playing/working in dirt, makes you smarter !!‏

April 3, 2014 in Damaghosa Dasa by Damaghosa dasa

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Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Well here we are again–finding out yet another great reason to start growing your own food–It makes you feel better and you become smarter !! And here is the clinical evidence to prove it.

Below is an excerpt from this article about how beneficial it is to get out there in the DIRT and ingest the bacterium floating around.

And some recent research has added another missing piece to the puzzle: It’s in the dirt. Or to be a little more specific, a strain of bacterium in soil, Mycobacterium vaccae, has been found to trigger the release of seratonin, which in turn elevates mood and decreases anxiety. And on top of that, this little bacterium has been found to improve cognitive function and possibly even treat cancer and other diseases. Which means that contact with soil, through gardening or other means , is beneficial. How did this discovery come about?

I always wondered why I liked dirt—well here is one very good reason-you feel better. Very simple.
And taking this to the next level of how to apply this startling finding….please read below what Prabhupada has to say to us…
Hare Krsna
Damaghosa das

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…  Yes, naturally. If this man is fed up with this industry, he can
go back to village and produce his own food. But he is attached
to
this industrial activity because he is thinking that “We are getting
more money for wine and woman and meat. Let me enjoy.” That is the
perfect, imp… But if he chants Hare Krsna maha-mantra, his
consciousness will be purified and he will be made not interested this
kind of work. He will go back to village and
produce food.

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Prabhupada: Most unnatural life. City life, most unnatural.

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There are so many land. Come here and grow food. Grow
fruit. That is… That is the desire of Krsna. Annad bhavanti bhutani.
Produce food and eat in sufficiently, be strong, and chant Hare Krsna.
That is our philosophy
. Why you are producing bolts and nuts, tire and
tubes? Eat. Rascal. They do not know that first of all you must eat.
No, everyone is engaged in industry. Why? Krsna does not say that
“Take to industry.” Krsna says, “Produce foodstuff.” Annad bhavanti
bhutani. If you produce foodstuff, then both your animals, yourself,
will be happy, becoming strong.
Why do they manufacture other things?

 

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Prabhupada: … When men are uncivilized, they do not how to grow
food,
they kill animals in the jungle and eat. When they are
civilized, they know how to grow food now and the nice food grains,
fruit, flowers

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…  . Therefore I am asking so
much here and…, “Farm, farm, farm, farm…” That is not my
program–Krsna’s program.
Annad bhavanti bhutani. Produce greenness
everywhere, everywhere. Vrndavana.
It is not this motorcar
civilization.

“We should utilize our time for elevating ourselves in Krishna Consciousness
than for so-called economic development.
If we are satisfied with plain living, with minimum time
and the balance time is engaged for elevating our Krishna Conscious program
,
then every man can be transferred to Goloka Vrindavana, just in this very life.”

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