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Although it is her milk, no, it gives you, human society: "You take. But don't kill me. Let me live. I am eating only grass." These rascals, the scientists, they do not know that milk is nothing but transformation of the blood. That everyone knows. So if you want to... That is nature's way, by God's will, that a cow gives forty pounds, fifty pounds milk daily, but it does not drink. Although it is her milk, no, it gives you, human society: "You take. But don't kill me. Let me live. I am eating only grass."
(More...) Milk is made for man, so you take the milk. Let her live and supply you milk continually. Why should you kill? Follow nature's law. So our proposition: If you inquire, "Then why you restrict, 'No meat-eating'?" the answer is that actually we do not make any distinction between the meat-eaters and the vegetable eaters, because the cow or the goat or the lamb has got life, and the grass, it has also got life. But we follow the Vedic instruction. What is that? Now, isavasyam idam sarvam yat kincit jagatyam jagat, tena tyaktena bhunjitha : everything is the property of the Supreme Lord, and you can enjoy whatever is allotted to you. Ma grdhaḥ kasya svid dhanam. You cannot touch others' body, others' property. You cannot touch. That is Vedic life.
(More...) The cow delivers more milk than is needed by her calf because milk is intended for man. Since everything is the property of the Supreme Lord, one can only enjoy what is allotted to him by the Lord, and one cannot touch another's property. According to Vedic life and according to all Vedic scriptures, a man should live on fruits and vegetables, for his teeth are made in such a way that these can be very easily eaten and digested. Although it is nature's law that one has to live by eating other living entities (jivo jivasya jivanam), one must use discretion. Fruits, flowers, vegetables, rice, grain and milk are made for human beings. Milk, for example, is an animal product, the blood of an animal transformed, but the cow delivers more milk than is needed by her calf because milk is intended for man. Man should simply take the milk and let the cows live, and thus following nature's law, man will be happy. Tena tyaktena bhunjitha : one should take whatever God allots to him and thus live comfortably.
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