“His countenance was distinguished by cheeks that enhanced the beauty of His alligator-shaped pendants, which outshone lightning. “

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.15.41

I was at the Sunday Feast and sitting on the lawn in front of the temple talking to Soma and some other devotees. It had started to rain so we moved under a tent that was set up there. Some thunder and lightning was going on but here, on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains, summer thunder storms are common and I wasn’t thinking much about it.

All of a sudden there was a simultaneous explosion and bright flash of light and my hand, which was resting palm downward on the wet grass, felt the tingle of electricity strong enough I instinctively pulled it away. I noticed that Madhupati had suddenly started to dance in ecstasy.

It turned out that a tree about 50 yards (46 meters) from where I was sitting had been hit by lightning (I paced off the distance). Soma had also felt it in his hand and Madhupati had gotten shocked in one leg. He was standing when it hit. I later heard that Dharmakala had seen electricity arcing on a metal tent pole.

The lightning had grounded through a locust tree and shattered it.

Note the burn marks on the fallen part of the tree. It was on 50 feet (15 m) from the side of the temple building.

A shard of the tree was thrown all the way to the temple.

Quite a display of power.

One interesting side note is that the locust tree that was struck was on my list of trees to thin out. It was growing too close to the row of Sweet Gums along side the driveway so needed to be removed. I didn’t want to cut it myself as it had to be dropped very exactly to avoid hitting the Sweet Gums and to not go over the hillside where it would be difficult to cut out the fence posts from it and get the excess for firewood.

Usually I would have Raghu cut trees in that situation as I have more faith in his accuracy dropping a tree then I do my own, but for various reasons quite some time had gone by without the two of us being in the same place at the same time and getting around to that specific tree.

When the lightning struck, the tree broke in the middle and the top fell perfectly. With the shattering, I don’t know if I can get any usable posts out of it, but it was large enough to have needed splitting anyway and it remains to be seen if it split the right size. At worst the top will heat the Deities this winter.

I will leave the stump as I think it is quite interesting and it no longer is competition for the Sweet Gums. I hope no one else decides to cut it down.

I have posted about Asto’s community building project in Africa here and here. He has replied with this:

Dear Madhava Gosh,

Thank you very much for your praise. However, I do not feel I have done as great a job as some may think. All I am is a tool in the hands a force much greater than myself. The real heroes are the people on either side of me.

On the one hand, there are our nearly 500 workers who suffer modest wages and hard labor in the hot sun in order that they might build a better society for themselves and those who come after them. And on the other hand, are the people here in the United States who sacrifice what funds they can, even in these economically uncertain times, to see the dream of a new kind of life, society, and economy take foot in one of Africa’s most devastated regions.

For the former there is no other hope in life, so the choice is easy, but for the latter their money could be spent anywhere, so I feel to a great degree that they are the real heroes. I feel a special gratitude to those who support us. It is amazing how little money that we need to actually change the live of tens of thousands of people, practically overnight, and on the other hand how hard it is to get that money. I feel that though I am in the Untied States, due to my upbringing, I am similar to our workers in Congo, for me this project I see as the only hope for my spirituality and vision of the world, so my choice is easy, therefore I don’t feel I have done as well a job as some might think. To me those who have supported us are the hope, those who will support us are the future.

Asto

You can make donations and read about his project here.

Referred to in yesterday’s post. Here are some excerpts:

Localized economics — a revolutionary social concept…back to the land, back to freedom…education made simple…give everyone a higher taste…how to get good leaders…farms are the future

Prabhupada: Yes. The department, the sinful departments, illicit sex, meat-eating, this will be closed, and that will make simple.
Ramesvara: Completely?
Prabhupada: No, at least we shall try to make closed. And if people become localized, then this traffic will be little. Just like I am trying to organize the farm. If people do not come out of home, then this system will be obsolete. There will be no more department. They have created hundreds. They do not know how to manage it. For livelihood they have to go to Bombay, and therefore they require so many local trains. But if they localized, they can get their livelihood locally, there is no question of these all…

Ramesvara: [Localization is] possible in India but not in America.
Prabhupada: Why?
Ramesvara: The American people…consider it backwards.
Prabhupada: That has to be educated, that backward is real life.
Ramesvara: They think they have achieved a higher standard of freedom by traveling all over the world…
Prabhupada: Where is your freedom? Where is your freedom if for your livelihood you have to go a hundred miles? Where is your freedom? Why you are illusioned? For your bread, you have to go hundred miles off, either by car or by train. So where is your freedom?…

