VEDA - The Vaisya Environmental Development Association

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--- "Syamasundara (das) (Bhaktivedanta Manor - UK)"

<Syamasundara (AT) pamho (DOT) net> wrote: > I hope we will not

all be still philosophizing these

> important points in 10

> years time and still not have any persons making a

> livelihood from ox

> farming.

 

This is the point to me, to be quite frank if the

flowery words of the Vedas yield no flowers, nor

fruit, grains, veg or milk then what is their point?

 

It is a chichen and egg question of what comes first

the head (brahmanas) or the body (arms, belly and

legs), the cart or the ox, the milk or the crops. What

is important (for me - Mr Opinioned) is that something

comes, whether first or second.

 

I would much prefer to try and fail then never to try

at all - in love, in cow protection, in devotion, in

all.

 

What is better to not try and protect a thousand cows

or to try and protect a thousand cows and fail. It is

the latter.

 

What is the best - to try and protect a thousand cows

and succeed. And this means to learn from our past and

present mistakes and then to assess the viability of

future actions; believe you me, I would think very

hard before entering into a non-viable business, that

is why we need the research to analyse viability.

 

But a thousand cow protection journey begins with the

first step, and if we are not prepared to take that

step for the fear of not making the journey then we

are cowards and our words are no more than arm chair

philosophy whose echoes are best left in the room.

 

Now I know that is hard, and believe me I know most of

you out there have done much, much more than me in

this endeavour; but just because you tried and failed

in your past attempt does not mean that inaction is

the best response to your failure - as Robert The

Bruce - try, try and try again.

 

I would love to put my actions where my mouth is, and

I hope to do so in the future, but I do believe there

is a possibility out there to make a market out of cow

protection, and as a self-imposed smokesman for the

"Vaisyas Working Party" I plead to the Brahmanical

heads to stop debating the values to me of how much

profit I sould make, how many rounds I should chant,

how much alcohol or marijhuana I should take, ´cause

I'm just not interested, especially whilst this

intellectual finess yeilds no results on the ground.

 

Help me to yield results and then I may take your fine

words more seriously.

 

It is not that I reject them, it is that they are

limiting factors because they yeild no action, they

lead to dispondancy.

 

The Vedic world is not around us, we have to become

the sadhus, the kings, the merchants and farmers, and

the labourers. But they will not have the same form as

before. If I become a multi-millionaire and lease land

and resources out then I become an administrator, a

CEO, a politician - the arms of society - it is how I

use them that defines me as a Vedic (God conscious)

ksyatria, or just a karmi administrator.

 

Whilst we live in the mindset of another age without

having the ability to take the essence of that and

apply it to today's world's senarios (time, place,

circumstance) then we will not achieve very much.

 

It is quite obvious to me that any "non-devote"

lacto-vegy will be interested in a farming system with

lifetime protected farm animals, we do no service to

them materially or spiritually by yeilding no results

for the fear of poor results.

 

Hoping to be pro-active and non-offensive, but

probably failing,

 

Mark

 

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