गौदान से ही पूर्ण माने जाते हैं। गोदुग्ध, दधि , धृत, गोमूत्र, पंचगव्य आदि  हवन के अटूट अंग माने जाते हैं।

गाय – देवी रूप माता

वेदों और वैदिक काल में गाय को सर्वोच्च उत्पति का पर्याय माना गया। गाय भूमि, गाय देवमाता, गाय मेघ, गाय प्राकृतिक जीवन जल मानी गई। गाय या गौवंश पुरातन काल में विशेष संपत्ति मानी गई। इसके मुकाबले किसी और प्राणी को स्थान नहीं दिया जाता था। एक विशिष्ट अन्वेषण में पाया गया कि जैन सम्प्रदाय ने वृद्ध और असहाय गौवंश के लिए गृह-पिंजरापोल बनाये। नन्द यानी जिसके गौकोष्ट में गायों का समूह हो। यानि एक लाख से अधिक गौवंश हो, कन्या को दुहिता कहा गया।

शिव का वाहन-धर्म का अवतार नंदी

वृषभ ‘संस्कृत शब्द’ बैल के बराबर है। नंदी बैल भगवान शिव का वाहन है।  वैदिक साहित्य में शिव शब्द जनता के कल्याण (लोक कल्याण) का पर्याय है और बैल लोक कल्याण करता का वाहक है। हमारी कृषि और ग्रामीण परिवहन हमारे बैलों पर निर्भर रहा है। बैल इस प्रकार हमारे धर्म के अवतार हैं। वस्तुत: बैल मानव जाती का एक भाई है।  तीन वर्ष की आयु के बाद बछड़ा, बछिया, और बैल, जो  अपने जीवन पर्यंत मानव जाति का कार्य करता है। प्रत्येक  शिव मंदिर में हमेशा एक शिव मंदिर की प्रतिमा शिव दरबार में मिल जाएगी। यही नहीं, भारत के राष्ट्रीय चिन्ह में बैल को स्थान दिया गया है। कितने ही सम्प्रदायों जैसे लिंगायत संप्रदाय में नंदीश्वर की आराधना की जाती है।

गौवंश की विभिन्न प्रकार की प्रजातियां

हमारे लिए गाय मूल रूप से हमारे स्वदेशी नस्लों की गाय, जिसमें कुछ निहित दिव्य और प्रमाणित गुण है। 50 से अधिक स्वदेशी नस्लों, जिनमें से कुछ इस प्रकार हैं – गीर, कांकरेज, हरियाणा, नागौरी, अमृतमहल, हल्लीकर, मलावी, निमरी, दाज्ज्ल, अलामहादी, बरगुर, कृष्णवल्ली, लालसिंधी, थारपारकर, गंगातीरी, राठी, ओंगोल, धन्नी, पंवार, खैरीगढ़, मेवाती, डांगी, खिल्लार, बछौर, गोलों, सिरी और कंगायम। ये नस्लें अपने उत्तम दुग्ध, शक्ति और पर्यावरण रक्षक रूप में पूर्ण विश्व में जानी जाती हैं।

आकृति-प्रकृति, गुण -दोष एवं रूपरंग के आधार पर अगर बांटे तो मैसूर की लंबे सींगों वाली अमृत महल, हल्लिकार, कांगयम, खिल्लार, कृष्णवल्ली, बरगुर, आलमवादी, आदि। काठियावाड़ की लंबे कान वाली गीर, देवानी, डांगी, मेवाती, निमाण, आदि।

उत्तरी भारत की चौड़ी मुख तथा मुड़े हुए सींग वाली सफेद रास, कांकरेज, मालवी, नागौरी, थारपारकर, बचौर, पंवार, केनवरिया आदि।

मध्य भारत की संकरे मुख और छोटे सींग वाली भगनारी, गवलाव, हरियाणवी, हांसी-हिसार, अंगोल, राठ आदि साहिवाल, धन्नी, पहाड़ी सीरी, लोहानी, आदि।

ये प्रजातियां अपने दुग्ध क्षमता, गुणवत्ता, शक्ति के लिए विश्व विख्यात है। आज ब्राजील, ऑस्ट्रेलिया, इस्रायल, और यूरोप के कितने ही देशों में इनको अर्थव्यवस्था की रीढ़ माना जाता है। गिनीज विश्व रिकॉर्ड में गीर और अनगोल को शामिल किया गया है।

