Monday,
04 February 2019
If
Humans Disappeared
The
Speaking Tree , India | ET
By
CHAITANYA CHARAN DAS
Biologist
E O Wilson, as well as other scientists, have studied the complex
interdependence amongvarious species in the biosphere.
He found
that every species makes a constructive contribution — small or great — to the
ecology of the planet. For example, if vegetation decreases, herbivores suffer.
And if the number of herbivores decreases, the carnivores are affected.
Wilson
found that only the human species does not contribute to the ecology. If we
became extinct, there would hardly be any problems for other species or for the
ecology. In fact, most ecological problems would be solved if humans became
extinct.
All
scriptures say that human potential is fully realised when we contribute to the
planet at the spiritual level. When we function only at the material level, our
potential is underused and even misused.
The
Bhagavata Maha Purana offers a mission statement, “Humans should function in
the material realm only for maintaining existence, not for seeking enjoyment.
For they will find real happiness only in spiritual realisation.” Normally,
parents nurture children.
When
children shun the protective embrace of their parents, they are open to risk.
When humans reject God’s protection and embrace materialism and consumerism
instead, they experience stress, anxiety, violence and ecological disaster.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote
from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
In his
introduction Sankara first quotes a Pauranic verse, whose echos is found in
modern western cosmology in part, dealing with the nature of the Divine:
Narayana
paro avyaktat andamavyktasanthbhavam
Anddasyantastvine
lokha spatadvipa ca medint
Naryana
(the Supreme Divine Being) is beyond the avyakta (undifferentiated Nature) the
Cosmic Egg hs come out of the avyakta; within the Cosmic Egg are tehse universe
including the earth with its seven island-continents;
India’s
cosmology , not only very similar in some respects to modern Western astronomy,
but also richer than it , finds expression in this verse; except that India
treasts the sacred source of the universe as spiritual whereas modern Western
astronomy treats it as material, though some Western cosmologists like Fred
Hoyle of England are trying to transform it into the spiritual Fred Hoyle had
written a book on cosmology over forty years ago which was fully materialistic .
now he has written a new book where the very little has intelligent ; it is the
same as what Vednata calls it-infinite non dual Consciousness.
But, if He exists?
I
drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 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 4m.
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