Vishwa Mangal Gow Gram Yatra to begin from Kurukshetra on Vijayadashami, 2009
A pilgrimage to save the national heritage .It is a massive movement to protect the cow, develop the villages and bring prosperity and happiness to the nation. It is an agro-socio, economic revolution and the real independence movement, which will spread the message—“Save the cow, save the nation, save the world, save the village and save the nature”.
Over 21 crore people of the country are expected to give their assent over the memorandum, which will be presented to the President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil demanding the total ban on cow slaughter, status of national animal to cattle and implementation of the existing laws against cow slaughter.
The saints are going to give a joint call to the countrymen—Chalen gay ki or, chalen gaon ki or, chalen prakrati ki or, chalen gram rajya se Ram rajya ki or (turn to the cow, village, nature and from gram rajya to Ram rajya). The saints will administer a pledge to the farmers and the villagers to adopt the cow-based farming and not to sell the cow and its progeny to butchers at any cost.
Preparations for Vishwa Mangal Gow Gram Yatra are in full swing across the country. The Yatra will begin from Kurukshetra (Haryana) on Vijayadashami Day (September 28) and will conclude in Nagpur on Makar Sankranti Day in 2010. It will cover a distance of 20,000 km in 108 days and there will be over 400 prominent events at different places during the Yatra.
According to Shri Hukumchand Sanvla, national vice president of the organising committee, the Yatra will visit all the four Dhams, all seven Puris, all twelve Jyotirlingas, various holy places, rivers and mountains. There will be three grand chariots in the Yatra—carrying a grand statute of the cow on one chariot, literature related to the cow and the village development on the second chariot and the senior saints on the third one.
Various leading saints of the country including Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravishankar, Mata Amritanandamayi, Gokarna Peethadheeshwar Sri Raghaveshwara Bharati, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Sant Morari Bapu, Acharya Mahaprajna, Acharya Vijay Ratnasunder Surishwar Maharaj, Acharya Vidya Sagar Maharaj, Namdhari saint Jagjit Singh Maharaj, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche and all the four Shankaracharyas will lead the Yatra. Chief of Gayatri Parivar Dr Pranav Pandya is chairman of the organising committee. Dr HR Nagendra, Vice Chancellor of Vivekananda Yoga University, is working president. Shri Shankarlal, Shri Diwakar Shastri and Shri Meghraj Jain are national secretaries.
The saints are going to give a joint call to the countrymen—Chalen gay ki or, chalen gaon ki or, chalen prakrati ki or, chalen gram rajya se Ram rajya ki or (turn to the cow, village, nature and from gram rajya to Ram rajya). The saints will also administer a pledge to the farmers and the villagers to adopt the cow-based farming and not to sell the cow and its progeny to butchers at any cost.
Some sub-yatras will also be conducted in villages, which will join the bigger yatras to be conducted at taluka, district and state levels. There will be about 15,000 such yatras and they will cover a distance of about ten lakh km. When the sub-yatras join the main Yatra the signatures collected from the people will be handed over to the senior saints. The signature campaign will be conducted in over five lakh villages of the country. Over 21 crore people of the country are expected to give their assent over the memorandum, which will be presented to the President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil demanding the total ban on cow slaughter, status of national animal to the cow and implementation of the existing laws against cow slaughter. According to an estimate, more than 50 crore people will resolve to protect the rural culture, villages and the cow through the Yatra.
Many leading religious and social organisations of the country including Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission, Gayatri Parivar, Bharat Swabhiman Trust, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, VHP, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, etc. have extended their total support to the Yatra. According to RSS Sarkaryavah Shri Bhaiyaji Joshi, the swayamsevaks are working tirelessly to make the Yatra a big hit. It is a massive movement to protect the cow, develop the villages and bring prosperity and happiness in the nation. It is an agro-socio, economic revolution and the real independence movement, which will spread the message—“Save the cow, save the nation, save the world, save the village and save the nature.”
