{"id":1462,"date":"2020-06-05T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinmayaupahar.in\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:50:38","slug":"ecology-the-modern-confusion-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/05\/ecology-the-modern-confusion-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecology – The Modern Confusion (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the talk given by Swami Chinmayananda at K C College Hall, Mumbai on 16th July 1992. With interesting stories and new insights, He has beautifully cited the modern confusion around our understanding of ecology.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ecology – Our Reflection<\/h2>\n

A squint eyed young man was recently 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 resilvered – 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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 in front of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mother nature is always pure – it is made impure by our own misbehavior. Man destroys nature – nature is 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.\u00a0<\/span>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.\u00a0<\/span>Reforestation is not necessary if you are not cutting down the trees indiscriminately. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nature<\/p>\n

Ecology – The Science<\/h2>\n

The modern world objective scientists recognised that there is a danger to life upon the surface of this globe and there started a science called Ecology<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody is despaired; the great conference in Rio – the same. They ask you not to over industrialise – ‘the underdeveloped countries should not industrialise, 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 industrialise. Pay us if we are not to industrialise. ‘<\/span><\/p>\n

THINK\u2026..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story – Who was poisoning the food?<\/h2>\n

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. 2 – 3 days it happened – his wife suggested that most probably the other sister-in-law is poisoning you slowly. Tomorrow at dinner, after the 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\u2019clock he vomited\u00a0 and not his brother, until at last he went to the doctor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The doctor checked him up and he said, \u201cDo one thing, go to a dentist and get me a chit\u201d. This is what all successful doctors do – when a patient comes he is shared by everybody. So he 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 \u201cAre you still alive?\u201d The mouth was in such a bad condition – the teeth were all rotten and the mouth was full of pus. He said, \u2018 within 10 days time I will remove all the teeth’ and in a week\u2019s time he was okay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Freedom or Selfishness?<\/h2>\n

When we talk of moral values and ethical principles<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, everybody says you should not put shackles on the freedom of man and he can live as he likes. If you do that you are disturbing nature\u2019s balance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n