विदेशी प्रवासियों की नजर में गाय

मार्कोपोलो जब भारत आया तो लिखा कि यहां हाथी के समान नंदी जिनकी पीठ पर व्यापारी माल लादकर ले जाया करते हैं  वो प्रत्येक नागरिकों के द्वारा पूजा जाता है। उसके गोबर से घरो को लीपा जाता है और उस पर बैठ कर प्रभु की आराधना होती है।

मुगल दरबार का नजदीक से उसने वर्णन किया है कि हिन्दुस्तान में गोवध मनुष्य के वध के समान दंडनीय था। उसने तत्कालीन बादशाहों के भोज्य पदार्थों की सूची दी है जिसमे कहीं भी गौ मांस का उल्लेख नहीं है।

इतालवी यात्री पीटर दिलबरेल ने 1963 में लिखा है कि खम्बात में गौ बछड़ा और बैल मारने की सख्त मनाही थी। कोई मुसलमान भी यदि गोहत्या करता तो उसे मृत्युदंड जैसा कठोर दंड मिलता था।

एक अन्य यूरोपीय  टेवेनियर लिखता है कि मुगल काल में व्यापारिक माल ढोने का काम बैलों की सहायता से किया जाता था। उनके पास दक्षिण भारत की अमृतमहल महाराष्ट्र की जैवारी (खिलार) काठियावाड़ की तलवड़ा बुंदेलखंड की गोरना इत्यादि नस्लों के बैल रोज 50 -60 किलोमीटर पीठ पर माल लेकर चलते थे।

कहा जाता है कि विदेशी यात्री भारत से कामधेनु और कल्पतरु यानी गाय और गन्ना लेकर गया था, जिससे यूरोप में समृद्धि बढ़ी और  ‘सोने की चिडिय़ा’ भारत लुट  गया।

(उदय इंडिया ब्यूरो)  

At the very outset, one must express his/her utmost anguish at the gruesome manner in which Mohammad Akhlaq was killed by a mob on the mere suspicion of keeping beef in his house. With no ifs and buts, one should very strongly demand the most stringent punishment for all those who indulged in such horrifying crime that one expects only from terrorists or professional criminals. They must be identified, shamed publicly and compelled to disclose at whose instigation they indulged in such a gruesome crime so that they too are awarded the strictest punishment under the law.

There is no doubt in one’s mind that our media, news channels and politicians of all major political parties are expressing their fuming indignation at what happened with Akhlaq. Every day one can get to read about Akhlaq in newspapers or magazines. No one can question that the perpetrators of killing of Akhlaq must be immediately brought to book and not allowed to escape unscathed.

What, however, deeply disturbs one’s innermost conscience is when one observes how a docaity took place in the house of a Muslim (Dilshad Bharati) from Meerut recently. Dilshad was killed during the incident and the dacoits decamped with Rs 1.10 lakh in cash and Rs 4 lakh jewellery. His elder brother Imran was stabbed and his father Shakeel Ahmad and others were looted at gunpoint. Yet police is not even believing the incident! However, Ari, one of the brother of the late Dilshad, alleged that one of the robbers was the son of the owner of an illegal slaughterhouse. Dilshad considered the cow very sacred and had not married in spite of nearing 40 years of age as he devoted his whole life for the sake of cow’s protection, who are killed every now and then. He used to immediately inform the police whenever he used to learn that a cow is about to be slaughtered illegally and it is a no brainer that because of all this he developed many enemies—beef mafia who were in the business of beef trade. He loved cows very much and used to get very upset on learning of slaughter of cows anywhere. He worked closely in tandem with an organisation named—“Sach” headed by Sandeep Pahal, who too has been in the forefront of struggle to save cows from being killed most brutally.

