compost toilets

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>Thank you very much for the information about composting. We are

>actually coming up with a new system of dealing with our

>temple/kitchen compost and this information is very helpful. Sadacara

>Prabhu is heading the garden project so I will pass the information on

>to him as well as the devotees in the Cow Protection Dept.

 

>I have mentioned to Ekavira Prabhu, the Temple President here in Gita

>Nagari, about the composting toilets you have mentioned on the

>confrence. We are very interested in installing composting toilets on

>the farm. Could you please give me some information about the system

>you offer. We are looking at installing some at the temple as well as

>the Bramacari Ashram.

 

 

>your servant,

 

>Madhusudana das

 

 

Here is a purport in Srimad Bhagavatam I was reading the other morning. This

is the time when Srila Vyasadeva is dividing the One veda into four for the

benefit of humanity.

 

Translation

The Great Sage, who was fully equipped in knowledge, could see, through his

traanscendental vision, the deterioration of everything material, due to the

influence of the age. (Kali Yuga). He could also see that the faithless

people in general would be reduced in duration of life and would be

impatient due to lack of goodness. Thus he comtemplated for the welfare of

men in all statuses and orders of life.

 

Purport

The unmanifested forces of time are so powerful that they reduce all matter

to oblivion in due course of time. In this age the duration of the material

body of the people in general is much reduced, and so is memory. The action

of matter aslo has not so much incentive. The land does not produce food

grains in the same proportions that it did in other ages. The cow does not

give as much milk as it used to give formerly. The production of vegetables

and fruits is less than before. As such, all living beings, both men and

animals, do not have sumptuous, nourishing food. Due to want of so many

necessities of life, naturally the duration of life is reduced, the memory i

s short, intelligence is meager, mutual dealings are full of hypocracy and

so on.

 

The great sage Vyasadeva could see this by his transcendental vision. As an

astrologer can see the future fate of a man, or an astronomer can fortell

the solar and lunar eclipses, those liberated souls who can see through the

scriptures can fortell the future of all mankind. They can see this due to

their sharp vision of spiritual attainment.

 

All such transcendentalists, who are naturally devotees of the Lord, are

always eager to render welfare service to the people in general. They are

the real friends of the people in general, not the so called public leaders

who are unable to see what is going to happen five minutes ahead. In this

age the people in general as well as the so called leaders are all unluky

fellows, faithless in spiritual knowledge and influenced by the age of Kali.

They are always disturbed by various diseases. For example in the present

age there are so many TB patients and TB hospitals, but formerly this was

not so because the time was not so unfavourable. The unfortunate men of this

age are always reluctant to give a reception to transcendentalists who are

representatives of Srila Vyasadeva and selfless workers always busy in

planning something which may help everyone in all statuses and orders of

life. The greatest philathropists are those transcendentalists who represent

the mission of Vyasa, Narada, Madhava, Caitanya, Rupa, Sarasvati, etc., They

are all one and the same. The personalities may be different, but the aim of

the mission is one and the same, namely to deliver the fallen souls back to

Godhead.