Once the cows were slaughtered, then there was no manure and there is no insecticide like cow urine.

In 1740 in the Arcot District of Tamil Nadu, 54 Quintals of rice was harvested from one acre of land using simple manure and pesticides like cow urine and cow dung.

As a result of the 350 slaughterhouses which worked day and night by 1910 India was practically bereft of gau. India had to approach Britain’s doorstep for industrial manure. Thus industrial manure like urea and phosphate made way to India.

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Gandhi promised, that the day India attains Independence, all the slaughter houses in India would be closed.

In 1929 Nehru in a public meeting stated that if he were to become the prime minister of India, the first thing he would do is to stop all the slaughterhouses.

The tragedy of the situation is since 1947 the number of slaughterhouses has increased from 350 to 36,000.

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A clash of opinions online discussion:

Opinion:
- First we should worry about the millions of people living in streets and shanty towns before we star worrying about the cows.

Reply:
- The root reason they are living in the streets and the shantytowns is because the cows were slaughtered during the last centuries and the villagers were forced into the cities.

Blind leading a blind, what would be the fate of such a nation but this?

When we begin solving a problem independently, without bothering to know the root cause for that problem, we will find ourselves continuously trapped in that mire.

The very reason is cow slaughter. Every action has got equal and opposite reaction. This is just not science law, but also law of nature.

We are paying the price of our misdeeds. It cannot be helped.

So, if we are really worried about those people, we should help them come out of ignorance and help cow protection and go-seva. It might help the society at large to come out of this suffering.

Many times I come across queries like “What is so special about cow? Cow is also, after all, an animal, why do we need to differentiate?”

As a human being we are supposed to be more intelligent and act with more responsibility.

Like there are many plants and trees, but Tulasi has special significance; there are many planets and stars, but sun has special significance, there are many women around but place of a mother is a significant and a different one; similarly there are many animals, but cow is a special one. Cow has spiritual significance.

Another person adds:
- I have researched myself, Gomutra (cow urine) and Gobar (cow dung) have more mineral contents than all Revital type mineral supplements together.
First we moved these inputs from our food chain by moving them out of our agriculture and now we spend money on these artificially synthesized vitamins and mineral supplements which are less than 10% effective compared to natural variety…

India is the only country in world that provides in its Constitution for mercy and care of the animals.
According to its laws, only those animals can be slain, which are older than 16 years of age, and are useless. However, now meat of young healthy buffalos between 4 months and one year is allowed for exports.

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Since 1947 the number of slaughter houses has increased from 350 to 36,000 (thirty six thousand).

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Meat of one cow/buffalo is worth Rs. 20,000. However, the same animal may produce, in its 18 years of life span, goods (milk, butter, and manure) worth Rs. 300,000.
Thus, the country has to suffer a loss of Rs. 280,000 for each animal slaughtered.

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India gets foreign exchange for meat. However, India also pays foreign exchange for chemical fertilizers, manure, urea, milk powders, etc. which cost several times the price of meats.
Then why export meat?

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The government encourages certain businesses/industries with financial supports.
The government has announced 100% supports for opening new slaughter houses, and the agriculture department has already approved several slaughter houses.
The Indian meat fetches only 40% of international prices. Then what is the meaning of supporting this industry?

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The government argues that if we don’t kill the animals, their population will go on increasing.
However, according to the same statistics, the number of animals per capita is rapidly decreasing.

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The world trend is towards vegetarianism. The developed countries are learning the dangers of meat-eating. Britain has not opened any new slaughter house since 1980, whereas the Indian government is opening new slaughter houses and modernizing the older ones.

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According to laws enacted to prevent cruelty to animals, it is considered a crime to treat any animal with cruelty (beating, over-burdening, inflicting pain, etc.).
At the same time, however, butchering them is permitted! Does this make any sense?

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Central Food & Technological Research Institute (Mysore Government) has concocted a concentrated meat, with an objective to alleviate the shortage of ‘quality’ protein for masses. The government still thinks that meat provides superior proteins…

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From the description of a large slaughter house in Andhra Pradesh:

This efficient modern plant can slay to 10,000 animals a day.

Don’t think that these animals are killed easily and painlessly. Their agonies start long before they are dead.

They are brought to slaughter house in trucks, from far away distances. For economy, 20-25 huge buffalos are stacked up in each truck.

Nobody cares to feed them food, or even water while in transit. They are packed so tightly in the truck, that they are hurt by each other.

