Ayurveda And Food - Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture

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A holistic vision for farming everywhere
- the six elements of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture

Ayurveda and Food

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture is distinguished above all else by live recitation of the Veda – the sounds of Nature – by Vedic Pandits (traditional scholars), within range of the crops in the fields. This produces food that has the maximum value of intelligence lively within it and therefore has the maximum impact to create higher consciousness in the individual.

There are six elements that function together to constitute the holistic science and art of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture. These are:

1.	By practicing the Maharishi Vedic Technologies of Consciousness, the farmer rises to Vedic Consciousness, spontaneously enlivening Natural Law in his own awareness and in his environment. Rising to Vedic Consciousness is the very heart of Vedic farming, because it enhances the Support of Nature that can only be gained by living in tune with Natural Law;
2.	By engaging the Vedic Pandits to recite the appropriate sections of Veda and the Vedic Literature – the sounds of Natural Law itself – the farmer directly enlivens the holistic and specific Laws of Nature responsible for the growth of his crops;
3.	By using time-tested methods of Vedic organic farming from the Veda and the Vedic Literature, Maharishi Vedic Farming methodologies aid soil fertility, crop growth and vitality, disease prevention, pest management, environmental management, and water management;
4.	By utilising all the revitalising, prevention-oriented, health-giving programmes of the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health, the farmer and his family, and everyone working on the farm, can live a fully vital life;
5.	By introducing Maharishi Vedic Education in schools, colleges, and universities the farmer, the farm family, and the entire community can enjoy development of total brain potential and the blossoming of life in total knowledge, mastery of Natural Law, the ability to know anything, accomplish anything, and enjoy anything in accord with Natural Law;
6.	By planning and building in accordance with Maharishi Sthapatya Veda architecture – Vedic architecture in harmony with Natural Law – the farmer organises his farm layout and buildings to promote the health, happiness and good fortune of everyone living and working there.

These are some of the many time-tested, cost-effective techniques from the 40 branches of Veda and the Vedic Literature that will help farmers provide healthy natural food, while supporting the farmer’s own life and evolution, and enriching the environment, the community, and the nation.