TIPS TO CONSERVE WATER

एते सत्पुरुषाः परार्थ-घटकाः स्वार्थं  परित्यज्य ये 

सामान्याः तु परार्थमुद्यतभृताः  स्वार्थाsविरोधेन ये |

तेमी मानव-राक्षसाः परहितं स्वार्थाय  निघ्नन्ति ये 

ये निघ्नन्ति निरर्थकम परहितं ते के न जानीमहे ||

(Those are the noblest persons, who giving up self-interest,strive for the good of others;

the common are those who serve others’ interests with no harm to their own;

those are demons (राक्षसाः/नरकासुरा:) in human body who harm others’ welfare for serving self-interest;

but we know not who they are who harm others’ welfare, for no purpose at all.)

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स्थितिरुचैः अप्रदूषित  प्रकाशोरजा ददाति दिने प्रदिदिने महतां महत: दिनकर: |

पातालास्थित: प्रदूषित ऊर्जा ददाति तदपि आप्तोक्तिम खननं तथोपरी शिलाद्युत्कर्षणं स्वीक्र्तम ||

 

 

Meaning of the subhashita:

The sun god gives energy day by day and for many days to this greatest of the great world (without any global warming effects). One has to know the exact and suitable location (after geographic and seismic surveys and estimated reserves) and thereafter mine and extract the fossil fuels which involves laborious tasks involving man and machines. (also consumption of fossil fuel for energy results in global warming)

COMMENTARY

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The sun gives enormous, nay, ginormous amount of heat,energy, light, brightness, illumination to the entire universe day in and day out without taking even a fraction of a second's leave, in a perennial and perpetual motion magnanimously to the world without any greenhouse gas emissions remaining carbon neutral. Isn't it wonderful for the world to emulate the sun and generate energy on earth like the sun's energy creation process - hydrogen - helium - deuterium - tritritium. - following an atomic cyclical perpetual fusion technology instead of atomic fission technology? Can we make sun like synthetic Tokamak on this mother Earth ? One can install solar panels and generate electricity likewise without any greenhouse gas emissions leading/resulting to global warming. Solar and are intermittent, not reliable.  Whereas the energy produced by burning/combusting the fossil fuels emit carbon di-oxide in the atmosphere leading to global warming as a concomitant of the greenhouse gas emission effects.  The plant kingdom uses the sun’s rays for its photosynthesis process by absorbing sun’s rays and carbon di oxide in the atmosphere and releases pure oxygen, the nature's carbon sequesteration process, thus controlling the carbon di oxide and oxygen in the atmosphere.  This is nature’s way of bringing equilibrium to the global warming. (BHAGAVAT GEETA proclaims - aham vaisvanaro bhutva praninam deham ashritaha - prana apana samayuktam pachamyannam charurvidam - I, by remaining as natural vegetation on the earth, control the equilibrium of carbon-di oxide and oxygen in the atmosphere).

 

Hydro carbon extraction like crude oil, coal involves mining the earth.  It involves geographical/hydrocarbon  study and  geological surveys throwing out seismic data, data mining, analysis of the data,estimation of the proven reserves, etc.  Thereafter, selection of production technology and engagement  / commitment of resources - men and machines,materials,moments,money, information and communication to mine the earth by digging and drilling and thereafter extracting the crude oil natural gas or coal as the case may be. Which again are required to be further processed into naphta, petrol,diesel,kerosene, ATF, and in the case of gas in has to be transported from the production site to the consumer thru pipelines for consumption by domestic/industrial consumers.

 

That is intelligence, which extracts energy directly from sun without the green house gas emission effects and global warming effects. 

 

Jay ho Suryanarayana! Jay ho Aditya! Jay ho Bhaskara! Jay ho Dinakara! Jay ho Divakara! (suryanarayana, Aditya, bhaskara Dinakara, Divakara are names for the Sun in Sanskrit – and Jay in Sanskrit means victory/win/conquer). 

