Chapter- 15

IMPROVEMENT OF COW-CLAN
(Go-vansha sudhaar)
|| Salutations to Shree Gurudeva ||

Reasons for the decline of cows and cow-clan

Ekda shrotee prashna kelaa | dudhaachaa tara dushkaalachi padalaa |
Kuthale taak lonee sakalaala | Go - Maatche ? ||1||

Some listener asked, "At present, there is an acute scarcity of milk. How can then all have milk, buttermilk and butter of mothercow?" ||1||

Doodh denaare labaadee karitee | Mhashichyaa dudhaat paanee ghaalitee |
Gayeeche mhanoni vikatee | adhik bhaava ghewonee ||2||

Milk sellers and the dairy men have become very cunning. They add water to the milk of beffeloes and sell it as cow-milk. They charge a higher rate for such adulterated milk. ||2||

Kothe gaayee raahilyaa aataa ? Turalak disatee vikataa, waachataa |
wadhatee chapalaa-jodyaan karitaa | waasarehi karodo. ||3||

Where do we have cows now? Not only cows but crores of calves also are slaughtered in slaughter-houses for making foot wears from their hide. If some of those could survive, they seem to be sold somewhere. ||3||

Gopaalaanchaa desh Bhaarat | Aalaa gaayee gure poojeet |
Parantu gaayee zaalyaa khaat | lakshachi naahee tayaankade ||4||

From the long long past India had been recognised as the country of cow-keepers. Till now, our country has been worshipping cow as deity. But now cows are fastly destroyed. Nobody pays any attention to it. ||4||

Tyaateel kaahee kasaab ghetee | kaahee dusareekade netee |
uralyaa tyaa kacharaa asatee | gaayee saaryaa ||5||

Out of those cows, some are bought by butchers. Some are taken away elsewhere. The remaining cows are not of any use and have no value like the rubbish or filth. ||5||

Chaaraapaanee ati mahaag | Naahee vyawasthesaathee maarga |
Maanavachi ardhapotee, maga | gaayee kaishyaa paalaavyaa? ||6||

Today fodder has become very dear and costly. We have no other good way to take care of cows. At present, man has to live halfstarved, how can he keep and maintain cows? ||6||

Aikoni tyaanche vishad viwarana | mhanaalo, tumache mhanave maanya |
pari yaat aapulaachi sampoorna | dosh aahe ||7||

Listeners! what you have spoken about the condition of cows is true and I agree with you. But, remember, It is totally due to our fault. We are responsible for this condition. ||7||

Bhaarat krushipradhaan desh | sheteesaathee hawaa gowansha |
Gorasaaitukaa nase satwaansha | anyatra shuddha ||8||

Bharat is an agricultural land where agriculture is our main and basic profession. Our agriculture needs bullocks produced by cows. Secondly, the milk of cow contains such excellently nourishing pith that hardly any other edibles contain. ||8||

Mhanoni gowansh sukhee hotaa | Towaree nawhatee daridrataa |
Nawhatee aishee vipulataa | rogaraayeechee ||9||

So long as the condition of cow-clan was better, people didn't even know what does the poverty mean. There were no diseases and sicknesses as variously and lamely have cropped up and spread now. ||9||

Gomaya, gomutra miloni raatrandis | kaayam hotaa bhoomichaa kasa |
peve bharatee gaavaa gaavaas | dhaanyaachee temwhaa ||10||

In the past, as the cow dung and urine had been available on a tremendously large scale, the productive essence and strength of the land could have been survived. So the land used to yield such a bumper crop that the barns of the village had always been brimful with food grains. ||10||

Bhoomee aani janaaware | heech utpatteechee kothaare |
Ekaachi anek hotee khillare | Jod dhandaa haa gharogharee ||11||

Land and animals provided enormous production. One cow produces so many heifers and calves and soon the cowkeeper can have herds of cows. Every house, in the past, used to keep cows because it had become a secondary and complementary business to their main agriculture profession. ||11||

Gharogharee dudh-dubhate | anna dhaanyaasi sahaayak te |
Aabaal vruddha raahat hote | sashakta aani nirogee ||12||

In each and every house, daily food in meals had a good supporting complement of milk, curd, butter etc.It was a very nutritious addition to edibles. So all from the infants to the aged old members of family had always enjoyed strong, energetic and healthy lives. ||12||

Mhanoni gaayee guraa `godhan' | aise satya naamaabhidhaan |
Sukhee hotaa Bhaarat sampoorna | govansh sukhawoniyaa ||13||