“My grandson stood for truth and his death will not go waste. Our family will not take rest so long as a single cow is slaughtered in the city,” said Dilshad’s 82-year-old grandmother, Begum in a choked voice. He was most brutally murdered by few goons, whom one will never call Muslims because those who murder innocents are only killers and they are neither Hindus nor Muslims. What an unbeatable irony that his family had earlier expressed their fear of his being eliminated yet he was not given a security cover. He was shot with bullets in the head in June 2014 and after seven months of suffering and battling for life, he ultimately died on January 22, 2015, after having undergone treatment in a number of hospitals in Noida and Meerut. Soon afterwards, his mother Najma went into depression and died a few months later. What one finds most shocking is that not a single leader or party–neither Samajwadi Party nor Congress nor BSP nor Left nor BJP nor anyone else–has ever bothered to highlight his supreme sacrifice in front of the media.

He deserves national award but sadly he has not been given enough space even in newspapers—not a single national English newspaper barring Times Of India has highlighted his supreme sacrifice in newschannels, which keep on chanting Dadri incident again and again. Dilshad’s original surname was Qureshi and his grandmother says: “He would often say that he was a true Muslim. If he could not tolerate disrespect of the Quran, how could a Hindu tolerate the butchering of an animal he considers his mother?” His brother Asif further stated: “There was a time when every nook and crany of Saddiq Nagar used to have illegal slaughterhouses. Dilshad launched a crusade against the slaughter of these animals and during the process we all four brothers stopped consuming meat of any sort.” Imran who is one of Dilshad’s brothers says: “More than 5000 cows and buffaloes are slaughtered illegally in the entire district on a daily basis. The hotspots are Shyam Nagar, Rashid Nagar, Sardhana, Harra Khiwai, Badda, Kithore, and so on. The police are corrupt or choose to be a silent spectator.” Dilshad was instrumental in sealing more than 200 illegal slaughterhouses in Saddiq Nagar area alone. But who cares? Everyone is chanting “Dadri, Dadri, nothing but Dadri.

One doesn’t grudge Dadri incident being highlighted but what one certainly grudges is that the Muslim from Meerut–Dilshad who devoted his whole life for the protection of the cow and who was brutally murdered by those in beef trade getting adversely affected by his acts–has not even been given a nominal space in any English newspaper or any news channel or ever remembered by any national leader of any major political party. Rahul Thakur, who runs Krishna Gaurakshak Dal and is a BJP activist and a close associate of Dilshad said: “He made enemies within his own community but did not compromise with his ideology. We all are now under threat. I too have escaped two attacks on me.”

Did he commit some heinous crime so that he is not being given due recognition? Most of the Indians are Hindu, but a large section of them never did anything for the sake of the mother cow nor can they ever dream of sacrificing their life for a cow even though we consider it to be sacred. An Indian Muslim from Meerut does it and pays for it with his priceless life yet our thankless nation ignores it and the whole nation chants Akhlaq, Akhlaq and nothing but Akhlaq. One should have full sympathy with him. He was an innocent victim of a crime perpetrated by criminals but the Muslim from Meerut–Dilshad–knowingly took on those indulging in beef trade and for the sake of the cow didn’t marry and all the time did everything possible to save the cow, yet this nation has no time to even remember him, let alone give him the high honour, which he so richly deserves. One can never in one’s life ever dream to do so much for a cow, yet in India, we see such supreme sacrifice are not recognised .

Why has no writer raised his voice for him? Why has no writer relinquished award for him? Why didn’t police give him protection knowing fully well that his life was in danger? His elder brother later said crying: “My brother has sacrificed his life for the sake of the cow and police knowingly did nothing to prevent his murder. Everyone will forget him soon.” He was right. Nobody—no political party, no political leader, no news channel, no English newspaper except Times of India, no magazine and infact no one—has time to even remember him once for the selfless supreme sacrifice he rendered for the sake of protection of the cow just because he cannot be a political fodder, who can give huge political mileage to anyone. It is truly saddening.

