Gow-Raksha Vibhag
While underscoring the importance and recognition given by the Hindu society for cow, the VHP
had started making its own contribution soon after its inception to the Cow Protection Campaigns
that were already going on in Bharat for long; but no independent Vibhag was not formed. Full
credit for the formation of this Vibhag goes to Shrimant Vijayaraje Scindia.
Despite her repeated insistence from time to time, an independent Vibhag could not be formed.
Rajamata had submitted the resolution written in her own handwriting in the meeting of the
Kendriya Prannyasi Mandal at Bhopal (1986). Cow-rearing and Cow-conservation also were included
in the resolution for anti-cow slaughter.
The meeting not only passed the resolution, but the Bharatiya Gow-Vamsh Rakshan Evam Samvardhan
Samiti was formed and Shrimant Rajamata was appointed its President to ensure its immediate
implementation. Shri. Devakinandan Agrawal (Prayag) and Shri. Purushottam Das Jhunjhunwala
(Bihar) was kept as its members and Shri. Narasimha Joshi was appointed its convener.
Gradually Provincial Conveners were appointed for Hariyana, Pashcimi Uttar Pradesh, Purvi Uttar
Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Mahakoshal, Gujarat, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and
Karnataka for achieving this objective at the earliest.
2006: Gow-Raksha SammelanA Sammelan titled ‘Gow-Sanskriti-2006’ was held in the excellent
Gow-Shala (cow-shed) of Shri. Ratanlal Bafna (Ahimsa Tirth) at Jalgaon on 7-10 March 2006. The
motto of Sammelan was ‘Several problems, one solution: Our dear mother cow’.
The number of participants was 700 comprising of 531 delegates of the registered bodies and 169
were the special invitees. The special invitees included 50 scientists and 60 doctors. Apart
from this 200 Gow-Shala representatives from 37 provinces of the country have also attended the
Sammelan. Besides, the delegates of 20 very important organizations like RSS, VHP, Arya Samaj,
Gayatri Pariwar, Krishi Gow Sewa Sangh, Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam Trust, ISKCON, Pujya
Asaram Bapu Ashram, Swami Narayan Mandir, Ramachandrapur Mutt (Karnataka), etc. attended the
Sammelan with enthusiasm. The Sammelan conducted 13 sessions and 5 symposia.
Gau-Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra
The project established in 1996 with Objective
1. Establishment of Research and Development center in medicinal, agricultural, pharmaceutical,
nutritional, environmental, technological area
2. Encourage other establishment or manufacturing units for production, distribution, and sale
of useful products derived from panchgavya
3. Provide research aid to competent persons, institutions and organization
4. Organize seminars, conferences, workshop, and orientation programs to promote the use of
panchgavya
5. Provide information and literature on the utility of products obtained from panchgavya by way
of publishing and distributing books and periodic employing such other means of communication as
may be considered necessary
6. Establish diagnostic and clinical centers and hospitals at various places in India
7. Collaborate with such other institutions or organization which may be engaged in activities
in the area of mutual interest
8. Establish branches of the organization at regional, national & international levels
9. Any other project which will propagate and serve the cause of socio-economic and
technological utilization of panchgavya products.
Achievements
At present 450 cattle are in the Goshala campus which are saved from the hands of butchers. Near
about 420 cattle are non-milking.100% utilization of Cow Dung & Cow Urine is being done at this
place. Project is self-sufficient for day-to-day expenses of cattle, for research, development,
construction activities & publication of literature in various regional languages. Society &
donors regularly approached for generous donations for this noble cause.
The Institution has been very successful in proving the utility of Panchagavya (Cow dung, urine,
milk, curd, ghee, buttermilk) in Agriculture, human health, animal health, as a renewable energy
source & preparation of utility products, etc., scientifically for acceptance to all sections of
society.GVAK motivates scientists working in allied fields of Research and Development, by
organizing Scientific Seminars and conferences. This resulted in two US patents granted to cow
urine distillate. One filed through NEERI (CSIR) still pending and one global patent granted to
cow urine + neem & / garlic-based pest repellant (kitniyantrak). All most 40 Premier Research
Institutions belonging to CSIR, ICAR, ICMR & Universities are working in association with GVAK
for cattle protection movement.