Therefore in the past, the cows and cattle had been rightly titled as `Godhan'- the wealth of cows & cattle. Our ancestors maintained cattles in happy condition. So Bharat in the long past had also been the happiest land. ||13||

Pari pudhe zaale durlakhsha | kaahee bhowalaa raajyapakhsha |
Gaayee howooni basalyaa bhakhshya | waadhale durbhikhsha tyaa gune ||14||

But further people began to connive at the cows and cattle. In some degree, the rulers and governments had also made a great harm to cow-clan and cow-keeping profession. Some people began to consume cow-meat. (cows & calves in great number have regularly been shughtered) All these factors resulted in decreasing the number of cows in the country. ||14||

Aapan dudhaal mhasheekade gelo | chahaa-coffee aadi piwoo laagalo |
Mhanoni gaayeesamet mukalo | sarwaswaasee ||15||

To have milk on larege scale, we started to keep buffeloes more in preference to cows. Gradually, milk became an essential element for tea and coffee. So we had been deprived of not only the cows but also our all happiness and glorious, precious wealth. ||15||

Praanee khaawon ekadaa toshalaa | To nityaasaathee tyaas mukalaa |
Mag kuthale dubhate, santaan,khataadi tyaalaa? aise kele vedyaaparee ||16||

When some animal is killed for consuming, it is permanently lost by us. Then how can we have the benefits from it like milk products, oxen, manure etc? In this way we have enacted in a very insane manner. ||16||

Gaayee vikoni pota bharale | mag nityaasaathee khayeel kothale?
pota baandhoni gaayees poshile | tyaasi laabhale soukhya pudhe.||17||

But if man sells a cow and can live comfortably for some time upon that sale proceeds, how many days can he pull on with that money? Further he will feel scarcity of money and everything. But, he, who endures all hardships and maintains that cow, can have his future days full of happiness. ||17||

THE DIVINITY OF MOTHERCOW

`Gorakhshanee swarakhshana, | Aise poorwajaanche kathana |
Mhanonich gaayeenkaritaa praan | dile anek shooraannee ||18||

Our ancesters had always advocated through their practical experiences `We can have our protection in the protection of cows'. Hence a great number of brave heroes had sacrificed their lives for protecting cows. ||18||

Shreekrishna aani Shivashankar | Vashishtha aani Dattadigambar |
Dileep, Shivaajee go sevaa-tatpara | sant apaar gobhakta ||19||

The greatest deities & Gods like Lord Shrikrishna, Lord Shivashankar Lord Dattadigambar; great kings like Dileep (of Raghoovansha) and Shivaji Maharaj as well as the great sages and rishis like vashishtha, the holy men and saints had always promptly rendered their devotional services to cows. ||19||

Jyaannee tyaagile sarvaswa | karatalee bhikhshaa, tarutalee waas |
Aise nishkam guru hi goseveset | na visambatee kadaapee ||20||

The most excellent desireless Guru (like shreepad Shreevallabh swamee), who had sacrificed all his precious belongings, who had always preferred to reside under a tree, who used to take alms on his hand (and not in pot) had also never forgotten to render his regular devotional service to the cow. ||20||

Gaayeechyaa shareeraat sarva | kalpile je devee-dewa |
Tayaanchaa haachi ase bhaave | Gaaya adhishthaan deshaache ||21||

Since ancient ages, we had always held a firm concept that all Gods and Goddesses reside in the body of a cow. This concept means that cow is the firm foundation of our motherland. ||21||

Tichyaa shenaane pike shetee | Shetee deyee sukh, sampatti |
Mhanoneech shenaamaajee Lakhshmeechee vasatee | varnilee ase ||22||

Cowdung is the best manure. It helps to grow agricultural produces and rich crops which naturally result in growing our wealth. Therefore it is said that Goddess of wealth, Lakhshmi resides in cowdung. ||22||

Gorasaane aarogya shareeree | mag kothe raahilaa dhanwantaree ?
Satwaansh milataa buddhi gojiree | Saraswatihi godudhee ||23||

Cowmilk maintains good health and hygiene. Then who will enquire for Dhanwantaree? (The physician of Gods). Cowmilk excellently sharpens our talent and intelligence. So it is presumed that Goddess Saraswati (deity of intelligence) resides in cow's milk. ||23||

udar rogaanche naashak | satwaansh deyee taak |
Tupaane shaant dole, mastak | chandra-soorya janoo netree ||24||

Buttermilk of cow contains rich pith which is a cure all remedy of abdominal diseases. The ghee from cow's milk keeps head cool and peaceful and so it is imagined that the sun and the moon reside in the eyes of the cow. ||24||

