->You are harming yourself if you harm nature:
What is nature? There is a lot of discourse and effort to protect nature, the animals, the birds, the whales, and dolphins, to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, and fields, and so on. Nature, unlike religion and belief, is not constructed via the intellect. Nature is the tiger, that magnificent animal with boundless energy and a strong sense of power.
Nature is the solitary tree in the field, the meadows, and the grove; it is that squirrel shyly hiding behind a bough. Nature is the ant, the bee, and all the living things of the earth. Nature is the river, not a particular river, whether the Ganga, the Thames, or the Mississippi. Nature is those mountains, snow-clad, with dark blue valleys and a range of hills meeting the sea. The universe is part of nature. One must feel for all of this, not ruin it or slaughter for one’s own pleasure or table. We do destroy cabbages, the vegetables we eat, but there has to be a limit somewhere. How will you survive if you don’t eat vegetables? As a result, educated discernment is required. Nature is a part of our everyday lives. We grew from the seed, from the ground, and we are a part of it all, but we are gradually losing our feeling of being animals like the rest. Can you feel something for a tree, gaze at it, appreciate its beauty, and listen to the music it makes? Can you be sensitive to the small plant, the weed, the creeper climbing the wall, the light on the leaves, and the many other things?
Can you be attentive to a small plant, a weed, a creeper climbing the wall, the light on the leaves, and the myriad shadows? One must be aware of all of this and have a feeling of connectedness with the natural world around them. You live in a city, yet there are trees here and there. A flower in the next garden may be unkempt and overrun with weeds, yet gaze at it and feel like you’re a part of it all, a part of all living things. When you harm nature, you harm yourself.
All of this has been expressed before in various ways, but we don’t seem to be paying attention. Is it because we are so preoccupied with our own issues, aspirations, and wants for pleasure and misery that we never glance around, never see the moon? Keep an eye on it. Watch using all of your senses, including your eyes, ears, and nose.
Keep an eye on things. Make it appear as though you’re searching for the first time. If you can accomplish that, you will be able to see that tree, shrub, or blade of grass for the first time. Then you’ll be able to view your instructor, mother or father, sibling or sister for the first time. There is an astonishing sensation about it: the wonder, strangeness, and mystery of a new dawn that has never existed before and will never exist again.
Have you ever gotten out of bed in the morning and glanced out the window, or gone out on the terrace and gazed at the trees and the spring dawn? Accept it and move forward. Listen to every sound, every whisper, every breeze amid the leaves. Look at the light on that leaf and watch the sunrise over the hill and over the meadow. And the dry river, or that grazing animal, or those sheep over the hill, keep an eye on them. Look at them with tenderness and care, as though you don’t want to injure them in any way. When you are in such contact with nature, your interaction with others becomes easy, obvious, and free of conflict.
This is one of the responsibilities of the educator, not merely to teach mathematics or how to run a computer. Far more important is to have communion with other human beings who suffer, struggle, and have great pain and the sorrow of poverty, and with those people who go by in an expensive car. If the educator is worried about this, he is assisting the student in becoming sensitive, sensitive to other people’s emotions, troubles, fears, and fears, as well as the family squabbles. It should be the teacher’s obligation to educate others for them to enjoy such contact with the planet. The world may be too big for him, but he is where he is; that is his universe. And this results in natural concern, affection for others, civility, and non-rough, harsh, or vulgar behavior.
_”If you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere “_
Since we do not love nature we don’t love human beings. This is because nature is beautiful it is God gifted. But we humans don’t take care of it, we usually throw cans, plastic bottles and we humans spoil everything. We are not supposed to be known as humans.
So basically and technically we have lost our relationship with nature. If once we understood that relationship, its real significance then we would not divide the property into yours and mine; though one might own a piece of land and build a house on it, it would not be ‘mine’ or ‘yours’ in the exclusive sense; it would be more a means of taking shelter.
Because we do not love the earth and the things of the earth but merely utilize them, we are insensitive to the beauty of a waterfall and have lost the touch of life. We don’t sit with our backs against the trunk of a tree. And since we do not love nature, we do not know how to love human beings.
The earth is there to be loved, to be cared for, not to be divided as yours and mine. It is foolish to plant a tree and call it ‘mine’. Only when one is free of exclusiveness is there a possibility of having sensitivity, not only to nature but to human beings and to the ceaseless challenges of life.
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit”
