"To kill cows means to end human civilization."
-Bhagavad Gita As It Is 14.16 purport
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
"We do not condemn modern civilization but we don't like to get it at the cost of God Consciousness, that is suicide."
The Beauty of Beans
"One acre of beans produces ten times more protein than an acre of pasture set aside for meat production." -Higher Taste
ISKCON New Vrindaban Farm Community
Moundsville, West Virginia
ISKCON Gita Nagari Farm Community
Port Royal, Pennsylvania
ISKCON New Goloka Farm Community
Hillsborough, North Carolina
ISKCON New Talavan Farm Community
Carriere, Mississippi
ISKCON Saranagati Eco-Village
British Columbia, Canada
ISKCON Krishna Valley Farm Community
Somogyvamos, Hungary
Bhaktivedanta Eco-Village
Sagar Taluq, South India
ISKCON Cow Protection
"There are so many facilities afforded by cow protection, but people have forgotten these arts. Even now in the Indian villages surrounding Vrndavana, the villagers live happily simply by giving protection to the cow. They keep cow dung very carefully and dry it to use as fuel. They keep a sufficient stock of grains, and because of giving protection to the cows, they have sufficient milk and milk products to solve all economic problems. Simply by giving protection to the cow, the villagers live so peacefully. Even the urine and stool of cows have medicinal value." -Srila Prabhupada
Śrī Īśopanisad Invocation
"The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance."
Śrī Īśopanisad Mantra One
"Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong."
Śrī Īśopanisad Mantra Two
"One may aspire to live for hundreds of years if he continuously goes on working in that way, for that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. There is no alternative to this way for man."
Śrī Īśopanisad Mantra Three
"The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance."
Śrī Īśopanisad Mantra Four
"Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than the mind and can overcome all others running. The powerful demigods cannot approach Him. Although in one place, He controls those who supply the air and rain. He surpasses all in excellence."
Śrī Īśopaniṣad Mantra Five
"The Supreme Lord walks and does not walk. He is far away, but He is very near as well. He is within everything, and yet He is outside of everything."
Śrī Īśopaniṣad Mantra Six
"He who sees everything in relation to the Supreme Lord, who sees all living entities as His parts and parcels, and who sees the Supreme Lord within everything never hates anything or any being."
Śrī Īśopaniṣad Mantra Seven
"One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?"
Śrī Īśopaniṣad Mantra Eight
"Such a person must factually know the greatest of all, the Personality of Godhead, who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond reproach, without veins, pure and uncontaminated, the self-sufficient philosopher who has been fulfilling everyone's desire since time immemorial."
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