(Sanskrit)
I bow to the Divine Mother in the form of Gomata.
I bow to her as the mother of the entire creation.
I bow to Lord Jagannath.
I bow to my beloved Gurudev.
I bow to all the saints and sages of all religions and all places.
I bow to all present here and present everywhere, as the form of Lord Rama and Mother Sita.
(Hindi)
Today is the sixth day of Go Navaratri,
nine days celebration in honor of Gomata, mother cow.
On this occasion, we are celebrating in a village in Rajasthan, Khirodi.
The entire celebration is organized by the villagers with full of unity, amity, and fraternity.
With full of inspiration and motivation.
Here the villagers are running a beautiful goshala,
having couple of thousands of cattle population.
To commemorate this program,
we have seven days talk on go Bhagavatam, by the pithadhishvar of Malukpit, Vrindavan.
I bow to Pujya Maharaj who is sitting and adorning the seat of sage Vyasa.
In the year 1966, on the holy day of gopastami,
when countless sadhus, saints and sages, even common man,
sacrificed their lives with the brutal step of the government
on the silent assembly of about 1.5 million of people, sadhus, common men,
along with many prominent spiritual personalities.
The backbone of the movement to stop cow slaughter was really broken.
Since last 26, 27 years,
Godham Pathmeda has taken a positive step
to serve the cattle population, Gomata, Govamsa, as the living presence of God.
And there is a constructive moviment, Rajanath Makakariakrama,
to bring the message, the science of mother cow to common men.
Since 2012, personally I am inspired and motivated
by Gorishi Patmeda Maharaj
and his exemplary personality, life of complete dedication
and the practical service through Pathmeda.
And I feel myself blessed to be involved in this movement, in spite of all limitations.
I bow to Pathmeda Maharaj.
Again, I bow to you all.
I will tell you one incident
which happened in the year 1947.
November 3rd in Puri.
You all know Puri is a prominent place of pilgrimage for the hindus.
And it is also the city of the Shankaracharyas in the East.
On this day there was a program in a Vedic school.
The governor of Odisha, Kailash Nath Katju.
Those who are elderly people, they might remember him, a very powerful politician.
He was the chief guest.
Then, his holiness Shankaracharya of Puri,
adorable Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha, was the chief speaker.
Governor has his protocol.
The program started.
Pujya Swami Jagadguru Bharati Krishna Tirtha,
he started speaking on the glory of the Vedas.
The governor Katju interfered.
He stood up and said: I have an objection to his holiness.
We the hindu speak very highly of the Vedas and our culture, but it is too much.
And not only that.
To say that the Vedas have a solution to all human problems,
it is too much of exaggeration.
Bharati Krishna Tirtha was a unique personality.
He was integration of humility, spirituality and unusual memory and knowledge.
Just for information, he had seven master’s degrees.
And in each master’s degree he was the topper.
Gold medalist.
He knew more than fourteen languages.
He said: Mr. Katju, what I am telling, I know and I tell.
The Vedas are the storehouse of knowledge.
Unfortunately, we are ignoring it.
I will give a very simple example of mathematics.
All mathematics problem can be solved with only a few sutras of the Vedas.
Now it became, instead of a program of the school,
it became a debate on knowledge.
For practical demonstration of Vedic knowledge in mathematics.
Blackboard to write to the chalk was brought.
Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha asked the governor:
You write down any problem,
any multiplication of any digit with another any digit,
it can be done in no time.
So Katju took this challenge, and took the chalk and wrote a big number,
and then another big number, then another big number, like this.
Then he sat down.
Pujya Jagadguruji called a fifteen years young student of him, a disciple.
Solve it.
This young man of fifteen years age stood up and just wrote the answer.
Again, the governor interfered: I don’t believe in it.
I want step by step, you might have some magic, some mantra, tantra.
So, this fifteen years old young man did it step by step, very quickly.
Seeing this, there was a complete change in the mind and heart of the governor.
He had tears in his eyes, and he bowed at the feet of the Shankaracharya,
and asked: How long will it take for me to master this knowledge?
He said: six months.
One hour, two hours, six months practice you can do it.
It is not a big deal.
You will be surprised to know.
Governor´s car every day came to Govardhan peeth.
Why do I tell this, on this occasion?
India got independence nearly 75 years ago.
We had the opportunity to have our own educational system,
own agricultural system, own economic system,
own defense system, everything of our own.
Based on the Vedas and scriptures.
Unfortunately, the government after independence,
with blind imitation of West, and being European in heart, Indian in skin,
imitated the European model of development.
What happened?
75 years, we are going to complete, what has happened in India?
Can you tell that it is progress?
India has progressed a lot?
With my little knowledge, knowledge in economics, knowledge in science,
I am telling it is not development.
It is destructive development, not constructive development.
In the name of so-called economic development,
in the name of so-called revolution in agriculture, in milk production, and so on,
we have made India as a place of poverty,
diseases, sickness, dirty, uncleanliness everywhere.
Sense of fear, sense of insecurity.
The chance which God gave us in the year 1947, we missed it,
and 75 years of suffering.
Now is the chance.
Again, God has given some chance to people of India.
I am not telling to praise any party or party in power.
But, after 75 years, we have a hope
that mistakes done 75 years ago, partition of India is a big blunder.
Not following the Vedic model of economic development is a big mistake.
Not following the cow based farming and agriculture
is a biggest mistake which is really irreparable.
And all these mistakes, some of them have been solved.
For example,
previously Kashmir was considered as…
now Kashmir is declared as integral part of India.
Ram Mandir going to be finished.
But this is not enough.
This is like toffees to children.
The real challenge in our front,
near the government we request, and to all the citizens of India.
Why citizens of India?
I request people of the entire world to listen, to think
how to be healthy, how to be happy,
how to be joyful, how to have good memory,
how to live a good, divine life.
The Vedic knowledge, the Vedic way.
And these problems are many, and the solution is one.
We want good health, we need good food.
If we need good food, we need good drink and good agriculture.
And for this, cow is the solution.
Gomata is the solution for all the problems we have.
It is not just blind belief.
India has given to the world a few things.
Unfortunately, people in India are forgetting it.
Mother cow, in the yogic lifestyle, practice of yoga,
for preventive and curative health system,
to prevent diseases and to cure diseases,
Ayurveda and vegetarian food.
These are the few special gifts of India to the entire humanity.
On this special day, special occasion of Go Navaratri,
I humbly pray to all the citizens of the world.
I humbly pray to all the people of India: Awake.
Be aware of the real problem.
Don’t be sick, run to the doctor.
Don’t be unhealthy and live unhealthy way of thinking, speaking and food habit.
We can change our lifestyle, we can change our attitude,
we can change our attitude towards Mother Cow, Gomata,
and bring a complete transformation
in the environment, in the family, in the society, in agriculture, in food, everywhere.
With these few words, again I offer my love and devotion to Pathemeda Maharaji,
and his parallels effort for the cause of Mother Cow,
and I offer my respect and regard
to Malukpeeth Maharaj who is sitting here on Vyasapit,
and I bow to all of you.
Let God gives us real strength to us
to fight for the holiest, noblest, and the most divine cause,
the cause of Gomata, Mother Cow.
Jay Gomata, Jay Gopala.