Jagadisa: People in general are very much inclined to accept whoever their leader is if they feel happy. So if we give them kirtana and prasadam, if their economic needs are met, then how can they avoid? Economic needs are the main thing. That’s why they…
Prabhupada: If they can eat nicely and they have no complaint for living conditions, they will become…

Ramesvara: In America there is a rule that there is separation of church and government
Prabhupada: It is not church.
Ramesvara: But they think of us…
Prabhupada: Not stereotyped church.
Ramesvara: But they think of us as a religion.
Prabhupada: They may think. It is not the fact. It is a culture…
Now… We have come to the open field. How it is nice. And so long we were passing through that congested areas — hellish, simply hellish. And now here is open space. How it is nice.
Hari-sauri: To enter into a city is so imposing on your consciousness.
Prabhupada: Up to that point, simply rubbish, all papers thrown here and there. People are living in… Now see here, how it is open and pleasing. Organize this farm project. Farm. (background talking)
Hari-sauri: He’s just saying that in the West one requires a great deal of capital. To start a farm, to get the land, you need a lot of money because land is very expensive. And also we have to use modern farming techniques because we have so few men to run the farms.
Prabhupada: No, you show example. People will do automatically. When the people find it is very nice, they will take.
Hari-sauri: Should we try to make an effort to have our householders go and live on the farms, a special effort? If it’s ready to do that?
Prabhupada: Why householders? Everyone. Hare Krsna. (japa)
Ramesvara: In America there is a very big emphasis on getting people to join us by moving into our temples. The temple presidents are very eager to get as many people to move in as possible, but in the long run most people cannot come up to the standard.
Prabhupada: Therefore I am [advocating] farms.
Ramesvara: So they have to be encouraged to have a little bit of Krsna consciousness in their own home, make their home a temple.
Prabhupada: No, let them go to the farm, New Vrindaban.
Ramesvara: Many people… Most people in the world, they are grhamedhis, and they cannot give it up so easily.
Prabhupada: “No, you remain… Come here with your wife, children. You remain grhamedhi.”
Jagadisa: New Vrindaban is very austere. If we build little bungalows with modern convenience…
Prabhupada: Oh, yes.
Jagadisa: There has to be some modern convenience.
Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Then we shall do that.
Ramesvara: But for many people who live in the cities, they have their jobs already. They don’t want to give it up…
Say, in America, most people live in the cities, and they already have their job, and they are set in their ways.
Prabhupada: But you said that there is unemployment also.
Ramesvara: To a certain extent. But there are still 250,000,000 people. So most of them…
Prabhupada: So those who are unemployed, let them come to us. We shall give them employment.
Ramesvara: Yes. But for the mass population…
Prabhupada: Well, gradually you will increase and…
Ramesvara: We have to give them something that they can do in their home.
Prabhupada: Oh, yes.
Ramesvara: Because it is impractical to think that they will give up everything and move into the temple.
Prabhupada: No, those who are unemployed, let them come. We shall give them employment.
Jagadisa: On the farm.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Ramesvara: For those who are unemployed, that’s attractive.
Jagadisa: But for those who are already employed…
Ramesvara: But most people have jobs.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Ramesvara: Many people already have their jobs and their families.
Prabhupada: All right, let them not come, but those who are unemployed, let them come.
Ramesvara: But what…? For those people who already have their jobs, instead of…
Prabhupada: That job… They will be very soon jobless. Don’t worry. (laughs) They will come. They will be obliged to come. Now they have got job, but as the days are advancing in Kali-yuga, they’ll be jobless.
Hari-sauri: So we can expect that material conditions are going to become very much worse than this.
Prabhupada: They may come or not. We don’t care for it. Let us establish an ideal society. That is the…

VD 40: India, January 11, 1977: Conversation on Train to Allahabad

First the gloom, from the New York Times, April 7, 2008:

Grains Gone Wild

By PAUL KRUGMAN

“These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there’s another world crisis under way - and it’s hurting a lot more people.

“I’m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans - but they’re
truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a family’s spending…

“This is especially true of corn ethanol: even on optimistic estimates, producing a gallon of ethanol from corn uses most of the energy the gallon contains. But it turns out that even seemingly “good” biofuel policies, like Brazil’s use of ethanol from sugar cane, accelerate the
pace of climate change by promoting deforestation.

