[Advaita-l] Gopuja videos

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

I generally ask, "Why does Bible prohibit cow slaughter?" or "Why does
Islam have Halal so that they are not killed?" or "Why did Egyptians
consider cow to be an incarnation of Great Goddess Hathore?" Or "Will you
kill your mother after she cant feed you milk?"

I attached my article but it bounced back.
2011/11/3 Raghav Kumar <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com>

> Is there any well-articulated, preferably rhetorical and witty answer
> to the question -
> "Why do Hindus worship the "holy"cow?"
> The answer should factor in objections like "buffalo and goat milk too
> is drunk but these animals do not occupy the same place in Hindu
> consciousness", and "an ox is not given the same kind of treatment as
> a cow in terms of worship and hyms etc".
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
>  2011/11/3 Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>:
>  > Namaste
> >
> > Two videos show how to do cow Puja-
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoSuXLDDtqo&NR=1
> > http://www.youtube.com/user/deshbhakta#p/search/0/YwwPUb7lSRU
> >
> > सुरभिस्त्वं जगन्मातर्देवि विष्णुपदे स्थिता ।
> > सर्वदेवमये ग्रासं मयादत्तमिमं ग्रस ।
> > गावो मे मातरः सन्तु पितरः सन्तु गोवृषाः  ।
> > ग्रासमुष्टिं मया दत्तां प्रतिग्र्ह्णन्तु मातरः॥ गासम्॥
> >
> > ॥ प्रार्थना ॥
> > गावो ममाग्रतः सन्तु गावो मे सन्तु पृष्ठतः ।
> > गावो मे हृदये नित्यं गवां मध्ये वसाम्यहम् ।
> > सुरभिस्त्वं जगन्मातर्नित्यं विष्णुपदे स्थिते ।
> > सर्वदेवमये देवि सर्वदेवैरलंकृते ।
> > मातर्ममाभिलषितं सफलं कुरु नन्दिनि ॥
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> >
> > -Venkatesh
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