Nature seems to be serving a purpose which is very evident and obvious – of propagating and sustaining life.
The universe works under a system that seems to be ruled by certain laws. Who is running this system is a question to reckon with, but for the moment, let us only consider that what is evident to all of us. Since ancient time, seers have been observing life and we cannot deny that life is perpetuated by a set of natural laws.
Our ancient Rishis had derived the secret of Sanatan Dharma or the right guidelines for a better life, which helps life to evolve. Yes, these are the best guidelines supported by nature and by following these, we propagate the laws that ensure that we live in harmony with the laws of nature and with the universe.
Nature is our teacher. In fact, unknowingly and subconsciously, we are emulating Nature in our lives. There are subtle clues and guidelines that are intuitively grasped by us to help us sail through the ocean of life.
Most of us follow them unknowingly or rather subconsciously. These guidelines or laws are the conclusion of human conscience, which identifies the intrinsic dignity of these rights and values in our lives.
These laws have to discovered with a sense of the right purpose within us. We have a sacred obligation to obey these laws. As long as we obey them, we fulfil our true destiny and life proceeds in harmony with nature.
Disharmony occurs when we knowingly ignore or neglect these laws either out of personal greed or because of our inability to grasp their effects on life.
Sometimes, out of this inability and ignorance, we are compelled or are forced to act against these laws which results in miseries and sufferings.
The World Wars and the Holocaust era are examples of what might happen once again if we ignore these cosmic laws.
But nature has its ways of restoring or dissolving anything faulty by way of calamities or disasters. These natural laws can well be called Cosmic laws because they make no distinction between when or how they serve their purpose.
Some of these laws work on the physical level and their effects can be recorded and preserved. The laws of physics come under these cosmic laws. Humans often make the error of identifying only these as the evident laws in the universe.
But we need to consider even the subtle laws which cannot be recorded because they might show up only over a period of time. To recognise them, we have to rely on our intuitive experience. Sometimes, it takes a few decades before their effect can be noticed.
Naturally, when we don’t live to see their effect, why should we believe them or question their role? In such a situation, one might tend to ignore them and label them as some kind of illusion.
Seema Saxena is a teacher with a spiritual insight.
Whatever we do against the nature or harmful to the nature would be reflected by calamity and disaster. So everyone should be careful to leave a good universe for the coming generations.
The microscopic covid -19 virus is so potent that it has locked down all trade , universities , schools and international boundaries.
The natural laws are subtle but have to be identified and strictly followed . Only if we are aware of our surroundings and the changes taking place in it we can save it . If we neglect and ignore the nature and its law we are doomed for destruction and decline of our civilisation.
Nature which sustains also has to power to destroy . It is for the living to adapt and find ways to survive .
The present pandemic has made has realise that we can survive with the bare essentials and there is no need of caring extra burden on our head. Money that we are hoarding is not going to save us . It is only the right method of living which is going to save us from miseries calamities and disasters.
Wonder how I missed your blog here. I fear may be Oswald jee had not tagged me.
Usually I go through all positivity stories.
You have just flowed like a brooke, sharing your explorative ideas and findings.
My take is novice and not based on scriptures for that matter knowledge.
Life remained a teacher for me. I grew up through life. Childhood gave me options. To get attracted and also distracted. I chose both. Understood by myself.
Thereafter I started learning. In a way you emphasized on nature. Nature is seen by various eyes in different visions.
And that vision shows the choice.
Nicely articulated Seema ji….
Staying aloof you discussed Krishna.
A microscopic virus Covid-19 is so potent that it has locked down all trade , universities ,schools and offices and international boundaries.
When we try to ignore the subtle law of nature we are doomed towards destruction and decline of our civilisation.
These subtle laws have to be identified and to be followed strictly for harmony on our planet .
The recent pandemic has made us realised that we can live with bare essentials . There is no need of caring extra burden of luxuries and their fulfillment on our head The money that we are hoarding for our safety may not ultimately save us from death and miseries . It is only the right way of living which is going to save us from calamities ,disasters and miseries .
Dharma or the righteous principles are to be followed. Prakriti or nature is aligned with these principles and so it is potent as well as powerful.
Krishna Himself says in Gita
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥ ७ ॥
So He appears and manifests Himself to re-establish these principles!!
Yes. This is very much in line with law of karma. Also like in case of law of karma, here also it is almost impossible to foresee when and in what manner will the nature take the corrective action.
Everything in nature exists in balance. We may feel the chaos but chaos happens to restore the balance. When ever excess heat happens, it creates low pressure which in turn causes a vacuum and soon winds from high pressure regions come to fill in and we can at times feel them like a storm. Same way cycle of water begins with evaporation and ends again as water in the form of rain. This is the beauty of nature. Sometimes when we disturb the balance too much, nature shows it’s wrath in equal ferocity.
We have to respect nature to live peacefully.
Nice article Seema. Quote says the essence of your blog.
Nice …….Nice writeup…..
Life is given by nature ? but to survive with nature ,man has made his life to survive ,whether any law prevails or not ..
Man has survived because he has learned to use these laws for his benefit. We are either emulating the nature or using its resources for survival . If we take we need to give back too to so that the resources are replenished .
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Beautifully written. I love the part written on Intuition.
Intuition is the way to experience what cannot be seen. What we cannot see can be felt by intuition.
Oh! Nice blog Seema.
Nice feelings.
Your picture is interesting.
You look so serious in that….
There are two aspects about laws of nature or universe.
One is to preserve the natural order maintained in the universe.
We must try to take each step in such a way that we preserve that order.
That is moving as per Dharma.
Dharma is individualistic – each person has to follow his own dharma.
An ancient sentiment in our country which I like very much and which is really nice is that at any moment for each person there is a unique path he/she has to take, as per Dharma and generally the person has clear feeling what it is.
So for this one does not really need any source etc to learn.
The other aspect is to understand laws which are followed by the entities in universe so what you call physics etc.
One has to understand them and then identify with them. That is science and philosophy in today’s style, in our country it is called darshana.
The approach current physics has to observe, make some axioms using those observations and develop a theory to understand and predict what might happen under certain circumstances.
So studying objects by looking at units of smallest material etc – atoms, dna etc and substances as composed of them is the idea in this approach.
At one time long back in our country also people tried this approach – like vaisheshika school or also nyayika school.
They had defined atoms and theory similar to Dalton’s theory etc.
This approach helps in daily life too.
At some stage in our country people felt that this approach has chance of never ending game going to infinity.
Each time one may find smaller particles.
That is when They started looking in opposite direction, they took whole universe as starting unique unit and that developed advaita school’s ideas.
This approach is very different.
Rather than trying to write down observations, it tries to improve one’s vision, so that one starts visualizing bigger and bigger universe and that simplifies laws very much.
Ultimately one gets into a complete vision and no laws are then needed.
One can see at subtle level naturally happenings.
Wow, that is great understanding of looking into approaches that study life .
You are correct . We can each follow our own chosen path of dharma but the physics laws are same for all.
What I am of the view is that these physics laws too have subtle application in our life .
Like the law of degeneration can be applied to our thoughts too.
Thoughts too become old and disappear .