India Trip_078
Item
- Title
- India Trip_078
- Alternative Title
- India Trip
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The left page contains a photograph of a woven basket placed on a circular platform with a decorative border. The right page shows two cows grazing amidst a pile of trash and debris. The top of the right page is labeled "FEBRUARY 2014." The left page includes text from Mahatma Gandhi discussing the significance of cow protection in Hinduism, emphasizing the cow's role in human evolution and its importance as a symbol of compassion and protection. The right page includes a quote by Gandhi about the cow being a poem of pity and a guardian of sub-human life.
- Identifier
- 030_013014-021714_india_book
- Dates Completed
- January 30, 2014 - February 17, 2014
- Keywords
- Taj Mahal; Golden Book Encyclopedia; Safeway; Columbus Nebraska; Mahatma Gandhi; Mughal art; Indian spiritual texts; India travel; Gretchen Dykstra; Northern India; Mumbai; Elephanta Caves; Varanasi; Panna National Park; Khajuraho; Agra; Jaipur; Jodhpur; Udaipur; Delhi; $14,000 cost; Dallas Morning News pension; Pennies from heaven; Mani Bhavan; Dhobi Ghat; Ganges River; Funeral pyres; Nadesar Palace; Hotel luxury; Panna forest safari; Elephants; Tigers; Sacred sculptures; Oberoi Hotel; Rambagh Palace; Jaipur textiles; Quilt purchases; Umaid Bhawan Palace; Garden of Cosmos; Tara Homes; Gandhi memorials
- Transcription
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**Left Page:**
From MAHATMA. A Golden Treasury of Wisdom
Thoughts & Glimpses of Life
The Cow in Hinduism
The Central fact of Hinduism is cow protection. Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in human evolution. It takes the human being beyond his species. The cow to me means the entire sub-human world. Man through the cow is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives. Why the cow was selected for apotheosis is obvious to me. The cow was in India the best companion. She was the giver of plenty. Not only did she give milk, but she also made agriculture possible.....
Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world. And Hinduism will live so long as there are Hindus to protect the cow.....
Hindus will be judged not by their tilaks, not by the correct chanting of mantras, not by their pilgrimages, not by their most punctilious observances of caste rules, but their ability to protect the cow.
M. K. Gandhi
**Right Page:**
Cow
The cow is a poem of pity. One reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the mother to millions of Indian mankind. Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God. The ancient seer, whoever he was, began with the cow. The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forcible because it is speechless.
... The cow is the purest type of sub-human life. She pleads before us on behalf of the whole of the sub-human species for justice to it at the hands of man, the first among all that lives. She seems to speak to us to kill through her eyes: 'You are not appointed over us to kill us and eat our flesh or otherwise ill-treat us, but to be our friend and guardian.
I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
M. K. Gandhi - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
- Is Part Of
- India Trip
- Relation
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