Guest guest Posted September 29, 2001 Report Share Posted September 29, 2001 Dear friends : Read the following .These are words of great enlightened souls which I have put in my words : A .SELVAKUMAR LOVE IS OMNIPRESENT What is our definition for a living being . Anything that feels , grows , moves , talks or expresses and anything that obeys a set pattern .We limit this idea of a living being to men and animals only .At the most we can include plants also in this category . Because plants grow , breathe , drink water ,take nutrients and also it has been proved by scientists like Jagadish Chandra Bose that plants also have feelings like men .That is ,they tremble when you are going to cut it or if you take a cigarette nearby .These feelings and vibrations could be recorded and analysed with some instruments similar to ECG .Also it has been scientifically proved that the growth of the plants is enhanced by playing music of musical giants like Beethoven .There are some algae that can move from one place to another .There are some insectivorous plants which eat insects just as we eat chicken or mutton .So plants also can be classified as a living being .It may be also true that plants also talk and that we are unable to understand their languages . It has been said that persons like J .Krishnamoorthy talked with plants .Even in the puranas like Bhagavatham Lord Krishna ,when He was a child was tied to a stone by His mother Yasodha .He walked dragging the stone inbetween two trees and made the two trees fall down .The two trees then transformed into two persons who told that they were celestial beings and they were cursed to become trees ..Rama when He stepped over a stone ,the stone changed into Akalikai ,a lady who had been cursed to become a stone till an avatar shall releive Her from the curse .The same idol of Goddess Bhavatharini which was only a stone to others was Mother Kali with full of life for Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa .So plants and trees are also living like us .Trees not only live but they also love us .As Baba says, there is a factory running inside the plants that converts the Carbondioxide released by us into Oxygen in a matter of five minutes .. We release harmful Carbondioxide and the plants give us the useful Oxygen without which our life is impossible . Therefore it is a kind of give and take policy and if you carefully examine it you can see that it is love that links us with plants .A Masterbrain has designed the link to love each other . Page No. 89 -A SUDDEN CLASH OF THUNDER - by OSHO " Nobody is uncreative - not even trees,not even rocks .People who have known trees ,know that each tree creates its own space,each rock creates its own space.It is like nobody else's space.If you become sensitive,if you become capable of understanding ,through empathy,you will be tremendously benifited.You will see each tree is creative in its own way ;no other tree is like that - each tree is unique;each tree has individuality;each rock has individuality .Trees are not just trees -they are people.Rocks are not just rocks- they are people . Go and sit by the side of a rock -watch it lovingly ,touch it lovingly, feel it lovingly . It is said about a Zen master that he was able to pull very big rocks ,remove very big rocks -and he was a very fragile man .It was almost impossible looking at his physiology!Stronger men ,very much stronger than him,were Unable to pull those rocks,and he would simply pull them very easily . He was asked what his trick was .He said " there is no trick -I love the rock so the rock helps.First I say to her .'now my prestige is in your hands,and these people have come to watch .Now help me,cooperate with me.'Mm? -then I simply hold the rock lovingly ?and wait for the hint .When the rock gives me the hint -it is a shudder,my whole spine starts vibrating-when the rock gives me the hint that she is ready,then I move.You move against the rock;that's why so much energy is needed.I move with the rock ,I flow with the rock .Infact,it is wrong to say that I remove it - Iam simply there ..The rock remove itself . If you are loving you will see that the whole existence has individuality .Don't pull and push things .Watch ,communicate;take their help-and much energy will be preserved " -OSHO. Where do the plants take food? -from the earth . A seed is sowed in the soil .It takes or selects the material from the soil for it's growth , like water and the soil itself ( we term the soil absorbed as nutrients - otherwise it is only mud ) . A beautiful transformation is going on .The seed slowly transforms into a plant ..The seed develops it's organs - the stem , the leaves and the flowers ..A rose plant absorbs soil and water and develops thorns ,rose - coloured or white -coloured or yellow - coloured flowers .As Bhakta Meerabai says ,is it not a greatest miracle that soil is converted into such a beautiful flower . Can man design such a flower full of life with all his knowledge and science ,which the nature is so casually doing . A sugarcane plant takes the soil and water and gives us lot of sugar .Where was the sugar present .It was within the earth and a sugarcane plant was needed to separate the sugar in the soil and give to us .Or otherwise a coconut seed was needed to take the sugar from the soil and give it to us as Glucose water . So what we think as only soil has infinite possibilities of evolution . The same soil can become a Gold ornament ,or a Silver houseware .It can become a plant or an animal body .It can even become the human body . If a soul can reside in a human body which is actually mud or clay why can't a lowly evolved soul reside in a rock or tree or any matter .Sri Ramakrishna Parahamsa