Cow is considered as a sacred animal in India and Indian’s call cow ‘gau mata’ i.e. goddess cow. Not in India but in Egypt, Greece, Ancient Israel and Rome also held the belief that cow is a very sacred animal.

Hindus worship cows with great devotion. It is said that cow feeding helps to overcome the malefic effects of planets in a person’s horoscope. Generally, green grass and sweet flour are given to cows, which is believed to bring positivity in our lives.

Food Crisis were quite normal in almost every culture, in every society. In this culture, when food crisis came, the simple rural wisdom was that if you have a cow in your house, your children will live. If you do not have a cow in your house, your children will die, it was as simple as that. So the cow naturally became like a mother, it is like a surrogate mother to us. When our mother’s breast could not feed us anymore, and the next level of food did not come to us, the cow was like a mother for everybody. All of us at some point have sustained and nourished ourselves on cows’ milk, is it not? It became very sacred because it is a life nourisher and what should have gone to its own offspring, it allows us. We believe such things, but whether it allows or not we take it. Because it nourishes us in that way, it is like the number two mother in our life. So in this culture some sanctity was given to the cow.

Another reason is that the cow has very human kind of emotions. The cow is one animal which responds to your own grief and sorrow. Suppose you are very miserable, the cow feels this and sheds tears for your pain. That is the reason why in India it was said you should not kill a cow because its emotions are close to that of a human being.

Benefits Of Feeding Cows:

  • All the Vedic scriptures speak of the importance of the cow. There are many astrological remedies related to cows, too, that can solve astrological issues and eliminate the adverse effects of unfavourable planets in the horoscope.
  • When Sun is not favourable in your horoscope, give wheat bread to cows.
  • When the Moon is weak in one’s horoscope, one should keep a cow or give water to the cow daily. This will help reduce the malefic effects of the Moon.
  • When Mars is weak in the horoscope, give jaggery and gram to cows on Tuesdays.
  • To improve the effects of planet Mercury, give green grass or green leafy vegetables to cows on Wednesday.
  • To improve the effects of planet Jupiter, give jaggery and soaked gram to cows on Thursdays.
  • To make Venus strong or reduce the adverse effects of Venus, give a portion of your food to a cow daily.
  • If you are going through Rahu Maha Dasha, give soaked black dal to a black cow or a black buffalo every evening. This will reduce the malefic effects of Rahu.
  • When Saturn is afflicted in your horoscope, or you are undergoing the ill effects of Sade Sati, feed the cow oiled bread or green spinach every Saturday, as this is said to eliminate the malefic effects of Shani.
  • When Ketu is not favourable, feed some sesame seeds mixed in wheat flour. This will help you to overcome the malefic effects of Ketu.
  • If you are going through a bad time, daily, after taking a shower, get a cow’s blessing by touching its feet. This can bring peace, harmony, and prosperity in life.
  • Keeping a calendar or photo of Krishna playing the flute and surrounded by cows in the house is very auspicious and can bring positive energy.
  • Seeing the cow or hearing its voice is very auspicious when going for some important work.
  • As per Vastu Shastra, the presence of a cow in the house has the power to remove any Vastu Dosha. Lighting a ghee lamp in the temple also creates positivity in the house.

People have very deep relationships with cows. Today it has gone, they are all in dairy farms, milk them, milk them, that is all we know. But otherwise in villages, people have a very intimate relationship with the cows.

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Acharya Shree Rajendra Alakh
Peethadheeshwar Alakh Jyoti Ashram