Gaaya jiwant aarogyadhaam | Tiche putra pratyakhsha parishrama |
Raashtra sukhaachaa maarg sugam | go seve yoge ||25||

Cow is a live store of health and hygiene. Its sons (bullocks) are really the image of excellent labour. Therefore, service to the cow is only the easy and simple way of making our motherland happy. ||25||

Mhanoni sakalaanche kartavya aahe | Jene gowansh sudhaaranaa hoya |
Aisaa karaavaa kaahee upaaya | sarvatopari ||26||

Therefore it is the duty of all of us to find out and execute all kinds of remedies and on all levels so that the cow-clan can be improved. ||26||

Kasaab aapalyaa gaavaatooni | Gaayee netee baghataa nayanee |
Dukkha whaave sakalaanchyaa manee | paratawaavyaa tyaa gaayee ||27||

When we notice any butcher taking away cows from our village; we all must feel a great agony and sorrow and we should come forward to rescue those poor animals from the clutch of that butcher. ||27||

Aise dalaal haakoni dyaave | athawaa anya kaamee laawaave |
Paropareene sumaargee walawaave | ghete-dete sarvachi ||28||

The agents who help in selling the cows from the villagers should be either quickly driven out or provided with some other good job to earn their livelihood. We must convince and turn the minds of the sellers and buyers of the cows and bring them to a right noble path. ||28||

Vikanaaraasi samajawaave | Evadhyaane kaa shreemantee paave? |
Marey to gharee khat moot ghyaave | Taree phale sevaa gaayeechee ||29||

We should ask him, "will you become very rich by selling your cow? On the contrary, keep it. It will provide you with dung, urine which will help to bring you a rich crop. Your services to your cow will never go fruitless. ||29||

Dwaree sakaalee gaaya humbarlee | Go mutra dewoniyaa uthalee |
Mhanaje samajaavee pavitrataa zaalee | jaagemaajee ||30||

When early in the morning a cow moos and makes water, you should believe that your house and the atmosphere around have become sacred and auspicious. ||30||

Jyaache gharee shetee aahe | tyaane awashya paalaavee gaaya |
Malamutra sarva upayogee raahe | aisee gaaya maaoolee te ||31||

One, who is a farmer by profession, should necessarily keep a cow. Its excreta is very useful. Cow is really a mother for him. ||31||

Gaya maaoolee aayeesamaan | Tichee nigaa asaavee poorna |
Na karaavee gomashaanchee khaan | Athawaa saapalaa haadaancha ||32||

The cow is like a loving mother. All care of the cow should be taken from whole heart. The bands of gadflies should be carefully put away. It should be provided enough fodder so that it would not get emaciated and become a skeleton of bones. ||32||

Ghaalooni chaaraa, pend, churee | gaaya karaavee hatteeparee |
Preme gonjaaroni gharogharee | gaaya prasanna thewaavee ||33||

The cow should be fed with fodder, fragments of pulses, clod and a lump of jaggery, oilcake etc and it should be made as sturdy and robust as an elephant. It should be coaxed and fondled by running a loving hand on its face and back. The cows should be kept happy in every house. ||33||

Gavee asaavaa aadarsh saand | Bail nipajaavayaa dhippaad |
sundar hoyeel sheetesi jod | vaahaavayaa bailaanchee ||34||

The village should keep and maintain a brooding bull for producing tall and hefty oxen. The farmer can have a strong and sturdy pair of oxen for his agricultural activities. ||34||

Uttam gaayee, sundar saand | Paahataa aanand waate udand |
Doodh piwoni muley prachand | shakti daavitee ||35||

If we find excellent cows and handsome brooding bull then our minds will feel a great pleasure. Consuming nutritious cow milk boys will be found extracting heavy work and exhibit their strength and energy. ||35||

Techi khare saatwik soundarya | Muley gonjaaritee vatsa gaaya |
Doodh piwoni raahatee tanmaya | kheleemelee ||36||

When the children seem to coax the cows and calves and get absorbed in playing cheerfully, with them that sight bears a real pious and pure beauty. ||36||

Gowanshaache doodh waadhe | Tareech santaan unnatees chadhe |
khaawoo ghaaloni laadoo pedhe | ugeech pote waadhatee ||37||

When cows produce plenty of milk, children can consume it more and will become strong, sturdy and intelligent. If they are provided with ladoos (sweet edible balls) and pedhas (condensed milk sweet) their bellies will grow large and spread but their bodies will not become strong. ||37||

