VEDIC VILLAGE REVIEW #43

April 19, 2015. Adventures in New Jaipur, Prabhupadanuga Farm in Fiji

ANOTHER COW RESCUED

We returned to Talim’s mountainside farm and chose a white ten month heifer. The father is full Brahman, and the mother is heavily Zebu with touches of Jersey and “local”. We named her Rukmini, and she is fairly tame. That makes four heifers in our herd. The Guernsey semen from Canada and Australia is almost ready to order, as we have been dealing for several months now with Agriculture Department and Biosecurity protocols and regulations. In other words, they address each case as unique and make it up as they go. Disease, to be sure, is a major issue, and it appears even bovine semen carries certain diseases. A lot of testing, certifications, and precautions are required. On the other island here they are having major problems with TB and brucellosis. Eight hundred cows have already been “culled” due to TB; many more for brucellosis. We will have a frozen nitrogen tank with about 50 straws and breed perhaps three generations via artificial insemination (AI) to arrive at a base herd of about ten super quality milk cows, very close to 100% A2 Guernsey. Thereafter we should have enough genetic variety to naturally breed with our own bulls and never need to do AI again.

Within 3 years New Jaipur plans to have the best quality milk herd in Fiji (unfortunately few will appreciate this). About 6 acres additional pasture has been fenced, an area now filled with our choicest pasture grass, batiki blue grass. As seen in the photos, it is lush and thick.

YOGURT GHEE: THOUGHTS ON MILK, GHEE, YOGURT, VEGANS The following is abbreviated from a recent letter sent out by Ameyatma Prabhu:

Srila Prabhupad was speaking how in the villages you take the milk, make yogurt, and then from yoghurt you make butter and ghee. But, I was curious why Srila Prabhupad had said that you can make butter from yogurt? We bought non-homogenized milk and made yogurt and low-and-behold, the cream within the yogurt separated and came to the top. Then it made sense. You make the butter and ghee from the yogurt cream, not the fresh milk cream. That is the Vedic form of butter.

In Vedic culture butter and ghee are only made from non-homogenized yogurt cream, not from fresh cream. We hear in the stories of Damodara or baby Krishna, sometimes it says he broke the yogurt pot, sometimes the butter pot, and distributed yogurt or butter to his friends and the monkeys. The reason the two are used interchangeably is that once yogurt is made, and the cream separates, you can make srikand, lasi's, etc, from the skimmed yogurt, and you keep the sour cream or yogurt cream separately. That you can use as sour cream, or use it to make yogurt-cream butter and ghee. So, the hanging pots, some were churned yogurt cream, some were unchurned yogurt cream. Those that were churned become yogurt-butter. The unchurned were yogurt-sour-cream, which were also called a form of butter.

FYI: the reason for putting yogurt cream and butter in clay pots is because the pots absorb and evaporate off some of the water, and as they do, it keeps the pot very cool inside, can even be 50 F inside the pot, and 90 F outside. Yogurt in a clay pot can keep for a long time that way - like refrigeration today. Vedic culture was so 'green' and natural, with the benefits of refrigeration and no need for industrial power grids!

Another FYI: The clay used was 'half-baked', not terracotta or stone fired clay, but baked in a low heat. It can hold liquids for weeks without breaking down into a soft mud, but, typically it was used one time and thrown on the ground, and since it isn't fully fired clay, in a year it turns back into recyclable clay again. Bharadraj das learned this from the doll and mrdanga makers in Bengal. Mrdangas are made from half-baked clay at low heat; it is a Vedic science. It's why archeologists do not find clay pots from ancient Vedic times... Vedic culture didn't use them. Any fully fired clay pots were only used by the uncivilized aborigines living in caves and forests, not by the civilized brahmana-headed Vedic society. The brahmana culture used gold and silver and iron tools that were melted down and reused, but the primitive aborigine cave dwellers used stone tools and fully fired clay pots that they would use repeatedly. Thus we

don’t find many traces of ancient brahmana culture. People were cremated, tools and pots were recycled. Vedic science avoided fully fired clay. It was not recyclable. No need to wash pots, instead take a half-baked pot, cook the milk in it, then use it to cool off water or yogurt, serve out with it, then don't waste water or soap washing them, use once and throw it away, this is 100% planet earth friendly and harmonious with nature. Typical nearby local Fijian Hindu temple

When you churn the yogurt cream to make butter, you get a form of butter milk that is truly nectar from the gods. I made some once, and no wonder the goswamis would live on just a cup or two of this type of butter milk each day- if you can get it, you will want to live on it everyday too (100% nutritious, and full of

beneficial bacteria). I also recently read that ghee made from yogurt cream is much more healthy than ghee

made from fresh cream. Yogurt is alive with favorable bacteria which aids in digestion. Butter made from yogurt cream also contains the same beneficial bacteria. Yogurt butter digests more fully and aids the digestion of other foods. It doesn't turn into accumulated fat, but breaks down its own fat and other fats. The same for ghee made from such yogurt cream. The result is that Vedic ghee is made from yogurt cream, and is most healthy and beneficial. Whatever food is cooked in such ghee is also digested more fully – and very healthy.