By Sanjeev Sirohi

23 नवम्बर, 2018 को उदय इंडिया नॉलेज ट्री के गौ वेद विज्ञान अनुसंधान केन्द्र का उद्घाटन पवित्र कार्तिक पूर्णिमा के शुभ अवसर पर किया गया। शुभआरम्भ हवन-यज्ञ एवं गौ-आरती तथा संतों की उपस्थिति में हुई। इस शुभ अवसर पर भारतीय जनता पार्टी के उपाध्यक्ष श्याम जाजू, अजीत महापात्रा, अखिल भारतीय सह गौ-सेवा प्रमुख (आरएसएस), गोस्वामी सुशील जी महाराज, आचार्य डॉ. लोकेश मुनि, नेशनल गैलरी ऑफ माडर्न आर्ट के माहानिदेशक- अद्वैत गडनायक, टी. टी. गार्मेन्ट के अध्यक्ष- डॉ. रिखब चन्द जैन, राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक के पूर्व प्रचारक, स्वदेश पाल गुप्ता एवं ब्रह्मकुमारी बहन शिल्पा, इस कार्यक्रम के मुख्य अतिथी के रूप में थे।

सर्वप्रथम आचार्य लोकेश मुनि ने इस उद्घाटन समारोह को संबोधित किया। समारोह को संबोधित करते हुए उन्होंने कहा कि भारतीय संस्कृति में गौ का सर्वोच्च स्थान है और गौ वेद विज्ञान अनुसंधान केंद्र के माध्यम से गाय की उपयोगिता का विषय जनता के सामने आयेगा, जिससे लोगों का इस दिशा में और रूझान बढ़ेगा। उन्होंने कहा कि जब तक लोग गाय की उपयोगिता को नहीं समझेंगे तब तक गौ-रक्षा का विषय भी आगे नहीं बढ़ पायेगा।

गोस्वामी सुशील जी महाराज ने इस समारोह को संबोधित करते हुए कहा कि यह एक ऐतिहासिक दिन है, जिसके लिए मैं उदय इंडिया नॉलेज ट्री को बधाई देना चाहता हूं। देश में इमरजेंसी के समय कानून आया था, जिससे दिल्ली में लोगों को गाय पालने से मना कर दिया गया। उन्होंने कहा कि आज दिल्ली जैसे बड़े शहर में हमें कई नस्ल के कुत्तों को पालने की इजाजत तो है लेकिन गाय पालने की इजाजत नहीं है। मेरा मानना है कि दिल्ली एनसीआर में वापस फिर से ऐसा अध्यादेश आये ताकि हर घर में लोग गाय पाल सकें। उन्होंने कहा कि हिदुस्तानी परिवार में यदि गौ पालन होगा तो हमारी संस्कृ ति स्थापित होगी। अन्यथा जो हम स्वप्न देख रहे है, वह पूरा होना असम्भव लगता है।

भारतीय जनता पार्टी के उपाध्यक्ष श्याम जाजू ने कहा कि उदय इंडिया नॉलेज ट्री द्वारा गौ-सेवा के संदर्भ में लिया गया यह कदम काफी सराहनीय है। उन्होंने कहा कि पहले जब लोग मन्दिरों में जाते थे तो लोग उन्हे साम्प्रदायिक करार देतेे थे लेकिन आज विदेशों में होने वाली रिसर्च से हमारी संस्कृति की उपयोगिता लोगों के समक्ष आ रही है और लोग भी अब इसे स्वीकार्य करने लगे हैं। अजीत महापात्रा ने अपने संबोधन में गाय के संवद्र्धन पर जोर देते हुए इसकी उपयोगिता पर प्रकाश डाला।

ए2 दूध का महत्व

ए2 दूध, ए1  दूध से कई गुना ज्यादा स्वास्थ्यवर्धक होता है। देसी नस्ल की गायों में ए2 दूध प्रोटीन प्राकृतिक रूप से पाया जाता है। ये कई बीमारियों जैसे कि हृदय रोग, डायबिटिज एवं न्यूरोलॉजीकल डिसऑर्डर से बचाता है एवं शरीर में रोग प्रतिरोधक क्षमता पैदा करता है।

भारत में हर प्रकार के दूध को एक जैसा ही समझा जाता है। लोग आज भी देशी ए2 दूध और विदेशी ए1 दूध देने वाली गाय के दूध में कोई अंतर नही समझ पाते हैं। गाय और भैंस के दूध में भी कोई अंतर नहीं माना जाता। सारा ध्यान अधिक मात्रा में दूध और वसा देने वाले पशु पर ही होता है। किस दूध में क्या स्वास्थ्यनाशक तत्व हैं, इस विषय पर डेरी उद्योग कभी सचेत नहीं रहा है।

