QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2023
Q: How to protect the animal wealth of the country?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
I am sure you all know that when India became independent, the total animal wealth of the country was 120 million and our population was just 30 million in number. At that time, one man had four cows in his house. Today the condition is just opposite: the population in the country has risen to 120 million and our animal wealth has dwindled to just 20 million.
India has suffered a great loss because of this. We are exporting 6.5 lakh tonnes of beef every year. If this goes on, a day may come when we will only get to read about milk in the books but never really have it. It will be a very tragic situation for our coming generations.
Do you know, one cow is sufficient to make one acre of land fertile. Do you all know that the percentage of hydrocarbons and nitro carbons in our soil has become very less? By international standards, the percentage of hydrocarbons required for a healthy fertile soil is estimated to be 6%. In foreign countries, this percentage is between 4 – 5%. But in India, the percentage in the soil is as low as 0.2-0.3% only.
Just as reduction in iron content in the blood causes Anaemia in us, our Indian soil is also suffering from a similar Anaemia. Why is this so? It is because we are subjecting our fertile soils to toxic chemicals and artificial fertilizers. It is time for our farmers to wake up! I would strongly urge every one of you to adopt chemical-free farming techniques.
By telling you all these facts, I want to urge you all to abandon chemical farming techniques and assure you of the goodness of our indigenous seed varieties and organic farming.
We always used to sow multi-grain crops in our farms, i.e., we would plant two or three different crop varieties in the same piece of land. This would ensure that the soil remains healthy and fertile, and also give a healthy crop harvest.
Also, even if one crop got destroyed, we would still have enough from the other two crops to help us get by for our own needs. This mono-cropping methods (planting or harvesting only one kind of crop from the land) is used in places where there is a shortage of manpower and resources. It is not at all suitable for our Indian soil.
I would once again ask the farmers of our country that if we have to prevent natural disasters from happening, we all need to ensure that regular Satsangs take place everywhere. We should encourage chanting of sacred mantras in our farms and villages. It has been prescribed in our scriptures and this I have seen from my own experience. Wherever there is a chanting of the Rudram(a set of sacred verses chanted in the glory of Lord Shiva) and other mantras, the environment becomes charged with very positive vibrations and the resulting crops are healthy and bountiful too.
You know, countries like South America have readily adopted our ancient techniques such as the Trayambakam Homa and the Agnihotra. They are putting it to beneficial use in their farming. Why should we lag behind and not adopt the same? This is our own cultural heritage.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2023
Q: How to protect the animal wealth of the country?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
I am sure you all know that when India became independent, the total animal wealth of the country was 120 million and our population was just 30 million in number. At that time, one man had four cows in his house. Today the condition is just opposite: the population in the country has risen to 120 million and our animal wealth has dwindled to just 20 million.
India has suffered a great loss because of this. We are exporting 6.5 lakh tonnes of beef every year. If this goes on, a day may come when we will only get to read about milk in the books but never really have it. It will be a very tragic situation for our coming generations.
Do you know, one cow is sufficient to make one acre of land fertile. Do you all know that the percentage of hydrocarbons and nitro carbons in our soil has become very less? By international standards, the percentage of hydrocarbons required for a healthy fertile soil is estimated to be 6%. In foreign countries, this percentage is between 4 – 5%. But in India, the percentage in the soil is as low as 0.2-0.3% only.
Just as reduction in iron content in the blood causes Anaemia in us, our Indian soil is also suffering from a similar Anaemia. Why is this so? It is because we are subjecting our fertile soils to toxic chemicals and artificial fertilizers. It is time for our farmers to wake up! I would strongly urge every one of you to adopt chemical-free farming techniques.
By telling you all these facts, I want to urge you all to abandon chemical farming techniques and assure you of the goodness of our indigenous seed varieties and organic farming.
We always used to sow multi-grain crops in our farms, i.e., we would plant two or three different crop varieties in the same piece of land. This would ensure that the soil remains healthy and fertile, and also give a healthy crop harvest.
Also, even if one crop got destroyed, we would still have enough from the other two crops to help us get by for our own needs. This mono-cropping methods (planting or harvesting only one kind of crop from the land) is used in places where there is a shortage of manpower and resources. It is not at all suitable for our Indian soil.
I would once again ask the farmers of our country that if we have to prevent natural disasters from happening, we all need to ensure that regular Satsangs take place everywhere. We should encourage chanting of sacred mantras in our farms and villages. It has been prescribed in our scriptures and this I have seen from my own experience. Wherever there is a chanting of the Rudram(a set of sacred verses chanted in the glory of Lord Shiva) and other mantras, the environment becomes charged with very positive vibrations and the resulting crops are healthy and bountiful too.
You know, countries like South America have readily adopted our ancient techniques such as the Trayambakam Homa and the Agnihotra. They are putting it to beneficial use in their farming. Why should we lag behind and not adopt the same? This is our own cultural heritage.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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