At the museum i bought a book on Ghandi's writings- if you have been reading my blog you know that i have been fascinated by the cows in India. Here are some lines from two essays Ghandi wrote on the sacredness of the Hindu cow:
"The cow to me means the entire subhuman world. Man through the cow is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives....Hindus will be judged not by their tilaks, not by the correct chanting of mantras, not by their pilgrimages, not by their most punctilious observances of caste rules, but their ability to protect the cow."
and
"...The cow is the purest type of sub-human life. She pleads before us on behalf of the whole of the subhuman species for justice to it at the hands of man, the first among all that lives. She seems to speak to us through her eyes:'You are not appointed over us to kill us and eat our flesh or otherwise ill-treat us, but to be our friend and guardian."
Also here is a picture of Gandhi's room in Bombay that i wanted to include with my last blog.
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