India was, is, and continues to show to the world the imperative necessity for preventing climate change. The easiest, simplest action oriented as a people's programme has been in existence since time immemorial. The village piplantri in the state of rajasthan shows to the entire world what people should do in a very simple way.  

Piplantri village story

YouTube · UNBOUND INDIA

Oct 16, 2017  also darahera village in the state of bihar, north india plants 110 trees on the birth of a girl child in a family and jubiliantly celebrate her arrival in this world.

 Greta thunburg may popularise and give publicity of this simple and most effective way of carbon sequestration from the atmosphere in these days of unbridled demonisation of fossil fuel gugglers, unmindful of children like Greta Thunbeg whose future has been mortgaged irresponsibly by the irresponsible govt's, greedy and avaricious industries and plastic polluting consumers each of whom is a superior most demon of this world for mortgaging the future.

  Ramakrishnan, H/1103, Mantri Tranquil Aprts, gubbalala, Bangalore 560061 karnataka. State ramyshar.ramakrishnan@gmail.com

Sanskrit subhashitam on the planting, conserving, preservation, protection, promotion of trees and importance of trees for water bodies, maintenance , protection, preservation and sustenance of these water bodies, the importance of maintaining equilibrium on greenhouse gas emissions by releasing oxygen in the atmosphere and absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (i.e. the scientific jargon - carbon sequestration - the scientific term) is appended::

दश गृह समो कूपो दसकूपसमो वापी दशवापीसमो ह्रदः।

दशह्रदसमः पुत्रो दशपुत्र समो द्रुमः ॥  

- मत्स्य पुराण

Transliteration:

dashakUpasamaa vaapI dashavaapIsamo hradaH|

dashahradasamaH putro dashaputra samo drumaH||

- matsya puraaNa

Meaning of the subhAShita:

The household needs of ten houses (in a village) is provided by a single well. A pond is equal to ten wells.  A dansk of water (reservoir) is worth ten (such) ponds.  (Then again,) ten (such) reservoirs are same as a son (offspring).  (But), a tree is equal to ten (such) sons.

Commentary:

Water is an integral part of life's very existence.  In fact, we have known man to send out space ships to different spacial objects, just to detect the existence of water.  When such is the case, a well obviously is an invaluable asset to living beings. A well after all, is a small body of water. It fulfills the water needs of 10 households in a cluster.  Without a doubt, a pond can easily be equated to ten such wells. 

The water in ten ponds can be easily contained in a reservoir.  But then, a son (good, cultured, educated one specially), is no match to even ten such reservoirs!   Because, a child quenches the thirst of the parents, in a similar way!! But then, there is something that can even equal ten such sons!!  That is none other than a 'tree'.

Why is that?  How can 1 tree equal 10 sons or 100 reservoirs or 1000 ponds or 10,000 wells?!!!  Well... :), here's the deal. One tree in it's life time, holds in clouds that can equal all of the above bodies of water.  How about a son. How can a tree be better than him? It sure is, because, a person who plants it today will never know how many people shall benefit from that tree.  In reality, the true meaning of life is said to be - to plant trees, under whose shade one does not expect to sit! The many fruit the tree bears, shall satiate the hunger of birds/animal/people.  Many a rain clouds it might bring to the neighborhood and quench the thirst of the needy. When he plants the sapling, he is actually doing service to many beings without realizing. Moreover, the tree may live there for generations beyond the planter and his son and still keep serving the people, giving them water, shade and fruit. 

Hence a tree is equated to so many things.  Then what does felling a tree mean? It means we are, with our own bare hands, although theoretically, slaying so many sons and drying up so many water sources! 

