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Explain the benefits of that to me?
oldbk wrote:Do not hesitate to Meditate on material things. Just ignore, what Baba tells you in the Murli ... that's just for reading.
Yes, it's another case of "other people are doing it and making money/gaining interest and prestige, so we'll do it too". It's the BKs' modus operandi.
None of it is a new idea. It's all second hand or borrowed and then re-packaged in BK marketing as a way of drawing people in, eg they invited Masaru Emoto to a conference (water experiments), next they can tricks with water. Mix it up with a bit of Matthew Manning who has also been courted (psychic influences making seeds and plants grow), and and a bit of Masanobu Fukuoka (natural farming) and, bingo, you've got "Sustainable Yogic Farming" targeting India's farming communities.
The TM people beat them to it with their Vedic Organic Agriculture. I suppose as like appealing to their marks' Krishna heritage, it works because it appeals to their vedic heritage. It feels familiar.
Blessings of the Supreme Power for the Success of This Project:
The creator, The sustainer, world transformer, The supreme cultivator, The supreme power, God Father has inspired us such that the existing problems in contemporary farming can be easily overcome through spirituality and by the practice of RajYoga Meditation. This will benefit the self as well as society. The Everlasting Yogic Farming Project is a new step towards a new era which has been initiated by Almighty's blessings.
From an old school BK point of view, it does raise questions, ie is it actually BKism or is just developing/using psychic powers?
Would never have happened in my day, it would have been seen as distraction, probably wasting or "spending" good karmas acrued.
They are calling it, "psychoenergetic energy" (Applying psychoenergetics to enhance seedling development and crop yields). Believe it or not, they are actually suggesting praying for rain is a response for drought.
Note the article says,
The group also claimed that ‘yogic agriculture’ could fight all the problems that the convention wants to address in this 12-day event that began Monday in Greater Noida.
None of the members of the group, however, provided any scientific explanations to substantiate their claims, only relying on out-of-context quotes of German physicist Max Planck, French philosopher René Descartes and Sadhguru to validate their ideas.
All just business as usual. Exploiting people curiousity in order to teach them meditation.
Curiously, they say, "Remote application of the energy from 7400 km was found not to impact seedling development".
Bizarrely, it appears to have been at the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP-14) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)in Greater Noida. It says, "a side event", so they probably just hired a room at the event.
Paying to be seen and keep up the front. A chance to network with "Important People".
It's a bit of a 'bait and switch' con really, as all of the separate parts are likely to give some benefits by themselves while, at the same time, they are not doing any proper scientific research, eg double blind studies, to prove *their* part is the magic ingredient.
John Ndiritu is an Associate Professor at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa.
I wonder if his yogic power was able to neutralise the tonne of carbon his flight to India cost?
Needless to say, the one on the left looks like my hair in the morning too.