His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji started a Go:sa:la (a cowshed) to preserve all the existing indigenous species/breeds of cows.
JIVA Go:sa:la has been growing over the years and the number of cows, calves, heifers, bulls, and oxen has grown to 500 from more than 100 breeds.
Importance of Go:matha
The cow is called “Gow” in Samskrit. The holy scriptures of Sana:thana Dharma including the Rig Veda, the Yajurveda, the Upanishads, and the Pura:na:s refer the cow as “Go:ma:tha” (meaning “Cow – the Mother”).
Such is the importance of go:ma:tha that she is extolled in the holy scriptures with the sayings “Ga:vo: Viswasya Ma:tharaha” which means “Cows are the mothers in the Universe”
Pu:jas on Special Occasions
Your Birthday
Your favorite peoples birthday
Acharya Birthday
Preparing or Sitting for an exam
Celebrate any event dear to you
Krishna:shtami/Janma:shtami
Makara Sankranthi
Bramhothsavams
Yagnas
Go:puja is a ritual of worshipping Go:ma:tha (cow) along with her calf. Go:puja fulfills the wishes and removes hardships of the devotee who performs it.
Go:da:nam means donating a cow (Go:ma:tha) along with her calf. Go:da:nam liberates the donor and his forefathers from the sins committed knowingly or unknowingly in their lives. Go:da:nam is performed when a child is born in the family, during marriage, when a person passes away or in any other auspicious occasion. It bestows heavenly comforts on the donor. Departed souls will be relieved from the hells and from a treacherous river “Vaitharini” by doing Go:da:nam. The devathas in the cow will take care of the soul. It is equal to the benefits obtained by performing Ra:jasu:ya Ya:ga and donating unlimited amount of gold.
Devotees are advised to give us prior notice about go:pu:ja or go:da:nam they wish to perform so that we can make arrangements for the same.
Feeding the Cows
In JIVA Go:sala and Sitanagaram Go:sala cows, bulls, oxen and calves are offered three types of feed and fodder daily.
Dana is a kind of feed given in the morning around 6 AM. The contents of dana include thoor dal husk, rice bran, wheat husk, and cotton seed cake which are very nutritious and high in proteins. All the contents are mixed in required quantities in a tub and soaked in water the previous evening so that it will be ready to be fed the next morning.
Kutti is dry, chopped corn plants and it is offered to the cattle at 12 PM.
Fresh green fodder grass is offered to the cattle around 1 PM. The grass is chopped into small pieces with a chopping machine so that it is easy to eat and used efficiently with less wastage. This green fodder grass is grown in 10 acres of ashram land taken on lease for the sake of cattle and when we fall short of green fodder we purchase to feed the cows.
Apart from this feed and fodder, occasionally the cows are fed with jaggery or fresh vegetables donated by devotees.
Fresh drinking water is offered to cows two times a day, once around 10 AM in the morning and again around 5 PM in the evening. Currently drinking water is provided in their feeding tubs or buckets, however we started installing steel water bins (gangalas), 1 between every 2 cows, so that fresh drinking water will be available to the cows round the clock.