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※ Main: All about Frame ...............2 & 3

※ Inspirational: Learn to Appreciate ...............1

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※ Spiritual: Conscious Living, the Only Solution for the Environment ...............4

Once upon a time, there was a man who was very helpful, kindhearted, and gener-ous. He was a man who will help someone without asking anything to pay him back. He will help someone because he wants to and he loves to. One day while walking into a dusty road, this man saw a purse, so he picked it up and noticed that the purse was empty. Suddenly a woman with a po-liceman shows up and gets him arrested.

The woman kept on asking where did he hide her money but the man replied, “It was emp-ty when I found it, Mam.” The woman yelled at him, “Please give it back, It’s for my son’s school fees.” The man noticed that the wom-an really felt sad, so he handed all his money. He could say that the woman was a single mother. The man said, “Take these, sorry for the inconvenience.” The woman left and po-liceman held he man for further questionin

The woman was very happy but when she counted her money later on, it was doubled, she was shocked. One day while woman was going to pay her son’s school fees towards the school, she noticed that some skinny man was walking behind her. She thought that he may rob her, so she approached a policeman standing nearby. He was the same police-man, who she took along to inquire about her purse. The woman told him about the man following her, but suddenly they saw that man collapsing. They ran at him, and saw that he was the same man whom they arrested few days back for stealing a purse.

He looked very weak and woman was con-fused. The policeman said to the woman, “He didn’t return your money, he gave you his money that day. He wasn’t the thief but hearing about you son’s school fees, he felt sad and gave you his money.” Later, they

helped man stand up, and man told the woman, “Please go ahead and pay your son’s school fees, I saw you and followed you to be sure that no one steals your son’s school fees.” The woman was speechless.

Moral: Life gives you strange experiences, sometime it shocks you and sometimes it may surprise you. We end up making wrong judgments or mistakes in our anger, desper-ation and frustration. However, when you get a second chance, correct your mistakes and return the favor. Be Kind and Gener-ous. Learn to Appreciate what you are given.

Source:h t t p : / / w w w . m o r a l s t o -r i e s . o r g / l e a r n - a p p r e c i a t e /

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Sadhguru: What is wrong is, we are look-ing for boundless expansion through physi-cal means. You want to go to the moon but you are on a bullock cart thrashing the bulls. You may kill the bulls but you will not make it this way. This is the fundamental flaw.

A human being is constantly longing to be something more than what he is right now. If he knows only money, he is thinking of a little more money; if he knows power, a lit-tle more power; if he knows love, a little more love. There is something within him that will not settle for who he is. In whatev-er way you know best, you are trying to be a little more. But if you apply your aware-ness and look at it, you can clearly see that you are not seeking money, property, love or pleasure. What you are seeking is expan-sion. How much expansion would settle you for good? If you look at this, you can clearly see that you are looking for infinite expan-sion. Every human being wants to expand in a limitless way. But right now, we are trying to become infinite through installments of conquest, by capturing the world, or shop-ping. The longing to expand is finding expres-sion in so many ways, which are all physical.

The physical realm, however large it may seem to you, is a limited realm. Right now, our very economies are built like this: it is all about more, more and more. Every country is talking about growth rate. This means ev-eryone has to buy more and use more. But where is that “more”? So people are thinking of harnessing some other planet. But destroy-ing that planet is also just a question of time.

Our Fantastic Planet

This is a fantastic planet – it has nurtured not one or two life forms, but millions. The sheer variety of life, of animals, birds, plants, insects, worms and microbes that we have on this planet is mindboggling. Though we have discovered a few million life forms, even today, every year, over 10,000 new species are being found. But we think things will be better somewhere else.

The longing to expand is compulsive. Be-cause we have not found any other vehicle through which we can expand, we naturally think exploiting physical resources is the only way. This is what our idea of science has be-come unfortunately. If scientific research is going on into some aspect, you can be as-sured that when they find something about

it, they are going to look at how to exploit that. We exploited the land and oceans, now we want to exploit what is beyond. Our idea of life has become exploitation. Peo-ple are making proteins out of microbes. They don’t even spare the damn bacteria!

It has come to a point where every crea-ture is in need of protection. A fierce ani-mal like a tiger needs protection! Just the word “tiger” is supposed to terrify you but now the poor thing has to be protected.

Because we have largely exploited every-thing we can over here, and we know it is going to come to an end, people are looking for another place to exploit. The moment they find such a planet – I hope they will not – you can imagine nations going to war with each other out there. Even if we make a movie, if we say “stars”, they say “wars”!

A Dark Environmental Age

We are in this exploitative mode not by choice, but by compulsiveness. The only solution for this is consciousness. When humanity begins to operate out of consciousness, compul-siveness will not rule us, and we will do just what is needed, nothing more, nothing less. If this does not happen, India will be among the first countries to be hit big time by the environmental disaster that is evolving. The rivers in India are in a serious condition. On an average, all rivers in India are depleting ap-proximately 8% every year. So in fifteen years, most rivers will be gone. Most rivers already do not reach the ocean for most months of the year. This depletion is seen right across.

Today, if you look at the potable water per person in this country, we have only 25% of (water/person) that we had in 1947. By 2050 they say we’ll have only 18%. It’s time to get ready for bottle baths – you must be able to have a bath with one bottle! This is a very serious issue. If people on the street do not have water to drink, let no one fool them-selves that our lives will be safe and well.

Raising River Awareness

One thing that needs to be done is to create a catchment area for a kilometer on either side of the river, all along its course. There should be no ploughing and agriculture there. If it is government land, plant forest trees, if it is pri-vate land, plant horticultural trees. Distribute free saplings with subsidies for a few years till

the trees yield. We have to do whatever is needed to ensure there are trees, not ploughed land with heavy fertilizers next to the river. I have been pushing for this for almost ten years and now the lead-ership in Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have taken this suggestion seriously.

The farmer is just working for his livelihood. He does not know anything about the unfold-ing ecological disaster. So we need to create a movement and make people realize this is nec-essary, and then make some policy decisions.

To do this, in Madhya Pradesh, on Novem-ber 10th, we are launching a movement where 100 people will walk down the river, creating awareness. It is nearly 1400 kilo-meters and they will cover this distance in 90 days. Along the way, more people can join for a day or two. Meetings will be held in every village as they go. The Chief Minis-ter will be there at least for a few days, and I am planning to be there for a few days too. All the young people should go and walk!

We want to make this into a national move-ment, so that we can stretch the life of our rivers a little more. This is not a solution, but this will at least slow things down. But the ultimate solution is that people start living consciously. This is the only way.

Source:http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/social-impact/environment/conscious-living-the-only-solu-tion-for-the-environment/

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