Krutrim doodh-lonee kaahee | gorastulya tharanaar naahee |
Naanaa rog waadhatee paahee | na kalataa krutrimtene ||38||

Man-made artificial milk and milk products can't become as equally excellent as the natural nutritious cow milk. This artificialness helps many diseases to enter in our body without our knowledge. ||38||

Sarvathaiva yantraanneech kaahee | shetee sukhakar honaar naahee |
Gaavachee sampatti gaavee raahee | sugam to maarga uttama ||39||

The use of machines for all agricultural work can't make our agriculture and cultivation fully successful and happy. Therefore the easy way to maintain the village wealth in village itself (to use oxen for agricultural work) will be benefitial to our agriculture. ||39||

Yaasaathee gaayee guraanchee jopaasanaa | gharogharee thewaawaa go-vatsa thanaa |
Prasanna disaave pashoo naanaa | uttam laabhaave doodh-dahee ||40||

For this purpose, each and every house should maintain the sties and pens for cows and calves. There, a good arrangement to keep the cows and cattle should be made. One should feel a great pleasure looking at all happy cattle. There should be overabundance of milk, curd and other milk products in every house. ||40||

Duddhaa dahyaachee yogya poorti | whaavee aapulyaa gaava prati |
Gharogharee gaayee-waasare asatee | Techi gaava bhaagyashaalee ||41||

A large quantity of milk and curd should be produced in our own village, which will fulfil the needs of our village. So, the village, where each and every house has maintained cows, should be held as the trully fortunate village. ||41||

Jo aapulyaa gharee gaaya na thevee | Tayaasaathee gorakhshane asaavee |
Garibaanchee tethe soya asaavee | uttam laabhaavaa gorasa ||42||

One, who has a cow but is unable to keep and maintain it, should send his cow into the Gorakhshan sanstha -(an establishment run by the village to protect & maintain cows and cattle). The poor in the village should be allowed to keep their cows in that sansthaa and they should get all gains of milk and milk products from them. ||42||

kaahee thikaanee gorakhshane karitee | martukadyaa gaayee jamavitee |
tyaanchyaa naavaane paise khaatee | gaayee maaratee upawaasi ||43||

There are some such organisations for protection of cows. They collect lean and meagre cows there. In the name of maintaining those cows, they collect funds. But they misappropriate money from such funds for their personal selfish gains and keep the cows half-starved. ||43||

Aise nako go-rakhshana | je dukhawee maanavee mana |
Rahaavee gaaee-saand paahon | prasanna janataa sarvadaa ||44||

The cowkeeping organisations should not be such places where seeing the miserable condition of the poor animals, the spectators will be pained. On the contrary, people should feel pleasure in looking at the healthy cows and brooding bulls maintained with loving care in such gorakhshan sansthaas. ||44||

Gorakhshane dahee, dudhaachee soya whaavee | Lokee sukha sampannataa yaavee |
koradee go poojaach na karaavee | gharogharee athawaa gaavee ||45||

Keeping cows, on a large scale, the go-rakhshana sansthaas should provide the Village with adequate milk, curd etc. The financial condition of people should be improved from the cow-keeping activities. It should help people to prosper and to live happily. What meaning is there if the cows are worshipped aridly as an empty ritual of the houses and as a tradition in the village? ||45||

Uttam chaaraa pend dewoon | waadhawaave gaayeeche vajana |
Adarsha gaayee, waloo thewon | uttam godhan waadhwave ||46||

The village should provide best fodder and clod etc. and try to increase the weight of cows. Keeping an ideal strong bull, they should increase the number of cows more and more ||46||

Gaavee sundar gayeenchaa taanda | charaayaa gochar bhoomee udandaa |
Nadee, taley, vihireechaa aakhaadaa | bhavya jaisaa ||47||

In the village there should be a beautiful herd of cows. A vast pasture should be left open for cows and cattle to have ample fodder. The cattle should get ample water from a nearby river, lake or the wells. ||47||

Uttam aisaa deva-saand | mubalak charaavaa chaaraa-biwada |
Beejaaropanee doodha kaawaad | detee gaayee ||48||

There should be a brooding bull offered to God which will belong to village in general. It should be provided with plentiful fodder. The cows will be big with young and further will produce a lot of milk. ||48||

Heychi khare gorakhshana | naaheetari kasaab bhuwana |
Ugeech gaayee waadyaat konduna | gorakhshan kaa hoyeel? ||49||

This is a real cow protection. Otherwise the gorakhshan sanstha will be seemed as the butcher's house. Does it really mean gorakhshan by confining cows in some big mansion? ||49||