“And meanwhile, land used to grow biofuel feedstock is land not available to grow food, so subsidies to biofuels are a major factor in the food crisis. You might put it this way: people are starving in Africa so that American politicians can court votes in farm states…”

There are a lot of other good points in this article and you can read them here.

From Hare Krishna dasi (Astro is her son):

“Asto has just returned from Working Villages International, his varnasrama project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

“In contrast to grain shortages around the world, WVI’s Ruzizi Valley project has built an extensive irrigation system and is rapidly increasing its production of harvest. In 2006, none of this area was under cultivation. In April, the production was 10,000 kilos (25,000 lbs), making WVI the largest producer of rice in the whole province of South Kivu. In keeping with Srila Prabhupada’s emphasis on the importance of localized economics, Asto and Madhava (Fiston Malago) are distributing this rice to their workers and local markets only, with none for international export.

“Why have they been able to increase their rice production while rice is becoming scarcer around the world?

“Because they are growing and harvesting it all by hand — not waiting for the petroleum power tractor (when fuel costs $12 per gallon).”

You can read more about his project at his website. From the website:

“In April, we began teaching villagers how to train oxen using voice commands. Because using voice commands emphasizes building loyalty and trust with the animals, less strength is required, so we have women as well as men teamsters. This is important in a country where women do about 50% of the work in the agricultural sector.

“It will take about a year before they are fully trained and big enough to work, but once our oxen complete their training, they will dramatically increase productivity, not only for farmers, but also for people engaged in the non-agricultural sector, especially by hauling goods for village trade. This will be immensely important in an area where gasoline now costs $12 per gallon, but annual income is only $100 per person. Following WVI’s model for sustainable development, our long term increases in productivity will be linked to a wide range of appropriate technology.”

That’s right, I said INFLATION. Despite the rising cost of everything, have you noticed how this word is rarely to never used in the corporate controlled mass media? I don’t know why, but words have power and the corporate overlords must have some reason for muzzling the media from using it.

Sorry for the rant, but I needed to get that out of my system. INFLATION!

If not for that, the title of this post would have been the same as the source article:

Amish in Ohio feel pinch of higher gas prices

UNITY, Ohio (AP) — They may use horses instead of autos for transportation, but the rising cost of gasoline is still pinching the wallets of members of an Amish community in southern Ohio.

“I never realized when fuel prices started going up how much stuff it would affect,” said Dan Miller, 42. “It affects everything.”

Miller, a carpenter and horse breeder who bought Keim Family Market in Adams County last July, said several items have doubled in price from 2007 to 2008.

“The care and feeding of one horse, from $1,000 to $2,000,” he said. “The cost of propane we use to run our refrigerators. Diesel fuel to run our coolers at the store and the big mixers in our bakery. The fuel bills are about $8,000 a month. Last year they were $4,000. … It all adds up.”

The Amish are known for relying little on the outside world. They grow their own food, raise their own barns and sew their own bonnets.

“The price of material has not gone up, yet,” said Irene Yoder, owner of the Unity Variety Store. But, she said, the cost of shipping has tripled.

“It’s killing me,” she said.

She said the high cost of gasoline means fewer tourists visit her store to buy handmade quilts, and the doubling in price of hay and oats means fewer local Amish people are driving to the store by horse-and-buggy.

“Everything’s going the way of oil,” said Aden Yutzy, who owns a lumber yard. “The nails we use to make pallets have almost doubled.”

It has sparked widespread worry.

“It feels like a little red wagon going down the hill faster and faster,” Yutzy said. “You know what’s going to happen.”

Even so, many Amish say they will rely on what they know.

“You have to keep your priorities straight,” Yutzy said. “Keep your faith. The good Lord created heaven and earth. Make the best of it.”

Miller said he and his wife and five children will make fewer trips by taxi to surrounding areas because a 10-mile trip has risen from $10 to $25.

He said the rising cost of fertilizer has also meant changes in the area.

“Local farmers are mixing turkey and chicken manure with horse manure,” Miller said. “They’re putting it in their fields to cut down on buying more fertilizer.”

While he said it’s more difficult to make ends meet, Miller is embarrassed to raise prices at his market, where the cost of bread recently increased by 25 cents per loaf.

The price of flour has almost doubled due to the increased price of wheat processed by gasoline-operated machines.

