NATURE
Nature is my mother.
The pleasure in mother’s lap is incomparable. When a child is tortured by
someone, it runs to its mother. Seeing its mother, it forgets all worries and fright.
Paryaavaran is not different from nature. Human of any age when comes in close
contact to the nature, our eternal mother (closer to nature- river, forest,
sea, mountain, fountain etc), he is filled with special joy and enthusiasm
forgetting all anxieties and fear. Once,
I went to Pondicherry with one of my friends. We went to take sea view in the
evening. Before this trip I had never seen the sea. Aurovindo Ashram is on the
western coast of Bay of Bengal where we were halting. We stayed on a bench on
the sea sore for a good time and my friend became tired. Dark surrounded us. He
wanted to return. But I was not quenched. I refused to return. He went to the
Ashram. I stayed there till nine P.M. This may be called immense love towards
nature. One Australian citizen met me there. He was alone. I asked him about
his travelling throughout the world alone. I was surprised to hear his ideology
which was quite similar to my thought. I have come to the earth alone and have
to depart from here alone. It is ideal to lead life alone. If it becomes
impossible, one friend is enough but not more than that. When I am alone, I
stay most of the time at my home (permanent home= heart). When I make friends,
I spend more time outside. Bapoo (Gandhijee) has preached the same. When I am
alone I can journey according to my will. When more people are with me my will
has less importance and sometimes it is totally ignored if there is any
arrogant person in the group.
Now, come to the main topic. I planted some mango plants in my garden. I
irrigated it daily and started to see it growing. I gave village manure (cow
dung= compost). My happiness cannot be explained in words, seeing the plant
growing. The pleasure is heavenly, beyond expression. One of my friends had
tamed so many animals – cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, mongooses etc. Most of the
time, he was playing with his pets. I saw him always pleased with his animal
friends. I never saw him sad. Whenever he returned home, the animals jumped on
him and showed their love. I was afraid of animal scratching/biting and rabies but
he was playing/dancing and laughing. I cannot describe his pleasure. I asked
him to explain the expressions of pets. And, I was surprised to hear his words
that he knew every expression of his pets. I went in the past when people
understood the birds’ voice. When I come in close contact and love someone with
my heart, I become blessed to know its expressions. Human new born child is
incapable to express but mother knows it's every requirement. Among the pets,
dog is the oldest friend of man. It knows how to express happiness and sorrow
where as other pets don’t know this art and their languages are same every
time. Raman Maharshi talked with monkeys, peacocks, cows, dogs, cats, birds
etc. He used to mediate when two groups of monkeys quarreled seriously. Once,
Maharshi was walking on Arunaachalaa hill. The nest of wasp came under his foot. Wasps started to bite. Some disciples
wanted to move wasps but he forbade doing so, saying that he had demolished
their house and their anger was genuine. The great Indian scientist, Sir J. C.
Bose researched on plants and proved that plants and trees also laugh and weep.
When I show love, irrigate and give manure, they become pleased. When someone
goes to cut them they become angry and weep. The feelings were shown on a
monitor. The indicator showed the direction of happiness/ love, quite opposite
to the direction of sorrow/ anger.
.
My
eldest son offers food to the birds of a park daily. I become surprised to see
the birds sitting on his shoulders when he enters into the park. My son-in-law
feeds the leprous daily. Though, his family members don’t like the habit, his
pleasure is beyond words.
The helpless persons also repay very precious thing which I don’t
understand. They give ethereal blessings which remove our all odds and create
joys. Sometimes physical return is also received. I want to recall one
memorable event. The leprosy hospital of DMCH, Darbhanga is in the northern
portion. Once I was deputed to construct a new building for the leprous near the
leprosy hospital. My one subordinate Raj was with me. During construction, I
knew many new things about leprous which were not known to me before. Persons
of different castes and religions reside together as families. They have no
feelings of caste and marry among themselves. They love each other too much,
more than we healthy people do. I and Raj were taking tea offered by the
leprous. Suddenly, Raj fell down and became senseless. I was nervous, but the
leprous started primary care. They brought a cot and put Raj on it. Four
persons took the cot on their shoulders and started towards emergency ward.