Gaayees nase charaaoo jameen | tari mokalee paadaavee sarakaaraa kadona |
Athawaa gaavee karaavee arpana | jameendaaraannee ||50||

If there is no open land available for a pasture, it should be obtained through the government or some rich landlord should offer some of his land for this purpose. ||50||

Gorakhshanaachaa whaavaa abhyaas | Naanaa prayog saavakaasha |
kaise pudhe gele anya desh | tee maahitee dyaavee sarvaa ||51||

A profound and all sided study and research should be taken up for cow protection and cow-clan development. Whatever successful experiments in this regard are made in other progressive countries should be carefully studied and we shall also start experimenting in our country. We must provide useful information and guidance to our people. ||51||

Gowanshaachyaa rog niwaaranaa | Gaavee thewaavaa dawaakhaana |
Laabh milaavaa sarvaannaa | pratibandhakataa samjaavee ||52||

To protect cows and cattle from their harmful diseases, every village should run a veternary hospital and all villagers should get the benefits of it. People should be provided proper essential knowledge of prevention of animal diseases. ||52||

Gaavogaavee whaavee go-upaasana | gosevaa, godugdha mandir sthaapanaa |
Ruchi laavaavee thoraa, lahaanaa | godugdhaachee paroparee ||53||

In this way creative and practical devotion for cows should be developed in every village. Some Goseva mandals and Godugdha temples should be established and run by every village. A liking for cow milk should be created in old folks to small children in every family. ||53||

PIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS DIET | PRODUCTIVE EXERCISES

Sarva karaave je je karane | pari sudhaaraave saatwik khaane |
Tyaa waachoni sadbuddhi yene | kathinachi waate ||54||

Everything possible effort should be made for the protection and maintenance of cows. But it is also very essential to establish a habit of pious diets in our people. Without it, it is difficult to create a good, noble and wise intelligence in them. ||54||

Saatwik khaadya-peyaaveena kaahee | Gaavee aarogya yenaar naahee |
Uttam shakti nasataa dehee | sampattihi kaichee? ||55||

Health and hygiene of people can't be improved unless they form a habit and liking for satwik (pious, pure, simple and moderate) diets. If they don't have good strength and potential energy, how can they make wealth? ||55||

Uttam doodh, uttam saand | uttam shetee, uttam biwad |
Uttam kaamgaar prachand | shaktishaalee ||56||

Purest milk, strong and sturdy brooding bull, richly productive agricultural land and if harmonious unity of above three factors could be possible, we are sure, the strongest and hard labourious workers will grow in our country on a large scale. ||56||

Aise jyaannee gaava kele | Techi aaj pratishthaa paawale |
Eravee tora karooni mele | nikaami te ||57||

In such an ideal form those, who shaped and moulded their villages had been always honoured and admired by the society. Those, who displayed only empty struts without enacting any good deed, had gone unsung and unconquered. ||57||

Nikaamiyaanchee vyartha sampatti | Nikaamiyaachee vyartha shakti |
Naanaa maarge samponi antee | dukkha deyee jeevaasi ||58||

The wealth, physical energy and abilities of those, who live idly without enacting any job, are in vain and a waste. Finally their wealth and strength is spent and exhausted in wrong and unfair enactments and their beings suffer sorrows and agonies. ||58||

Khoop satwamaya khaavoni anna | med ghetalaa waadhawon |
Tethe rogaanchee phouj nirmaan | hotase dukkha dyaavayaa ||59||

Consuming most nutritious food regularly in a large quantity they grow fatness (obesity) and unwanted fat in their bodies. That results in erecting an army of many diseases and physical disorders in them. ||59||

Mhanoni kele paahije kaam | aarogyadaayee kunee vyaayaam |
Angaatooni nighataa ghaam | nashta hotee rogjantoo ||60||

Therefore one must labour and put himself to hard work; or perform regular physical exercises. When body oozes sweat and perspires adequately, all germs and viruses of different diseases get destroyed and man gets protected from such diseases. ||60||

Vyaayaam aarogydaayee mitra | hey dhyaanee thewaave sootra |
Aalas vairee maanalaa sarvatra | sarvatoparee ||61||

Physical exercise is our health providing friend. Always keep this principle in your mind. Always hold idleness as our arch enemy. ||61||

Vyaayaamaavinaa saatwik bhojana | Tehi maaree vikaaree howoon |
Vyaayaame hoya agnideepana | annapachan sahajachi ||62||

