When I was in IIT, in my second year or something, there was a Hindi story I read, an autobiography of a calf, a cow's calf. So, how it is born and what it has to go through, and then how it was denied milk, how it was castrated and then how it was exploited in the field, and ultimately how it was dispatched to the slaughterhouse. So that made me quit milk at that time.
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Questioner: Let's talk about culture for a bit. You know, Lord Krishna used to have ghee and butter. He loved animals, and some people call it mythology. I call it as well. But apart from that, if we have a lot of symbology of animals being used but loved at the same time, so culturally, what was the idea then of including animals?
Acharya Prashant: You see, we are not supposed to emulate the actions of avatars, the incarnations. That's not how India has been. Because time changes. Everything that is time-bound, everything that was present in a particular passage of time, is bound to change over the next centuries, millennia, and so on. Now, what is it that you learn from Krishna?
The Gita or the fact that He was consuming milk and butter?
Very few people actually read or understand Gita, but we loved to use the fable of Sri Krishna to justify dairy consumption. You have to take from Gods that which is timeless because they come from the timeless dimension. You cannot take from them their dressing sense, sartorial choices, and language. I mean, if you want to emulate what Sri Krishna used to eat, then you must also emulate the dress he used to wear, the language he used to speak, and all the other things that he did. He is said to have thousands of wives, for example. Would you want to emulate that?
