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Cows and calves
Gau seva is daily household work: feeding, cleaning, watching, and keeping company.
Visitors who wish to help should write or telephone first, so fodder and medicine can be agreed.
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Animals and grounds of the Ashram
The temple stands near rice fields, a pond and the Ashram’s cows. Caring for animals and the grounds is part of daily life.
The Ashram is a working household in the fields, with a pond, a shrine, and cows in daily care.
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Pond and water
A pond belongs to the Ashram grounds. Fish may live there as part of the water.
The pond belongs to the working grounds. Follow the guidance of the house.
Image forthcoming: ashram-pond
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Fields, trees, and the temple garden
Paddy country around Gopikantapur holds the white shrine. Plants and trees are part of the same life as puja and seva.
Walk the path quietly. Flowers at the shrine stay for the offering.
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Birds
Birds share the pond, trees, and shrine air with the household.
Walk quietly. The house will say how a guest may sit with the grounds.
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Lives beside the cows
Cows are the named household. Other lives on the grounds are kept as the house keeps them.
Ask when you visit how you may help. The house will introduce who lives here.
Support for animal care is received as an enquiry. The Ashram’s own photographs of the herd will be added here as they are filed.