Consuming over nutritious and pithful rich food becomes harmful also creating disfortations. Physical exercise ignites and tends the gastric heat in our belly and the consumed food is easily digested. ||62||

Vyaayaame jadatwa jaayee duree | vyaayaame angee raahe tarataree |
Rakta vyawasthaa uttam shareeree | waadhe vichaaree sajeevapana ||63||

Physical exercises drive away the idleness and heaviness from our body and create cheerfulness due to good blood circulation. Sound mind then holds good and noble thoughts. ||63||

Vyaayaamaane sashakta snaayu | vyaayaame maanava hoyee deerghaayu |
vyaayaamheenaa pitta, kaf, vaayu | jarjar kritee atyanta ||64||

Regular physical exercises make muscles of the individual strong and pliant. It extends the life span of man. Without doing regular physical exercises man develops forceful distortion forceful cough, phlegm, gout and choler. ||64||

Vyaayaame waadhe pratikaar shakti | swaavalambanaachee pravrutti |
Vyaayaame angee waadhe sphoorti | kaarya karayaachee ||65||

Physical exercise grows preventive and reactionary powers in our body and it can react and struggle with all diseases and dangers. It develops tendency towards self-reliance. It encourages and inspires to do every kind of physical enactments and deeds. ||65||

Aisaa vyaayaam sarvaankaritaa | ase upayukta paahataa |
Hee navhe kewal ekaangee santhaa | pahilwaanaanchee ||66||

In this manner, physical exercise is excellently beneficial to all, It is wrong to think that physical exercises are essential only for the wrestlers to maintain their wrestling fitness. ||66||

Konee vyaayaamaa maagech laagale | Te malla pahilwaan zaale |
Loka dipawoni saamarthya daavile | dehashaktiche ||67||

Some individuals developed liking for physical exercises. With regular exercises, they became strong and sturdy wrestlers, athletes and gymnasts. Exhibiting their super physical strength and muscle powers they fascinated people. ||67||

Tyaat konee bakhshisaa saathee | karitee jeevanaachee aataa aatee |
paishaa saathee maaraapitee | karitee konee ||68||

Some of such strong and mighty wreslers started to exert ardent efforts to win wrestling competitions and earn rewards. Through avarice for money they would readily start struggling and fighting. ||68||

Deha zijawaavaa sevestava | Satyamaarge rakhshaave gaava |
Durbalaasi uchalaave hechi vaibhava | mallavidyeche ||69||

In fact the strongmen and wrestlers should emaciate their strong bodies in rendering villagers their services, if they protect the village by taking the right side, if they uplift the weak, miserable and needy people in the village, then only their might, physical super powers will prove adorable. ||69||

Pari ikade naahee dhyaana | Nashta karoniyaa mishtaanna |
Shakti kharchitee duskarmee poorna | aise vyaayaamee kiteetaree ||70||

But a good number of such physical body builders and wrestlers connive at this. They waste delicious food by consuming regularly and utilize their physical powers and strength in enacting wrong enactments. ||70||

Konaachyaa bharadaar dehaavaree | kapade mulaayam jartaree |
Aapulyaach khaadya, khuraakeechee karee | sarvadaa chintaa ||71||

Some such strong and stout body-builders and wrestlers put on clothes interwooven with golden and silver threads upon their tall and hefty bodies and care only for their nutritious delicious food items. ||71||

Gaava seveche kaam aale | Tethe pudhaaripan dile |
Tari tondachi tyaache chale | swaye na karey ekahi ||72||

If such wrestlers and hefty body builders are given a leadership to carry on some activity for the village, they will do nothing by putting themselves to hard labour. They will only order others to do in this or that way. ||72||

Kapadyaas na padaavee valee | mhanoni durooneech saambhalee |
Kaame karitee maanase sagalee | Pari to jaagachaa haalena ||73||

These folks keep themselves away from actual physical labour to save their clothings from getting dirty or disturbing their neat folds. They will only dictate and direct orally. They will never move an inch away from their seats while others are fully engaged in doing hard labour. ||73||

Asel kusteemaajee barawaa | pari jo prasangee kaamee na yaavaa |
To malla mhanoni gourawaavaa | konataa nyaaya? ||74||

Some wrestler might be an extra-ordinarily expert in winning the wrestling competitions. But if he does not become helpful and share some work on critical occasions, adoring and honouring him as a wrestler cannot be justified and considered as fair & righteous. ||74||

Tochi kharaa pahilwaan | jo deha-unnati saadhooni poorna |
sevesaathee arpito jeevana | Hanumantaa paree ||75||

