Yavatmal, January 14: “The whole world appears in the grip of consumerism today. The scientists world over too are worried over it. As far as protection of the nature is concerned only Bharat can guide the world. The people all over world have admitted this fact. We all have to accept this responsibility,” said RSS Sarkaryavah Shri Bhaiyaji Joshi. He was addressing a welcome meeting of Vishwa Mangal Gou Gram Yatra here today.

Shri Joshi said earlier our farmers were self-depend but the so-called green revolution made them dependent on industries for everything including seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. If we have to make our soil fertile again we should promote cow-based farming.

He said every house in the country should become a centre of goupalan and gouraksha. Every citizen should become a goubhakta and gourakshak. The goubhakta should not mean just a person worshiping the cow but he/she should use the products made of the cow provided material in practical life. It would establish the importance of the cow in practical life.

Shri Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji called upon the goubhaktas to think whether the service we are rendering to the cow is sufficient and if not sufficient we all should first awaken ourselves and then awake others. If we failed to protect the cow today then there would be no need to protect her as the cow would no more then. It is the last yatra and the last opportunity we have, he said.

A grand procession was organised when the Yatra reached Yavatmal. The youth burst firecrackers and shouted slogans for cow protection. The people of the city showered flower petals.

The meeting organised at Azad Maidan was presided over by Mahant Shri Ramlakhan Das Maharaj who also administered the oath of cow protection to the audience. Shri Bhagwatacharya Ganesh Shastri, Shri Baburao Lanke Maharaj, Shri Dattabhau Kulkarni and national secretary of the Yatra Shri Shankar Lal also addressed the meeting.

The function began with a large procession which moved the whole city. The four upyatras also entered the city simultaneously from four sides which all culminated in a meeting at Azad Maidan.

According to Shri Jivan Ladhdhi, district convener of the Yatra, four upyatras were conducted in the district which contacted more than 300 villages. A total of 2.80 lakh signatures were collected from the district, which were handed over to the saints.

Prior to it, the Yatra reached Varoda and Vani where too public meetings were organised. Thousands of people pledged for cow protection. Villagers in large number showered flower petals from both sides of the road.