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Happy Krishna Janmastami – the most auspicious appearance

of Lord Krishna
The Vedic Cultural Center would like to thank its contributors and friends for their generous support for the purchase of the new Auburn
farm this year. We collected roughly $230K for the down payment and moving expenses. We inaugurated the farm in July 2018 and
transferred six milking cows there. VCC purchased the new Goloka Farm for two main reasons: first, is to develop the infrastructure to
produce Ahimsa milk – pure milk from cows that are protected and never harmed or sent to the slaughter house. There are spiritual and
material assets to protecting cows. Lord Krishna is a cowherd boy who tends to cows in Vrindaban every day. Krishna is pleased by persons
who protect cows and He showers blessings on them.; second, is to establish a retreat and wellness center with healing equipment and
beautiful landscaped flower and vegetable/ herb gardens.
Cow Protection and land stewardship for prosperity and well-being

After the battle of Kuruksetra, Krishna installed Maharaja Yudhistira as king of the Kuru empire because he was endowed with godly quali-
ties by virtue of accepting Krishna as His spiritual teacher as well as other great devotees of Lord Krishna such as Bhisma. It is said that
during the reign of Maharaja Yudhistira, there was regular rainfall, the earth produced all the necessities of mankind, cows were happy
and their udders were bloated with sumptuous milk so much so that they fertilized the pastures with milk. Thus the citizens of the king-
dom lived an opulent, healthy life and cultivated spiritual values that helped them evolve into pure devotees liberated from all the vices,
illusions and sufferings of degraded human life.

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (aka Srila Prabhupada) explains how to have a peaceful, happy and prosperous
society through cow protection, land stewardship and Krishna conscious leaders and citizens:

The basic principle of economic development is centered on land and cows. The necessities of human society are food grains, fruits,
milk, minerals, clothing, wood, etc. One requires all these items to fulfill the material needs of the body. Certainly one does not require
flesh and fish or iron tools and machinery. During the regime of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, all over the world there were regulated rainfalls.
Rainfalls are not in the control of the human being. The heavenly King Indradeva is the controller of rains, and he is the servant of the
Lord. When the Lord is obeyed by the king and the people under the king's administration, there are regulated rains from the horizon,
and these rains are the causes of all varieties of production on the land. Not only do regulated rains help ample production of grains
and fruits, but when they combine with astronomical influences there is ample production of valuable stones and pearls. Grains and
vegetables can sumptuously feed a man and animals, and a fatty cow delivers enough milk to supply a man sumptuously with vigor and

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