Therefore that individual should be honourably considered as superior wrestler who grows his physical strength and energies and offers them along with his life for rendering noble services to others like the great Hanumant. ||75||

Nusate dand, mondhe maarane | Kustee jinkane chane pachavine |
Thoraa, lahaanaas tambee dene | nawhatee lakhshne vyaayaamaachi ||76||

Doing regular physical exercises like `dand-baithak', winning the wrestling competitions, and digesting grams and threatening all elders and youngers these are not the real characterestics of physical exercises and the strength acquired through them. ||76||

Saadhaayaa sevechaa upakrama | karaayaa jeevanaache kaam |
jo shakti de tocha vyaayaam | aavashyak sarvaa ||77||

We all need such physical exercises which can grow powers to help us rendering service to the people and doing all activities useful for living good happy life. ||77||

Vyaayaam mandiraatachi kaahee | vyaayaam hoto aise naahee |
Utpaadanaasi sahaayak hoyee | to vyaayaam shreshtha aisaa ||78||

Don't have a wrong conception that physical exercises can be performed only in some arenas or physical training institutes. The labour, which increases our productions should be considered as the most excellent physical exercise. ||78||

Haate ghewoni dand maarane | tyaahooni uttam paanee odhane |
dalane, phodane, jameen khodane | aarogyadaayee ||79||

It is better to draw water from well, to grind grain, to break logs of wood, to chip stones and to dig than to perform some kinds of physical exercises like `dand-baithak'. They are more helpful for health than the other kinds of physical exercises. ||79||

Jeevanaachaa amol wel | Ghaalwoni khelatee takalaadee khel |
Tyaapekhshaa parishramaache phal | uttam sarvatoparee ||80||

Wasting the precious and most valuable span of life in playing such showy and superfical games, it is better to do the most excellent exercises by exerting hard and labourious enactments. ||80||

Dalana kaandana adhik uttam | Miley aarogyakaaree vyaayaam |
Deha vishesh raahee kaaryakhshama | Aisaa satwaanshahi laabhe ||81||

By the physical exercises which we can have in doing enactments like grinding, pounding etc. we can keep ourselves fit and healthy. Man can become strong and mighty enough to perform any physical enactment. ||81||

Waachel bareechashee sampatti | Deshaat waadhel shramaachee shakti |
Sarva kaaryaachi hoyeel poorti | gaaveech yaa maargaane ||82||

When people do all physical labourious enactments for their household needs, much of their money can be saved. The country will have increasing labouring power. The villager can fulfil all his needs in his own village. ||82||

Howoniyaa loksewaa | aarogyaachaa laabhel mewaa |
Gaawaas laabhe sukhaachaa thewaa | adchan kothe kashaachee? ||83||

BY this habit of performing all physical labour, one can render his noble services to the people. He will physically keep fit and healthy. His village will be happy and even the name of any scarcity or hardship will then never exist in his village. ||83||

Aapulee shetee aapulyaa kashte | shenmutraadi ghaloni gomate |
karitaa aisee aadarsha nete | utpannasi waan nure ||84||

If we work hard in our own agricultural land, if we provide it with excellent manure of excreta of cows & cattle and if with streneous, insistant, labourious, ideal attempts we enact regularly, then there will be no scarcity of wealth and income for individual and for the village. ||84||

Abaalvruddha, nar, naree | yaasaathee zatateel gharoghree |
tari sarva sukhe sansaaree | laabhateel tyaannaa ||85||

If all villagers including male and female, children and age old elders in every family will put themselves to such hard work, they will acquire all pleasures and happiness very easily and comfortably in their household lives. ||85||

Laabhel vyaayaamaache phala | kaamaa maajeech sakal |
Nisargachi deyeel aarogya bala | sarva lokaa ||86||

By such physical hard work they will casually and spontaneously have good fruits of physical exercises. The healthy natural atmosphere will give all excellent healthy strength and energies. ||86||

Vanaspati aadinchaa sahawaas | Soorya kiranaateel satwaansha |
shuddha haveteel shram sarvaas | amrutaa pari laabhadaayee ||87||

Constant intimate association with trees and plants, the nutritious essence in the sunrays and productive labour in hard work in the pure natural atmosphere will become extremely and excellently beneficial. They will be fruitful as heavenly as the necter of heaven. ||87||

THE INFLUENCE OF VIRTUEOUS AND AUSPICIOUS CONDUCT (BEHAVIOUR)

Mag Gaava aso kee shahar | Tethe regaanchaa na raahe sanchaar |
Ek-ek vyakti kareel aachaar | aisaa jaree ||88||

