Slow me Down, Lord!

Monday 20th December 2010
Slow me Down, Lord!
Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.
Give me, amidst the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of nerves and muscles, with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory.
Help me to know the magical, restoring power of sleep. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations. Of slowing down to look at flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read few lines from a good book. Remind me each day of the table of the hare and tortoise, that I may know that the race is not always to the swift, that there is more to lie than measuring its speed.
Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Slow me down. Lord and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow toward the starts of my grater destiny.
Perfect Ecosystem For Our Survival
Ecosystem constitutes the living community of plant and animals in any area together with the non-living components of the environment such as the soil, air and water. The living and non-living matter constantly interact with each other . It results in the flow of energy which helps the productivity of our world. For instance, in a particle of surface loam there are 60 million bacteria; in an acre of agricultural land there can be 30 million invertebrates and in an acre there are over 50 thousand earthworms . then there are the larger insects, reptiles, mammals, birds and plants. All these form the biotic community. However the relationships are never static; growth and death, change and replacement, go on continuously. A constant activity goes on forever. Energy pours down from Sunlight and is captured by green pants that make food in the process called photosynthesis. So also water moves through the ecosystem in an intricate cycle starting from and returning to the atmosphere.
Thus the functioning of an ecosystem depends on the energy which is poured into it and the prime source of energy is Sunlight. Green plants are the only effective converters of Sunlight energy into forms useful to man and animals. Energy can be produced only when matter is consumed and this results in pyramid of life having wide base of vegetation, a smaller quantity of herbivores, which feed on plants and a considerably smaller number of carnivores which live on hooved spices. But an unchangeable natural laws play a major part . For example, one kilo of deer meat cannot produce one kilo of tiger. It is because a great deal is lost in process of converting the meat of the deer into the metabolism of the carnivore.
The objective of the investigator decide the are or extent of an ecosystem. The entire stretch of the Ganga could be considered as one ecosystem. It ranges from the melting snows in the Himalaya to he Hoogly where the waters ultimately reach the Bay of Bengal. The same ecosystem may even many more small ecosystems, each one, important in its own way, has to be protected to save the entire region. Activities such as the removal of vegetation on the banks , and particularly on neighboring hill sides endanger the ecosystem. A situation of their sort might lead to situation of the water system; which, apart from reducing the capacity of the river, may even alter the quality of the water and subsequently, the insect and fish life. Even a small village pond form part of ecosystem and many of these are getting silted up. Polluted and bereft of life because of the destruction of the natural complex of vegetation around the pond.
One of the most productive ecosystems is at the point where sea water meets fresh water. Therefore protection of estuaries is very important because it is here the spawning of fish and of other aquatic life takes place.
Hence the conservationists feel that in order to save the natural world, the focus should not be on saving individual species, but on saving the entire ecosystem of whish species form a part. Unless the entire ecosystem is preserved, individual species will die in course of time which might lead to ecological imbalance.
Quote from the Essence of Bhagavt-Gita
I have already said that the Gita is not an interpolation and there is also proof that it is not Indian philosophers had one rare quality. If the modern philosophers in India and abroad develop this quality to some extent, it would greatly benefit not only them but also other people. Our ancient philosophers were never content to establish an idea only intellectually . they made efforts to translate the idea into practical life. After doing that successfully, they would share the truth with other people . when we study the life of Sir Krishna , we see that he himself verified by actual practice the truth of the teachings in the Gita. We see in his won life all the truth taught in the Gita thoroughly put into practice for the first time. So there is no doubt it was he who taught the Gita.
I drive joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine. He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha
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