ए2 दूध के फायदे

ए2 केवल देसी गायों के दूध में पाया जाता है। शरीर की रोग प्रतिरोधक क्षमता को बढ़ाता है। दिल की बीमारी के खतरे को कम करता है। कैंसर रोग से बचाता है। पाचन तंत्र के लिए लाभदायक है। इन्हीं गुणों के चलते छोटे बच्चों को केवल देसी गाय का दूध ही पिलाया जाता है।

ए1 दूध के नुकसानदायक

ए1 दूध पीने के बाद यह बीसीएम सात यानी बीटा कैजो मारफिन बनाता है, जो शरीर के लिए नुकसानदायक होता है। इस दूध से बच्चों को डायबिटीज हो सकती है। पाचन तंत्र को खराब करता है। दिल की बीमारी बढ़ाता है। दिमाग को कुंद करता है। विदेशी गायों के दूध में यह प्रोटीन सार्वाधिक मात्रा में मिलता है।

पूरे देशभर में गौ-रक्षा हेतु कार्य कर रहे राजेन्द्र सिंघल ने कहा कि आज गाय के साथ वैसा ही हो रहा है जैसा कि 1992 में जो लोग मन्दिर की जगह मस्जिद-मस्जिद चिल्ला रहे थे, वे आज मन्दिर-मन्दिर चिल्ला रहे है। गौ-सेवा करने के लिए हमने जो चलो गांव, का नारा दिया था, वह 2024-25 तक साकार होता दिख रहा है। क्योंकि शहरों में प्रदूषण की मात्रा बढ़ गई है। उन्होंने कहा कि गुरू गोलवलकर ने भी कहा था कि भारत में 2022 तक गौ-हत्या पर पूर्ण प्रतिबंध लग जायेगा।

गाय के भविष्य के संदर्भ में सरकार द्वारा लिये जाने वाले कदमों के विषय में अपनी बात रखतें हुए, दिल्ली गोधन संघ के अध्यक्ष महेश शर्मा ने कहा कि गौ-अनुसंधान केन्द्र एक उच्चत्तम विचार है। विज्ञान भवन में कृषि पर आयोजित एक प्रोग्राम में मैने इस मुद्दे को उठाया था कि देश में अन्य पशुओं पर अनुसंधान केन्द्र तो हैं लेकिन गौ-अनुसंधान केन्द्र नहीं है और इस पर सरकार भी विचार कर रही है।

टी. टी. गार्मेन्ट के अध्यक्ष, डॉ. रिखब चन्द जैन जो इस क्षेत्र में लम्बे समय से जुड़े हुए है उन्होंने अपनी बात रखते हुए कहा कि गौ-सुरक्षा के लिए हमें अपनी मानसिकता बदलने की आवश्यकता है। उन्होंने कहा कि गाय आर्थिक रूप से भी सबसे अधिक लाभकारी पशु है। नेशनल गैलरी ऑफ माडर्न आर्ट के माहानिदेशक- अद्वैत गडऩायक ने कहा कि गाय का नाम सुनने के पश्चात कामधेनु का रूप हम सभी के मस्तिष्क में आता है और इस कारण एक गौशाला का रूप कैसा होना चाहिये, इस विषय पर मैं स्वयं कार्य कर रहा हूं।

 उदय इंडिया ब्यूरो

On November 23, 2018, Gau Ved Vigyan Anushandhan Kendra, an initiative by Uday India Knowledge Tree to protect and preserve indigenous breeds of cows, was inaugurated in presence of respected saints. In this inaugural ceremony, BJP National Vice-President Shyam Jaju, Akhil Bharatiya Sah-Gau Seva Pramukh (RSS)  Ajit Mahapatra, Goswami Sushil Maharaj, Acharya Lokesh Muni, Director of National Gallery of Modern Arts Adwaita Gadnayak, Dr. Rikhab Chand Jain, President of T.T Garments, Swadesh Pal Gupta and Brahmakumari Bahan Shilpa were the guests on this occasion.

