Cow Worship

Published on 14th August, 2017, on www.dailyo.in . Hindus don’t just worship cows. They also worship cobras and monkeys and elephants, as finite forms of the infinite divine. In Hinduism, God is visualised through various forms: elements, plants, animals, celestial bodies, artefacts, and geometrical forms. So, it is not uncommon for a Hindu to worship fire or water, the tulsi shrub or banyan tree, the sun or the moon, a pot or a sword, a yantra made of intersecting triangles, circles and squares. However, around the world the image of Hindus worshipping cow has captured the imagination of people, perhaps because in most parts of ..