Do we have to turn the wheel of time back?

[Guest guest]

> Then you probably have to travel 3 hours to work if you live in the

> country- either that or live like a sardine in a can in the suburbs, with

> rajas and tamas at your door.

> The only solution is to be self-sufficient and produce your necessities so

> that money is not necessary.

 

I often read this word self-sufficiant in conection with varnasrama.

Wath does it actualy means today, how many things can we produce on our own

in one village? Certainly no cars, tractors or other sofisticated machines

no electricity even the food what we can produce can be very limited, can we

produce sugar or salt or all the other spices we use, etc. life can be

indeed very, very simple and without much variety if that should be our VAD

goal. The vaiysas would become jobless isn,t it? The bankers too..

 

And I know what I am speaking, I was born in a small romanian village,

located very beautifully between the Carpatian mountens, acording to western

standards my family was very poor, we had two cows and a few other animals,

and about a half hectar of land, we where plowing and working the land with

horses. The village had almost know electricity, only in the majors house

and in a few other places, we used petrolium lamps for light in the evening,

the houses had no bathroom and the toilet was outside in the garden.

 

We where eating the vegetabls produced on our field, drinking the milk

from our cows in the evening with some thick maize porridge every day. On

sunday mother was cooking a little bit more opulent acording to our

posibilities.

There was no television, no privat car or any other electric machine. My

father was buying ones one of this big radios with bateries so in the

evening we where allowed to hear the children program before going to bad at

8 o clock, transmited from radio Austria. We are german nationality,

speaking a german dialect in the family, our forefathers where living there

till eight hundred years. When I think back my childhood was a very

beautifull time playing in the field, taking care of our two cows on the

pastering ground, sometime we where so engaged in playing that we forgot

about the cows wich entered the dence dark forest taking shelter of the heat

during the day. Sometime father had to go in the evening to seek the cows in

the forest when we came sometimes home crying that we lost our cows. He was

not very happy about this and was chastizing me and my brother.

 

All this beautifull memories endet when our family decidet to follow other

german families and move to the "golden west" to Germany in order to escape

the local poverty. So there I experienced having electricity, television,

video, privat car and all the other technological achievements which spoiled

my simple life, will I ever be able to live like I was living four fortheen

years? I have my doubts...

No I am again back in Romania by Krsnas arangements.

 

 

Ys,

Harsi das

 

 

> Making money unnecessary is in turn dependent

> on being in a VARNASRAMA community, because otherwise the vaisya has to

> struggle to pay off the land . So he should be provided with land by the

> ksatrriya (temple president or land-owner)and in return give a PERCENTAGE

> of his produce- This is the vedic system.Then if there is emergency like

> his crop should fail, he is given provisions by that that ksatriya, so

> there is a natural social security. Now how to translate this vedic

> scenario into the modern context, is the subject of this conference, or

> one of the subjects, hence there has been discussions on whether the

> vaisya will have life-time lease of the land or own it, and what sort of

> conditions apply.