Someone could start making ghee in this way, from organic non-homogenized milk, and sell to temples and devotees. It can be shipped without refrigeration. I found a local source of non-certified, but organically fed Jersey cow milk (Jersey cows were originally brought from India) who doesn't slaughter their non-milk producing cows. She charges $10 a gallon…

Another point: years back I got into an online debate with some die-hard vegans. They argued cow's milk was not natural, and advocated everyone should live without milk from mammals, even including human mother’s breast milk. (these people don't drink milk, so they have lost their intelligence). After 6 months most babies, even those who continue to take breast milk, are also given cow’s milk. I cited a report (that agreed with Srila Prabhupad), that babies who take mother's milk for the first year, and are also given cow’s milk after 6 months, it was proven to help nourish growing brain cells and promoted intelligence in growing children. But several vegans insisted that mother's milk should be avoided, even for new borns!

Babies who don't get natural breast milk are at more risk of suffering bad health. In place of natural breast milk, baby formulas contain powdered cow's milk. Without it, babies will not develop good health. There were cases of infant's dying whose vegan parents refused to give them breast milk or formulas containing cow's milk. In the 1940's and especially 1950's companies promoted that their baby formulas were better than mother's milk, but it turned

out they weren't, and still they had cow's milk in them, at least in the form of powdered milk, or they were to be mixed with cow's milk. No company, no scientist, has been able to make a healthy artificial breast or cow's milk. Being 100% non-milk vegan (no milk whatsoever), is completely unnatural and dangerously unhealthy. All mammals need mammal milk to survive and be healthy. We all need and benefit from the milk from our Mothers, both mothers, the breast milk mother and the cow's milk mother. Hot cow's milk with sugar nourishes the brain, as it digests easily.

Lactose intolerance has to be some form of curse, but it applies to only a few people, although if it is a growing problem in society, then there must be a reason such as pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones, etc. Persons who have problems with even organic milk could have developed a rejection syndrome from childhood pollutants, and possibly eating foods cooked in yogurt ghee will help restore the body's tolerance to milk. But, at least, it is good if lactose sensitive people can take yogurt ghee, as even they will get the benefit of taking cow's milk. Your servant, Ameyatma das

EDITOR’S NOTE: Another factor which may explain the prevalence of lactose intolerance and vegan thinking is how A1 milk has been shown to be actually unhealthy compared to A2 milk, in that it contributes to many diseases (hypertension, heart disease, diabetes) whereas A2 milk does not. The difference is a genetically mutated protein (which occurred maybe 6000 years ago) in A1 milk which is not easily digested in humans. This recent scientific discovery is detailed in Keith Woodford’s THE DEVIL IN THE MILK. In Australia, A2 milk is a big thing, being sold in most stores now, while many dairy farmers are switching to all A2 herds. Readers should research the A2 factor; it is possibly the end of the non-milk vegan movement, because their arguments and evidence are predicated on the healthiness of the A1 pasteurized milk that has appeared in modern countries in the last half century or so. Fresh A2 milk has no negatives and hopefully this will be established scientifically beyond doubt, boosting world health standards.

No active volcanoes in Fiji, but plenty of steaming hot springs (nearby- Labasa)

NEW ARRIVALS Over a month ago Bhakta Benjamin, wife Anika, and two sons, Tibo and Jaro arrived in New Jaipur. They left Germany after placating disappointed relatives, selling off many possessions, and preparing nine months for a new experiment with devotional service in a tropical paradise. They have settled into their cottage quite nicely , attending the morning programs faithfully, working diligently to get their food supply established on their lot of over an acre. It so happens that April is the prime vegetable planting time as well. A humble garden has manifested on the flats below their cottage where just previously resided a thick web of vines, grass, and weeds.

