Do Unto Rivers As You Do Unto Yourself
Years ago when lived on a far m,1 employed a local villager to help me. His name was Chikkegowda. was hard of hearing and an object of icicle for the rest of the village. I found a pleasant companion because i sn'tparticularly interested in talking. One day, at 4am, i saw him preparing plough. "What are you doing?" i ed. "It will rain today," he said. I ked up. It was an absolutely clear sky. id, "What nonsense! Where is the ? He said, "No, Swami, it will rain." dit did. I sat up for days and nights after this. y couldn’t feel what this man could ?I sat, holding my hand in different it ions, trying to feel the moisture, temperature, trying to read the sky. I books on meteorology, but to no il. And then, finally, with careful evasion of my own body and my surroundings, i discovered the fundamental mistake most of us make: we view the ingredients that constitute our body, like earth, water, air, and food, as commodities and not as an organic part of the life process. The severe water crisis and drought conditions that plague this country today are related to this process of fragmentation and commodification. In allowing traditional wisdoms to be eroded, we have forgotten that the body is part of a larger organism called the planet, which is part of a much larger body called the solar system, which, in turn, is linked to the cosmos. If we view these in isolation, we are hacking at the fundamental unity of existence The writing on the wall is clear: if we do not act decisively, perennial rivers will turn seasonal, and several will vanish altogether (as they already have). The per capita water availability in this country has already plummeted by over 60% in 70 years. In Tamil Nadu, there is an old proverb: if the palm trees go dry you are heading for a disaster In the last 10 years in this region, the level of environmental degradation is unimaginable. A combination of over-cultivation and rampant construction has dried up rivers and made groundwater tables plummet. The monsoons have been erratic, as they will be when vegetation grows increasingly scanty. The situation in many other regions of this country is similarly grave. There is much that can still be done: rainwater harvesting, afforestation, cultivation of nurseries, urgent population control. However, none of can simply be addressed by a govern initiative. The environmental cause hate become a people's movement, a mas campaign in which aware and motivatcitizens participate in something that seen to address their personal and collective survival on this planet. A crash course in civics will not accomplish this. The spiritual process’s become vital today because it is the deepest possible reminder to an individual that a human being is not island. This reminder is not ideologist is existential. Yoga is a clarion call truth we forget time and again: we argot separate from the world we live in What we do to our rivers and forests ved to ourselves.
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The views expressed in the Article above are Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Speaking Tree,Times of India
Do Unto Rivers As You Do Unto Yourself
Years ago when lived on a far m,1 employed a local villager to help me. His name was Chikkegowda. was hard of hearing and an object of icicle for the rest of the village. I found a pleasant companion because i sn'tparticularly interested in talking. One day, at 4am, i saw him preparing plough. "What are you doing?" i ed. "It will rain today," he said. I ked up. It was an absolutely clear sky. id, "What nonsense! Where is the ? He said, "No, Swami, it will rain." dit did. I sat up for days and nights after this. y couldn’t feel what this man could ?I sat, holding my hand in different it ions, trying to feel the moisture, temperature, trying to read the sky. I books on meteorology, but to no il. And then, finally, with careful evasion of my own body and my surroundings, i discovered the fundamental mistake most of us make: we view the ingredients that constitute our body, like earth, water, air, and food, as commodities and not as an organic part of the life process. The severe water crisis and drought conditions that plague this country today are related to this process of fragmentation and commodification. In allowing traditional wisdoms to be eroded, we have forgotten that the body is part of a larger organism called the planet, which is part of a much larger body called the solar system, which, in turn, is linked to the cosmos. If we view these in isolation, we are hacking at the fundamental unity of existence The writing on the wall is clear: if we do not act decisively, perennial rivers will turn seasonal, and several will vanish altogether (as they already have). The per capita water availability in this country has already plummeted by over 60% in 70 years. In Tamil Nadu, there is an old proverb: if the palm trees go dry you are heading for a disaster In the last 10 years in this region, the level of environmental degradation is unimaginable. A combination of over-cultivation and rampant construction has dried up rivers and made groundwater tables plummet. The monsoons have been erratic, as they will be when vegetation grows increasingly scanty. The situation in many other regions of this country is similarly grave. There is much that can still be done: rainwater harvesting, afforestation, cultivation of nurseries, urgent population control. However, none of can simply be addressed by a govern initiative. The environmental cause hate become a people's movement, a mas campaign in which aware and motivatcitizens participate in something that seen to address their personal and collective survival on this planet. A crash course in civics will not accomplish this. The spiritual process’s become vital today because it is the deepest possible reminder to an individual that a human being is not island. This reminder is not ideologist is existential. Yoga is a clarion call truth we forget time and again: we argot separate from the world we live in What we do to our rivers and forests ved to ourselves.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Speaking Tree,Times of India