Himalayan Times (1953)

September 27, 1-953

iSimalmtnn OJinteu

Seven

most, what indeed must lie our debt
of gratitude to the Mother Cow whose
motherly service to humanity is not to
be measured in terms of years !

Milk, curds, buttermilk, butter and
ghee and the products made of these
Herve to remind us every day of our
lives of the extent and magnitude of the
gratitude we owe to this silent and
graceful manifestation of Divinity—the
Mother Cow.

A man’s prosperity in the Vedic
age was measured in terms of the num-
ber of cattlehead in his possession!
Almost every hymn addressed to the
various aspects of Divinity prays for
an increase in cattle wealth. Our
ancients regarded cattle as a source of
agricultural wealth. Nor was there any
superstition about it. 1 he cow dung
manuie in the best and most effective
of soil manures You feed the Mother
Cow and she returns your attention in
a hundred ways.

If gratutide is superstition, then
superstition is a pecrlesH virtu1, 'lobe
true to the salt one eats is considered
even today to bo an inescapable duty
It is said of a robber that he had
come one night to burgle a house. The
landlady of the house who never sus-
pected his evil motive found him' lying
on the outside pial. Thinking hint to
be a wayfarer, she called him and fed
him to his heart's content Tim moment
he tasted a salty dish,' he exclained:

‘ Oh, woman, thou hast made hip thy
slave; I had come t,o rob thee of thy
possessions but bv servirg me with salt,
thou hast made me thv own br'other”
From then onwards, he used to visit
his “sister'’ on the Makara SankranC
Day every year and invariably loaded
her with varfous kinds of presents.

Non-vegotarians, especially bopf
eaters would do well to ponder over

Annie Besant's observation: “Surely, man
should not go through Nature, leaving
behind him a track of destruction, of
misery, of hideous injury. We ought
to be the beautifiers of the World, but
wherever man goes, terror treads in his
footsteps wherever he travels; fear con-
tinually stalks behind him.”

If God has made Man in His Own
image, then is it not . man’s duty to
protect evbry animal that' comes his
way, especially the Mother Cow ? /‘Go
Mata Ki Jai”!

‘WORK FOR JOBLESS’ : PLANS AT
■ A GLANCE .

(1) 30,000 teachers for three years
from January next at a salary of Rs.55
to 85 each per month including D. A.

(2) Housing schemes costing Rs. 1.5
crore to employ about 3,500 people for
the present.

(3 Smalbscale industries costing Rs.75,
lakh to give work to a very large,
number of people.

(4) Coke oven gas plant near Asan-
sol costing about Rs. 9 crore, spread
over three years, to employ .a-very large
number of people.

(S' The Rs 2 crore Calcutta Sewage
Disposal scliem - to give work to a very
large large number of people.

( >) The Rs. 7,]-crore scheme for re-
clamation of land near Calcutta, . to
employ a large number of people and
make available thousands of acres for
farming.

(7) A Rs. 3 75-orore plan for a trans-
smission line of surplus power from the
B.V..C. to Calcutta providing cheap power
for development of small and cottage
industries en route.

(5) Issue of 710 permits for running
public vehicles to give work to about
2 500 persons.

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