Their crate of useful household items is still en route by sea freight but arrives soon. Manual washing machines and all sorts of self-sufficiency items are included. Meanwhile they are washing clothes by hand (and say they will probably continue to do at least some that way). They are living by flashlights at night, keeping a low power (50 watts) cooler box up at the ashram with their perishables. They are enjoying offering plenty of coconuts, bananas, lemons, and such to Krishna. Benjamin is exploring the activity of teaching; and they both help with temple cleaning. The little boys seem to love the outdoors and are happy (too cute too!).

They are adjusting well to life in Fiji, although there are the usual bumps in the road. The shower and sinks (grey water line) suddenly backed up, and it took a week of plunging, digging, and so on to finally find that the drain pipe in the soak pit had been jammed up on a stone, preventing the flow. Then even though they had inverter, PV panels and batteries, the correct manner to in which to hook them together was not discovered. They await our local solar guy to come and do a proper installation. They are very serious devotees who are focused on their boys being raised in the best environment for Krishna consciousness. Jaya Prabhupada!

SKYPING WITH RELATIVES THE BOY’S FIRST MEETING WITH THE RIVER

MORNING WALK: SELF SUFFICIENCY

NAIROBI, KENYA OCTOBER 28, 1975 Prabhupāda: You become an example by your behavior. Example is better than precept. [break] Jñāna: ...to attain the necessary finances to support the programs here.

Prabhupāda: Beg. Sell book. That's all. Otherwise how you get finance?

Jñāna: One idea is to have a farm that we sell fruit or vegetables, like that.

Prabhupāda: If you open farm for financial help, then it will not be successful. You should take to farming for supporting yourself. That's all. Grow your own food. Grow your own cloth. There is no need of financial help from outside. You get your food grains sufficiently, rice, dahl, wheat, vegetables, milk, sugar. Bas. You get everything. From these five, six items you should be economically free. That you have to do, not for trade to get money. Then it will be failure.

Indian lady (3): Can we purchase the house for our own staying?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Because this is necessary. You must have some shelter; you must eat; you must cover. That is necessary. So you do it. Grow food first of all to feed yourself sumptuously. You must get strength, and that is needed. But not for trade. The policy should be that you should be self-sufficient and save time for advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is wanted. Yāvad-artha prayojanam. Yuktāhāra-vihārasya yogo bhavati siddhi-daḥ. You shall eat whatever you require for proper upkeep of the body, not eating too much and sleeping whole day. Don't do that. Eat only what is absolutely necessary. Then you'll never be in want.

People are engaged in material civilization means they are increasing the bodily demands, unnecessary. Just like this park. Why we have come to this park? We like this atmosphere. So similarly, in villages, everyone, if he has got some land, he can live simply with-out any gorgeous building. What is the use? Just have a cottage and have garden. You'll live very peacefully. But they're constructing big, big skyscraper building in the downtown, and they will have to come here by car for some peace of mind, and in the meantime, accident, police.

This is the civilization, nonsense civilization. At weekend they will go to the village, country, and during the week-time they will work hard. This is their civilization, with the risk of life, running motor car eighty miles' speed. Every moment there is risk. What is this civilization?

Most ludicrous civilization. So farming means if you live in a farm... Just like in New Vrindaban they are doing. Produce your own food, live peacefully, fresh vegetable, fresh grains, fresh milk, and prepare so many nice milk preparation, kachori, halavā with ghee. Offer to the Deity. Eat sufficiently. What is the use of going outside? Simple life and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. If you can organize that, that will be very nice.

Jñāna: A nice program here.

Prabhupāda: Yes. What is this rascal civilization, whole day "Where is money? Where is money? Where is money? Where is money? Where is money?" Everyone. Busy means "Where is money? Where is money?" Just like the hog, he is busy: "What time...? Where is stool? Where is stool? Where is stool? Where is stool? Where is stool?" That is not civilization. If you remain always busy, "Where is stool?" like the hog, then what is your civilization? Whole day working, night, nightshift, dayshift, whole day, the same, like hog.

Brahmānanda: They hold more than one job. They have two jobs.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Get money and then drink wine and eat meat and do all nonsense things. This is their civilization.

Jñāna: A farm means also we may engage the people because they are not so...

Prabhupāda: First of all be engaged yourself. Then they will see the example and they'll join. Just like in our New Vrindaban. Other men from other farms, they are coming, and they are offered this milk preparation, burfi, sandeśa, rasagullā, rabri, so many, halavā. They become: "Oh, so many nice things can be prepared from milk?" They do not know, uncivilized. Cut the animal and eat. A most crude civilization. When people were not civilized, they used to do that. Civilization means you know, you must know how to live very nicely. That is civilization. But they do not know even that. Simply eating meat and wine, meat and wine, that's all. And this is going on as civilization. They do not know what is the meaning of civilization. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum [SB 7.5.31]. Real civilization means to understand God.

