I remember once Stephen Hawking quoted- "Pollution, stupidity and greed biggest threat to humankind." Then one fine day this small video clip made me feel how true the quote is! So here is the transcript of that video- "Only if we keep our environment well, we can live well." via Sadguru.
The idea that we need to protect this planet itself is a convoluted idea because it is not us that the planet is there, it is because of the planet we are there. Even to think me and the planet is a completely wrong notion, because what you call as myself- the physical presence of who you are is just a crop of this planet. Whatever you experience as a part of yourself with that nobody has to tell you to please take care of this, anyway you will take care of it. The planet is for all of us and we cannot exist here by ourselves. Our existence here is not because of economic activity, right now we are made to believe it is because of the percentages of growth that is happening in this country to live well, but no, we will live well here if everything is green, beautiful, water is flowing, air is pure and then we will live well here. This idea has to go into every human being's mind, into every citizen's mind, into every child's mind. We must always be conscious of the life other than human life, most people are not even conscious of the human beings.
So I am reminding you that you must be conscious of everything that is alive- a tree, a plant, a blade of grass, a grasshopper hopping. You must be alive to everything. Constantly the air around us is entering us and coming out of us and this is the basis of our life. What you exhale the trees are inhaling, what the trees exhale you are inhaling, there is a constant transaction going on. If we stop this process of breath for a minute, we understand that without transacting with the air around us we cannot live for a moment. Similarly, on the level of water and on the level of the earth this transaction is going on. So how we keep atmosphere around us, water bodies around us will determine the nature and quality of our life. Our environment is our life.
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