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cataks — although we are able to keep more glittering cars
than cows at the present moment. (Back to Godhead vol.
88
3, no. 12, 1956)
Grains and vegetables can sumptuously feed a man and
animals, and a fatty cow delivers enough milk to supply
a man sumptuously with vigor and vitality. If there is
enough milk, enough grains, enough fruit, enough cotton,
enough silk, and enough jewels, then why do the people
need cinemas, houses of prostitution, slaughterhouses,
etc.? What is the need of an artificial, luxurious life of
cinema, cars, radio, flesh, and hotels? Has this civilization
produced anything but quarreling individually and
nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the cause of
equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men
into a hellish factory and the war fields at the whims
of a particular man?… It is said here that the cows used
to moisten the pasturing land with milk because their
milk bags were fatty and the animals were joyful. Do
they not require, therefore, proper protection for a
joyful life by being fed with a sufficient quantity of grass
in the field? Why should men kill cows for their selfish
purposes? Why should man not be satisfied with grains,
fruits, and milk, which combined together, can produce
hundreds and thousands of palatable dishes? Why are
there slaughterhouses all over the world to kill innocent
animals?… Mahārāja Parīkṣit, grandson of Mahārāja
Yudhiṣṭhira, while touring his vast kingdom, saw a black

88. Traditional Bengali measurements for weight: seer —
approximately one kilogram; catak — one sixteenth of a seer.