“I can’t justify raising it more than a quarter,” Miller said. “We’ll just have to get by.”

Snan Yatra was at the temple 11 am Sunday but we couldn’t make it on time because of flooding. After a rainy week, Saturday night there was a lot of rain so the ground was saturated. Sunday morning we had a thunder storm, the heavy duty kind referred to as a gully washer. The ground was soaked so it had nowhere to go but off the hillsides all at once.

The rain was so heavy my gutters couldn’t handle it — it was going off the side of the house in sheets. I ended up with some water in my basement because the drains couldn’t handle the flow. The water rushing off the ridge was intense, and lots of driveways along the ridge ended up with alluvial deposits of gravel at their base. The side runs were fast and full.

There is small bottom behind the barn at Bahulaban I may in the future oversee turned into a garden. Although I have never seen this bottom flood before now I have. It has me thinking about a levee.

Behind the old barn at Bahulaban, the culvert under the road couldn’t handle the volume and the water backed up into a temporary lake. I need to check that debris hasn’t collected there and choked the culvert making another flood more possible in the future.

The backed up water rose to the level of the road and crossed it. This is the first time in 34 years in New Vrindaban that I have ever seen the water cross the road. Which isn’t to say it has never happened, as it only did it for about 30 minutes and it may have in the past while I was hunkered down someplace and cleared up before I saw it, but I have also never heard anyone else say they have seen overflood and that is something people would talk about.

While if it were a life or death situation I would have crossed the flooding, conventional wisdom is you should NEVER drive through moving water. Lots of people die every year doing it because the power of flowing water can be very deceptive and it will sweep away cars.

Pracetas was parked in front of the art studio which is uphill from the old barn on a mostly dirt road. The water coming off the ridge side swept down the road, creating deep gullies and pushed his car into one on the side of the road so it was stuck when he went to get it. Flowing water had moved his car. It can happen.

We just turned around and went home, going to the temple later. We caught the last bit of the bathing ceremony and saw the Deities carried away. The only flood there would have been the flood of devotion by the attendees.

“The entire culture of ancient India was based on cows and cow progeny.  Cow Protection means to protect  the cows and bulls too from slaughter or physical harm According to Vedic standards  cows and bullocks are “AGHNYA”,one which must never be killed.”

The following is a bit of a long read but if someone is interested in cows, Vedic culture or varnashram, I think it is well worth the effort.  This was received from Labangalatika dasi, former New Vrindaban resident and current cow protector in India.

BANDE GOMATARAM

TIRUPATI   Dec 1st to 3rd 2007

The   Tirupati Gomataram conference, which many say was brought about by the will of Sri Balaji Himself on behalf of his beloved cows, was an unique gathering of highly qualified  technical experts and scientists as well as cow keepers  inaugurated with very stirring speeches by   saintly persons  and sages . Sri Prasanna Venkatchariar Chaturvedi Swami of Chennai  said that the cow and the sages are twins created by the Almighty , the sages  giving mantra,and the cow  essential materials for the prosperity of the world.  The cow is the divine companion of the human being and by  the slaughter of the cow  our human values are assassinated,   Protection of cows means protection of all living beings  Now we are exporting blood, beef and leather, our heritage is being slaughtered and  human civilization is going backwards.

The cow should be the national animal of India , not the tiger.

Revati Rama prabhu the temple president of Tirupati Iskcon  quoted Srila Prabhupada  and Srimad Bhagwatam on the benefits of cow protection materially and spiritually;that the cow is the most important animal for developing the human body  to perfection, that cow’s milk is particularly essential  for developing finer tissues of the human brain so that one can understand the intricacies of  transcendental knowledge   Cow killing is the grossest type of ignorance.  He told how Maharaj Parikshit  stopped Kali from killing a cow and a bull   and this is the duty of every  leader.   The cow Kamadhenu is the provider of all happiness, as mother of all living beings gives pleasure to everyone. Cow family is born  at the home of the cowherd but it is very  sad nowadays  cowherd treats cow as economic necessity.

Revati Raman Prabhu is greatly respected in the local community  and  by the Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanams,  He was honoured at this function and was chairman  for the  second session afternoon.It was inspiring to see Srila Prabhupada so well represented.

