Streaks of nobility in “Nature”

         

                                        Streaks of nobility in “ Nature”

•         While cutting down the trees, they remain silent. It doesn’t mean they don’t feel the pain.
•          If we cultivate fruits without seeds using our science and technology  against Nature, the Nature will create human beings without teeth.
• Worms don’t destroy the living, healthy trees.
•  The earth which grows beautiful flowering plants gets only the loving embrace of dry flowers clinging to her.
•  The earth doesn’t taste sweet growing sugarcanes on it nor bitter by growing bitter-gourds on it.

A glimpse from ancient wisdom

    

                                     A glimpse from ancient wisdom

         All have hidden talents and skills. Applying these to trade, commerce to gain material prosperity  and economic development is not a modern concept. But its roots can be traced to ancient times when there was no internet.

Once a friend of Socrates approached him for solution to the problem he was facing. He said that a lot of relatives have taken asylum in his house as they were forced to leave their place due to some national calamity. His friend with his limited means didn’t know how to support all of them with food. Socrates suggested a way. He said that each one of his relatives must be having some talent like cooking, sewing, physical labor etc, and asked his friend to employ them in those works like cooking food, snacks, planting, watering, taking care of animals and other activities according to their talent. The cultivated grains, vegetables, fruits, clothes sewn, eggs could be taken to market, and sold for money. It will give not only a satisfaction being self-dependent,and not a burden to others, but make them happy, but also fruitful and useful.

A similar echo is reflected in Swami Vivekananda’s advice also. When one of his disciples asked him what business he could do, Swamiji told him, “ Take Indian cloth, towels, bamboo works, and other indigenous products, and peddle them in the streets of Europe and America. You’ll find how greatly Indian products are appreciated in foreign markets now. Take, for example, such excellent fabric as the Varanasi-made Saris of India, the like of which aren’t produced anywhere else in the world. Go to America with this cloth. Have gowns made out of this fabric and sell them, and you’ll see how much you earn”.

Thus youth or any one who are capable if they stand with determination, avid interest and industriousness they can find various ways of economic development.

Thus crying over the problems would not solve the problems  but one has to stand up, and work. One should remember that problem’s don’t come alone. They bring solutions along but hidden in them. Man has to apply his mind and intelligence to tap them. This message transcends the barriers of time and place. Even today, this universal message has great appeal.