By the time they arrive, they are no more capable of standing on their own feet! They are moved with force of whips…

They are brought into the final ground, where at least a thousand animals are stored. This is their last open air. They are kept here for four days, hungry and thirsty.

Then their legs are broken and eyes poked, so that a ‘certificate’ can be obtained about their uselessness.

Now these animals are pushed into washing showers.
Extremely hot water (200 degrees!) is sprayed on them for five minutes, to soften their skins, so they will be easy to remove.
The animal faints at this point, but it is not dead yet.

Now it is hung upside down with one leg, on a chain-pulley conveyor.
Then half of the neck is slit.
This drains the blood, but does not kill the animal.

Personnel? Most of the people working here are… Hindus.

The value of dung is really great. It’s much more than even the famous Kohinoor diamond. Not sure?! Read on!

“How is it viable to maintain an old bullock which consumes grass of Rs 700 in a year and in return gives dung and urine worth only Rs 500?”

How absurd, unscientific and hollow this argument is, is clear from what is described below.

The market price for any commodity can be manipulated (i.e. increased or decreased) by speculation and hoarding, by administrative measures, or by similar calculated action.

But this cannot alter its value.

Grass can be priced as Rs 1 per kg or Rs 5 per kg also. But its value as the means to help animals to survive, to feed them and to give them strength cannot be altered.

The stalk of food grain plants which becomes useless after removal of food grains from it, is the food for animals. When this useless stalk is returned by animals in the form of their dung, its value is astonishing.

Even an old bullock gives 5 tons of dung and 3,443 pounds of urine in a year, which can help in the manufacture of 20 cart loads of compost manure.

For cultivating jowar and bajra on dry land, 5 carts of compost manure is required for each acre.

Thus, the compost manure provided by one single old bullock can meet the manure need for 4 acres of land.

On irrigated land with the help of such manure, about 2,800 to 3,600 kg of bajra can be grown on 4 acres of land and where irrigation facility is not available, the yield can be about 1,500 to 1,600 kg. This can feed about 10 to 12 human beings throughout a year.

Thus there is a wide difference between concepts of price and value. Whether the food grain is priced at Rs 1 per 10 kg or Rs 10 per 1 kg, it does not affect the intrinsic value of the food grains. Its value lies in the utility of providing nutrition and life to human beings.

The right to life is a fundamental right and it can be basically protected only with proper food and feeding. And the cheap and nutritious food grains required for feeding can be grown with the help of dung.

Thus, the most fundamental thing to the fundamental right of living for the human beings is bovine dung.

It is absolutely foolish to evaluate this function of dung in monetary terms.

A servant employed by us, has to be paid wages for his labor. He demands wage rise, he also demands bonus, he resorts to strike if bonus is less than his expectation, and also abuses the employer.

But our servants in the form of these dumb cattle do not demand any wages from us, do not demand any wage rise or bonus.

They survive on whatever we offer them to feed, and in return even favor us with a bonus in the form of most valuable dung.

And still we are after the blood, meat, hides and skin of such animals and for that we slaughter them alive. We do not wait till they die their natural death to get their hides and skin.

Closure of Schools Imparting Experience-based Knowledge

In villages during winter, people used to make bonfire of dung cakes at night and sit around it talking.

The youth helped elderly persons who were suffering from arthritis related problems, by providing them fomentation from fire, and the elderly people used to talk about their own experiences in life, the family traditions, the social customs, the history of the village and thus pass on the rich experience and knowledge to succeeding generations.

The local poets used to sing our ancient epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata and thus kept alive the flow of culture in our society.

In the absence of dung cakes, these village square assemblies had to discontinue, and thus the young generation was deprived of the flow of knowledge and real history.

With the closure of such village square centers, the younger generation diverted itself and drifted to gambling dens and hooch shops.

One single animal, be it a cow, bullock or sheep, is much more valuable to the society compared to even a hospital or a college.

This is so because the cattle dung creates conditions as described earlier which inculcate into the people the qualities of nursing, organization, social service, passing on knowledge of real history, maintenance and development of religions, social and family feelings and preventing youths from drifting away to gambling dens and hooch.

Villages Also Fell Prey to Alcohol Addiction

Most of the widely prevalent diseases in villages are due to cold and imbalanced elements in the human body (known as Vayu) as also due to various injuries arising out of accidents.

In all such diseases, a major therapeutic procedure was fomentation by the dung cake fire.