Doctors checked him up and gave some medicines. He became well. The event made
deep root in my memory and always makes me remember the help of those helpless
persons who are discarded and hated by the society. I was ashamed to think that
we extremely dislike them and don’t like to even touch them, but they have
immense love for us and can help us up to the extent of their lives.
I want to suggest one medicine to
everybody. Enjoy the moments of feeding corn to the pigeons on the roof,
offering food to the fishes in the pond, feeding the hungers, serving the ill
and helping the helpless and needy. This medicine will cure you from all
diseases. No medicine is so helpful as the tonic of blessings.
Once, I was going to Deoghar by
Jan satabdee express. An old lady was begging in the compartment. She came to
me and spreaded her hand. I usually give one or two rupees to the beggars. But
seeing the wretched condition of the old lady or perhaps I had no change, I put
five rupees in her hand. The old lady started pouring blessings on my head for
long with her inner heart. Have you helped to free a creature from a trap? Have
you forgiven the fault of a person? Have you served an ill person? Have you fed
a hungry man? Have you given water to thirsty person? The pleasure cannot be
imagined doing even one of the above. Forgiveness is such a weapon which can
win the heart of any big enemy. We know the story of a saint and a scorpion. A
scorpion was flowing in the river flow. A saint saw and wanted to save its
life. He took it in his palm and started to bring it to the bank. The scorpion
stung him. His hand trembled and the scorpion fell in the river. Again the
saint lifted, it stung, hand trembled and it fell in the river. The action and
reaction was being repeated several times. Another person who was taking bath
beside the saint, saw this. He forbade doing so saying that the creature cannot
change its nature. The saint said, ‘if the tiny creature cannot change its
nature, why should I’? This shows the love towards nature and climax of
forgiveness.
Now a
day, we have become our enemies ourselves. Cutting trees I have started digging
well of death. The Pran-vau (life air) Oxygen comes from these trees and
plants. If I cut all these greeneries, Oxygen will vanish and a day may come
when the earth will become life less like other planets. When I go to walk in
the zoo, I feel that I am taking some life saving medicine. I start taking more
and more air in my lungs. In summer, the temperature of the botanical garden
area is below one or two degrees Celsius compared to that of town area. When I
was returning from secretariat to my residence in the evening on my scooter, I
always entered the green zone near Lalit Bhavan leaving the widest and
maintained Bailey Road in the temptation to enjoy the Oxygen zone and cool
atmosphere. The increase in temperature may cause melting the Himalayas
resulting increase in sea water level. So many islands are on the verge of
sinking in the sea. A day may come when entire earth may burn to ashes due to
rising temperature or may sink in water due to rising sea water level, causing
catastrophe.
Environmental
balance is utmost necessity. In the past we had this equilibrium. But in recent
days, this has been disturbed. The main culprits are men themselves. In temptation
we cut trees, kill animals, disturb the mountains, river*s natural
flow, pollute rivers and atmosphere and do all adverse acts to pollute our
surroundings. Our natural scavengers, vultures are seen nowhere on the earth.
Due to ignorance, we hated these birds in old days. But, they are our best
cleaners. Use of medicines have killed them causing pollution of the
atmosphere. We have polluted the rivers by throwing garbage, corpses, dropping gutters
and drains in the stream. We have disturbed the mountains through quarries. We
have polluted the atmosphere by creating harmful gases. We have weakened the
Ozone layer which checks the dangerous Ultraviolet rays to come on the earth.
Cutting plants we have disturbed the soil conservation.
The nature is not different from The God. It is the expanded form of The
Almighty. When someone loves the nature (plants, creatures, rivers, sea, forest
etc), he loves The Almighty. The nature may be symbolically taken as the wife
(female) of The Great Purush (male) and the plants, creatures etc as their
children. If you hate mother and children, father can’t be pleased. Try to love
the nature and all the plants and creatures, if you want to please God.
