Ash of Dung Cakes and Its Great Value
How would you evaluate the value of ash of dung cakes? This ash can save us from the international debt slavery!
Effects of Animal Slaughter on Forests vis-à-vis Fuel Shortage
After independence of India (1947), the availability of dung cakes reduced drastically. This forced people to use firewood as fuel.
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.
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Dung Cakes Are The Cheapest And Most Easily Available Fuel, But…
Abundant food grains may be cultivated, but what if there is no fuel to cook the food?!
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.
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Importance of Cow Dung for Sanskars
Because of lack of cow dung in India, Sanskars can not be performed properly nowadays.
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.
Scarcity of Herbal Medicines: End of Ayurvedic Medical Care for Poor Indians
With non availability of cow dung, Indian forests also have been destroyed, and with the destruction of forests, many Ayurvedic herbal medicines also have become either extinct or scarce.
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Milk, gobar (cow dung) and gaumutra (cow urine)
It was natural that in a predominantly agricultural and pastoral country like India, cows were and to some extent still are, considered to be the real wealth of the people.