The hot water bag fomentation is not available in villages for prevention from cold, cold related diseases and as protection against severe cold climate.

The only way for protection from this was the fire of dung cakes and when this was snatched away, people turned to alcohol…

They started applying alcohol on the body for heat and also started consuming alcohol, thus pushing up the demand for alcohol, and also increased the number of alcohol manufacturers and addicts.

Scarcity of Houses Increased

With non-availability of dung, the scarcity of houses in villages is more than 3 crores!

All the cement plants of the country together cannot meet this scarcity.

The easiest way out is to increase the availability of cattle dung.

It may not be possible to assign any price in monetary terms to the ash which is left over after cooking on the dung cakes. However, it is very precious.

This ash is very, very useful in preservation of food grains

In olden days, the kings used to preserve jowar for their subjects for use during drought year. For preserving jowar to last for years, ash of equal weight was mixed with jowar, and it then could be stored in this way for 12 years without any damage.

Even in normal; course people could store food grains for 2 to 3 years in their storage tanks made of clay in each household, by mixing cow dung ash in food grains.

Today, due to nonavailability of ash, people have forgotten its use.

Now we borrow millions of dollars from World Bank for construction of air-conditioned warehouses for storing food grains. Now we resort to spraying of poisonous pesticides on food grains for their preservation, which adversely affects health of people.

The World Bank and the multinational pharmaceutical companies are taking advantage of scarcity of dung and dung cakes.

An old bullock may not be able to work in the farm or to pull weight, but it is capable of giving dung till its death, and this dung can keep us free from inflation, free from disease and also preserve the sovereignty and integrity of the nation.

Another Important Use of Cow Dung Ash

Cleaning of utensils is one of the routine and essential household chores. For centuries, the cleaning of utensils was done with the help of eco-friendly ash of dung cakes.

Now, instead of dung cake, washing powder or other harmful detergent has to be used.

The expenses on this head comes to about Rs 75 to Rs 100 per annum per family.

What was inexpensive or totally free, now costs crores of rupees for the society as a whole, and the families in the middle class are the worst affected.

The middle class families have to curtail their other expenses to meet this expense and the curtailment is either in their food expenses, education or medical expenses.

In 1960, an issue was raised in the Supreme Court, that when the nation is spending just Rs 5 per head on education, how was it worthwhile to spend Rs 19 to maintain an old animal. (The argument was presumably to justify animal slaughter.)

The issue today, is that if we are unable to spend Rs 25 per head on education, is it worthwhile to spend Rs 75 to Rs 100 on an activity like cleaning of utensils?!

Is it not worthwhile to save this 100 rupees, and spend them on education, by reverting to dung ash as means to clean utensils?!

The riot of 1857 was spread all over India – Delhi was the centre of it. Each and every street had become a mortuary. There was blood shed everywhere. The rioters had lost discrimination between good and bad. I was the chief of the Muslim rioters.

Tears were falling from her eyes

At the end of a long day of looting and killing I was exhausted and hungry. Our pockets and bags were full of money but the markets were desserted out of fear of the riots, and all the houses were locked.

We gathered in an empty courtyard and my men went out to search for food. Soon four of my men returned pulling a chubby cow behind them.

I didn’t know how that poor one fell in the claws of those hungry wolves. One of them had tied his turban around her neck and before I could say anything they tied the legs of that crying cow and threw her down on the ground. Who would save a dumb cow from the hands of the Muslims in the middle of that riot? At that time all those so-called leaders of Hindu religion, those who give long lectures on cow protection, were all safely hidden in holes.

The cow was tired. Tears were falling from her eyes and I was agitated out of hunger. My body was weak.

It is against my religion to consider the cow holy and to serve her. But seeing that innocent cow surrounded by those cruel wolves who were sharpening their knives and about to kill her, I felt pity on her.

The cow was frightened and pregnant, and seeing her I remembered my pregnant wife, and I began to shiver.

I stood up with courage and said to my friends, “Can’t you see that out of hunger I’m about to die, and you fools are not yet able to provide me food. All of you immediately go and collect wood and salt and I will take care of this.”

As soon as my friends left I took the knife which was meant for killing the poor cow, cut her loose, and patted her back.

At first she couldn’t stand up, unable to believe this behavior from me. I stroked her again and she stood up, stretched herself and swished her tail. At that moment she glanced at me in such a way as if telling me “You will be rewarded for your kindness”.

She then left, quickly disappearing out of sight.

