How disconnected we all are from each other. As an individual, we have our own dreams, aspirations and whatsoever is individualistic about us. In the back of our mind there is always a desire that keeps us going. That makes us so difficult to be in tandem with other fellow humans. Some people share an unanimity with family, some with friends and some with their life partners. Mahatma Gandhi could go as far as uniting a country, but do we have a connection with every single earthling?
That was the prelude. The diversity of human kind and the cause of every other problem faced by us. In my state of drifting I have always tried to squeeze out the apt solution of crises the world is facing today. The crises of climate change, extinctions of species and ultimately our extinction. Divulge deeper and you will be able to see how easily each one is connected to all the others. It may not be big enough to be noticeable in one lifetime, but what we are doing is CONSUMING our present and the future. Think of our lives as the life of a virus. A virus in its short liftime of nano seconds doesnt realise what it does to the human that it has infected. But imagine what a virus, which is replicating itself on a host, for hundreds of generations does to us. This is what we are doing to our planet Earth.
A cat when it purrs, looks cute, but what it is trying to tell you is this,"I am your master, bring me my food". Similarily a dog, a dolphin and a rat, they look at things differently. They have a different way around their thoughts. It is really difficult to imagine from a human thought process. Why am i telling you this? It's because even though we might think of ourselves are the most intelligent species, we are not. We are just more self-aware. Philosophers, thinkers of past and present have questioned themselves about, "the pupose of life". We might have answers to the blackhole, the human body and seismic activities, but we haven't answered that one question yet. So are we really intelligent?
We humans have been divided since time immemorial. Let's go back to the period of cave men. We had to stick together to survive. The matter of life and death united us. Then we started talking and sharing, and the matters of life and death were replaced by matters of hunger, wealth and boundaries. We formed civilisations and empires dividing ourselves further. Religion crept in, caste crept in, families and now individuals. With more individuals, there are more desires to be distinguished, hence we start consuming more, to satisfy us. We cut trees, consume power, pay in credit, and it goes on.We are 400 trillion dollars in debt to the world. What it means is that, we have already consumed trees, fossil fuels, natural resources, iron ore etc from our planet, without any repayment/replenishment/return to the nature, there by severely denting the natural cycle. Where are we ultimately heading?
It's a matter of big concern that the climate is growing more inhospitable. We have lost more species of flaura and fauna over the last few years than over millenia. And all of that, because of our greedy needs. Some may debate that the species are extinct because they weren't fit enough to survive. But the fact is this, that species got extinct trying to STICK to their role in the cycles of nature. The nature is being intervened by human activities every single day. This is a moment of crisis. I can see no way out if we continue like this for generations to come. We have to think with the broadest possible prespective.
One Consciousness
When we develop a mode of interaction, or an understanding where we understand the needs of ours, our kin, our surrounding and our planet, then we develop One Consciousness. We have to develop a consciousness, a medium or a form of language, that all of the living organisms understand. What do you think that language can be? The language of hunger for people that don't get to eat; the language of love and care for trees that provide us oxygen, food, shade etc; the language of death of a dying species close to extinction; the language of anger in nature's retaliation through floods, hurricanes, hot summer. Look around and hear the wind, hear the trees, the birds, the rain and the animals everywhere. They are all telling us something in different ways. Stop and listen to them. For our kind to survive, we need other kinds of life forms to support the ecosystem. An ant is as important in the ecosystem as an elephant.
The concsiousness of a man < The consciousness of a community < The consciousness of humanity < The consciousness of all living forms < The consciousness of nature < One Consciousness that unites us all.
That has to be the message, the purpose of life:
1) Seek the One Consciousness
2) Practise the One Consciousness
3) Find thyself in the One Consciousness
Wandered-Lost-Crazy
That was the prelude. The diversity of human kind and the cause of every other problem faced by us. In my state of drifting I have always tried to squeeze out the apt solution of crises the world is facing today. The crises of climate change, extinctions of species and ultimately our extinction. Divulge deeper and you will be able to see how easily each one is connected to all the others. It may not be big enough to be noticeable in one lifetime, but what we are doing is CONSUMING our present and the future. Think of our lives as the life of a virus. A virus in its short liftime of nano seconds doesnt realise what it does to the human that it has infected. But imagine what a virus, which is replicating itself on a host, for hundreds of generations does to us. This is what we are doing to our planet Earth.
A cat when it purrs, looks cute, but what it is trying to tell you is this,"I am your master, bring me my food". Similarily a dog, a dolphin and a rat, they look at things differently. They have a different way around their thoughts. It is really difficult to imagine from a human thought process. Why am i telling you this? It's because even though we might think of ourselves are the most intelligent species, we are not. We are just more self-aware. Philosophers, thinkers of past and present have questioned themselves about, "the pupose of life". We might have answers to the blackhole, the human body and seismic activities, but we haven't answered that one question yet. So are we really intelligent?
We humans have been divided since time immemorial. Let's go back to the period of cave men. We had to stick together to survive. The matter of life and death united us. Then we started talking and sharing, and the matters of life and death were replaced by matters of hunger, wealth and boundaries. We formed civilisations and empires dividing ourselves further. Religion crept in, caste crept in, families and now individuals. With more individuals, there are more desires to be distinguished, hence we start consuming more, to satisfy us. We cut trees, consume power, pay in credit, and it goes on.We are 400 trillion dollars in debt to the world. What it means is that, we have already consumed trees, fossil fuels, natural resources, iron ore etc from our planet, without any repayment/replenishment/return to the nature, there by severely denting the natural cycle. Where are we ultimately heading?
It's a matter of big concern that the climate is growing more inhospitable. We have lost more species of flaura and fauna over the last few years than over millenia. And all of that, because of our greedy needs. Some may debate that the species are extinct because they weren't fit enough to survive. But the fact is this, that species got extinct trying to STICK to their role in the cycles of nature. The nature is being intervened by human activities every single day. This is a moment of crisis. I can see no way out if we continue like this for generations to come. We have to think with the broadest possible prespective.
One Consciousness
When we develop a mode of interaction, or an understanding where we understand the needs of ours, our kin, our surrounding and our planet, then we develop One Consciousness. We have to develop a consciousness, a medium or a form of language, that all of the living organisms understand. What do you think that language can be? The language of hunger for people that don't get to eat; the language of love and care for trees that provide us oxygen, food, shade etc; the language of death of a dying species close to extinction; the language of anger in nature's retaliation through floods, hurricanes, hot summer. Look around and hear the wind, hear the trees, the birds, the rain and the animals everywhere. They are all telling us something in different ways. Stop and listen to them. For our kind to survive, we need other kinds of life forms to support the ecosystem. An ant is as important in the ecosystem as an elephant.
The concsiousness of a man < The consciousness of a community < The consciousness of humanity < The consciousness of all living forms < The consciousness of nature < One Consciousness that unites us all.
That has to be the message, the purpose of life:
1) Seek the One Consciousness
2) Practise the One Consciousness
3) Find thyself in the One Consciousness
Wandered-Lost-Crazy
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