Some
ideas comes to my mind as I have been thinking to get sun panels, but
they are so expensive. I saw in Finland that kind of sun cooker,
which cost hardly anything, made up from some mirror (folio?)
material. Its maker, a relief organization, told me that it is model
they produce in Africa for family cooking instead or rare wood. Why
then in western countries, as well as here, they don't make simple
cookers for heating water on spring-summer-autumn time? And do yo
remember as a child burning something with magnifying glass or thick
lenses of reading glasses. They could make bigger lenses and one
could heat up the water with it. Third idea is to use old painted
black radiators or heaters as sun panels.
Also
as the yogies in Himalayas manage to live almost naked in the middle
of snow in caves, we also could develop that kind of skills. Though
first it is better rather concentrate of creating strong mind and
spiritual yearning in this life and leave the cold tolerance and body
heating up for the next reincarnations, when we would be perhaps in
fifth or sixth dimension and able to control also our bodily
functions with ease.
…..........
This
summer I have been busy with gardening - besides some travelings.
Heavy, but pleasant work and fits for my “hermit” life style.
Although quite often I have visitors helping. I also tried to get
wwoofers, but nobody turned up. I use different methods, mixed
cropping mostly and as we have lots of old hay bales in barn, I use
hay everywhere to cover the soil, thus keeping it moist and soft and
preventing “erosion”. It even become composted straight to the
soil.
The
harvest is the heaviest part. Suddenly after coming from trip you
have ab150 kg over grown cucumbers, what do you do? To start with I
went to city and distributed one box to needy people on the gate of
some concert. People kindly took especially children. And I rode one
wheel borrow load to neighbor. At least he has cows, if he will not
feel like eating or pickling them.
That's
what I have been doing, and making cucumber juice, even jam.
Strawberries was another business, 70 liters jam and frozen. Next are
the pumpkins, to be carried to storage. I dried some green staff,
leave cabbages and even zukinis and I will dry also some apples. Last
goes the carrots, potatoes, parsnips and beet roots to cellar and
then I'm ready for winter.
We
have been drinking lots of fresh green juices. The best combination
seems to be fennel (leaves are OK too), carrots, zukini and one weed
which name I have no idea.
Thus
the summer goes on, and I'm carrying nice memories from summer
conference in our other ecofarm in Poland, where ab 250 people
gathered to spend time on spiritual satsanga and inspiration. I got
there even prize for my Master Unit work. And I was in charge of
accommodation, which is always challenging in retreat, to find
suitable place for everyone, but I really liked to see that everyone
was fine.
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Sarkar:
Supreme should be the only object of ideation. In the
prehistoric age people were nature worshipers, while progressing,
people started philosophical survey to find the entity behind the
curtain, who lies hidden behind all scriptures.
In
search of God they created so many scriptures, and when their logic
failed they claimed that it is word of God. They encouraged
fissiporous tendencies. But the subtlest entity remains covered from
scriptures. What is the correct approach? So many scripture say
different things. What the person should do? Scriptures are
contradictory, whom to follow and whom not to follow.
And
amongst intellectuals, there are many ideas. One intellectual does
not support views of others. Thus intellectuals always create
division. Where lies the secret of spirituality? Now the supreme
entity, the final stance of dharma, lies covered within ones own I
feeling, one should not search externally, but internally within.
Everything is withing you. Supreme resides within you. Your only
object of ideation is Supreme and not any scriptures...
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Didi Annapurna