Another saintly person spoke in Telugu. Although outsiders could not understand the words, his devotion  to cow protection spoke directly to the heart.  Some other dignitaries, political and official, addressed  the gathering  and also   Prof Ramaswamy of CARTMAN , but although he says friends of cattle should campaign against meat eating . he still goes on that ahimsa means causing least suffering  and there should be rural based slaughter houses to avoid the suffering of journey to distant slaughterhouses and stunning should be introduced. A real confusion  He does raise an important point that  the central and State governments are spending  a large amount of money on preserving wildlife but not even a fraction of this goes for the welfare of cattle  who serve man so well.

Problems and Solutions to protect the sacred cow . address given by Dr Govindaiah, of Karnataka veterinary University and the  Superintendent of the Tirumala Goshalla* Goshamraksana)    detailed the history of the sacred cow that Pitamaha Bishma told us never to obstruct cows in any way.  Cows were the material and spiritual  assets of the people of the country and that agriculture and cow herding were not just for the vaisya section.  One who possessed a  thousand cows was called  Shastragu with honour.  The Rishis maintained hundreds of milking cows in the ashramas  and people used to donate   grazing land to gaushalas.  The entire culture of ancient India was based on cows and cow progeny.  Cow Protection means to protect  the cows and bulls too from slaughter or physical harm According to Vedic standards  cows and bullocks are “AGHNYA”,one which must never be killed.

They mention the unique contribution of the Sri Ramachandrapura Matt of Karnataka  in preserving Indian breeds  and establishing   13 goshalas in different parts of India with preaching programmes among  farmers to preserve local breeds and establish community projects based on biogas, and  adoption of organic farming,and the Goubanks which   purchase cows from the  cattle markets to save them and lend them to people  on  strict condtions  for their welfare , such s they must never be sold or given away , no artificial insemination.

Cattle husbandry is the subsistence base of small and landless farmers . especially the use of draught bullocks , and if deprived of this it would mean a mass migration of  500 million people from villages to overcrowded cities.

Gaushalas used to be just charitable institutions which took in unwanted  or diabled animals  and kept them in semi  starved condtion due to lack of funds but now the  Gaushalas are considered  as reservoirs of  domestic cattlre genetic resources  as conservation centers of indigenous  cattle biodiversity.

The petty gains of a small number of people has resulted in the cruel exploitation and massacre of the most useful animal.  To prevent the movement of the cow to the slaughterhouse  it is necessary to blend science with tradition and put the facts before the people  to save this precious species,  Pancagavya and its products  have a great potential to  form a sustainable economy.  Cattle supply dung and urine  for organic manure and pesticides  at minimum expenditure   Indigenous cattle  genetic resources   and their products should be patented to  bring about  economic benefits to their owners.

The alarming trend in reduction of native breeds of cattle was pointed out by Dr Obireddy. Agricultural changes and lure of subsidies attract farmers to crossbreds   that replace local stock, which are then permanently lost. The local breed cannot return and  the result is  drastic changes in eco systems.  Other factors are  that crop residues of  commercial  horticulture  are not useful to cattle, that planting forests with eucalyptus and silver oak  do not support growth of grasses for  cattle ,lack of local health care , disappearance of village grazing  lands, non availability of local bulls for breeding.

Many breeds have become extinct. Pungamur, Krishna Valley Amrithal and Deoni  are,on verge of extinction and Tharpakar  dwindling in numbers.

Indigenous cow’s milk  is known to have higher therapeutic values  and Vechur cow’s milk is in demand for medical requirements of patients in Kerala.   Indigenous cow’s milk is a rich source  of Omega 3 fatty acids and Higher conjugated Linoleic acids and  MDGI , a protein that suppresses cancer, and an agent Stron-in that  provides proection from atomic radiation.  It has higher levels of carebrocides that increase human brain power, sharpen intellect  , give swiftness to  body and stability of emotions

Cow urine  was called water of life in the Vedas, and by its immunodolatory properties  it cures many ailments and enhances the body’s immunity.  It is effective against TB and cancer  and enhances impact of vaccinations,  It is  a blood purifier , cleans intestines , cures skin diseases , asthma , urinary problems., postpones  ageing.  It is also a valuable bio pesticide .  The use of cow urine in agriculture and for human health  will be of utmost importance since WHO says  by 2020 microrganisms will be resistant  to antibiotics.