NATURE
Nature is my mother.
The pleasure in mother’s lap is incomparable. When a child is tortured by
someone, it runs to its mother. Seeing its mother, it forgets all worries and fright.
Paryaavaran is not different from nature. Human of any age when comes in close
contact to the nature, our eternal mother (closer to nature- river, forest,
sea, mountain, fountain etc), he is filled with special joy and enthusiasm
forgetting all anxieties and fear. Once,
I went to Pondicherry with one of my friends. We went to take sea view in the
evening. Before this trip I had never seen the sea. Aurovindo Ashram is on the
western coast of Bay of Bengal where we were halting. We stayed on a bench on
the sea sore for a good time and my friend became tired. Dark surrounded us. He
wanted to return. But I was not quenched. I refused to return. He went to the
Ashram. I stayed there till nine P.M. This may be called immense love towards
nature. One Australian citizen met me there. He was alone. I asked him about
his travelling throughout the world alone. I was surprised to hear his ideology
which was quite similar to my thought. I have come to the earth alone and have
to depart from here alone. It is ideal to lead life alone. If it becomes
impossible, one friend is enough but not more than that. When I am alone, I
stay most of the time at my home (permanent home= heart). When I make friends,
I spend more time outside. Bapoo (Gandhijee) has preached the same. When I am
alone I can journey according to my will. When more people are with me my will
has less importance and sometimes it is totally ignored if there is any
arrogant person in the group.
Now, come to the main topic. I planted some mango plants in my garden. I
irrigated it daily and started to see it growing. I gave village manure (cow
dung= compost). My happiness cannot be explained in words, seeing the plant
growing. The pleasure is heavenly, beyond expression. One of my friends had
tamed so many animals – cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, mongooses etc. Most of the
time, he was playing with his pets. I saw him always pleased with his animal
friends. I never saw him sad. Whenever he returned home, the animals jumped on
him and showed their love. I was afraid of animal scratching/biting and rabies but
he was playing/dancing and laughing. I cannot describe his pleasure. I asked
him to explain the expressions of pets. And, I was surprised to hear his words
that he knew every expression of his pets. I went in the past when people
understood the birds’ voice. When I come in close contact and love someone with
my heart, I become blessed to know its expressions. Human new born child is
incapable to express but mother knows it's every requirement. Among the pets,
dog is the oldest friend of man. It knows how to express happiness and sorrow
where as other pets don’t know this art and their languages are same every
time. Raman Maharshi talked with monkeys, peacocks, cows, dogs, cats, birds
etc. He used to mediate when two groups of monkeys quarreled seriously. Once,
Maharshi was walking on Arunaachalaa hill. The nest of wasp came under his foot. Wasps started to bite. Some disciples
wanted to move wasps but he forbade doing so, saying that he had demolished
their house and their anger was genuine. The great Indian scientist, Sir J. C.
Bose researched on plants and proved that plants and trees also laugh and weep.
When I show love, irrigate and give manure, they become pleased. When someone
goes to cut them they become angry and weep. The feelings were shown on a
monitor. The indicator showed the direction of happiness/ love, quite opposite
to the direction of sorrow/ anger.
.
My
eldest son offers food to the birds of a park daily. I become surprised to see
the birds sitting on his shoulders when he enters into the park. My son-in-law
feeds the leprous daily. Though, his family members don’t like the habit, his
pleasure is beyond words.
The helpless persons also repay very precious thing which I don’t
understand. They give ethereal blessings which remove our all odds and create
joys. Sometimes physical return is also received. I want to recall one
memorable event. The leprosy hospital of DMCH, Darbhanga is in the northern
portion. Once I was deputed to construct a new building for the leprous near the
leprosy hospital. My one subordinate Raj was with me. During construction, I
knew many new things about leprous which were not known to me before. Persons
of different castes and religions reside together as families. They have no
feelings of caste and marry among themselves. They love each other too much,
more than we healthy people do. I and Raj were taking tea offered by the
leprous. Suddenly, Raj fell down and became senseless. I was nervous, but the
leprous started primary care. They brought a cot and put Raj on it. Four
persons took the cot on their shoulders and started towards emergency ward.
