Quotes: Vedic Engineering and Industry (Srila Prabhupada)

васту (устойчивое развитие)

панча-махабхуты, дик-пала,брахмастхан, айади

Стабильное существования благодаря гармонии с природой, достатком от нее и возобновляемым взаимообменом. Удовлетворение текущих потребностей не угрожает возможностям будущих поколений

Гармония с Землей (стабильность), Водой (поток энергии), Огнем (трансформация), Воздухом (движение) и Пространством (эфир, открытость) - панча-махабхуты

Здания и комнаты ориентируются по кардинальным направлениям (север — богатство, восток — просветление, юг — стабильность, запад — защита), что обеспечивает оптимальные условия для жизни, такие как естественное освещение, вентиляция и духовный рост (дик-пала). Размещение функциональных зон: кухня на юго-востоке для огня, спальни на юго-западе для стабильности и течения праны.

Центральная часть пространства (брахмастхан) оставляется открытой или минимально загруженной, создавая условия для гармонии, медитации и единства

Пропорций зданий и комнат (Айади), минимизируя хаос и способствуя ментальному спокойствию через ведические принципы симметрии с природой.

В ведической философии даже здание является телом души, называемой васту-пуруша (буквально «монарх вещи»).

Дух приглашался поселиться в здании как в его теле, и этот дух предотвращает разрушение здания. Это тело подобно организации, которая не нанимает и не увольняет людей. Следовательно, атомы не добавляются и не теряются.

(васту) ШБ 10.45.35-36 к. «Кришна, Верховная Личность Бога» Кроме того, Кришна и Баларама освоили:  37) ва̄сту-видйа̄, архитектуру; https://vedabase.io/ru/library/sb/10/45/35-36/

(строительные материалы) БоВ 32, Письмо Тамала-Кришны Госвами, секретаря Шрилы Прабхупады, Хари-Шаури дасу, 10 августа 1977 г. Он сказал: "...Что бы вы ни строили,  приобретайте строительные материалы в вашей местности. Если вы сможете производить на месте черепицу, тогда у вас не будет проблем с постройкой дома. Стройте бамбуковый каркас и покрывайте его черепицей. Для всех целей используйте материалы местного производства..."

(развитость строительства) ШБ 1.6.11 к. Деятельность человека в области сельского хозяйства, горной промышленности, животноводства, садоводства и других отраслях еще в прошлом цикле творения имела такие же масштабы, как теперь, и даже в следующем цикле творения она останется такой же. https://vedabase.io/ru/library/sb/1/6/11/

(vedic cities) 1976.4.txt So anyone's question about this, this misdirected civilization? In India there was no such misguided civilization. Now they have learned how to misdirect people, and they have taken this ideal, that "Unless we become like the Europeans and Americans, our progress is checked." This is going on. Actually there is no progress. We are condemned. Why they should waste so much energy for de-gress, not for progress. Before British period, India, there were cities, but not like this, because their energy was utilized. Cities were constructed especially in pilgrimage place, like Mathura. Mathura is very old city, but that is a pilgrimage. Dvaraka, that is also very old city. First of all there was no need of big, big cities because there was no industry. They did not know what is industry. And there were ample food -- food grains, milk, vegetables. Those who were eating meat, they were eating small, nonimportant animals like goats, hogs, and they never touched cows. Cows are very important animals. Even the stool, urine is important. They knew it. In the agricultural field the cows, passing stool, that is also benefit, natural fertilizing.

(ancient bilding) Morning Walk. May 16, 1975, Perth. That is Indo-European civilization. The kings came from India, and he developed. Therefore it is called Indo-European civilization.

Paramahamsa: The scientists and the archaeologists are very amazed to find the structures, the buildings that they had in their civilization. They can't understand how they were built, such huge pillars and gigantic stones. They don't know how they were put into place.

Prabhupada: Similarly, the Jagannatha temple is also like that. They suggest that they manufacture, and then they surround with sand, then further manufacture. And when it is complete, the sand is taken away. Otherwise how it [indistinct]. The sand is stacked, just like this. The temple is being manufactured, and the sand is thrown all side, and when it is finished, the sand is taken away.

Ganesa: The temple is manufactured in the sand?

Prabhupada: No, as usual. Just like they dig well. They dig well. They begin immediately, and then you dig the earth, and the structure goes down. Then again, then again, like that. They were experts. They were experts, to construct... Labor is cheap. That time, practically there was no labor cost. At the present moment, on account of the factories, the labor cost has increased. Otherwise the laborers, they were..., they have no sufficient employment. So two annas, four annas. I was paying labor, four annas, say, in 1930s. Four annas. In Allahabad I was paying four annas. He would work whole day. In Bombay, eight annas.

Ganesa: They also have the big structures in Egypt, the pyramids.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Amogha: Perhaps they used sand also.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Paramahamsa: The Greeks say that they built their buildings... They hired some very big men called cyclopses, big giants. And they came and built all the buildings.

Prabhupada: Yes. And such stories are in Mahabharata also. The demons were engaged, giants and demons, for construction. Yes. And they were very good artist, how to do it. Now we employ the first-class men, so-called first-class engineering, but they were meant for the demons and giants. Yes.

Paramahamsa: Well, that explains how they built such fantastic temples and palaces.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Amogha: Some people say, "Why don't we see any giants any more today?"

Prabhupada: Yes. In the Africa, there were many giants, very high, very strong.

Ganesa: Where is that?

Paramahamsa: In Africa some of the natives, very big, eight feet tall.

Prabhupada: Very tall.

Ganesa: In South America also, they used to have the Amazons, a big race.

(engineering and industrial technologies are not yet a civilization) Ganesa: So actually, they have not advanced technologically from the civilizations of Ravana's time.

Prabhupada: That is not civilization. Technological advancement is not civilization. It is the advancement of ugra knowledge. Real civilization is to advance in Brahman knowledge. If there are brahmanas, that is advancement. This is not advancement, because they do not know what is advancement. They have no knowledge that "I have to die, and I have to accept another body after death." They do not know it. So long this body is there, they are trying to have very comfortable position. But they do not know that after this body, he has to accept another body. So how this technology will help him? If, in this life, by technological advancement you live very comfortably, and next life you become a dog, then where is the advancement? That they do not know.

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(служение и природа) 1.10.40

(строения) ШБ 1.6.11 Покинув дом, я проходил мимо процветающих столиц, городов, деревень, мимо скотоводческих ферм, шахт, пашен, долин, цветников, садов, где выращивались саженцы деревьев, и через девственные леса. https://vedabase.io/ru/library/sb/1/6/11/#bb14451