He says the only agenda for humanity now is to grow forests, grow plants, to survive now. So far we have created illness in the human race and now to create wellness we have to restore back all the balances, Microbial balance , Glucose balance, Hormone balance. He says we need to change the way we grow the food. The food we are eating is an economic model created, artificial chemical ridden food. It is devastating the health of the human race and the health of all the living things on this planet.
Dr. Khadar Vali then decided that on returning back to India, he will grow his own food. His family , his wife, everyone wanted him to work because he had big offers from big big companies. He said NO. In the beginning he had to work hard gathering information from very old ladies, tribals and he learnt a lot from them. He started growing, eating and creating all the things needed and trained a few farmers in what he thought they should be doing. He started sharing many of his thoughts one such being about milk which many people then thought was a complete food. People sometime thought him to be mad, and he includes his wife also into that. She said you are taking a mountain head on, for which he says and with such a modesty that I am just moving each stone at a time. If I were to convince just one among the ten whom he meets every day, his day’s job is done.
He says he never worked there after , he started ‘living his life’. Talked to people , helped them, volunteered to create many forgotten things like bull driven ‘Ghanies’, Joggaries of different variety. He says we have to give nothing up. We can eat better, we can live better, and we can live healthier. We can actually have a wonderful coexistence on this planet. He sums up everything into the simple sentence in Sanskrit which says 'Sarve Janaha Sukhino Bhavantu'. And he started living each letter of that word.
At this juncture , the interviewing career coach Leela then tells him that ‘when you live your mission, when you live what you believe in, then the universe brings in an enormous flow’. To which he agrees and he says now ‘thousands and thousands of diabetic patients have been calling me, in fact I cannot take my calls. I have to put them off’. He says everyone is going to die one day what matters is how do we live, how do we take.
Dr. Khader Vali says we have to protect all living things on this planet. You will be surprised to know , he includes all, be it a plant or flora and fauna , animals , worms , bacterias and even viruses. His vision so broad, it encompasses all. For this to happen he says we have to move away from consuming culture to conserving culture. Instead of wanting to have more and more for oneself, we have to leave space for others also. He says ‘if we just stop eating sugar, we can save 80% of the water for all the planet or the forest to live. In case if you just stop sugar, coffee, tea the planet will revive itself. We don't need to do anything’. So he says all these environmentalists now should talk in this language. That we change our food to environmentally friendly materials like millets and change our lifestyle. He calls this kind of lifestyle as 'The Science and Art of Living.'
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