Beneath the oppressive glitter of a weird prosperity based on a ruthless exploitation and a reckless destruction of sub-human, harmless life in an unimaginable number, stands the cow-an erstwhile neighbour unto man, bearing in her serene mien the dignity of a mother, with eyes evoking and overflowing with compassion, harbouring within her the light of the divine. Born of her sattvic (auspicious) disposition and selfless services and therefore, sacred. A silent representative of the sub-human world, undergoing ignominious treatment and inhuman cruelty at the hands of those very ‘humans’, whom she has fed all along with that live-giving elixir-milk, the cow has served mankind from the dawn of history in a variety of ways, that has not only made civilization possible for the world, but India’s characteristically moral and spiritual culture. A symbol of higher nature-‘aditi’, a sensitive fulcrum holding the balance between good and evil, the cow is not only a moral bridge between man’s real self (his potential soul, a part of the supreme soul) and his unsubdued ego. (the actually selfish animal, armed with a calculating intellect-a stooge of illusionating Maya), but also a truly divine power destined to be a spearhead of a spiritual movement, aimed at the emancipation of all beings including man from the scourge of his own inhumanity, and the establishment on earth, of the sanctity of and the reverence for all life.