On my way to office is one temple. A cow and its caretaker are parked right outside. Every day.
It’s a tradition in India to offer the holy cow the cattle feed. It’s considered to be a good deed; that washes you off sins you ‘may’ have committed, and earns you “punya” (your P&L of good deeds).
It’s a practice as I see every day- devotees buying the feed from the caretaker and offering it to the cow. Strange, aint it? The caretaker is one person the cow spends her whole day with; he carries the feed but doesn’t feed her till someone pays for it. Is that a good deed?
The devotees don’t mind this quick ‘buy-feed-earn-good-deed-points’ mechanism as it saves them of the trouble of getting cattle feed on their own.
Its all a matter of convenience. But then we all do it. All the time.