When my friends returned I was lying on the ground, as if unconscious from hunger. They shook me and asked about the cow. I pretended that I had no idea what had happened. Having no energy to pursue her, they made some chapatis and ate them instead.

I was sentenced to death by hanging

When the riots came to an end I was caught by the authorities and sentenced to death by hanging.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the jail to watch the event as I was brought up to the gallows. A red hood was pulled over my eyes, and everything went dark. A noose was then secured around my neck. My throat was dry.

Within moments the floor opened beneath me and I fell to what I thought would be my death.

Suspended mid-air, almost unconscious from fear, I struggled to regain my senses as I realized I was not in fact dead, nor dying, but somehow my feet were being supported upon what seemed to be two sharp horns.

The noose around my neck miraculously remained slack. Thinking me dead I was brought out from under the platform. Seeing me in fact alive, the doctor was shocked and moved back in astonishment.

According to the law at that time, I was hung thrice, and every time two horns caught my fall. As the noose of the gallows was unable to take my life even after three attempts, the court set me free.

I came out of the jail with my relatives and there I saw a cow. She looked at me with her cooling eyes, then turned and walked away, followed by her calf. Immediately I remembered the pregnant cow I had saved during the riot in Delhi. That cow had looked at me in the same way when I had released her.

In my religion serving forms is considered a sin – but I bowed down to that cow who I believe had saved my life.

Since that time I consider serving cows my duty, and I will continue to serve cows till the end of my life. I put the dust of the cow’s feet on my head, then I go to do namaj.

The ratio of firewood to food grain price doubled in India between 1975-85 which made cutting wood for sale economically attractive. Neglect of people’s need for cheap and local fuel has made cutting wood for firewood a lucrative trade.

A World Bank report quoting figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that the total extraction of wood in India was 264 million cubic meters in 1988, of which 240 million cubic meters was for fuel. Of the total wood consumed in the country, 90% is for fuel! The remaining 10% comprises timber, pulp-wood and poles.

TABLE 1.11 shows source-wise energy consumption in householder

(Ref. A report of Working Group on Energy Policy 1979 (adapted in the Report of Firewood
study Committee appointed by Planning Commission Pub. by CMIE June 1982 Page 6)

The Report of Firewood study committee appointed by the Planning Commission in 1981-82 states that “if the present trend continues, the fuel required to cook the food, rather than the food to cook, may pose the greater challenge”. According to Dr. Kushoo, an eminent Indian environmentalist, at the current rate of depletion of firewood, 250 million people in the year 2,000 will not be able to cook their food, let alone meet the energy needs.

The annual requirement of fuel wood in India by the year 2,000 is estimated to be 200 million tonnes. The shortfall has been estimated to be about 137 tonnes. (Ref: Business Standard, 28 November, 1992)

At the Central Board of Ministry of Forest and Environment meeting presided over by the late Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the shortfall of fuel wood was estimated to be around 100 million tons. In order to put further restriction on forest cutting, the government decided to import about 125 million tons of firewood, which would cost Rs. 4,000 crores.

The following table shows time taken and distance traveled by villagers for firewood in different regions:

TABLE 1.12 Firewood Collection

Cooking and heating requirement of a villager having a family of 5 members, has been calculated to be around 1.25 million Kcal/year. About 20% of this requirement could be met from vegetative waste. Fuel wood would be needed to meet the remaining 80%.

As such, 1125 kg of fuel wood would be required by a family annually. A tree of 5 years of age will yield between 100 to 125 kg of fuel wood approximately i.e. 10 trees of around 5 years of age will have to be cut to meet the fuel requirements of one family. (Ref. Report of the Firewood Study Committee appointed by Planning Commission, June 1982- pp. 27)

To make up the gap between demand and supply of firewood, 34 million hectares of land area is required to be planted with fuel wood crops during the next decade, requiring an outlay of Rs. 34,000 crores.

According to “Indian Forester, July, 1978″ firewood has a heating value of 4708 Kcal/kg and dry dung cake has a heating value of 2092 Kcal/kg.

As explained earlier, a tree of 5 years of age will yield 100 to 125 kg of firewood. Dung available from a large animal (cow/bullock/buffalo) will be 5.0 tonnes p.a. Therefore, dry dung available will be 5.4 tonnes x .3 = 1620 kg/annum, which is equivalent to 712.8 kg of wood. (Report of Firewood study Committee, June 1982 Page 13 and Letter from Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, dated 16-4-93)

Therefore one large animal, if kept alive, saves 6 trees every year.

