SB 1.10.4 (1964)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 4
Kamam babarsa parjjanyah sarba kama dugha mahi Sisichu cha brajan gavah payasodhaswatir muda
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Samam—everything we need, Babarsa—was showered, Parjjanyah-rains, Sarva—everything, Kama—Necessities, Dugha—producer, Mahi—the land, Sisichu—moisted, Cha-and, Brajan—pasturing grounds, Gavah—the cow, Payasodhaswatir—due to swollen milk bag, Muda—on account of joyful attitude.
TRANSLATION
During the reign of Maharaj Yudhisthir the rains showered all that the people needed and the earth produced profusely all the necessities of man. The cow used to moisten the grazing ground by milk on account of its fatty milk-bag and cheerful attitude.
PURPORT
The basic principle of economic development of the people of world is the land and the cow. The necessities of the human society are the food grains, fruits, milk, minerals, jewels, cotton, silk, stones, wood, etc. They require all these items for fulfilling the material needs of the body. Certainly they do not require flesh and fish or iron tools and machinery. During the regime of Maharaj Yudhisthir all over the world, there was regulated rain falls all over the world. This rainfall is not in the control of the human being. The heavenly king Indradeva is the controller of rains and he is the servant of the Lord. When the Lord is obeyed by the king and the people under the king's administration there is regulated rains from the horizon and this regulated rains are the causes of all varieties of production on the land. Regulated rains not only help ample production of grains and fruits but by such regulated rains combined with astronomical influence there is ample production of valuable stones and pearls. The grains and vegetables can sumptuously feed the man and the animals and the fatty cow deliver enough milk for supplying sumptuously man's vigour and vitality by vitaminous foodstuff. If there is enough milk, enough grains, enough fruit, enough cotton, enough silk and enough jewels then why the people need economic development in the shape of machine and tools? Can the machine and tools supply vigour and vitality to the man and animals? Can the machinery produce grains, fruits and milk or jewellery or silk? Is not jewellery and silk, varieties of food stuff prepared with ghee and grains or milk and fruits sufficient for man's pure luxurious and healthy life ? Then why there is artificial luxurious life of cinema, cars, radio, flesh and hotels? Has this civilisation produced any good result more than the dog's mentality of quarreling with one another individually and nationally? Has this civilisation enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men in the hellish factory and the war fields at the whims of a particular man?
It is said here that the cows used to moisten the pasturing land with milk because the milk bag was fatty and the animals were pretty joyful. Do they not require, therefore, proper protection for joyfull life only being fed with sufficient quantity of grass in the field? Why man should kill the cows for their selfish purpose? Why man should not be satisfied with grains, fruits and milk which combined together can produce hundreds and thousands of palatable dishes for satisfaction of the taste of the fastidious population of the present day? Why there are slaughter houses all over the world to kill the innocent animals without being protected by the state executive head? It is said that Maharaj Parikshit, grandson of Maharaj Yudhisthir, while touring in his vast kingdom, saw one black man attempting to kill a cow. The king at once arrested the butcher and chastised him sufficiently. Is not a king or the executive head meant for protecting the life of the poor animals who are unable to make any conference and agitation. Does this mean any humanity? Are not the animals of the country national also of that particular country? Then why they are allowed to be butchered in the organised slaughter houses? Are these signs of equality and fraternity or non-violence?
Therefore, in contrast with modern advanced civilized form of government an autocracy of the type like the regime of Maharaj Yudhisthir is by far more the better than the so-called democracy of the world where animals are killed and a man less than an animal is allowed to cast vote for another less than an animal man.
We are all creatures of the material nature. In the Bhagwat Geeta it is said that the Lord Himself is the seed-giving Father and material nature is the mother of all living beings in any shape. As such, mother material nature has enough food stuff both for the animals and the man by the Grace of the Father Almighty Sri Krishna. The human being is the elder brother of all other living beings. The human being is endowed with intelligence more powerful than animals for realising the course of nature and the indication of the Almighty Father. The human civilizations should depend on the produtcion of material nature without artificially trying for so called economic development turning the world in a chaos of artificial greed, love of power, pursuit of wealth only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and sense gratification prominent even in the life of dogs and hogs.