cow mother´s

doubled up =hisbend=

sons

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Thursday,February 21-02-2008: I am
being forwarded an article appearing in a website
Plural India,by my friend Khalid Hasan, which
I have decided to reprint in toto for the benefit
of my readers.I am a victim of this cow urine
therapy,indulged in illegally by mother cows´
sons doubled up as =hisbends=,celibate sadhus.
By mating with a human female, celibacy wow
is violated.By mating a cow there appears to
be no contravention.I think one of the main
reasons the swamis or sadhus indulge in this
racket is to overcome their sexualities! I am
aware these gather mother cow urine, and proclaim
making it =all cure= giving it a brand name
=arka= trade mark to sell it a liter at about five
dollars!

Indian media in 18 languages including the old
Ramnath Goenka´s The Indian Express now
divided into southern and northern editions,
give free publicity under one pretext or another.
Prajavani daily, the Bangalore based Kannada
sibling of the Deccan Herald in 2004 published
an article and an editorial opinion piece by its
so called rare science editor giving his ideas
on a three year old experiment that was claimed
to have helped.My priestly uneducated brother in
law and his eldest mullahist uneducated son
together,with the knowledge of my younger
brother but hidden from me began administering
this concoction to my younger sister suffering
from brain cancer on empty stomach although
she was being treated by a competent medical
doctor at great expense.Her younger son and
daughter in law both practicing dentists passively
participated in the witchcraft.As a result my sister
died of swollen belly and uncontrollable excreta
discharges in bed.Their reasoning for the
behaviour was that any way a hopeless case, why
not this muck for a miracle? I took the matter to the
Indian media white elephant =quasi judiciary=
Press Council of India set up as a watch dog by
the parliament.But they did not the responsibility
that would be shown by barking dog! They did
nothing except taking an undertaking from me
that I will not get any compensation for loss and I
forgo another court action.The Press Council of
India presided over by a former judge of the Supreme
Court took it light and continue to get their
salt from the poorest man on earth.These hulcuts
have published their annual report that could be
had from the website.Even on google on tapping
on my name would point out at that report.

When I held a press conference on the subject, a
colleague who runs a daily published that the
cow´s urine was the greatest medicine when the
patient was made to drink it as it was being discharged
by the animal!t is not easy to live in a superstitious
India where these blind faith men and women
promote daily rapes but oppose celebrating Valentine
Day once a year! I want to remind my readers these
same =pinjarpole= interests offered to take in cow
shelter all the Jacobs mad cow disease cows of U.K.
about a decade and a half ago!I present you now
Mr.Puniyani´s text that was sent to me:

Text:

by Dr.Ram Puniyani

Recently the BJP ruled Uttarakhand Government
(Feb 2008) has announced that it will procure cow's
urine, on the pattern similar to the procurement of
milk by dairies, refine it and sell it to Ayurvedic
pharmacies. Other BJP ruled Governments are also
working on similar lines.

Cow has been having a central place in the political
symbolism of RSS combine. The place of this
symbolism may be only next to Lord Ram. On these
premises, so far cow has been projected as mother.
In its major campaign against minorities' right since
1950s, BJP predecessor Bharatiya Jansangh, had
undertaken a nationwide, Desh Dharm ka nata Hai
Gau Hamari mata hai (Cow is related to us through
our religion and nation as mother) and also Janm
Janm Ka Nata hai Gau hamari Mata hai (Cow is our
mother in our every birth). Since Muslims, one does
not know why Christians were not targeted for it,
are not prohibited from eating beef and since many
a butcher belong to Kasai (butchers) occupation,
this fact has been used to demonize the Muslim
community. We worship cows, they eat, they butcher
cows! This has been used to rouse the sentiments
of majority community time and over again.

With Uma Bharati becoming the chief minister of
Madhya Pradesh (2005) for a brief while, she introduced
cow based economy, funds for Goshalas (cow sheds)
were given from Government treasury, and her official
residence became the first such Goshala. Cow based
economy aimed at promoting cow products as the
core of economy. The present effort now transcends
the earlier efforts as faith is being transformed into blind
faith. The Government's move to collect urine, to procure
it, refine it and sell it as a medicine defies all the logic
of science and medicine. It is converting the political
symbolism into health related prescription which is
fraught with dangers.

As such urine is a product excreted through kidneys
and contains the waste metabolites. It can also contain
the bacteria, bovine tuberculosis for example, and other
harmful germs and metabolic products. The biochemical
studies of urine have clearly shown its composition.
There are some who claim magic healing powers of
drinking one's own urine, called Shivambhu, the most
famous consumer of the same was Morarji Desai.
Some claim that it contains antibodies which act
against the harmful diseases affecting our body,
but analytically and biochemical it has not been
proven so far. Physiologically kidneys do not let
the antibodies pass out of the body as the molecular
weight of antibodies is much more than the pore
of the kidney membrane. Of course when kidney
is damaged, these antibodies can pass out, not
when the cow is healthy.

