MVOAI: Veda and Natural Law in Agriculture

Veda and Natural Law in Agriculture

Agriculture in perfect harmony with Natural Law is the goal of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture. 'Veda' is a Sanskrit term meaning knowledge—complete knowledge of Natural Law, the fundamental intelligence of Nature which administers everything in creation—from the farmer's physiology, to the seed, soil and weather, and the whole ever-expanding universe.

The expression "Natural Law" refers to all the laws of nature discovered by the modern sciences—Physics, Biology, Chemistry, etc.—including the laws that structure life at the individual and social levels, and which maintain order in the universe. "Natural Law" refers to the integrated, balanced, and holistic functioning of all the Laws of Nature.

In the past 200 years, modern science has systematically revealed deeper layers of order in Nature, from the molecular and atomic to the nuclear and subnuclear levels. Recent discoveries in quantum mechanics have revealed even more fundamental levels of Nature's functioning, where the diverse forces and fields are unified, ultimately leading to one Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature.

This universal source of all orderliness identified by modern physics has within itself all the diverse Laws of Nature governing life at every level. Modern science has thus identified one holistic, self-interacting, self-sustaining unified field at the basis of all the immense diversity of Natural Law expressed in creation. This field is the total potential and the total intelligence of Natural Law.

The knowledge of Veda and the Vedic Literature, as brought to light and understood from a scientific perspective by Maharishi in his Vedic Science and Technology, also identifies a single, self-referral, universal source of all orderliness in Nature. In Vedic science, this source of orderliness is experienced as the most fundamental level of human consciousness, the simplest form of man's awareness, our own SELF.

The description of the Laws of Nature from the perspective of modern science and the description of Veda and the Vedic Literature provided by Maharishi's Vedic Science are identical. These two great traditions of knowledge—objective and subjective, modern and ancient—uphold one another and together rejoice in providing mankind with the basic and timely knowledge of Natural Law.

This singular understanding also gives us a method to experience the Laws of Nature and to make them lively within ourselves. We have simply to enliven Veda and the Vedic Literature in our awareness and we automatically enliven Natural Law in ourselves and in the environment. This discovery has tremendous practical application in the field of agriculture, as it gives us a direct means, within the awareness of the farmer, to enliven the laws of nature responsible for plant growth.

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