45^2-1^2. 46*44. 1 short of 45^2. 23 years of Amrt Kaal ahead, founded on the 36 years of ‘sector’ life.
Transition into Amrt Kaal’s Next Orbit. Amrt orbit. Amrt yaan. In the co-existential journey(s). More reflection-exploration-unlearning-learning-thinking time. In situ, ex-situ. More time with change, change makers, and influencers. In the space of vision-strategy-support. Mentoring. People-private-public governance. Saarvajanik, viswajanik meaningful and rewarding ikigai. For Amrt bharat. For Amrt Viswam. Vasudhasudha.
Natural nutrition-food, farming, living systems have to pace up. Diversification, and local value-chains included. Increases in crop intensity and land equivalent ratio included. Participatory natural assurance and certification. Robust and reliable labelling and branding. Local natural self-consumption, temples, PDS, schools, hostels, hospitals. Local individual-collective enterprises, local stalls, hotels, haats, rythu bazaars, direct producer-consumer linkages. Even if smaller ticket sizes. Support prices? No non-natural subsidies?
We are at the tipping point on climate front. Warming above 1.5 deg C risks further sea level rises, extreme weather effects, biodiversity losses, species extinction, food scarcity, worsening health and poverty across. Therefore, fossil fuel use and carbon emission has to reduce. Carbon sequestration and cooling the planet has to pace up. For this, NF universalization has to pace up. This is one cost-efficient and sure way. Fund flows for the same need to be faster and front-ended. Can soils and food systems be carbon sinks in this Amrt Kaal? Can we accelerate inclusion of and taking charge by women, and marginalized farming communities?
With 433 grams milk per capita per day, India’s milk is about a quarter of the milk of the globe now. Isn’t it time we move to ‘desi’, and desi hybrids? to reduce anima-based product consumption double quick? to reduce food waste? to reduce chemical usage in farming? to phase out fossil fuels from farm to plate?
We need to continue to be at it – collectivizing women and marginalized, layering ‘living’ onto it so that they remain in charge of their livelihoods, well-being, lives and destiny. We need to press upon building our ‘agency’ over our bodies, hearts-minds, homes, families, farms, groups, villages/neighbourhoods, samaaj, bazaar, and sarkaar.
Can we appreciate that we are not in control of where we headed or we end up, in actuality? Can we keep freeing our time to allow heart-mind-soul to wander, wonder, listen-in, listen-out, say-in, say-out? Can we appreciate work, quality, content, results, etc., have to be produced, with endurance and diligence, and there are no shortcuts that help us really? We are not effective because of lack of knowledge, training and skills – as these can be easily acquired if one wants – but because of lack of appropriate mindset and behavioural competencies. And we need all help here. System control does not let us progress. We cannot get near to figuring this out, or accessing it, and influencing it. Many a time, training could be counter-productive.
Can we also transcend PQ to IQ to EQ to Social Q to Existential – Spiritual Q? for finding meaning, purpose, integrity and values in our lives. Can we build our Spiritual Capital? our self-awareness, humility, generosity, gratitude, joy around us, love, inner and outer peace, and meaningful usefulness? Can we meditate, reflect, think systems, see through interconnectedness? We need to be chosen, pulled and pushed to fall into the next orbit? Can we join hands, sarvendriyas, hearts, minds and souls to escape the current, and fall into the next right orbit(s)? Can we call in our pullers, pushers and mentors? Can we escape our consistent toxic influences – manipulation, nagging, drama, drains, jealousy, and boundary line violations? With tact, courage, tenacity.
We require feminine counsel, to remain less self-destructive and reduce fighting with and surrendering to nature. She saves us. Counsel helps us in raising our consciousness. Guru emerges before us as we get ready with our preparation. The moment we see one, we know. We surrender. We co-exist – live in harmony with existence, with awareness and completely. Each one of us is some 40 trillion cells – more than 80% microbes, and a fraction are human cells. Interconnected, integrated as a whole. As a group, team, community, and humanity, we need to be integrated in the same way. The spirit – healthy, developed – takes charge of this.
Yes, we can. If we build escape velocity. If we be, give, and love. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of possibility paths in nature and with the people – kakshyayoga for 7L.
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