A clinic with 10 Vaidyas, Doctors, Experts, caters to the needs of patients suffering from Skin
Diseases, Eczema, Psoriasis, GIT disorders, Obesity, Renal & Urinary system failures,
Leucoderma, Cough & Cold, Diabetes M., Cancer, Piles, Gynecological Diseases, Pediatrics,
Arthritis, General Debility, Worm, Purities Other neurological problems, Oedema /Anasarca
Asthma Other Respiratory Diseases, Cardio Vascular/HT
In 11 years span more than 50 thousand of the patients have been exceptionally benefited through
panchagya Ayurved therapy.GVAK helps & guides the students doing Ph.D., MD, M.Pharma, MSc.
More than ten thousand (10,000) farmers tribals, Gopalaks, some vaidyas and Doctors,
Goshala-keepers have been benefited through intensive training & coaching in the last 11 years
at our workplace at Developer.
Shri Guruji on Cow Protection
In this Holy Land we, Hindus have been living as the children of the soil for millennia. Our
cultural traditions have been built here, evolving towards great purity, morality, and holiness.
This process continued until we lost our independence as a political entity. It came to a
standstill and even retarded from the time the country passed under the domination of peoples of
foreign religion and culture. The worship of the cow, which came to be regarded as the one place
where all the Gods reside together in harmony had long before become established as a national
duty.
The cow and her species had become an emblem of our National Independence and honor. Naturally,
this holy species was protected by the worshipful and grateful people. Cow-slaughter was
unthinkable. It was a heinous sin calling for dire punishment of the wicked that through
inadvertence or perversity committed the crime.
With foreigners, hostile to our National and cultural traditions, establishing themselves as
rulers, things changed. The invaders, in order to break the spirit of the conquered people and
thus be able to hold them in subjection for all time, started a crusade against everything the
Hindu held in reverence and thus tried to kill their sentiments, emotions and urge to regain
their freedom. Acts of reckless vandalism evidenced by destruction of holy place .of worship and
pilgrimage, dishonouring women-folk and indiscriminate slaughtering of the cow species were
freely indulged in to spite the Hindu and brutally show him that he was a mere slave, with no
rights, no privileges, not even sentiments which could deserve any consideration at the hands of
the conquerors. From the first onslaughts of Arabs, Turks, Mughals, etc.,
claiming to be propagators of Islam, to later European invaders, cow-slaughter came to be looked
upon (so it seems) as evidence of their domination and supremacy. Naturally for the Hindu, it
was a disgraceful sign of his abject slavery.
All freedom fighters, therefore, declared cow-protection as their aim, meaning thereby that they
were determined to wipe out every stigma on our National life and once again establish
independence in which our hoary culture could once more flourish and continue in its evolution
to a higher and holier life. Chhatrapati Shivaji was known as ‘Go-Brahmin Pratipalak’ protector
of cows and Brahmins. Shri Guru Govind Singhji Maharaj earnestly prayed to be able to destroy
the ‘Turk’ so as to be able to end the sufferings of the cow and protect Dharma.
The 1857 war of Independence sparked in to a conflagration on the question of cow, the Kuka
uprising was inspired by the devotion to the cow and later great leaders of the freedom movement
like Lokmanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi declared that their first act after ousting the British
i.e. foreign rule, would t making law totally prohibiting the slaughter of cow and her-special
Mahatma Gandhi went so far as to say that to his mind the question of ‘cow’ was of more
importance than Swarajya itself. Hence WOI on many fronts e.g. establishing Go-Shalas,
pinjrapols, etc submitting memoranda to the Government and agitating in various ways Ts to
redeem our National honor, has been going all down these past many years.
But surprisingly our Government formed after the departure of the foreign rulers has till today
failed to realize that this is an issue of first-rate National importance that without the total
prohibition of slaughter of the cow species of any age or condition, Swarajya incomplete and
very irritating vestiges of slavery continue to damp national consciousness. They are wrongly
trying to confuse it with economic issues forgetting that national prestige cannot be measured
in terms of rupees and paisas. They have all along failed to appreciate that by continuing to
allow cow slaughter they are propagating at perpetuating slavery.