If each and every individual enacts in this manner, there will be no diseases in villages or in big cities and towns. ||88||

Vyasane, aalas, duraachaar | yaa pasoni raahilaa doora |
Aisaa ekek ghatak sundar | paahije gaavee ||89||

Each and every individual in the village must keep himself away from addictions, bad habits, idleness and evil, wrong and filthy enactments. ||89||

Sadguna jethe disatee | Te uchaloni aanaave anubhavaaprati |
Yaanech unnat hoyeel vyakti | jeevan sudhaarel gaavaache ||90||

Everybody should try to pickup and imbibe practicing the virtue which he notices anywhere. Every individual can seek his own upliftment by his own noble conduct. It will improve the life of his village also. ||90||

Jeevan laabhaave ujwalateche | Tari sarva kaamdhaam asaave soyeeche |
Je je karaal te chaalaave saache | tyaach maargee ||91||

If you disire to make your life brilliant, then always try to perform all your duties and enact all your activities conveniently i.e. in a very neat and perfect manner. Whatever you enact, keep it doing constantly in future also. ||91||

Bhojan sthaanee, nidraa sthaanee | sabhaa sthaanee, udyog sthaanee |
vishesh prasangee, sahaj sthaanee | sadvichaarechi vartaave ||92||

You may do any activity anywhere such as having repast, going to bed, attending assemblies or meetings and at any special occassions, you should always maintain your behaviour with noble thoughts and ideal, noble enactments. ||92||

Sanskaar aani shuddha buddhataa | Aarogya aani pavitrataa |
Yaavari lakhsha thewoni saatwikataa | bimbawaavee jeevanee ||93||

Virtueous initiations and impressions, honest excellent thoughtfulness, health, sacredness and sanctity are the very essential factors which should be given a very careful attention. In this way we should imbibe piousness, purity and nobility in our life. ||93||

Yaakaritaa bolalo kaahee dinacharyaa | Aahaar viharaadi kaaryaa |
Graamasthaannee anubhawoniyaa | uddhaar karaavaa jeewanaachaa ||94||

(Vandaniya Maharaj says) Therefore, I have told you so descriptively about your daily routine, particularly about the habits of eating, drinking and manners of behaviour. All of you, villagers, should experience the benefits by personally following that routine behaviour and get yourselves prospered & uplifted in your life. ||94||

Aise karaave ekek kaarya | Jene gaavee naandel saatwik soundarya |
Yaatachi swargeeya sukhaache maadhurya | Tukadyaa mhane ||95||

(Vandaneeya Maharaj says) Therefore o Listeners ! You all should try to enact each and every act and duty which will help to maintain the pious, pure and auspicious (saatwik) beauty in your village forever. Here only lies the divine sweetness of heavenly peace, pleasures and happiness. ||95||

Iti ShreeGraamgeetaa grantha | Guru-shaastra-swaanubhava sammat |
Goras-vyaayaamsevan kathit | pandharaavaa addhyaya sampoorna ||96||

This Graamgeetaa scripture is well consented by the Guru, shastras and self-experiences. This fifteenth chapter, in which the excellent benefits of consuming cow-milk and practicing physical exercises - (Goras vyaayaam sevan) are narrated, is hereby concluded. ||96||

|| Sadgurunaath Maharaj kee jay ||

VOLITIONS

1) Bharat is an agricultural country. For all agricultural activities, the cow-clan i.e. oxen are extremely essential. The excreta of cows and cattles retains the pith of the land which helps to yield rich crops. So we all shall keep and maintain cows at our homes.

2) God and deities like Lord Krishna, Guru Dattatraya, Great kings like Dileep in Raghuvansha, Chhatrapati Shri Shivajee maharaj; Great Rishis and sages like Vashishtha and saints had always convinced the society the great importance and necessity of cows & cow-clan. We shall not sell our cows to butchers and shall neither allow anybody to sell them for slaughtering.

3) Providing enough fodder, keeping open land for pastures, keeping a strong and handsome brooding bull can be a real worship for cows. We shall do so and maintain our cows excellently.

4) The physical activities like drawing water from well, grinding, pounding digging land, working in the fresh open air under health maintaining sunrays in the fields are really good physical exercises. So we shall start physical exercises in putting us to hard and productive labour.

5) We shall improve the elements of routine conduct and habits of dining to maintain good health. Thus we shall make our village pious and virtueous. We shall bring all heavenly pleasures in our villages.

THE END OF GRAAM NIRMAN AGGRIGRATE OF FIVE.