I have not read this man’s book. This review of it impels me to commend it to attention. It walks the path of The Mother Era.

Rory Groves:
 Durable Trades: Family-Centered Economies
That Have Stood the Test of Time

“If there is anything that can withstand the nihilistic effects of modernity and the uncertain outcomes of our high towers, it will be families that are reclaiming critical functions at home — education, apprenticeship, discipleship — and working together towards a common vision to which they have been called. [The family economy] has been the context by which parents pass their faith, culture and values on to their children for most of human history.”

One of the objectives of education is the culture of the mind and the spirit. This too is very much like agriculture, which provides food and clothing. We want dhanya (grains) to sustain the body; we require dhyana (meditation) to sustain the spirit. In agriculture, you prepare the soil, plant seeds, feed the plants with fertilisers, and reap the harvest. In ‘heart-culture’, we have to plough the hrudhaya-kshethra (the field of the heart), remove the weeds and wild growth, and plant the seeds. The weeds are pernicious tendencies, attitudes and habits; the fertilisers are devotion and dedication. Water to help the plant grow is the quality of love. The seeds are the Names of God, which are deposited within the purified heart. The harvest which is the reward of all this spiritual discipline is Wisdom. Heart-culture has been the goal and aim of Sanathana Dharma, the ancient religion of India. It is essential for a happy, contented and peaceful life.