It is said that trees are the best antiques and the groves were God's first temples.  Strive and save those antique temples now and always! 

pada vigrahaH:

दश-गृह समः कूपः दस कूपः -समा वापी दश-वापी-समो ह्रदः।

dasha-griha samah kupaः dasa kUpa-samaa vaapI dasha-vaapI-samo hradaH|

दश-ह्रद-समः पुत्रो दश-पुत्र समो द्रुमः ॥ 

dasa hruday samaः putra dasa putra samaः drumah।।

I also attach a recent book in sanskrit written by an economist author named Mangesh Venkatesh Nadkarni for your info.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxCV_QRe4W97VUdvTHk4ZGZRU1pxQjVOTFRRX1ZzdHlVdy1Z/view?usp=drivesdk

The name of the book is Parisar Niti Satakam, the E-Book, in .pdf file format is appended:

The Kavery calling , a tree plantation movement by isha foundation Coimbatore tamil nadu their video link is appended:-

https://youtu.be/T4BbfH8hqH      ------- part 1

The darahera bihar village Tree plantation video is appended 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFX8eB7EWwg  --- part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=462ZqSzwMZ0    --- part 2

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.india.com/news/india/bihars-dharhara-village-celebrates-birth-of-girls-by-planting-trees-2400458/amp

https://www.bbc.com/news/10204759

https://youtu.be/8l3DzsR2CUk

 

 

 

 

vedantic management thoughts

VEDANTIC MANAGEMENT THEORY

LAW OF CAUSATION

FOR THE BENEFIT OF BUILDERS OF FUTURE

"You sow an action and reap a habit.
You sow a habit and reap a character.
You sow a character and reap your culture
You sow your culture and reap your Destiny.
Hence, Destiny is your own making.
And how you make it.
By your own action."

From the Study of the origin of action, it appears as though one is left with no choice but is destined to act as per one’s own tendencies. This is not true in the case of human beings.

THE DOCTRINE OF KARMA (ACTION OR DEED)

Karma is a Sanskrit term that signifies action or deed. Any physical or mental action is Karma. Thinking is mental Karma. Karma is the sum total of our acts.

Karma means not only action, but also the result of an action. The consequence of an action is really not a separate thing. It is part of the action and cannot be divided from it.

The Law of Karma means the Law of Causation. Wherever there is a cause, there an effect must be produced. For example, a seed is the cause for a tree, which is the effect. The tree produces seeds and becomes the cause for the seeds. The cause is found in the effect and the effect is found in the cause. The effect is similar to the cause. Therefore, the cause is concurrent and inherent in the effect. This is the universal chain of cause and effect.

No link in the chain is unnecessary. This world runs on this fundamental, vital law. This law is inexorable and immutable. This grand law operates everywhere in the physical and mental planes. No phenomenon can escape from the operation of this mighty law. All other laws of nature are subordinate to this fundamental law.

No event can occur without having a positive, definite cause at the back of it. The breaking of a war, the rise of a comet, the occurrence of an earthquake or volcanic eruption, the breaking of an epidemic, thunder, lightening, fire, floods, diseases in the body, fortune, misfortune, etc., all have got definite causes behind them.

The grand law of causation includes the law of action and reaction, the law of compensation, and the law of retribution. All these laws come under one general all embracing heading namely the DOCTRINE OF KARMA. The "EFFECTS" of the past certainly have a pull upon us who are striving in the present (CAUSE). That is precisely because the present is the product (EFFECT) of the entire past. All financial wizards are interested in interest because the interest is calculated on the basis of products, which again is nothing but the number of days of the past multiplied by the loan amount outstanding.

Enquiring into the working of this law of causation, the Rishis of Yore found that it implicitly obeys four fundamental and essential rules of the Law of Causation in all its working:

THEY ARE: -

A. There can be no effect without a cause;

Advance or loan (loanable funds) is the cause interest income is the effect.

(B) The "EFFECT" is none other than the "CAUSE" itself in another form.

Loanable funds consist of owned funds plus borrowed funds; Interest income is one of the elements of
profits; profits are a part of the owned funds, which again form part of the loanable funds viz. The "cause".

