Ecology-The Modern Confusion

Swami Chinmayananda

oi-Staff

By Staff

Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 10:19

A squint-eyed young man recently was hospitalized and therefore looking emaciated, tired,fatigued he looked at the mirror and found that it was not at all satisfactory. This is not the face he saw before therefore he sat down and started shining the mirror; still the face was ugly. He got the mirror! re- silvered, still his face was very unsatisfactory. He tried his level best to change his face by changing the mirror. In 'spite of all efforts the face looked the same ugly one. When he ate well and revived his health, blood started coming to his cheeks. When the man becomes healthy, the mirror reflects the healthy face. It is not the fault of the mirror; the mirror is honest, it reflected what was front of it.

Mother Nature is always pure; it is made impure by our own misbehavior. Man destroys nature; nature's not responsible for it. Cleaning the Ganges is not necessary. It is we who make it dirty. If we stop dirtying it we need not spend millions of rupees to purify it; stop poisoning it. The pure waters that are coming down from the top will wash away these dirty waters and the water will become as pure as before. Reforestation is not necessary if you are not cutting down the trees indiscriminately. The modern world objective scientists recognized that there is a danger to life upon the surface of this globe and there started a science what is called Ecology.

Everybody is despaired, the great conference in Rio the same. They ask you not to over industrialize; the under developed countries should not industrialize because it is industrialization that has brought about this imbalance between nature and man. The underdeveloped countries say that you have made yourself richer and we also want to become richer and therefore we are also going to industrialize. Pay us if we are not to industrialize. Think .... So, nature is always pure, nature only wants to bless you but your behavior is prompted by negative tendencies. We are the ones who are poisoning nature. After poisoning it we are complaining.

There were two brothers living together along with the sisters-in-law, very happily. The younger brother started vomiting at around 1 AM. every night. Two three days it happened. His wife suggested that most probably the other sister-in-law is poisoning you slowly. Tomorrow at dinner after food is served, exchange your plate with your brother. He did it and he was looking at the elder sister-in-law - she was innocently standing. That night also, at 1 O'clock he vomited and not his brother, until at last he went to the doctor. The doctor checked him up and he said "Do one thing, go to a dentist and get me a chit." This is what all successful doctors do, when a patient comes he is shared by everybody.

The man hence went to the dentist and the dentist made him sit in the chair and one look at his mouth, the doctor closed his eyes, turned his face and asked him, "Are you still alive?" The mouth was in such a bad condition. The teeth were all rotten and the mouth was full of pus. He said: "Within 10 days time I will remove all the teeth", and in a week's time he was okay. Here is a case where the pure food was on the table, not poisoned by somebody else. He himself was poisoning his own food. In the same way, friends, it is we who are spoiling the world around.