used to sit on the banks of Ganga and He would throw a Gold coin into the water and then a handful of mud saying " This Gold is only mud and this mud is Gold " .So Gold also is one form of mud only . What are we thinking as the meaning of miracles .Anything that is unnatural or anything we have not experienced so far .What is the meaning of the word " Natural " in our dictionary .Simply it is anything that we have experienced or came across .If you ask somebody why the Crow is black ,he will say it natural .Why are the trees green - it is natural .Why the Sun is rising in the east - it is natural . Why different animals are making different sounds - it is their nature . What do we mean by the word nature .It simply means that " IT IS LIKE THAT " .All crows are black .Suppose if somebody sees a white crow it is a miracle because it is unnatural .We have not experienced it before .The first person who sees a white crow says it is a miracle .He shows the white crow to a second person and the second man also surprises .When so many persons see the white crow often then the surprise vanishes .Or if day by day all the crows become white , people will say " what happened to these crows .All are becoming white " .White crows then become natural and after a month if a person is asked why crows are white he will say it is their nature which simply means " IT IS LIKE THAT " .So, saying that a phenomenon is quite natural is not giving the required answer but it a sort of pretension of the mind that it has got the answer .The human mind pretends that it has got the answer .But it is actually a type of escapism only -a kind of maya or illusion . Why do the plants serve as food for human beings and animals ..Why are some animals created as food for other animals .A deer or a rabbit is food for a lion .Why is it so .Why is God who is considered as so much loving towards His creation allowing such a thing which is a torture for the plants and the meek animals .The reason is Love . Just as Jesus was ready to die on the cross , Sibi was ready to offer his flesh for a small Dove and Buddha was ready to give His life for a goat ,these plants and animals are being trained by God to offer themselves for the requirement of the others ..The only difference between Jesus or Sibi or Buddha and these plants and animals is that Jesus was willing to offer His life for the sake of others but the plants and animals are forced .When you offer yourself willingly for the well being of others it becomes love and that act makes you divine .The more you withstand the insults and the tortures that the society gives you and still if you love them wholeheartedly ,the more and more divine you become .So the food cycle tells that every being in the universe is inter connected with the other and nobody can be a separate entity .The air that we breathe is being shared by others also .The air that we inhale now was the breathe of another person just a while before . .. . Now where do the plants get water .The sky gives rain to earth . Where do the sky gets water .From the sea -water .The sea water evaporates to vapour and becomes clouds .The clouds get cooled to give rain to the earth .The ocean ,the sky ,the earth and the plants and animals are interconnected with each other .Why all these are giving something to the other .Because the nature is so designed by God that one will serve the purpose of the other and the driving force behind all this is Love. Throughout the nature the same phenomenon of Love is going on smoothly .The whole nature is vibrating in love except in the case of Human beings .Only in the case of human the problem of possessiveness comes and it is the cause for all the miseries that the world have ever experienced .Only man tries to go against nature -tries to go against love .He wants more and more for himself .He wants wealth for his comfort and even if he gets a lot ,he is not satisfied and he wants to possess still more .If he has got a big house he aims for a bungalow .If he gets a Maruthi he wants to own a Lancer .He wants to have everything for himself . The desire of man grows in geometric progreession that he almost forgets what has been given to him .The huge Universe was created for the happiness of men and the idea of possessivenes had destroyed all the great things given to him .Man has almost become a beggar forgetting that he had been already provided in abundance .He had forgotten that he is an emperor and he starts begging all through his life .What is this idea of possessiveness .It is the idea of " I " and " MINE " .Man wants everything for himself .At the most he can share his possessions with his family .Beyond that boundary his mind finds it difficult to expand .He wants his smaller circle only to be benifitted by his riches .He forgets the fact that the whole world is a family and the whole universe is the VIRAT VISWAROOPAM of the Lord .Krishna in the Bhagavat Gita shows His Viswa Roopam which includes everything and excludes nothing .A spider spins it's web with it's saliva .The web is made beautifully .Now what is the web .It is nothing other than the spider itself . What appears as the web was nothing but the spider a few moments before . In the same ,God created the whole universe OUT OF HIM .The whole universe is nothing but God Himself .A banyan tree branches with it's hanging roots and it goes on branching and branching till it covers a very vast area .In the same way God ,the banyan tree has branched out far and far till it has become the entire universe .What is deluding us is the name and form of the things we see .We say one as the Sun ,Moon,Earth ,Man,Animal ,Rose ,Waste ,Water ,etc.But everything is the same energy ,same matter manifested