Murali Manohar Joshi, who as MHRD minister
initiated the introduction of faith based disciplines
like Astrology, Paurohuitya (Ritualism) also
diverted some of the funds for doing cow research.
One CSIR lab went to the extent of obtaining a
patent on a pharmaceutical composition contating
cow urine distillate and an antibiotic. Another CSIR
lab, in collaboration with a NGO undertook a study
to see the effectiveness of cow urine in cancer
treatment. Our own ayurveda does not mention
any medicinal use of cow urine. Ayurveda as such
has lot of valuable empirical observations which
can be deepened by rooting them on firmer rational
grounds but that is shrouded in mystery and faith
and any questioning of it meets angry protesters,
who claim their faith is under threat. Baba Ramdeo
does claim that his 'Ramdeosim' is scientific but
forgets that the basic premise of science is peer
review, facing the questions and a constant
transcendence of inadequacies in our knowledge
system. The faith based enterprise of Ramdeo
is too individualistic, too much dipped in faith
and has too little to offer on rational grounds.
Same is the method of cow medicine, too much
faith, and that too of blind variety, too much
assertion and zero scientific research. One
will like to explore the veterinary sciences to
see if there is something drastically right in
cow's excreta in contrast to the excreta of
bullock or buffalo or a dog for that matter.
Also one does recall the claims of the section
that cow dung has purifying effect. Impurity
brought in by the shudras touching of water
was undone by mixing cow dung with the
water touched by a dalit.

The basic difference between medical
sciences, empiricism, and grandma's
medicine needs to be understood before
state Government investing and promoting
cow excreta, urine, for human consumption
and application. Mercifully one has not
heard so far of such efforts to promote
cow dung. The present effort by the BJP
government is an extension of RSS
combine's cow politics. It is totally
against the understanding of modern
medicinal sciences and also has no
mention in the traditional wisdom gained
over a period of time. In a way it is the
translation of RSS combine's political
understanding in to the arena of
application to human society. In some
Islamic countries, on similar lines, state
sponsored research to undertake the
study on djinns to solve the energy
problem. As per mythology djinns are
supposed to be infinite source of energy
so why bother about oil and electricity
when these blessed beings can solve
our problems for good. Surely these will
also prevent the wars which are taking
place in the globe for controlling the
energy reserves. And not on a very
different track, Christian right is asserting
creation science to oppose the theory
of evolution.

These efforts have no rational and
scientific basis, something which our
constitution ordains us to follow in the
public domain. Social auditing of efforts,
which affect human health are mandatory,
control by bodies sanctioning the drugs
and other medicinal means are an absolute
must for public safety, all the claims of
politics notwithstanding.

As such enough of politics has been woven
around cow. Just a few years ago, one of
the eminent historians of Ancient India,
Prof. D.N. Jha, came out with a book on the
dietary habits in ancient India, which showed
that beef was one of the major items
consumed in Ancient India. The move to
project Cow as holy animal, mother, was a

response to the non violence propounded
by Lord Gautam Buddha. With the rise of
agricultural society the cattle wealth was to
be preserved. As people started embracing
Buddhism, the aggressive reaction of
Brahmanism came up at theological, social
and political level. Cow was projected as the
symbol of rising Brahmanism, as a counter to
the non-violence of Buddha, and has remained
so through centuries. Many a Mughal kings in
deference to these sentiments, to respect the
feeling of the section of society, advised against
cow slaughter. Babar in his will writes to his
son Humayun to avoid the slaughter of cows.

In Hindutva politics also there are many streams.
While Savarkar called cow as a useful animal,
the other sections ignited the emotions against
Muslims around cow. Irrespective of that many
a poor Hindus and Adivasi did consume beef.
Incidentally it is amongst the cheapest source
of protein for the poor. Many a surveys showed
that a vast number of Indian communities
consume beef. RSS combine's propaganda
went on to assert that Muslims are violent and
one of the reasons is that they consume beef.
This is so much against the pyschosoiological
understanding of the human mind and the
violence. While one knows that beef is a staple
diet in major parts of the World, one also
knows and modern psychological theories
demonstrate that violence does not emerge
from diet but from social and political situations.

Beef can surely build muscle power in
conjunction with proper exercises, but
violence is in the mind.Undoubtedly one
should respect those regarding cow as
their mother. RSS combines' many followers
devote their lives organizing fodder and other
supports for Guashalas. Some of them, the
upholders of Cow as mother, non violence,
go to the extent of justifying violence against
dalits on the ground that they were skinning
a dead cow as happened in the killings of
dalits in Gohana. This cow urine in the
pharmacy shops defies all the logic and faith
and is directly a threat to health of people of
the society.(end)

Comment from Mr.Diwakar Shastry,whose
father also learned from my guru if I am not
mistaken and who was a priest:

Dear Mr.balakrishna,

Thanks for hurting the sentiments and
faiths of millions of people like us.

Pls donot send such emails to me , I had
requested earlier also several times.

Regards
Divakar

Answer: Sentiments and faith are useless
without matching to the reality.You expect
knowledgeable people to work for you as
toddies and flatters, that is your problem.Live
in your false pride and hurting others without
quality of heart.In this case my sister met
with a miserable death after suffering two
weeks having to live on her excreta.Neither
the swami who promoted the cow urine therapy
as all cure or Dr.Wormudi, who being a faithful
of the swami supported him or Mr.Nagesh Hegde
of the Prajavani daily, who spread to the readers
the unsubstantiated claim of the efficacy of
urine as all cure therapy can in the first place
give back life to my sister.Nor are they in a
position to undo the suffering she has undergone.
She was not alone to suffer at the hands of those
who promoted blind faiths.They are all hurt.The
hurt for you is just the hurt for your blind faith and
misplaced sentiments.Take it easy and things
in perspective.
Kulamarva Balakrishna

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