Below: Crossing over the island’s mountains

SRIMAD BHAGWATAM 2.2.3: TRANSLATION

For this reason the enlightened person should endeavor only for the minimum necessities of life while in the world of names. He should be intelligently fixed and never endeavor for unwanted things, being competent to perceive practically that all such endeavors are merely hard labor for nothing.

PURPORT

The bhāgavata-dharma, or the cult of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, is perfectly distinct from the way of fruitive activities, which are considered by the devotees to be merely a waste of time. The whole universe, or for that matter all material existence, is moving on as jagat, simply for planning business to make one's position very comfortable or secure, although everyone sees that this existence is neither comfortable nor secure and can never become comfortable or secure at any stage of development. Those who are captivated by the illusory advancement of material civilization (following the way of phantasmagoria) are certainly madmen. The whole material creation is a jugglery of names only; in fact, it is nothing but a bewildering creation of matter like earth, water and fire. The buildings, furniture, cars, bungalows, mills, factories, industries, peace, war or even the highest perfection of material science, namely atomic energy and electronics, are all simply bewildering names of material elements with their concomitant reactions of the three modes.

Since the devotee of the Lord knows them perfectly well, he is not interested in creating unwanted things for a situation which is not at all reality, but simply names of no more significance than the babble of sea waves. The great kings, leaders and soldiers fight with one another in order to perpetuate their names in history. They are forgotten in due course of time, and they make a place for another era in history. But the devotee realizes how much history and historical persons are useless products

of flickering time. The fruitive worker aspires after a big fortune in the matter of wealth, woman and worldly adoration, but those who are fixed in perfect reality are not at all interested in such false things. For them it is all a waste of time.

Since every second of human life is important, an enlightened man should be very careful to utilize time very cautiously. One second of human life wasted in the vain research of planning for happiness in the material world can never be replaced, even if one spends millions of coins of gold. Therefore, the transcendentalist desiring freedom from the clutches of māyā, or the illusory activities of life, is warned herewith not to be captivated by the external features of fruitive actors. Human life is never meant for sense gratification, but for self-realization. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam instructs us solely on this subject from the very beginning to the end. Human life is simply meant for self-realization. The civilization which aims at this utmost perfection never indulges in creating unwanted things, and such a perfect civilization prepares

men only to accept the bare necessities of life or to follow the principle of the best use of a bad bargain.

COMMENTS: Rather than spend our valuable days struggling to accumulate unnecessary things such as the latest car, phone, electronic devices, and better housing, clothes, cosmetics, bank balance, what to speak of acquiring more prestige, fame, and distinction… we should heed Prabhupada’s repeated instructions in his books, conversations, and letters: Go to the farms, live simply, grow your own food, milk the cows, chant Hare Krishna and be happy! Why remain in the materialistic “civilization of the demons”? The world today is rushing into chaos, major wars, scarcity, effective slavery in an artificial standard of sense gratification. A serious transcendentalist must find the ways and means to make positive changes in his life.

SUMMARY New Jaipur is a positive alternative to the rapidly devolving situation in the modern world. Nuclear war approaches, and humanity is due for much turmoil which can only be alleviated by establishing Prabhupada’s varnashram Hare Krishna farms. New Jaipur Vedic Village farm project retains Srila Prabhupada as the sole diksa guru, via rtvik representatives. We are part of Prabhupada’s transcendental ISKCON which is situated beyond the now-corrupted original institution. Prabhupada resides wherever his instructions are strictly followed. We have 857 acres of titled, fully-paid land in a South Seas rainforest on Fiji’s second largest island. There are openings for qualified devotees based on Village Constitution conditions (available by email). Interested persons, please inquire. The standard: 16 rounds daily, the four rules, 8 hours community service a week, regular morning programs, and be a productive participant, one fifth of production/income goes to the deities, Sri Sri Radha Govinda. Nice cottages available. Vedic villages are the future of the world. Please consider a visit to New Jaipur, and be our guest in

paradise; this is an invitation to Prabhupadanugas everywhere. Life here is simple but not austere. Welcome also: temporary residents who would like to further their spiritual credits may offer assistance to the Vedic village with any skills they may have.

Yours in Prabhupada’s service,

Nityananda das

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