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The year was 1909. Kastur Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas Gandhi, was so ill that the doctor fearing that she wouldn’t wake up if chloroform was given operated while she was awake (medical science was still raw back then). But after the operation when canada goose outlet her condition did not improve too much, the doctor suggested giving her beef tea, which back then was considered medicinal.
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It is the same Mohandas, as Mahatma Gandhi, who decrying cow vigilantism would tweet: “I would not kill a human being for protection of a cow, as I will not kill a cow for saving a human life, be it ever canada goose outlet near me so precious.” Well, he did not tweet this 128 character message (twitter’s loss) but if twitter happy Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who used the Mahatma’s name on Thursday to say violence in the name of cow should not go on, was serious about his message, he could have tweeted it.
canada goose What the PM instead tweeted was interesting and full of double innuendoes according to ‘sickular libtards’ (no more secular liberals in India). “No one spoke about protecting cows more than Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Viinoba Bhave. Yes. It should be done. PM.” What was he trying to do condemn or condone a lot of people asked after this tweet? canada goose
If the PM were truly serious about curbing violence in the name of cows, he would actually have talked about the rule of law and that anyone breaking the law would be dealt with harshly canada goose jacket outlet as per the law.
canada goose factory sale But since the PM talked about Mahatma Gandhi, it is interesting to look at what the Mahatma said and did with regards to the cow and its protection. canada goose factory sale
Mohandas loved cow’s milk. But when he considered the inhuman way in which cows were kept so that they could be milked for human consumption, he vowed never to drink it again (one wonders what he would have thought of farms of cows today kept alive with the sole purpose of milk, drunk gaily by cow protectors).
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canada goose coats on sale After thinking for a day, he finally agreed and the intake of goat’s milk helped him recover rapidly. He would hold Kastur canada goose vest outlet highly for thus saving his life. canada goose coats on sale
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Canada Goose Coats On Sale In 1925, he would also say another tweet worthy quip, “Cow protection to me is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of all lives that is helpless and weak in the world.” Canada Goose Coats On Sale
uk canada goose outlet Contrast this canada goose jacket outlet uk again to when he said that “Christians and Muslims living in India including the British have one day to give up beef.” But this, he said, could happen only if Hindus improved their treatment of the cow. Talking about violence in the name of cow protection, Gandhi said he was committed to showing “the folly, the stupidity and inhumanity of the crime of killing a fellow human being for the sake of saving a fellow animal.” uk canada goose outlet
Perhaps that is why both bigoted and liberal folks use Gandhi to defend themselves and their ideology and the reason why the PM uses him to suit his needs.
This is also the reason why the Left in India accuses Gandhi of starting this whole mess of cow protection without realising that Mahatma Gandhi did not start it. Hindu lawmaker Manu did in his Manusmriti, which along with cow protection, gave Hindu society two more ills misogyny and caste violence. What Gandhi perhaps did was usurp the same tenets to show how the same cow protection can be taken up in a humane and logical way.
However, the Mahatma also maintained that he was not consistent and that he evolved with time. By this logic, what he said at the end of his life should supersede what he said before. And this presents another very interesting quandary, because at the end of his life, while he remained firm on cow protection as ever, he would change his ideas on the means one could use to achieve it.
In 1946 he would say, “Cow slaughter can never be stopped by law. Knowledge, education, and the spirit of kindliness towards her alone can put canada goose outlet winnipeg address an end to it. It will not be possible to save those animals that are a burden on the land or, perhaps, even man if he is a burden.”
uk canada goose Again after independence, he would give one of the most telling quotes on cow protection. “The Hindu religion prohibits cow slaughter for the Hindus, not for the world. The religious prohibition comes from within. Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. India is the land not only of the Hindus but also of the Musalmans, the Sikhs, the Parsis, the Christians and the Jews and all who claim to be Indian and are loyal to the Indian Union. canada goose jacket outlet store If they can prohibit cow slaughter in India on the religious grounds, why cannot the Pakistan Government prohibit, say, idol worship in Pakistan on similar grounds? I am not a temple goer, but if I were prohibited from going to a temple in Pakistan, I would make it a point to go there even at the risk of losing my head. Just as the Shariat cannot be imposed on the non Muslims, the Hindu law cannot be imposed on non Hindus.” uk canada goose.
