Srila Narayana Maharaja: A cow is so much better! Why?

Syamadasa Prabhu: Because they are beneficial for human society.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: Why?

Vanamali Prabhu: They give milk. They offer their milk and themselves to Krishna.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: Why? You should think. Can anyone explain?

Devotee: They are in the mode of goodness.

Brajanatha Prabhu: They are like mother.

Rukmavati dasi: They remind Krishna of Srimati Radharani.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: How?

Rukmavati dasi: When Krishna strokes the cows, He is thinking of the gopis.

Syamarani dasi: Because they are beneficial for Krishna. They enable Him to meet Srimati Radharani in the forest. They give Him an excuse to go out into the forest. When Krishna comes back at night, the dust of the cows gets on His hair and face. This makes Him look so beautiful, that the gopis become more attracted to Him. So the cows are beneficial to Krishna.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: (Pointing to the iguana lizard.)

Syamarani dasi: No, he will not do.

Brajanatha Prabhu: Horses can also do. They can run, and dust comes.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: The horses can come like Kesi. Cows always give milk. They have no dvesa, envy. They do not only support themselves. Their life is always for others, and especially for Krishna, for all the Vrajavasis and for the whole world. If anyone is saranagata, surrendered to Krishna, and is always engaged for the welfare of the whole world, not caring for their own life-then Krishna has to manage them. He also supports the cows, and nourishes them, always following them when they go grazing during His sweet pastimes. With cows He does all this. Without cowherding, how will all these pastimes manifest?