Why Cows are worshiped in India?

India is a country of diversity and different kind of customs. Those customs and ways of living are seen usual by people living here but some foreigners see this with different perspective and sometime this is ridiculous for them. This is very natural and psychological, when we don’t know the depth of anything we could behave like this even we laugh on some foreign customs too.
Though I have initiated a very small topic here but it could clear the confusion of many people. It has big meaning in life of people here in India. Question is again left here, why cows are worshiped in India. 

India is a country of different religions and it is very surprising that they have become so much compatible with each other except some exceptional case. Those exceptions are obvious for the country with population of more than 1.2 billion. In India the Hinduism is the largest religion and more than 75% people here are Hindu. And in Hindu mythology the cow is considered an animal to be worshiped. And even some other animals also, all those have different reasons but there is a hidden positive agenda behind this.

Today there are laws implemented to prevent the hunting of tigers but even after that this is not hundred percent successful, but that is a way of prevention. The same kind of things is here with cows also. In early life when man was in habit of hunting and eating, there are multi options and he did not used to think that what would be the effect of this in future. If we take the example of cow, it could provide meat once but milk for its life time and some other usage also. Hindu scholars did notice this and modified the books accordingly to prevent these animals from unnecessary hunting and put this in religious law, which used to be followed strictly by the followers. This was a good way to control and if we see the example, even today the cow meat in prohibited in Hindus. 

This is a smaller example, beside this there are many good things, like worshipping trees, food, animals, nature and all. This will teach people to value those things which are given to us by nature and to care and not waste them. This is a very pure and good way to control and teach people about the value of the nature. I think if we go in depth of this, we would never laugh and salute the ideas of those scholars.