Yesterday was the Melbourne cup – a day when the best of horses compete with one another to help make their owners rich and famous. For many years, thousands of dollars are spent on each horse to make them “function” at their optimum. After all – only if you invest will you get the best results. Horses need great care – best of food, trainers, medicine, stable etc. Until they fall over and fracture a leg that is.
Yesterday, one of the horses broke her leg and her “team” decided to “put down” the horse. One of the common reasons given by vets, trainers, their owners and supporters with limited knowledge is – “Horses can’t really survive for too long on 3 legs. So, we are doing it a favour by taking it’s life”.
This is how we should read this analysis of theirs – “We have no more use of the horse, can’t bother spending time and money on something which will eventually die, so lets just kill it, remove the problem and get another horse we can focus on”
Some questions -
- Why wouldn’t they let the horse have a natural death?
- Why won’t they continue to spend money on this animal that gave them so much money, fame and hope? Care means birth through to death.
- Why not have the sporting organizers set aside a fund to treat injured horses? Its not hundreds of horses that you have to pay for but a few here and there. These horses would not have run so much in their lives like they do in these races. So, the owners/sport/spectators have had a direct role to play in their injury.
- If a jockey had a fracture from a fall or any athlete for that matter was injured seriously, would they be put down too?
- If one’s dog or cat was injured, aren’t they given much love and care?
- Why do we continue to mistreat animals this way in the name of sports? Don’t we have enough sports already with which we can enjoy?
If you still want a race, the best one is for humans to race with another in developing a character of compassion and forgiveness. Everyone will end up as a winner and no life will have to be taken away.
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ISKCON Los Angeles Govardhan Puja 
Diwali Celebrations at Bhaktivedanta Manor 
Salem is a town in Tamil Nadu with almost a million (”ten lakhs”) residents and is a reputed business center, with a large retail market in gold ornaments and jewelry. The anglicized word “Salem” comes from the Samskrita word “Shailam”, or “hill.” There is a well-known “hill station” that was popularized during the days of British rule, Yercaud, located twenty-five kilometers from Salem at a height of just under four thousand feet. It remains a popular place for summer visitors 
Indra had become proud of his post, and Krsna does not like to see false pride in His devotee. False pride is like a cancerous tumour that destroys devotion. Krsna thus made an arrangement to rid Indra of this anartha. 
Aldenham's Hare Krishna Temple hosted an evening of celebration for Diwali, the festival of light traditionally celebrated by Hindus, on Sunday.
About 10,000 people flocked to Bhaktivedanta Manor, in Hillfield Lane, Aldenham, to enjoy the annual Hindu new year festivities. 
If you start parikrama on the main road in front of the ISKCON temple and the parikrama path near the Krishna Balarama Temple, you will walk about six minutes (440m) and you then reach the Krishna-Balarama tree. Most devotees circle this tree and then continue on the path. 
If you are attracted and enthused by the sweet chime of ringing bells, the mystic sound of conch shells, echoes of cooing birds at sunrise, exotic flowers & fruits, a culture woven with divinity, and a sublime touch of pure Ganges water, then mark Mayapur at the top of the list for your next holiday destination. 
Krishna-valley / New Vraja-dhama is more than 250 hectares of typical Mid Europian rural area, located in Hungary about 30 Kms from the well known tourist place Lake Balaton, in a beautiful natural environment. New Vraja-dhama is the transcendental realm of the world’s most beautiful deities Sri Sri Radha-Syamasundara. Please visit Krishna-valley for a spiritual journey. 
