The Cow Culture: De-stressing is So Simple

The Cow Culture: De-stressing is So Simple We have to develop in our personality what may be caled the capacity for conversion; we have to turn negative experiences into positive thinking. I n the 1930s, I was a student of a village madrasa in Uttar Pradesh. There I studied an Urdu Reader in which there was a poem composed by the well-known poet, Ismail Meerathi. It was titled Hamari Gaye (Our Cow). One of the verses went like this: Kal jo ghas chari thi ban mein, Doodh bani woh gaay ke than mein. It means that the cow is a special kind of animal. It takes grass and in return gives us milk. In other words, the cow is a divine industry which is able to convert non-milk into milk. This poem became a part of my memory. It taught me a great lesson. God, the Creator, has made the cow a model for human behaviour in that it gives us a lesson in high morality. We must develop this quality of conversion in our personality, so that we may convert negative thought into positive thought. It is said that man is a social animal. But what is society? Society is full of differences. Every day we experience some provocative situation, every day we