The destruction of forests for firewood will stop only when when natural sources of energy from non-wood sources are made available to villages at their doorsteps. In this situation, it is necessary to increase the supply of cattle (i.e. cow and buffalo) dung cakes to be used as fuel.

Dung cake obtained from one cattle is sufficient for a family for a year.

Dung cakes are generated within 24 hours only. There are several economic, social and environmental advantages from using dung cakes, because of which it deserves to be considered an ideal energy source.

Dung cakes as renewable and safe energy source deserves due recognition. In absence of LPG or kerosene, villagers cut trees for their daily firewood requirement. Since dung of one large animal per annum is equivalent to fuel of 6 trees, crores of trees can be saved by stopping slaughter of animals.

India’s poverty is closely linked with its increasing deforestation and land degradation.

As much as half of the 329 million hectares is considered degraded in one form or another. Satellite imagery in the 70s and 80s, revealed that forests were losing tree cover at the staggering rate of 1.3 million hectares every year.

Of 75 million hectares of forest under forest management, 40 million hectares are now without tree cover. The existing plant cover is only about 12% as compared to the ideal of 33%.

The area under forest in India is half of what it was 50 years ago.

The widening gap between demand and supply of fuel wood is the main cause of fast depletion of forest cover, which in turn has proved to be ecologically disastrous, as denudation leads to:
- soil erosion,
- floods,
- shortage of water,
- loss of food grain production,
- destruction of rural economy.

We cannot eat raw food grains, and for cooking, fuel is necessary. The cheapest and most easily available fuel are dung cakes.

It can be available wherever needed. Its flow is unending. Till the time India had not resorted to animal slaughter, the rural population used to get free dung cakes for fuel.

The affluent who used to buy dung cakes had to spend only Rs 3 to 5 in a year.

Now people have to use kerosene, which has to be imported from countries which are exploiting to great advantage, the folly of our planners.

When Nadirshah came to loot India, he had to cross the Indian border and he also had to fight a fierce battle. Despite this, what he looted from this country and took away with him, was just a drop out of the ocean of the wealth of this nation.

Today, the successors of Nadirshah have stormed into the kitchen of every household of Indian villages with the help of a can of kerosene.

They can exploit Indians at their free will, by increasing the price of kerosene as and when they feel like.

They can cut short the supply of kerosene at their will and force us to either eat raw food or to starve or to surrender to the countries who are their allies and who are unfriendly to us.

This should make it very clear how valuable is the contribution of even a bullock in the field of fuel, and how the sovereignty and security of the nation is connected with it.

Gas and kerosene, once used, are lost forever, and they are not renewable sources of energy. The day their availability becomes extinct, it will lead to starvation.

Their prices keep on increasing with their increased use and in addition, they create pollution.

With the compulsion to use alternative fuels like kerosene and gas in place of dung cakes, each family has been burdened with an additional annual expense of Rs -1500/

Is it not wiser to save this Rs 1500 by reverting back to dung cakes as fuel?!

There will be an additional saving of about Rs 75/ per annum for a family which is spent on harmful washing powders, as the ash of dung cakes which will be freely available can serve the same purpose. This saving can be used to provide food, clothing and education to millions of children, and can be utilized for such other noble purposes.

Potential value of dung as fuel would be clear from the following small calculation India has a population of about 96 crores; 70% of this population i.e. 67 crore people live in rural areas. Considering 5 persons to a family, it means 13.4 families. Dung fuel if available, can be used by these rural families as was being done only a few decades ago.

Due to the non-availability of dung cakes for fuel, other types of fuel are used.

For valuation purpose, let us take the value of LPG to assess the fuel cost. The LPG cylinder is on an average priced at Rs 150/ and for a family of 5, one cylinder lasts for about a month. Thus each family has to spend Rs 1800 per annum on cooking fuel. Thus for 13.4 crore families, the fuel cost comes to 13.4 crore x Rs 1800- i.e. Rs 24,120 crore.

Thus theoretically speaking, if the entire rural population reverts to dung cake fuel it will save the nation a whopping burden of Rs 24,120 p.a. which is spent on one or the other form of fuel today. This is the unlimited potential of dung in its utility as fuel.

In Hindu culture, there are 16 religious rituals (Sanskar) starting from birth (in fact there is one sanskar even before birth!) to death and none of these rituals can be performed without dung.
It is essential to attain or provide purity to the mind, to the environment or surroundings, to the mental status and to the ingredients which are utilized at the time of performing any religious ritual.