For further information please contact  Mr PK Singh, and Mr RK Pundir  and DK Sadana of  the National Bureau  of Animal Genetic Resources, KARNAL  132001′

A professor Lakshmithatachar told his experiences of developing pure Hallikar milch cows,/When he started there were no 100% pure bred Hallikars available  and the milk yield was drastically low .  Farmers did not know how to select a proper bull, only by external characteristics  without considering the milk yield of the mother of the bull   With great difficulty and selective breeding  he upgraded the purity of the herd to 90%,  He says he is already over70 years old and it is now impossible for him to personally take care of these cows and that  government agencies or NGO’s should come forward  to take care of these cows,  He prayed that ultimately Lord Venkateshavara , Govinda, the protector of the cows should shower his blessings on the indigenous breeds and their breeders.

Dr Sathya Shankar VArmudy of Kasaragod. Karnataka . a head and neck  and ENT surgeon     described with slides  showing before and after treatment ,many cures of cancer patients, mostly of mouth and throat. some at stage 1V,  with arka , distilled cow urine..  Most had  tried surgery and radio therapy with no success.    Many  testimonials , eg a lady of  55 years, “  I had been suffering from cancer since 3 months,  I was on feeding tube for the last 3 months ,within 15  days of Arka therapy  I am able to eat without Feeding tube.  I am healthy now”

His address:

Dr Sathya Shankar VArmudy

MS( ENT) Endoscopy ENT head and neck Surgeon

Cancer research Centre

Sree Ramachandrapuram Mutt.  Hosanagra

KIMS Hospital, Kasaragod   671 121

There were many presentations on Pancagavya, ghee.cow milk. Curd, dung and cow urine ,   for agriculture and  human health.. which will have to covered in detail in  separate  reports, its preparation, chemical analysis, remarkable beneficial effect on crop plants ,as fertilizer and bio pesticide.

One study has   compared the urine  of indigenous cow with that of exotic cow crossbred cow and buffalo and goat through chemical fingerprinting, and  there are15 qualities present in the urine of indigenous cows ,four of which are lacking in exotic cows and ten of which are absent in that of cross bred cows.  Even more important for the quality of the urine is that  cows should go for grazing.

14 stress reliever                     +                                   +           +           x                     +

15 effect on blood calcium

Level                                      +                        x            +          x                      x

( this is my first attempt to make a table so pleased excuse me)

Pancagavya was well known in the Vishayurveda for enhancing the biological efficiency of plants and the quality of fruits and vegetables.  The scientific basis needs  to be further evaluated , and methods standardized  . Pancagavya was widely used in Ayurveda and there is tremendous potential for cost effective treatment  of chronic diseases. It is evident there can be no ayurveda without the Indian breed of cow.

For agricultural use preparations of pancagavya are made  from cow dung  1 kg, cow urine 3lts. Cow milk 2 lts.  Curd 2lts ,ghee 1lt. mixed with sugarcane juice,  3 lts, tender coconut water 3 lts and 1kg ripe banana.  To be kept in a wide mouthed earthen ware pot and stirred  twice  daily for 20 minutes morning and  evening to facilitate microbial activity for 15 days.  It is to be sprayed at 3% concentration.

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University is standardising the composition of pancagavya as an important input in agriculture, and researching the efficacy of dung and urine collected at different times of the day, and whether  from lactating cow or pregnant cow.

For human medicine it must be taken fresh daily early morning, 100 ml cow urine,50gms cow dung, which are mixed and filtered through an eight fold cloth,  then 20 ml milk, 20 mil curd and 15 ml ghee. There is a new ayurvedic 80 bed cancer hospital  at Valsad for  treatment with pancagavya, herbs and diet.  Contact Mr Vipin Shah  91 - 2632 241815  mobile 09426812694

The current development has caused immense threats to existing biodiversity, impending disaster  by global  warming, erosion of genetic base of agriculture, loss of livelihood ,loss of nutrition with serious health impacts.

Exploitation and abuse of our cattle wealth  has created serious ecological imbalance.   The state governments are requested  to initiate steps  for conservation of  our Agriculture by protecting our Cows,

The Principal Scientist of The Central Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal  described  many new improved yokes and harnesses and ploughs ,tillage tools, disc harrow, blade harrow cultivator, low cost seed drill diggers, devices for threshing and winnowing   bullock drawn sprayer, bullock carts, bullock powered agro processing . such as grain cleaning,  grinding,  ground nut decorticator,  potato peeling and slicing, even flaking, new technology making bullock power more productive and versatile at much lower cost .

