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.
Hari Om and God Bless you.