The place, where the religious ritual is to be performed, is cleaned and made pure by coating it with a layer of cow dung. A fire is often lit with dung cakes, sandalwood, gugal, etc to provide fragrance and cleanse the surrounding environment.

It is not possible to do this on fire lit with kerosene or gas or electric stove.

For purification of mind and heart while performing any religious ritual, one has to consume what is known as Pancha Gavya i.e. a mixture of cow milk, curd, ghee, dung and urine in defined ratios. The consumption of this mixture is believed to keep mind and heart pure and peaceful.

As an automobile cannot be driven when its engine is very hot, similarly when the mind is not at peace, the religious ritual performed in such a state of mind does not give the desired result.

For purification of body there was a practice to smear cow dung on the body and then take a bath.

Purification of essential ingredients which are used for offering in the fire, is also necessary and one of the items is cow dung.

With cow dung, small dry branches of certain specified trees and some other specified vegetation or herbs are also required.

Till 1915, in the Indian Princely States where cow slaughter was banned, the pyre for consigning dead bodies to fire were lit with the help of dung cakes only.

When dung cakes became scarce, this ritual was performed on wood fire. For burning an average dead body, four quintals of wood is required. With depletion of forests, even wood is scarcely available and wherever it is available, it is very costly.

In view of this situation, in some of the villages now, a small bundle of burning grass is put on the face of the dead body and then it is buried.

Thus the right of the Hindu population to perform even the last of the 16 rituals i.e. AGNI SANSKAR is snatched away.

Of all the 16 religious rituals referred to earlier, starting from the birth of a human being, till his death, the AGNI SANSKAR is the last of these 16 rituals. It is a fundamental religious right of each Hindu. To protect this right, it is essential that the availability of dung cakes is increased at a very fast pace.

When an adult bullock is slaughtered, it affects the Sanskar of 10 persons per year.

If a bullock is allowed to live 10 more years beyond the age of its premature death by slaughter, it can provide dung cakes for Agni Sanskar of 100 human beings.

If wood is forced (as it is now) to be used for Agni Sanskar in the absence of dung cakes, its cost would be Rs 15 lakhs per tree, as per the valuation done by scientists.

How many people can be treated with the costly Bhasma (oxides of various minerals like Gold, Copper, pearls etc.) and how many patients can afford such Bhasma?

On the other hand, medicines under Allopathic system are also very costly and beyond the reach of poor people, and thus a vast majority of poor people living in Indian villages, carry on with illness for life, without any treatment.

Herbal medicines are the basis of Ayurvedic system of medicines. Similarly, Bhasmas are also the basis of the system. These Bhasmas must be prepared on fire lit with the help of dung cakes only.

If coal or electricity is used to make the Bhasmas, then it will be like running an automobile with kerosene instead of petrol. What happens to an automobile engine if kerosene is used, will also happen to the Bhasmas and the patients who consume such Bhasmas.

Many medicines have to be purified before their use and such purification can be done only with the help of cow dung.

In different branches of Ayurveda, paks are made of different medicines, and these paks must also be made on the slow burning dung cake fire only.

Nowadays, because they are made on other types of fire, they do not yield the desired results and hence people have started losing faith in Ayurveda.

Thus, by stopping the flow of dung and dung cakes to the Ayurvedic system, the government has dealt a death blow to the system and yet they are not tired of talking about providing encouragement to Ayurveda!

This is nothing but cheating, and unfortunately the scholars of Ayurveda seem to be enjoying this act of cheating on the part of the government. How could scholars of Ayurveda tolerate this state of affairs, when an age old ancient system is put into such peril?!

On the one hand they talk of encouraging Ayurveda, and on the other, there is destruction of the most essential aspects of Ayurveda:
- herbal medicines,
- cow’s milk,
- cow’s ghee,
- dung,
- dung cakes.

The duplicity of government policy can be seen from such an occurrence.

If we have to prevent Ayurveda from dying; the oldest of the medical systems, which is well accepted and which has withstood all the challenges to its principles of diagnosis, treatment etc. for centuries; then it is essential that the government be challenged, its duplicity exposed and it be forced to increase dung cake availability in the interest of this great medical science.

If Ayurveda as a science eventually dies, it will be due to inaction and timidity and the urge of Ayurvedic scholars to indulge in false flattery of the government machinery.