Sri PMV Subarao of IIT Delhi, Mechanical Engineering Dept. Centre for Rural Development and Technology I ndian Institute of Technology. Hauz Khas. New Delhi 110016  gave detailed  information of production of Bio CNG from Biogas  in cylinders for use in automobiles. This is being done successully in a village in Rajasthan and they are willing to give the technology to  any goshala.  About 1000 cows are needed to supply the bio gas plant  with gobar. and   high pressure compressor is required. There is a large potential of biogas generation in India to make it a cheap alternate fuel for vehicles.  The slurry left over from the biogas is excellent   fertilizer  making 2 high value products out of one process.

The Gaushalas   should become centres of rural development. In one instance 250   dry and barren cows and  oxen who could not work filled 2  big gobar gas plants, one 80m and the other 64m  to produce 130 units of electricity . the left over slurry was used to prepare fertilisers,   Each cow or bullock contributed Rs 40,000 per year income.

In designing eco friendly, easily maintainable  cow protection centers for rural communities, Dr Laxman Singh  related how  he led a campaign during the drought year of 1977 to rebuild broken embankments , repair percolation tanks  and desilt   community  ponds with local volunteers from his village on his own land  in Laporiya, Rajasthan.  By people centered  governance and  rebuilding  the irrigation tanks, treating the entire pasture land,  bumper harvests soon  arrived , by 1998  two harvests a year  even in drought years, and migration from the village to the cities also came under control.  He showed on film the innovation of the Laporiya squares for rainwater harvesting for range management in near desert conditions.

On a slight slope of community pasture  a large patch is divided into rectangles of varying size and each unit enclosed by 1.5 meter high dykes on three sides with earth dug from inside the rectangle,  Rainwater enters the square  and fills it and the overflow passes to the next square and so on till the excess water reaches the village tank.  In the squares different moisture levels allowed a variety of grasses to grow , thus restoring the pastures and with it  wildlife and birds ,   Wheat was harvested in Laporiya after 20 years  and the village tank was named Ana Sagar or sea of grain.

Dr VN Vishwanatha Reddy of  the Veterinary College of   Bangalore  gave guidelines for  health care in cow protection centres  with some useful homeopathic  remedies  as well as allopathic treatment and ethnoveterinary.  Some of the latter treatments were shocking and very repulsive using  pig fat and intestines for treatment  which is something we would never do.   One good homeopathic recipe for raising haemoglobin levels is in 450 gms of size 20 sugar pills add 5 ml of Ferrum Phos 6C , 5 ml of Ferrum Met 6C, 5 ml of Selenium 30, 5ml of Echinacea 3x. After pills are soaked add  Leicithin 3x powder in small amounts and mix till all the pills get a coating   .Feed pills 4 times a day. 4 days a week for 4 weeks, ¼ tsp for calves. ½ tsp for heifers and 1 tsp for adults respectively.  I   have treated a weak bullock with  this and he seems stronger ,but he is also getting 200ml fresh pancagavya daily too.

For abscess he recommends  Hepar sulph 6c and Calcarea Sulph 6 C  10 pills 3 times a day until it ripens.

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The   delegates had been allotted  15 minutes in which to speak, but time was running short so each one was given only 5 minutes which was practically impossible and no time for discussion or questions  .A scientist  gave an address on the CDM potential of cattle in India.   There was  a presentation on the cloning of zebu catle . the application of modern  biotechnological  tools in  conservation of zebu cattle,  which was very disturbing to many delegates..  A talk on the  role of cow in integrated  organic faming systems , as biodynamic, agnihotra or Homa, pancagavya,Rishi Krishi and Natural farming  systems followed and a paper on the standardization of cow urine by the very important and useful invention of a  test kit  was presented by Mrs Tiwari from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural industrialization, Wardha.

Dr SVN Rao  spoke on how to encourage farmers to rear indigenous cows.  and  that the farmer himself should look after the animal till its natural death.  And  there were talks on community action in cow protection, the need for massive education campaign about the significance of the cow and  organic  farming and cow products and the need to upgrade the  milk yield of indigenous cows which will be a long process of selected breeding and  good nutrition. Pressure on grampanchayats to utilize community lands for pasture,  Temples should be actively involved  in   supporting these programmes.

