Simple Living and Mirrored Walls

Dear Readers;

  I was doing some research on Nicola Tesla...inventor of AC ...light..(he used lights 40 years before it was "invented"),radio,x ray,remote control...etc.  I thought that making our own energy or by promoting Nicola Tesla was in line with what Govindas Farm is all about. But after some thought and discussion it's just not the direction we see this project of Simple Living and High Thinking going.

Usually done using two fingers and a thumb to mold the mud.

  Srila Prabhupada wants us to grow castor beans to make oil for our oil lamps. Of course if we have enough cows perhaps we can have excess ghee to light our lamps with ghee. Not only is a burning ghee lamp auspicious and healthy but it destroys pollution for many yards around the burning lamp. If we do use oil lamps to light the house ...then we must also take into account the need to bounce the light around to dark corners. I remember reading that the Egyptians used mirrors to bounce sunlight through the pyramids. Whether that is a fact I don't know because there is always some controversy as to whether or not they had mirrors that could reflect light or did they just have polished brass plates? I don't know...but I do know that the Kutch tribe of India decorate with small mirrors placed into the mud wall that serves a dual purpose...to provide beauty and to reflect light. The Kutch also paint their walls white to reflect light. Two years ago following the Kutch I also began to place small mirrors in my somewhat dark hallway.

  Here is a nice short video of a Kutch dwelling. Also a picture of our hallway with the beginning of small mirrors placed to reflect light.

 We are all related.
  Hare Krsna.
  Kokum Lal