Lets amalgamate divinely with 'prakriti'

The Bodhi Tree of Bodh Gaya
is believed to be the Ficus religiosa
under which Gautama Buddha
attained enlightenment. It is worshipped
by Buddhists. The sacred fig
is also venerated in Hinduism and Jainism.

Devote some time daily to connect yourselves eternally with mother nature. Sit under a peepal tree and meditate. Chat with a Neem tree. Tell trees your story or any other inspiring incident. Cheer a tree or plant on appearance of new leaves, fruits or flowers. Recite a song for them. Perform ‘Japa – sandhya’ below them. Tell your worries to them. When ever you feel like distressed by your inner enemies like – Kaam, krodh, lobh, moh, mad ormatsar, go to a nearby tree. Hug him and tell your worry. Appeal him to give you the ‘nisvarth bhaav’ fortitude like him.

We can experience great communication with trees (Vanaspati Jagat) if we try optimistically. Moreover, looking at nature and scrutinizing its selfless way of giving, we can identify our limitations and our ego to be counterbalanced.

When we unite people with ‘Guru-Parampara’ of Bharat, we automatically aid in safeguarding nature. I have visited many Guru-Ashrams. They appear to be different superficially, but are energized with same divinity within. Not as a matter of survey, you can evidently see that the people who are connected to any of the Ashrams are saturated with divine teachings of Bharat and under its influence, they are fearful of sinful activities like to waste even a single grain. It is great to take blessings of our sages. When they bless a person, they also bless trees, animal and water as ‘the blessed’ does not want to act upon any bad karma.

It is like how fire is hot and milk is white, that is how human being ( manushya) is divine and how nature is selfless. Hence, by understanding and respecting the true mission of nature, we can understand the genuine nature ofmanushya and can eradicate any kind of pashutva in ourselves.

The trees like Neem, Bilva and sacred plants like Tulsi inspire us to perform total sacrifice in the approach to our purpose of life. The goal of a tree is to serve all the living or non living beings of universe selflessly. For this mission,Tulsi, Neem and Bilva offer their entire being. Every part of their body is valuable for the world. A Neem tree doesn’t feel sad to be cut down for medical intentions and a Tusli feels proud to sacrifice herself for purification of earth as selfless service is their aim of life. They remind us of Raja Shibi, who sacrificed his flesh to protect the life of a pigeon. Similarly, we should also follow the divine tradition and be ready to sacrifice our entire self for achieving our ultimate goal of life.

Jai Prakriti

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Natural Benevolence of Nature

Ambika under a mango tree.

Sri Yajnavalkya approached a mango and said, “So Aamra-devi ! everything fine na?” Aamra-devi smiled. He added, “Behen, I wish for two fruits from you tomorrow as some rishis are visiting the ashram. This time, your offsprings will be grown in Divya-Vatika of Naimishaaranya. The rishis will take your seeds with them to the Aranya.” Aamra got contented.  She amplified the course of ripening of fruits and started integrating her divine sweetness and pious curative powers in them.

Well! She knew the plucking of fruits will be hurting, but her spirit was functioning under two principles:

Innate Benevolence: Nature has given her and all trees and plants the Doctrine of Dharma for selfless Paropkaar since their very babyhood.

Simple sense of right and wrong: She surely knew that one day, fruits will get knock down after rotting and then also it will pain so it is better to provide them to the rishis. That was the time of affectionate milking of nature and not its atrocious and lethal sucking.

Instead of milking, we are nastily sucking our mother nature. It is the main reason behind routine-less changes in climate, flood at one part of a state and drought at another of the same, global warming and all troubles of same class. There is a great difference between milking and the atrocious and lethal sucking. 

Let us observe the milking process. Consider the milking of Gau (cow). She is our mother. We offer her food and nutrition. Then we allow the calf to feed on mother’s milk as he has the first right on it. Even then the left milk-prasad is sufficient for our need but it may possibly not be enough for our greed. This is our milking culture. Sri Hari incarnated as Gopal to give this sanskaar to the world. He was the supreme enjoyer and the supreme sustainer too. He served Gau and feeded on her milk and maakhan(butter). The same milking was followed by us in regard of our Mother Nature. We nurtured the nature by the sacraments like yajnas. Then after the satisfaction of the first-right-owners like the wild-life inhabitants of forests, we got enough for our healthy livelihood. The hostile practice to this milking is sucking. This sucking was done by Krishna Gopal to Pootna. He sucked all the milk and then all the blood of her body through her breasts. She struggled and reacted fiercely and banged her hands and legs here and there and ruined whatever she found. But Bal-Krishna didn’t forgive her. He sucked and sucked until she died. Even a single drop of blood was sucked. Nothing was left in her.Nature is Cow and not Pootna. And we are Gopals. Hence we should consume with conservation. This may be called sustainable development. There, Sri Krishna knew the intention of Pootna to kill him, so he kill her. But if we are following the convention of sucking, there may be some abysmal philosophy imported from west that nature is our foe or competitor and we have to prevail over it. Assuming the nature as Pootna, when we suck her blood, she counters and what we get are relentless natural calamities. Then we censure her.  The day when blood will be sucked up, nature will die. Then we will repent for not being aware.

We should satisfy our right as supreme enjoyer but before that, we should obey our duty of supreme conserver and supreme protector.

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