Addressing the gathering, Acharya Lokesh Muni said, a cow has the highest place in Indian culture and with the launching of Gau Ved Vigyan Anushandhan Kendra, people would be able to know the significance indigenous breeds of cows, which will draw people’s attention in this area. He further said that the cow protection is not possible unless people are aware of importance of indigenous breeds of cows.

Explaining A1 and A2 milk

Cow milk is considered nature’s ideal food, providing a vital source of nutrients comprising carbohydrates, high-quality proteins, and selected micronutrients. More than 95% of the cow milk proteins include caseins and whey proteins. Among the caseins, beta casein is the second most abundant protein and has the excellent nutritional balance of amino acids. Different mutations in the bovine beta-casein gene have led to 12 genetic variants and out of these A1 and A2 are the most common. At present, there are a lot of talks about the health effects of A1 and A2 milk, which may depend on the breed of the cow it came from. Currently, A2 milk is being marketed as a healthier choice than A1 milk. It is argued to have several health benefits and to be easier to digest for people who are lactose intolerant. Let’s have an objective look at the science behind A1 and A2 milk.

Casein is the largest group of proteins in milk, making up about 80% of the total protein content. There are several types of casein in milk, and beta-casein is the second most common. Beta-casein exists in at least 13 different forms. The two most common forms of beta-casein are:

• A1 beta-casein: Milk from breeds of cows that originated in northern Europe and USA is generally high in A1 beta-casein. A1 milk comes from breeds like the Holstein, Friesian, Ayrshire and British Shorthorn.
• A2 beta-casein: Milk that is high in A2 beta-casein is mainly found in breeds that originated in India and some other Asian countries. Studies indicate that A1 beta-casein may be harmful and that A2 beta-casein is a safer choice. This is the reason for the “A1 vs A2” debate.

Conclusion: A1 and A2 milk contain different types of protein called beta-casein. Studies indicate that A2 milk is healthier of the two.

Beta-Casomorphin-7

Beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM-7) is the reason why A1 milk is believed to be less healthy than A2 milk.

BCM-7 is an opioid peptide that is released during the digestion of A1 beta-casein.

Researches have suggested that BCM-7 is harmful. BCM-7 may affect the digestive system.

Below is a review of the scientific evidence linking A1 milk and BCM-7 with type 1 diabetes, heart disease, infant death, and digestive problems.

Conclusion: Western countries’ cow milk contains A1 beta-casein, which is partly broken down to beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM-7) in the stomach. BCM-7 has been linked with several adverse health effects.

Calling it historical, Goswami Sushil Maharaj congratulated Uday India Knowledge Tree for this initiative. He said, when Emergency was imposed, legislation was brought that none would be able to  keep cows in Delhi but this kind of restrictions are not imposed when people keep dogs in their homes. Now I demand an Ordinance to revoke this law. People living in Delhi NCR should be allowed cow rearing in their houses. “Because of cow rearing, we will be able to save our Indian culture, otherwise, we will not succeed in what we are dreaming today,” he added.

BJP National Vice-President Shyam Jaju also appreciated Uday IndiaKnowledge Tree’s initiative. He said that earlier people were branded communal when they would go to the temple. Now when foreign scientific research is endorsing the importance of Indian tradition, these same people are accepting our culture.

Ajit Mahapatra, in his speech, laying emphasis on cow conservation explained its multi-utilities.

Rajendra  Singhal, who has been working for years to protect the indigenous breeds of cows, said that a few years back, our slogan was to “Chalo Gao ki Aur” and it was because of pollution in big cities. Village is also good for the protection of indigenous cows. Even Guru Golwalkar had once said that cow slaughter would be totally prohibited in India by 2022.

In context of the future of the cow and the steps being taken by the

government in this regard,  Mahesh Sharma, Delhi Godhan Sangh President, said that Gau  Anushandhan Kendra is the best concept. He further said that a program on agriculture was organised at Vigyan  Bhawan and he raised the same issue there. He added that India has research centers on various animals, but not on a cow. But the government is working on this issue.  Dr. Rikhab Chand Jain, President of T.T Garments, has been working in this area for years. He believes that people’s mindset needs to be changed if one wants to protect the cow, because the cow within itself is an economy.  Adwaita Gadanayak, Director of National Gallery of Modern Arts, said that he is working on to develop a pious cow shade.

By Uday India Bureau