Indeed one begins to believe that the patriotism of most of our leaders was nothing more than
anti-Britishism and that too in so f as the continuance of British rule deprived them of power
and pelf in feelings, sentiments, thoughts and emotions they seem to be foreign to our National
heritage as any Turk or Britisher could be.
We as a people have to realize this fact of our life and decide whether we would like to remain
under foreign domination carried on by local persons or to shake ourselves free of every vestige
of slavery and stand erect as an independent, self-reliant, self-respecting and therefore
universally respected Nation. The report (1 cannot vouchsafe for its correctness) that the
present Government has been pressurized by the U.S.A., and other foreign powers into agreeing r
to prohibit cow-slaughter under pains of forfeiting the various types of aid we are obtaining
from them, is clear evidence of our being dominated and dictated to by foreigners in short, of
our not having yet achieved that glorious state which we call ‘Independence’ should open the
eyes of every patriotic citizen worth his salt tragedy of the situation.
It is with the sole objective of re-awakening the soul Nation and frees our life of the taints
of slavery that our holy have launched upon the present phase of the continuing agitation
demanding a country-wide ban on the slaughter of the cow and her species by suitable central
legislation. Should we all be spectators in this movement or come forward to do our part
duty-that is the question facing us today. From the so far declared attitude of the Government,
it is to be feared that the precious lives of our holy men may be lost, and the Government has
one feather in its cap in the matter of slighting the sentiments Hindu people and trampling upon
surging nationalism.
The argument repeated again and again that it is for the States to make suitable enactments and
not within the preview of the Centre to do so is only trying to shelve the issue. The mind of
our leaders in positions of power does not seem to be clean. On one hand they say they y to
persuade the States to pass such acts but on the other the Centre has recently recommended to
the Mysore State, in the old Mysore part of which there had always been total prohibition on
slat of the cow species, to amend the existing law so as to enable the slaughter of the species
for and in the Army. It is reported tha1 the conflagration of 1857 the British, out of regard
for the sentiments of the Hindus and Muslims in the armed forces had disallowed the use of beef
and pork in the army. It seems our Government is determined now to take a retrograde step and
supply the beef Army. Probable pork is still prohibited. At least in the high commissioner’s
establishment in the U.K., this is reported to be so – beef is served and pork totally
prohibited.
Under these circumstances what should we, the common people do? As ordinary men, it is beyond
our capacity to emulate the greatly respected saints and go on an indefinite fast. As patriotic
and sober citizens we cannot indulge in acts of lawlessness and violence, the only language
which unfortunately our Government seems to understand and bows down before. We can not stoop to
bully the Government into surrender for we feel it will detract from the necessary prestige of
the Government, which we feel to be our very own. What then can we do?
Under the present set up, agitations, demonstrations are apparently well-recognized means to
achieve any objective by persuading or compelling the Government to accede to the demands. But
there are one more very respectable and universally accepted means that of demonstrating our
approbation or disapprobation to the policies of the group responsible for the Government
through the ballot box. Shortly this opportunity is again being offered to the people in the
form of coming elections. Though the movement launched for demanding countrywide legal ban on
slaughter of the Cow species which began as early as April 1966, was led by Sadhus and other
pious men and had not contemplated it’s becoming an election issue and though personally and as
representative of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, I am not interested in political activity and
have nothing to do with the coming elections.
I am taking this liberty of calling upon my worthy countrymen to exercise their vote and
intelligence and discrimination and vote for those who stand for total and unreserved ban on the
slaughter of the cow species and not for those who have directly or indirectly been allowing
this National disgrace to taint the fair face of our Holy Land. I would also warn them against
being misled by tall and extravagant promises which will be held out by persons and parties for
such promises do not seem to be meant to be fulfilled.
Let every voter calmly and with understanding scrutinize the past performance and present
promises of every person and party and exercise his right judiciously so as to be able to
achieve the cherished goal of full protection of the cow species and through it regaining our
real freedom, shattering the shackles of the past few centuries, serfdom and re-establishing our
hoary Nation in unsullied effulgence and glory.