Indian Culture and Cows- The Need for Cow-Based Science in the Present Times

Jaydevsinh B. Rayjada

Assistant Professor, Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kutch University Bhuj (Kutch)

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ABSTRACT:

Indian Vedic literature and texts contain Vedic science. This science has been developed from millions of years of penance and experiences of the ascetic sages of Sanatan Dharma in India and on earth. Vedic science is an ocean of invaluable scientific knowledge. An important part of Vedic science is “cow-based science”. Vedic scriptures, verses and verses describe the great glory of cows. Many types of divine cows are also described, including the Kamadhenu cow (a cow that fulfills all kinds of desires and produces all kinds of grains and nectars produced from the body of cows – ghee, milk, butter, cow urine, cow dung and other divine nectar-like medicines in unlimited quantities), the Golden Kapila cow (whose body and limbs radiate golden light and also contain cow urine and cow dung). The cow with a high percentage of gold), the cow with a priceless divine Gorochan on its head, the completely black Kavali cow whose ghee made from its milk is an excellent medicine and removes paralysis in patients with paralysis, the white Kapila cow which is a very fortunate and auspicious cow, that cow offers an ocean of virtue to its owner.

Many such cows are described in the Indian Vedas. It is written about cow dung that “Gomay Vasate Lakshmi” means Lakshmi ji resides in cow dung – many (hundreds) of essential items of life are obtained from cow dung. Cow dung, cow urine, milk, ghee, butter are the five nectars of the cow’s body. Based on this, fatal diseases for humans are treated, and by increasing the health of humans, the invaluable role of the cow in providing a long, healthy, happy and joyful life to every human being is described in Vedic science. This cow-based science – and the fact that rivers of ghee and milk flowed in India in ancient times and the Middle Ages are mentioned in Indian texts and literature.

KEYWORDS: Vedic science, Percentage, described, increasing, population, consuming, quantities.

INTRODUCTION:

India got its place as the richest country in the world because of cows, that is why the British and foreigners used to say, "Where the golden bird flies on the dal, the country is called Bharat." This prosperity was based on cows because in 1850 AD, when India had a population of only 3 crore people, there were 132 crore cows in India, due to which the productivity of cow's milk and ghee was more than the needs of the people. At that time, selling milk and ghee in India was considered a sin according to the religious values of Indian culture and in rural areas, people could buy milk and ghee in large quantities in exchange for small items. Along with consuming milk and ghee, the fact that cows are an excellent healer is also described in Rishi Vigyan (the science based on cows) - how this cow is an excellent healer is explained below.

1. Cow as an excellent healer:

According to cow-based science, the health of a person who keeps a cow is best taken care of through the cow, such as the environment and energy of the area around the cow up to 10 feet and its place of residence and grazing becomes pure, the touch of different parts of the cow transmits positive energy to the person's body and the person becomes healthy, his different body parts become healthy, such as when a heart disease patient moves his hand on the cow's crotch, his heartbeat runs in a regular and well-organized rhythm, by moving his hand on the cow's hump, extremely pure and strong life energy is transmitted to the body, in the same way, by moving his hand on different parts, different diseases of a person are treated, along with the acupressure method in the hands, the body is exercised due to which the person remains healthy, the cow's cleanliness - in the process of breathing, when the cow exhales, it emits 100% oxygen (breath), which the person And it is lifeblood for the living world, along with the cow, to keep the family of its residence healthy, it makes an advance effort to prevent diseases coming into the house from the smell of the person's body. The cow gets to know the beginning of the person's illness from the smell and to get the medicine for that illness, the cow goes far and wide to the Sim and forest areas and eats plants whose medicinal elements get into the cow's milk, and the milk becomes an excellent medicine for the sick person or the sick person of his family and the person becomes healthy. The cow that goes to graze far away for the consumption of medicine gets separated from its herd and returns home after a very long time. Such cows are known as "Redhiyar Cows". The cow absorbs up to 300 ppm of poison coming from the fodder in its body and gives poison-free milk. Such an excellent property is not found in the milk of other creatures in the living world.

In the present times, the modern lifestyle is a lifestyle that is harmful to human health, and humans have become victims of many diseases and physical inadequacies such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, nutritional deficiencies. The problem of poor health in the present times can be solved through cow-based science - if human diseases and inadequacies are treated (cured and treated) through the elixir of the cow's body, then crores of people in the human society can be provided with a healthy and long life.

2. Vastu purification by cow

It is said in Rishi Vigyan that when a person builds a residence in any new place, it is said to perform Vastu Yajna first because in any place many biological and environmental events have happened in the past, the positive or negative impact of these events remains in the environment of that place for thousands of years, to avoid this negative energy and vibration, it is said to purify the land and environment through Vastu Yajna. But where cows graze, the footsteps of cows fall and cow dung, cow urine and other nectars fall on the ground, the land and environment become clean and have positive energy without Vastu Yajna.

3. Increase of nutrients in the soil by cows

Cow dung contains thousands of nutrients like carbon, iron, zinc, potash, nitrogen, phosphorus, boron, manganese, copper, gold, silver, whose compost fertilizer makes the soil nutritious. The moisture-water storage capacity of the soil with cow dung fertilizer increases by 20 times, which becomes an excellent basis for plant nutrition. It also improves the concentration, structure and nutrients in it when mixed with cow dung soil. Water with useful properties is considered very important as nutrition for the plant world. These nutrients provide the power to manage the life cycle and the environmental cycle. The basis of the environmental cycle is the plant world through which rain falls and through plants, the basis of life on earth is maintained. The oxygen-carbon ratio is maintained. Along with this, living beings get nutrition by using plants as food. That is why it has been said in Rishi Vigyan that the cow is the mother who nourishes all living beings, just as the earth nourishes itself. Just as the cow maintains the continuity of the living world through its nectar-like substances, the cow also keeps the cycle of life continuously beating and flowing, which is why the Vedas call the cow the mother who gives nourishment in the form of the earth. Even after the cow's nirvana, when the lifeless body is immersed in the earth, the invaluable nutrients of the cow's body, which are in the form of nectar, mix with the soil and become excellent and powerful fertilizer, providing extremely powerful nourishment to plants. Man has been using cow dung as fuel since ancient times. Man has been using this ash from the stove in many ways in his lifestyle - the ash transmits many nutrients to the soil.

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Received on 20.11.2025 Revised on 26.12.2025

Accepted on 18.01.2026 Published on 17.03.2026

Available online from March 20, 2026

Int. J. Ad. Social Sciences. 2026; 14(1):4-6.

DOI: 10.52711/2454-2679.2026.00002

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