(C) When the "CAUSE" is removed from the "EFFECT" nothing of the EFFECT can remain.

(If a person/institution has no owned funds (i.e. the CAUSE) he will have no wherewithal for borrowed funds too. Hence no lending and hence no interest income viz. The "EFFECT".)

(D) Therefore, the cause is concurrent and inherent in the effect.

(Interest income is the effect; if interest earnings are more, profits are more; if profits are more, owned funds will be more; if owned funds are more, one will be able to borrow more borrowed funds and increase the loanable funds (viz. Cause).

The Rishis of Yore further considered deeply what exactly are the stuff and the nature of the "cause" and the "effect". The causes are sub-divided by them (as triads) into three categories. THEY ARE: -

· THE MATERIAL CAUSE; (UPADANA KARANA)
· THE INSTRUMENTAL CAUSE; (NAIMITTA KARANA)
· THE EFFICIENT CAUSE (VIVEKA KARANA)
· Out of these three causes, the "Efficient Cause" alone is the determinant of the effect. This is explained by the following example in the making of a mud pot. In the making of the mud pot, the entire management philosophy has been abundantly made crystal clear by the Rishis of Yore. How true it is being constantly repeated by the management institutions all over the world will be clear by making an introspective study of this example.

In the making of mud pot, there are the following five elements (THE PANCHA BHOOTAS OF MANAGEMENT) akin to what the modern Management Gurus proclaim as the five "M’s".

1. The Men (The Potter);
2. The Machine (The Potter’s wheel and the kiln);
3. The material (The mud clay, wood, the colour chemicals, etc.);
4. The Moments (The time spent in selecting the clay, mixing it with the water, making it into a "dough" of the required consistency and shaping the clay in the potter’s wheel, the time spend in baking the pot in the kiln):
5. The Money (fixed and working capital spent on buying the clay other chemicals water, purchase of potter’s wheel, the Yagnashala (i.e. the potter’s factory), The cost of potter’s own labour (imputed cost) investment in the construction of the Kiln, the cost of fuel for baking the pot, etc.

Applying the formula of cause and effect, out of the above, the material cause, consists of the material and money. The instrumental cause consists of the potter’s wheel and the kiln for baking the mud pot. The efficient cause consists of the potter’s capacity skill and acumen in the proper organisation of the various resources (PANCHEEKARANAM – the process known as pentamerous combination and its optimum use for obtaining the final product, through the medium of time, by strictly adhering to the following principles: -

" GUNITA SAMUCHHAYAHA SAMUCHHAYA GUNITAHA"

Translated into English,

"The product of the sum of the coefficients in the factors is equal to the sum of the coefficients in the product".

The Law of Causation works in all planes of activities, through the process of integration (YOGA), similar to the "ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING".

Before entering into any venture, an entrepreneur frequently broods over various aspects of the venture, as under:

"KAH KALAHA KANI MITRANI KO DESHAHA KO VYAYAGAMOH
KASYA AHAM KA CHA ME SHAKTIHI ITI CHINTYAM MUHUR MUHUHU"

What are the times? Who are my friends? (implying thereby also who are my foes – competitors?)
What is the place? What is the income? What is the expenditure and what is the profit? Where do I stand? What are my strengths? Brooding over these again and again, one should undertake a venture.
After getting the answers to the above questions, based on the YOGA MODEL TRIAD, he undertakes to integrate the resources as under:

UPA(YOGA) à UPA (YOGAT) à UD – (YOGA)
CONSUMPTION à THRO’ CONSUMPTION à INDUSTRY
UD (YOGAT) à VINI (YOGA) à VINI (YOGAT) à SAHA (YOGA)
THRO’ INDUSTRY à DISTRIBUTION à COOPERATION/COORDINATION

THE EFFICIENT CAUSE

This is the most important out of all the three causes. This is the potter himself. Men alone are responsible for all the achievements (both positive and negative) OF THE WORLD. The potter’s technical knowledge, the way he shapes and gives form to the pot, the technical know-how and expertise in selecting and using the proper clay, colour and chemicals, the baking the pot in the kiln at the required temperature, these alone determine the quality of the output viz. The mud pot in our above example. In all the above operations the "efficient" cause works in and through the potter.

