Article by: Iskcontimes
By friction one can get fire from wood, by digging the earth one can get food grains and water, and by agitating the milk bag of the cow one can get nectarean milk. Milk is compared to nectar, which one can drink to become immortal. Of course, simply drinking milk will not make one immortal, but it can increase the duration of one’s life. (Srimad Bhagavatam 8.6.12 Purport)
In modern civilization, men do not think milk to be important, and therefore they do not live very long. Although in this age men can live up to one hundred years, their duration of life is reduced because they do not drink large quantities of milk. This is a sign of Kali-yuga. (Srimad Bhagavatam 8.6.12 Purport)
“One who takes to Krishna consciousness seriously and perfectly, he must be very, very intelligent.” Dull brain cannot accept it. Bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate [Bg. 7.19]. So we have to make our brain very clean. And for that purpose you require to drink one pound or half-pound milk daily. That is essential. (Lecture SB 1.16.19, Hawaii, 15 January 1974)
There is a miracle in milk, for it contains all the necessary vitamins to sustain human physiological conditions for higher achievements. Brahminical culture can advance only when man is educated to develop the quality of goodness, and for this there is a prime necessity of food prepared with milk, fruits and grains. (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.16.4 Purport)
The cow is the most important animal for developing the human body to perfection. The body can be maintained by any kind of foodstuff, but cow’s milk is particularly essential for developing the finer tissues of the human brain so that one can understand the intricacies of transcendental knowledge. (Srimad Bhagavatam 3.5.7 Purport)
The milk is also conversion of the blood. Just like we drink the milk of our mother. The color of the milk is white, but everyone knows that milk is produced from the red blood corpuscle. So this is the process. You drink the blood of the cow by natural process, which turns into white milk. You’ll get better brain, better strength. (Lecture SB 1.16.19, Hawaii, 15 January 1974)
You can prepare ghee from milk. First of all drink as much as you like. Then convert it into yogurt, next day, next day, next day. And then, when that is also enough, then churn it, take out butter…buttermilk and butter…and drink butter milk with chapati. It is very palatable, very nutritious. If you have got excess butter, then turn into ghee, and ghee can be preserved for years. There is no problem. Each drop of milk you can utilize to the perfect utility point. (Philadelphia, July 15, 1976 Evening Lecture At Gita-Nagari Farm)
From the milk we can make hundreds of vitaminous foodstuff…hundreds. They’re all palatable. You cannot reject milk from the human society. As soon as there is a child born, milk immediately required. Old man, milk is life. Diseased person, milk is life. Invalid, milk is life. So therefore Krishna is teaching by His practical demonstration how He loves this innocent animal, cow. (Lecture — Los Angeles, December 4, 1968)
