Question

what do you understand by "will the jaguar outran the hunter's cold pursuit"? ​

Answer 1

2015 in UN’s International Year of Soils. Launching this landmark, Jose Graziano da Silva, director-general of UN’s Food and Agriculture organisation said, “The multiple roles of soils often go unnoticed. Soils don’t have a voice, and few people speak out for them. They are our silent allies in food production.” So, let’s speak out for soils, which are fertile with sacred significance.

Earth, one of Indic religions’ MAHABHUTAS, represents the quality of solidity. The Earth element (pruthavi-dhatu) signifies all that is solid in our bodies, too : flesh, bones, sinews and other organs.

Similarly, the Bible portrays us as being created from the Earth : “God formed man (Hebrew, Adam) from the soil of the ground (dama).” Thus, ultimately and intimately we are all off-springs of soil. iStock_000005900018SmallThe adivasis have profound respect for Mother Nature and her soils. These are exemplary ‘daughters/sons of the soil’, who, rooted in the soil, revere a pantheon of earthy devas and devis inhabiting village boundaries, fields,, forests, groves and mountains. Contrary to the sense of the sacred widespread in adivasi religious consciousness, technocratic man often exploits the Earth for his selfish enjoyment. This tendency is rooted in the “paradise lost” myth, where Adam and Eve rebel against God and sever their three-fold relationship with God, with each other and with Earth’s soi

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