in a variety of forms .We name it differently and thereby create a wrong vision .Actually in all this diversities there is unity .Only God has become everything .Baba says everything is God. Everyone is God .It is the ultimate truth -The Advaita . Actually do we possess anything . Is it true that we possess certain things . OSHO says that game of possession is the most absurd game that we are playing and this is the whole of our life's game ..We can at the most use or utilise certain things like a big house , car ,television ,etc.They allow themselves to be used by us .Once we are gone ,they allow them to be used by another person .They totally forget that you were using them .They go to a state of oblivion .If you really possess them they should come with you when you are gone ..But they are with you for a particular time period and they leave you for serving another person . You have even to leave your body here itself -which you have tendered with atmost care all these years ..The earth has given the body on a contract basis for so many years and once the time is over ,you have to hand over it's property .Osho beautifully says whatever is yours cannot be taken away or robbed and whatever can be taken away is not yours .Only God is the sole owner of everything .Even you are His possession .So drop this idea of possession and attachment .It cannot give you happiness. Consider an Iron pillar .We think it is just a mass of matter it has no life. But the Iron pillar is made of infinite number of Iron atoms .Each Iron atom has a nucleus at the centre surrounded by electrons revolving in particular orbits -just like planets revolving round the Sun .The electrons are attracted by the Protons inside the nucleus .We call this as electron -proton attraction .That is just a word coined by us - replace it with the word Love . Now the electrons are in their particular position because of their Love towards the protons .The Iron pillar that seems to be just without life is having very very orderly movement in every atom of it .How can we say that the Iron pillar has no life .Can't the supreme force that sets such an orderly pattern even in the tiniest atom look after the needs of you and me .The same orderly arrangement is there all .Take sand .It is Silicon dioxide .There also the same movement and order is there in every atom of Silica and Oxygen .Take wood .There are Carbon and Hydrogen atoms -The same set pattern .Take an Uranium atom in a atomic reactor .When one atomic mass unit of Uranium atom is bombarded ( broken down ) energy equivalent to burning one tonne of coal is liberated .How so much energy is stored inside a small atom .In air Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms are also having the same set pattern .When a cylinder containing oxygen and hydrogen gas in opened to mix these both ,immediately water flows down and is this not a greatest miracle ..As Baba says ,MIKKU PARANDHULAN JOTHIAN -PUKIN ALAKILAI KILAKKAVENDA - THAT SUPREME KNOWLEDGE IS OMNIPRESENT AND THAT INFINITE KNOWLEDGE CANNOT BE REASONED BY YOUR VERY VERY LIMITED KNOWLEDGE .All our knowledge so far developed were got only from the experiences of different persons at different times .Whatever we call knowledge are only our experiences .Since there is still a very very vast world that we have not even experienced ,our knowledge is very very narrow ..With that we cannot come to a generalisation and we that it is impossible to analyse the Supreme knowledge - GOD .So we have to better surrender to Him .That is why total is emphasised in religions . What is the difference between a Scientist and a Religious person .A scientist wants to know the HOW of everything but , for a religious person everything is a wonder .Osho says ,if you start analysing how everything is happening ,you will become a philosopher or a scientist ..But if start wondering at everything that you come across ( and it is true that everything in the universe is a wonder ) you will become religious .Vivekananda also says " I want the 'WHY' of everything ..I leave the 'HOW' to children " .When an apple fell down Newton analysed How it came down and he discovered the Gravitational force ..A religious wonders at the same thing and asks Why the apple fell down instead of going up into space - he concludes that the earth has Love for the apple and it has to feed men existing in it .So it pulls the apple with Love and gives to men .In the same way everything is united with love .Why is the air or atmosphere extended only upto a height of 110 kms only .Because of Love . Why does the Sun comes daily without fail .Why do the rains come at appropriate intervals .Imagine the cost that you have to spend to create a similar shower of water .Why are the stars are always in their fixed positions .Why is the earth hanging in space in a fixed position without colliding with the other stars or planets .Whatever may be the terms you use to explain all these phenomenon ,the basic truth is that the whole universe is obeying the command of a very very supreme force -out of His infinite Love towards His creation and not because of fear towards Him .God expects the very same Love from man ,who is at the top of evolution also .If not possible in actions atleast show your Love to others in the thought level and God will be highly pleased if we do so .As Baba says a human birth is achieved only after 84 lakh births .So carefully utilise this and try to attain to still great heights and never allow your minds to drop to the beast levels . BABA SAYS " LOVE ALL .LOVE IS ALL " . GOD LOVES GOD LOVES ONLY ONLY GOD LOVES - BABA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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