By Deena Bandhu dasa
Just about two weeks ago, there was a quite rare event in the ISKCON Bhaktivedanta Swami Goshala established by Srila Prabhupada. A beautiful black cow named Arati gave birth to twin bull calves. Not only is it rare, but if twins are born, generally one is very sickly and weak and dies shortly after birth. But as you can see in the photos, both are very hale and hearty. They are both dark like their mother and you can hardly tell them apart.
At first the mother was bewildered when one started to suckle, the other also came to suckle, but she butted him away. But gradually, she must have recognized the smell and she also accepted him and let him suckle. Seeing these two lovely twin calves, it occured in our minds to name them Lava and Kusha, after Goddess Sita’s twin boys who were born in Valkmiki’s ashram. Every day a stream of devotees come down to the Goshala to take darshan of the two dark brothers and feed special cow laddus, made from fodder and gur, to the other cows and calves of Krishna and Balarama.
Gomata ki Jaya! Sri Sri Krishna Balarama ki Jaya! Srila Prabhupada ki Jaya!
