Friday, May 18, 2012

Nurture Mother Earth

This world of ours: where is it going and why is it going in that direction? For years you would have noticed, even when you were young kids, that we call this earth Mother Earth. And in all those times nobody has even shown one bit of respect even, to the word 'Mother' in Mother Earth. And today we have great moments of distress where we're having such devastating natural destruction that thousands of people are dying. And, strangely enough, we carry on our normal duties without any concern. We look at the news and say: 'one thousand people died,' and we just carry on.

What have we done with the unconditional love we're supposed to have? Where is the compassion we're supposed to have for other beings? Krishna mentions many times in the Bhagavad Gita that we should just love and love, and not hate. Nothing bothers us any more, as long as we have money in the pocket and can drive a car. Humanity at large is not our concern any more. This is why all this is happening. We've lost being in touch. By that I mean: being in touch with emotion. We don't have any more of that. And slowly in the next two years, in 2014, we will see complete destruction. Many things that we have never seen, and past generations have not seen - hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis - will destroy. And what have we done? Nothing.

All of us sign eagerly onto the computer so that we go green, so that email is sent to you instead of post and there's no wastage of paper, no trees are cut down. Isn't it rather too late for that? We need to plant one billion trees in the space of six months to sustain this earth again. We are living on a non-sustainable earth at the moment. We have Spain which has 66% unemployment; Greece which is bankrupt. Have you heard of such things before? And why is this going on in the financial sector? Every one of you seated here has a financial problem. Why? Why is it going in that direction, and in the direction of our health? There are conditions and diseases we've never heard of before. Why? Because it's only then that we think of God. When our finances are bad we pray to God, we see a priest for help. We're not even praying honestly anymore. We're praying for purpose. We should just be praying for prayer's sake. So God has created these situations.

Osho says there's no such thing as God, and he might be right. God created this earth, and then He created diseases for us, incurable diseases, and as soon as we find the cure for one, He sends another disease. He does not stop giving us problems. And the only reason is because we forget God. We only think of Him when we're in distress. But what do we do? We want to take whatever is said word for word, analyse each word and find a different meaning so we have a reason to fight, argue and make a scene out of no scene. This is why we are losing the earth.

Islands and countries are going to disappear off the face of the earth in the next two years. The globe is going to be restructured. Science will map a new earth in two years. Can you imagine, you go to Google Earth and see, 'Japan was here'. Why? It was submerged with all its people. The Masters have warned us over and over again about this situation but we have not taken notice of it, nor have we been cautious of it even once. And we're really all going to suffer from the mistakes of the past generation and the generations to come.

Why is there no water? Why is there a restriction on water? Why is there no rain? How can there be rain if there are no trees? If you drive to the north or south coast and through the sugar cane plantations, in the centre of the plantations you'll see a forest, just one patch of trees – that is to bring rain so that the rain falls there. Now that we've taken all the trees away, where's the rain going to fall? We need to think about how to plant one billion trees. I was thinking of planting them all over Verulam. Demolish all the houses and just plant trees. Maybe we'll come right and Verulam will be saved. Go home and see if you have a tree in your yard. Plant some if you don't, and see how good it is for you.

We need to create a situation where we can save this earth of ours. We can't look to science, to the rainmakers or draughtsmen. We have to look in one direction only – to God. And if each of us does that, I'm sure God will realise that we're ready to make a change and will save this planet for us. But you must start this. I know what happens: as you leave here and get in your car you've already forgotten what I'm talking about. We're losing a battle started by our forefathers. It's gathered so much momentum that we're going to have a problem and we'll be caught in the inertia of this whole thing.

Hari Om and God Bless you.