He may have a lot of clay and other materials with him. He may have a number of potter’s wheels and kilns with him. It is for him to use these to the maximum extent and derive the maximum benefit. That is why he is called the ‘KUMBHAR’, the "VISHWAKARMA", the "PRAJAPATI", ETC.

The Rishis of Yore finally came to realise that the play of the "cause" and "effect" takes place only in the medium of ‘’Time Concept". THE "CAUSE" IS ANTERIOR IN TIME. THE "EFFECT" IS POSTERIOR IN TIME. IN SHORT, THE "PAST" IS THE CAUSE AND THE "PRESENT" IS THE EFFECT AND THE PRESENT ITSELF BECOMES THE "CAUSE" WITH REFERENCE TO THE "FUTURE".

Interest, exchange, commission, brokerage, rent, rates, taxes, duties, levies, sales, purchases, profits (losses too), - in short the completion and commissioning of a project – all have the TIME concept for its accrual, for its measurement. Since, we exist in the present, we are not only the "EFFECT’ of the "PAST" but we are also the "CAUSE" for the "FUTURE". Thus, we can, if we intelligently live in scientific self-discipline, become the "CHARTERED ARCHITECTS" of our own FUTURE!

Consider a log of wood floating down on a river, which is flowing at a speed of say, two miles an hour. The speed of the log of wood should then be the same as speed of the river (two miles an hour). Now, suppose, we fix a diesel engine on the log, and start the motor to run at 10 miles an hour, then the log of wood will float at 12 miles an hour down the river or 8 miles up the river.

The log of wood with motor under its CAPTAIN is "free" to move down the river or up the river, among the right or left bank of the river and the alert CAPTAIN can safely negotiate it by the right or left of the obstacle en route. Yet it cannot "ESCAPE" the rate of flow of the river. THINK, COGITATE, AND REFLECT ON IT PLEASE.
The animals and the plant kingdoms like pieces of logs of wood merely float down the river of life without any freedom to order any direction or to supply any definite purpose to the pilgrimage. Man, however, as the log with motor, has his rational discriminative intellect and under the CAPTAINCY of his intelligent direction, he will have the unfettered freedom to go down the river or up the river to avoid the obstacles en route and reach the chosen destination of his pilgrimage as the saying :

"JINDAGI EK BADI MAHAAN SAFAR HAI
GARBHASTHAN SE KABRASTHAN TAK"
"LIFE IS A GREAT GRAND PILGRIMAGE
FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB"

The "effect" of the past upon us is called "DESTINY" (In Sanskrit it is called "PRARABDHA") and the new initiative that we undertake intelligently and strive for to be accomplished in the future constitute the "FREE WILL" – (IN SANSKRIT IT IS CALLED "PURUSHARTHA".)

In short, according to the Upanishads, wherein we have the entire science of the self, the Rishis of Yore concluded their intelligent investigations and declared a soul satisfying philosophy of life. THEY CONFIRMED AND DECLARED "WHAT YOU MEET IN LIFE IS "DESTINY"; and "how you meet them" is "FREE WILL". Pause and think please.

THUS, LOOKING AGAINST OUR PAST, WE ARE NOW HELPLESS VICTIMS OF OUR PAST ACTIONS, BUT LOOKING AHEAD OF US, WE BECOME THE CHARTERED ARCHITECTS OF OUR OWN FUTURE BUILDING.

Human as we are, let us never look back for a moment but dynamically march forward creating a glorious future of magnificent achievements by rightly exercising the independent self-effort, which is man’s prerogative.