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Hayagriva)

This le er outlines the ideal organiza on for a healthy, happy
and prosperous life based on intelligent stewardship of land for growing
crops especially grains without using machinery, gasoline or petroleum
products, and protect cows to obtain the ideal food, which is milk. Cows
that are cared for throughout their life provide milk that has
extraordinary quali es that support health and the quest for spiritual
purity.

Bhak vedanta Swami Prabhupada has summarized how to live a
peaceful life based on the Vedic wisdom of simple living and high
thinking. The simple living is achieved by relying on cow products (milk,
yogurt, ghee, cheese, cow urine, cow dung) and land stewardship using
only natural methods of developing and protec ng topsoil with teeming
micro‐organisms. The economic problem for sustainability and
sustenance is solved by cow protec on and employing tradi onal
methods of land cul va on without the use of ar ficial fer lizers,
pes cides and machinery. By the produc on of ahimsa milk (milk
produced without unnecessary violence) and organic grains, vegetables
and fruits, all the basic necessi es for maintaining a healthy lifestyle are
achieved.

High thinking is possible when one solves the economic problem
without reliance on massive industry and modern technology. As a
result one gains me to research the Vedic knowledge concerning the
development of pure love and devo on for God (Lord Krishna). Spiritual
life is fostered by a natural and simple lifestyle that promotes mental
peace, physical well‐being, empathy, compassion, pa ence, tolerance
and many more fundamental quali es for achieving the goal of life.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PROBLEMS IN MODERN SOCIETY?

The Vedas explain that there are three modes of material nature
that condi on living en es to remain in the cycle of birth and death
con nuously. It is only in the human form of life that the living en ty
has a chance to free himself from this interminable cycle. However, in
the human form, if the living en ty remains influenced by passion and
ignorance, he cannot achieve emancipa on. The mode of passion

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