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Synthesis in Natural Agriculture: Permaculture (Masanobu Fukuoka) and Biodynamic Agriculture (Rudolf Steiner)

Since July this year, I have been visiting (and sometimes volunteering) a few farms or forests to be able to start a small permaculture farm myself. The goal is to transform some fair share of land back into a forest the way nature meant it to be and live a non material sustainable life. Renewable energy technologies cannot offset the highly materialistic lives we have been living. If we are serious about climate change then the most practical and effective way is to shift to a farm living (with ofcourse renewable energy)

There is a deep underlying connection between the terms permaculture and biodynamic agriculture. In fact the term biodynamic agriculture term was coined by a theosophist and alludes to the occult side of nature underlying the transformation of a seed to a plant. Permaculture is a starting step towards biodynamic agriculture

I am myself trying to intuitively understand the philosophy and experiment alongside well-known permaculture techniques. The experiences and information will come in later posts. For this post I wish to share an interesting conversation that took place between Krishna and me who runs solitude farm in Auroville. When I first saw Krishna, I felt something unusual about this person. Yes the kind of energy he carries was so different compared to lazy theosophists like myself. Right from start of the farm tour and the mini workshop which he conducted later Krishna constantly emphasized the importance of connection of soil with food and ultimately culture. It came as a flash of intuitive understanding to me that this was the precise reason why Blavatsky and Olcott shifted the theosophical headquarters from America to India (and ultimately from Bombay to Madras). Krishna calls Fukuoka his guru. Later after the tour and before starting the next workshop Krishna was humble enough to allow me to sit across the dining table where he was taking his lunch all alone. Immediately I brought the topic of theosophy. I had not done any research from where Krishna had come. He said that he knew theosophy as taught by Krishnamurthy himself. He gave a curious smile and said " So Maitreya and all haa " So I immediately threw in the names Koothoomi and Morya. Then me mentioned Leadbeater and said if its true then its true how does it matter, what matters the most is the now. I guess he meant the action in this eternal now. Then he said that one must not get stuck in theory. And I will admit that he was quite right. The one factor which has made Theosophy difficult to reach the common masses is laziness of all theosophists expecting everything to be done by the masters themselves. Only Krishnamurthy had the privilege of philosophising rest all must perform actions taking theosophy as underlying philosophy.   

I was so delighted to find a person for the very first time in this lifetime who is expressing true theosophy in action. I will close this post with some moments shared with Krishna. 
 






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