Doctors checked him up and gave some medicines. He became well. The event made
deep root in my memory and always makes me remember the help of those helpless
persons who are discarded and hated by the society. I was ashamed to think that
we extremely dislike them and don’t like to even touch them, but they have
immense love for us and can help us up to the extent of their lives.
I want to suggest one medicine to
everybody. Enjoy the moments of feeding corn to the pigeons on the roof,
offering food to the fishes in the pond, feeding the hungers, serving the ill
and helping the helpless and needy. This medicine will cure you from all
diseases. No medicine is so helpful as the tonic of blessings.
Once, I was going to Deoghar by
Jan satabdee express. An old lady was begging in the compartment. She came to
me and spreaded her hand. I usually give one or two rupees to the beggars. But
seeing the wretched condition of the old lady or perhaps I had no change, I put
five rupees in her hand. The old lady started pouring blessings on my head for
long with her inner heart. Have you helped to free a creature from a trap? Have
you forgiven the fault of a person? Have you served an ill person? Have you fed
a hungry man? Have you given water to thirsty person? The pleasure cannot be
imagined doing even one of the above. Forgiveness is such a weapon which can
win the heart of any big enemy. We know the story of a saint and a scorpion. A
scorpion was flowing in the river flow. A saint saw and wanted to save its
life. He took it in his palm and started to bring it to the bank. The scorpion
stung him. His hand trembled and the scorpion fell in the river. Again the
saint lifted, it stung, hand trembled and it fell in the river. The action and
reaction was being repeated several times. Another person who was taking bath
beside the saint, saw this. He forbade doing so saying that the creature cannot
change its nature. The saint said, ‘if the tiny creature cannot change its
nature, why should I’? This shows the love towards nature and climax of
forgiveness.
Now a
day, we have become our enemies ourselves. Cutting trees I have started digging
well of death. The Pran-vau (life air) Oxygen comes from these trees and
plants. If I cut all these greeneries, Oxygen will vanish and a day may come
when the earth will become life less like other planets. When I go to walk in
the zoo, I feel that I am taking some life saving medicine. I start taking more
and more air in my lungs. In summer, the temperature of the botanical garden
area is below one or two degrees Celsius compared to that of town area. When I
was returning from secretariat to my residence in the evening on my scooter, I
always entered the green zone near Lalit Bhavan leaving the widest and
maintained Bailey Road in the temptation to enjoy the Oxygen zone and cool
atmosphere. The increase in temperature may cause melting the Himalayas
resulting increase in sea water level. So many islands are on the verge of
sinking in the sea. A day may come when entire earth may burn to ashes due to
rising temperature or may sink in water due to rising sea water level, causing
catastrophe.
Environmental
balance is utmost necessity. In the past we had this equilibrium. But in recent
days, this has been disturbed. The main culprits are men themselves. In temptation
we cut trees, kill animals, disturb the mountains, river*s natural
flow, pollute rivers and atmosphere and do all adverse acts to pollute our
surroundings. Our natural scavengers, vultures are seen nowhere on the earth.
Due to ignorance, we hated these birds in old days. But, they are our best
cleaners. Use of medicines have killed them causing pollution of the
atmosphere. We have polluted the rivers by throwing garbage, corpses, dropping gutters
and drains in the stream. We have disturbed the mountains through quarries. We
have polluted the atmosphere by creating harmful gases. We have weakened the
Ozone layer which checks the dangerous Ultraviolet rays to come on the earth.
Cutting plants we have disturbed the soil conservation.
The nature is not different from The God. It is the expanded form of The
Almighty. When someone loves the nature (plants, creatures, rivers, sea, forest
etc), he loves The Almighty. The nature may be symbolically taken as the wife
(female) of The Great Purush (male) and the plants, creatures etc as their
children. If you hate mother and children, father can’t be pleased. Try to love
the nature and all the plants and creatures, if you want to please God.
