A cow had roamed to the middle of the road,
attracted by speck of greenery on the median strip. As she was busy dealing
with the grass, a car zoomed past her. As soon as it passed besides her, the
driver brought his hand out and touched the cow on her back. It is a Hindu custom
where it is considered sacred to touch a cow. We can guess that the purpose of
this custom would be to encourage people to serve cows, to feed and protect
cows who give us milk second only to our mother’s milk. So does this casual touch-while-you-go
business serve any real purpose?
This gesture is indeed ‘symbolism’. At the
very moment the driver was touching the cow, he must have felt reverence for
mother cow; at that moment he must have had pious thoughts in his mind; and
hence I think this custom though symbolic in nature would still help preserve some
goodness in the hearts of practitioners…
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