Hyderabad: Dhyan Foundation (DF) organised a five-day spiritual talk and storytelling Gau Katha which culminates March 21, 2025 at its gaushala in Hyderabad. Shradhe Gopal Saraswati Didiji, who was in the city in connection with this spiritual talk, visited the gaushala and praised the work done by the DF highlighting the cow as a “universal mother”.
She visited the gaushala being run by the DF for the past five years at Peddashapur, Goluru Road, Shamshabad which is home to more than 3000 rescued, abandoned and sick gauvansh.
Gau Katha is a rare collection of facts from our ancient scriptures about Gau Mata.
Gau Katha is a powerful medium to create awareness amongst the masses about the relevance of the sacred cow in our lives. Every Indian must ensure increase in their population and protecting them from the hands of butchers, said Shradhe Gopal Saraswatiji Didiji, an IAS aspirant turned gau premi and pracharak who has been travelling all over India creating awareness about the importance of India’s most sacred animal cow.
The 29-year-old Sadhvi from Indore, Madhya Pradesh is on her maiden visit on a six-day tour to the city at the invitation of the DF, a volunteers based spiritual and charitable NGO working with the Border Security Force (BSF) to rehabilitate gauvansh rescued from the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Interacting with the media at the gaushala, she said that India was home to 80 crore gauvansh before the Britishers invaded the country. Now their population has come down to 9 crore. Similarly there used to be Gau Katha, an ancient tradition and culture of conserving the holy cow but this too has since become less common.
She is a disciple of spiritual guru Shri Gopalacharan Gopalanand Saraswati Maharaj). Her guru Gopalacharan Gopalanand Saraswati Maharaj is on a 31 years long 1, 25,000(one lakh twenty-five thousand) kilometers padayatra across India to spread the importance of gau matha. Starting his journey in the year 2012, he has visited 25,000 villages and covered four states and now entered Maharashtra. He will visit Telangana shortly, she shared.
Though there are some state governments like Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh who have enacted laws against cow slaughter but there should be a central law to protect this scared animal. As for awareness creation, the conservation of cow should be part of the curriculum at the school level, asserted the sandhvi, who is a disciple of spiritual guru Shri Gopalacharan Gopalanand Saraswati Maharaj.
Her guru is on 1.25 lakh kilometres padayatra to be covered in 31 years across India to spread the importance of the sacred cow. Starting journey in 2012, he has visited 25,000 villages across four states and now entered Maharashtra. He will visit Telangana shortly, she added.
With Ashwini Guruji as the guiding light, the DF runs more than 45 gauvansh shelters across India housing 70,000 cattle rescued from the clutches of butchers. These include two gaushalas being run at village Chellur, Rajpet and Peddashapur, Goluru Road, Shamshabad.
