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magyar_saman ([personal profile] magyar_saman) wrote2011-11-18 08:39 am
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Ecology Of The Heart


"Toxic greed has contaminated the minds of human society. The environment is simply an external manifestation of the ecology of the mind. Greed is an obsession, an addiction. It can never be quenched. The more it gets, the more it needs. Greed hardens the heart and fools us into rationalizing cruelty and justifying crime. Greed induces envy, divides families, provokes wars and blinds us to our real self-interest. Greed for money, power, fame, sex -- the world is ravaged by greed. It is practically an exercise in futility to attempt to clean the environment when politicians are corrupted by bribes, industrialists pollute rivers to maximize profits and scientists put aside their ethics for funding.

"The Bhagavad Gita states that greed is a symptom of avidya or ignorance that covers the natural virtues of the true self within us. I'm sure you would agree with me that most people are not bad spirited, but due to a lack of awareness they may be destroying the environment, not understanding that what may seem convenient, like dumping industrial waste into a river, is actually killing fish, animals and people. So along with the pollution of our rivers, we must give attention to the pollution in our hearts. If you successfully clean the air, the sky, every river and every ocean, it is for certain that people will pollute them again unless they reform the ecology of their hearts.

"Spiritual life is the science of cleansing the heart and tasting the joy of living in harmony with God, each other and nature. It begins with cultivating good character, the willingness to make personal sacrifices for a higher cause, to make the right choices even in the face of temptation and fear, and put concern for the well being of others as a priority.

"How to do that? All of these virtues can spring from Bhakti or spiritual love. The Bible teaches that 'the first and great commandment is to love God with all one's heart, mind and soul.' And the natural result of that is, 'to love your neighbor as yourself.' Nature is also our neighbor, she is alive with rights like everyone else, but too many people don't see nature that way. The Vedic scriptures tell that the most simple and powerful method of cleansing the ecology of the heart and awakening this dormant love within us is to chant God's names. In my tradition we chant the names of Krishna."

"God has empowered all of us in different ways and if we agree on what the real problem is, then we can all contribute our part of the solution. The well being of Mother Earth is everyone's problem. It is crucial for leaders in all fields to serve cooperatively."
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[identity profile] merlinwon.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice Post!! :)

I watched a youtube vid? do you know how many minutes we were from all dying because of that japan nuke disaster and those rods turning to MOLTEN! If they did? that would be our demise! And the billions and billions of ocean water they flushed the rods with and now into the oceans.... and the whales that i've been reading that are being washed up on the beach! ANd how much of this was smoke and gas that went up into our atmosphere?

And although this dudes youtube post was about our attention being on this type of situation and not on meteors we know that are NOT going to hit the earth... there are so many reactors that are in places we never thought an earthquake would happen and yet they are starting to happen in places we wouldn't think they would. And not only nuke plants.. but sites where they harbor nuke missles!! The silo's .. etc!!
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