Ancient Roots - For an Eco-Spiritually Conscious Development
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014
The traditional Rajasthani fridge: a perfect blend of beauty and efficiency.
Unlike our ancestors, we are not anymore in love with Beauty
but with Efficiency… And ever since we
have started worshiping Efficiency in the name of progress and development,
ugliness and violence are disfiguring our planet!! (Read ‘Beauty is God Himself’)
A sustainable world is a world in which efficiency and
beauty will come together. A sustainable world will be a beautiful world, an
aesthetic world, an artistic world.
Remember the formula:
BEAUTY + Efficiency = Sustainability
Let’s take the example of the fridge… the modern fridge
versus the traditional fridge… and see
how the above formula applies.
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Beauty is God Himself
Our ancestors were amazing artists. They had this remarkable ingenuity of turning everything into something BEAUTIFUL. Every space (walls, floors…), every utilitarian object (pots, brooms, baskets…) was given a touch of fine art by embellishing it with paintings, carvings, etchings …
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Nothing was left untouched by the artistic hand! Not even
the cow dung heap!! In Rajasthan, you can still see some of those most
aesthetic cow dung stacks built by women. Dried flaps are piled up, then to
prevent snakes and other pests from creeping into the heap, a paste of fresh
cow dung and water is applied all around to give the bitora a smooth finish in
which beautiful decorative motives are drawn.
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be
creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you
want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little
more dance to it.” Osho
Saturday, 1 November 2014
Earth architecture is beautiful!!
Moving around the villages, I got captured by the beauty… not of the solar panels but of the mud houses… Just like a young man looking at a beautiful woman in bikini wouldn’t resist wanting to caress her soft skin, I couldn’t resist passing my fingers over the golden colour walls… so smooth… so perfect… so beautiful… so sensuous… exquisite life-size handicrafts…
Looking at my expression of wonder, a woman, the owner of the house smiles and says, “Mud houses are beautiful!!”
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