Winter solstice. Longest night of the year around. North door would be opened soon to see waking up Ranga. Sun would be coming down soon.
10^3+9^3=12^3+1^3=1729, the smallest number that can be expressed as sum of two cubes I two ways. The Ramanujan number.
ICAR – Indian Council of Agricultural Research – plans to go the way of NEP – National Education Policy from 2025. It has also released the BSc (Hons) Natural Farming course curriculum. Many Universities started offering the course. The NF course in the Academy (IGGAARL) is broadly in sync in modules/subjects with a very high field practice emphasis – 70%+. I guess some universities will offer such field practice natural farming courses soon in the next 1-2 years.
It is becoming clear to all of us that natural farming/regenerative agriculture is combining the triple target of farmers’ well-being, consumers’ health and soil-planet health, leading to cooling the planet and postponing the inevitable by decades, if not a few centuries. We need to invest. Planet needs to invest. State needs to invest into this, and cut conventional subsidies. Consumers need to show clear preference, demand and invest. Producers need to respond and transform.
Are we seeing that digital technologies are making us more authoritarian, more ‘creative imaginations and falsehoods’ and increasing more surveillance? Are we seeing fossil fuels and plastic increasing pollution in the air, water and food, everywhere? Are we seeing climate change hitting us strongly day-by-day in heat and cold waves, rain bursts, glacier melts and ocean rises? While urban landscapes are bursting with crowds and yielded infrastructure, rural landscapes are lacking in infrastructure for decent living. After seeing all these, how can we keep quiet? How can we move into natural living? En masse. All life and living beings. Alife included. With happy engagements, pursuits, journeys, and flows.
How do we ensure that we are heard? How do we ensure that our appreciation is considered? How do we ensure that our emerging participatory plans are budgeted and implemented? What will work? Politics? Think tanks? Movements? Campaigns? Hybrids?
Is Lakshminarayana right in starting a new party? When JP learnt it did not work. Maybe VVLN has discovered a new way of going forward. If not, then should it be an advocacy group? Silent citizen action support group? A Development Big 5? A collective facilitation group? An enterprise support group? A group mentoring mentors?
If we are not saying a clear yes, does it not mean no? Do we have to say ‘no’? We are limited in resources – time, energy, space, money, power, and other resources. How do we take opportunities forward with these limited resources, unless we drop some things we have embarked upon? There is a constant flux of dropping and adding, as a result. This requires more focus, and more direction. And we cannot be making more and more decisions in a given short time at our disposal. We do not have the bandwidth for this. Will the 80-20 principle work? Will the ikigai work? Can we invest in ourselves to discover our highest contributor spaces of usefulness and our deepest inner urges? Can we see overlaps in these? And can we keep saying yes to these overlaps only? Can we pursue not considering all others? Can we pursue to devote time, energy, and space for this reflection, as often as possible? Solitude, reading, writing, solving puzzles, meditation, conversations with children, watching nature et al. Travelling. Resting enough. Sleeping right. Eating right. Taking enough water. Walking around. Moving frequently. Taking deep breaths often. Can we?
Yes, we can. If we are in nature, and flowing. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of living up to deeper inner urges in nature and with the people – srstiyoga for 7L.
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