Due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in a vicious cycle the land quality has  deteriorated,   and yields are reduced  and the health of the people  is suffering , and the increase of milk production by introducing foreign cattle has greatly reduced the  health beneficial properties of milk which used to come from native cows, richer in calcium and medicinal properties, to the detriment of the people’s health.  The Indian cow has to be protected from the Slaughter House and how to do this is the million rupee question of the day., by propagating the  values and benefits of Indian cow breed, establishing Goshalas  with provision of Govt subsidy.

Sri Suni Mansinghka of the Gauvigyan Anusandhan Kendra, Nagpur, who got the US Patents on cow urine distillate told how the Kendra  was established in 1996 by Shyam Balla and others who worked hard to establish utility of non milking cattle to mankind in a scientific way. He had  gone inside AlKabeer slaughter house and  he thought if Khamdhenu is being slaughtered in such a way we will lose all our cattle wealth in no time.  To avoid slaughter sale of cow should be stopped.  The farmer has been misguided to think that  cow with less milk is  burden on him.  Actually wealth , Laxmi resides in cow dung.  Only the western countries consider it as  waste.

Besides the patent  and others also filed, the Kendra  has a self reliant Goshala of 425  non milking cattle . There they are preparing and researching vermicompost, pest repellent , amrit pani, pancagavyas, and  training farmers and tribals.

Sri Varadan Chander of Sri  Bashyakara Charitable Trust Chennai  proposed a blueprint for  National Cow wealth Development Programme and to bring about an organization  for all like minded people  called Indians for Cow Movement .

There has been a surge in the demand for export of Indian beef in last few years  after the affliction of western cows by mad cow disease  so we cannot continue to remain  indifferent and mute witnesses  when such animals of  great national significance  are treated as objects of trade and commerce.   Killing of the cow and its progeny for beef and leather purposes  must be declared as abuse and misuse of precious national wealth and must be banned in toto

The Central and State governments need to review their agricultural policies  to utilize cow wealth and benefit  the farmers,  Corporates  and  Hindu religious endowments  should support  Indians for Cow movement  by donating lands and funds.

Sri RK Joshi of Viniyog Parivar  Trust   gave a paper on the prevention of cruelty to cattle with reference to issues  in the enforcement  of current anti cow slaughter laws.( this paper  has been  sent to you in full)

He says  the issue of honest and strict implementation of cow protection laws  is another area of concern.  No one can say  that in the 13 states which  have laws to totally prohibit slaughter of cow progeny that not a single cow is  slaughtered,          The meat lobby in connivance with the state machinery, politicians, police and other law enforcing agencies is having a field day and there is rampant  violation of laws.  Uttar Pradesh is the largest centre of cow slaughter where  scores of refrigerated go downs are full with thousands of tons of beef for export  through Delhi and Mumbai airports  .  The railway Ministry has permitted transport of  cattle on the railways   which has made it easy to transport  thousands of cattle  at once from any place to the state of Bihar   from where they are smuggled across the border into Bangladesh and slaughtered for export.  The railway Ministry should be persuaded to reimpose the ban and  vigil on the Indo Bangla border should be strengthened to prevent smuggling/

Sri Paramanand Mittal. Advocate  , says there is a proposal in the 11^th Five Year Plan  for allocation of Rs 2500 croes  to establish 500 big mechanized slaughterhouses in the rural areas and Rs 1000 crore to establish 50 modern export oriented slaughterhouses  and establishment of a National Meat and Poultry Development Board/   To remedy this current situation  saintly persons should travel and create public awareness in the  villages for protection of cows. there should be country wide agitation  to stop cattle smuggling, to check crossbreeding, to not establish a Meat  Board, to ban cattle slaughter.  Teams of volunteers  if possible armed for self defence  should check the  illegal activities of cattle slaughter and Goshallas  established in every district for  rehabilitation of  rescued animals .

Dr Mannem Murthy. A retired  nuclear scientist  has developed an electronic gadget called  the Universal Thermo Scanner  which measures the Bio energy fields of  animate and inanimate objects.  The energies of cow and pancagavya  have such high positive energies they can be used to neutralize  negative energies  in the environment, Our ancients have used these positive energies for healing human ailments and  for safeguarding  the society in certain rituals  in which the Cow is very important.  We have forgotten our culture and heritage inviting negative energies  into our way of life.   Machines have replaced cattle power and  and there is no place for cattle grazing.  Hence the livestock  ratio of human cattle population is  running down drastically, We are losing ecological balance. Such awareness should be brought to the State governments to protect the valuable Gomata  to save our ancient culture and heritage.

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