Live in harmony with Mother Nature
– Express your Gratitude to her –
She is abundant

HAPPY DEEPAWALI TO EVERYONE

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her…"

I love these lines of William Wordsworth. I always said to myself that I believed in Nature more than in anything, and my childhood belief in giving thanks to Nature and the five elements remains true.

Think of all the natural catastrophes that we are having, beginning with the Tsunami, then the cyclones, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes, the huge ocean quake and the depression of nature and of humans. How many innocent people died in the Tsunami? It changed the world situation and now we have the disasters in America and New Orleans has been destroyed. There are floods and destruction in Central and North America and again the earthquakes in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. What about the changes of climate, the heat and drought, with so many hectares burning out of control, and the cold which is claiming so many lives? What is happening today is that we humans are ignoring the Rhythm of Life, and man’s ignorance is creating all of these problems for him.

The Rig Veda, the first scripture of Hinduism, talks about a cosmic order known as Rta. Everything in life, from alternating current on, is cyclic as well as rhythmic. Everything in the world is pulsating. Look at light. Even it is only an electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range that includes infrared, visible and ultraviolet rays with a speed of approximately 300 million meters per second when it travels in a vacuum.

Lao-Tse, the great Chinese mystic, taught that the world moves according to a divine pattern which is reflected in the rhythmic and cyclic movements of nature, and man’s happiness depends upon his capability to understand the rhythmic and orderly nature of the Universe. Lord Nataraja, through his cosmic dance, is showing us that the world is in rhythm, involving constant creation and constant annihilation.

All matter, including you and me has rhythmic movement within it and our quest should be to create the proper rhythmic harmony within us. Mantra Yoga, Pranayama exercises etc. help a man to make his vibrations rhythmic. According to Mantra Yoga, all living things in all states of existence have a bodily form fully attuned to a certain frequency of vibration. The Mantra, a system of syllables made with a particular frequency of vibration, is used to change the frequency of vibration of a being to a better state.

We feel happy when we sit near an ocean because our vibrations try to synchronize with the frequency of the waves. Even in the devotional aspects of all religions where the devotees cry to Krishna, Rama, Mataji, Jesus or Allah, the final result is rhythm-an understanding of the Rhythm of the Universe. According to the expanding theory of the universe as well as the contracting theory of the universe, the universe itself is rhythmic, acting more or less like a pulsating heart. We all know that the Milky Way is traveling though the universe in concert with a swarm of other galaxies, so rhythmic movements are even part and parcel of the galaxies.

Hinduism calls the great rhythm of the Universe by the name SPANDHANAM. The Earth and the Universe are an eternal cosmic dance according to Fritjof Capra in his very famous book, “The Tao of Physics”. For me it is the Divine truth, it is Ecstasy and it is Bliss.

Today whatever is happening is due to a paradox of life. I feel the mysterious “I” or Ego is the greatest in life. We always say ‘I, mine, my children, my house, my car- the best car’ etc. but we do not know “who am I”? When the soul leaves the body at the time of death, the dead body does not say, “I am here” neither does the departed soul says “I am here outside the body”. When the body and soul join together, we hear “I” all the time. This is a great paradox. The feeling of ‘I’ or ‘Ego’ makes our lives miserable. When we find out about the earthquake that happened today, the 8th of October in Pakistan and Kashmir, we feel all right and shake our head as nothing happened. But if I tell you that there is a little fire in your house you become panicky.

If we can increase our ownership from LIMITED to the UNLIMITED we feel free. When we consider that it is our country, our planet which is going through this process and we start praying and sending light and sending all the help we can, it makes us feel happy and content. If we all become God-realized man and see ‘I ‘ as the universe and the universe as ‘I’, then the Limited Ego becomes the Universal Ego and we achieve an ever-lasting happiness. Of course to transform LIMITED EGO to UNIVERSAL ego is not an easy job, but by continued practice we can do it.

I keep repeating to everyone every day and in all my books "BE HARMONIOUS WITH NATURE". Most of man’s problems start when man fights with nature. Man knows very well that he cannot discover or invent anything that is not already in nature, but still he is ignorant and tries to fight nature. I repeat, “GOING BACK TO NATURE” will solve the problem. I do not mean living like stone-age human beings. This only means to bring back truth, love and peace in day-to-day life. Lao-Tse said that the world moved in a rhythmic and cyclic pattern and that man’s happiness depends upon his capability to understand this rhythmic and orderly nature of the universe. Nature is the basis of Hinduism, of the Vedas, and Ayurveda is the way of living with nature.

Today when I look back to 18 years ago when I first came to Barcelona and met everyone and made friends here, I can see a difference. Everyone has grown richer and most are getting older with a lot of physical problems, mental problems and psychological problems, but when I see them, although I see the person and his spirit, the light or AURA and see what is going on, they always say ‘I AM FINE AND HAPPY’. I wish that one day they would throw away the IGNORANCE, which is the root cause of disease, and accept the truth, be transparent, be smiling, be like children. JUST LAUGH WHEN IT MOVEMENT, CRY WHEN IT IS THE MOMENT, EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS AND NEVER SUPPRESS THEM. That is the cause of disease, the reason why all the charkas or centres of energy are blocked. Just open all of your chakras and unblock your centres of energy, just flow and you will see the job being done. You will produce ENDORPHINS, which will cure all diseases such as problems of the lungs, heart disease, cancer, and AIDS. Why wait, LAUGH AND BECOME ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE.

REMEMEBER TO GROW AND TO LEARN EVERY DAY. Life is the greatest school and we learn every day until the last second of our lives. BE THANKFUL FOR LIFE, FOR THIS PLANET. GIVE THANKS TO ALL THE FIVE ELEMENTS IN THE UNIVERSE, FIRE, AIR, SPACE, WATER AND MOTHER EARTH. Let us be thankful and live in harmony with Nature.

We can prevent more disasters from happening by being thankful and by being in rhythm with the cyclic pattern of Universe.

*This and more information can be found in my book, "Vida y Filosofia de la India", available for purchase