YOU ARE DESTROYING OUR ECOLOGY The desire for power has created many things in the world. Science has come as a desire for power, and it has created power. But indiscriminate use of power is destroying humanity. So much so that Albert Einstein felt that he had done a crime against humanity. In the last days of his life, somebody asked Einstein, ‘‘If you were born again, what would you like to become?’’ He said, “Never a physicist again, never a scientist. Rather, i would like to become a plumber.” The very framework of science is to gain dominion over nature. That is the very terminology of science – conquest of nature. We have to overpower nature and we have to destroy all mysteries of nature, and we have to find all the keys of power. But the very idea takes you away from nature, makes you antagonistic to it and becomes destructive. The ecology of the earth has been destroyed by this powerseeking. In the outside, in the inside – both – the natural rhythm of life is disturbed. I have heard: A very unusual idea occurred one day to Frederick of Prussia. He was in the country when he saw sparrows eating some grains of wheat. He started to think and reached the conclusion that these small birds consumed a million pecks of wheat a year in his kingdom. This cannot be allowed. They have to be either conquered or destroyed. Since it was difficult to exterminate them, he promised a price for each dead sparrow. All Prussians became hunters and soon there were no more sparrows in the country. What a great victory. Frederick was happy. He celebrated the event as a great conquest over nature. But the gloating ceased when in the following year he was told that caterpillars and locusts had eaten the crops because without sparrows the whole rhythm of life was destroyed. Sparrows go on eating caterpillars and locusts. There being no sparrows, the whole crop was destroyed by caterpillars. Then it was necessary to bring in sparrows from abroad. And the king said, ‘‘I certainly have made a mistake. God k n o w swhat he is doing.’’ The great scientific minds of this century are coming, slowly, reluctantly, to recognise that a great mistake has been done. The very desire to be powerful is against nature. Why do you need to be powerful? You must be thinking in terms of destroying somebody. Power is needed to destroy. Power is needed to dominate. Power is needed to conquer. Science tries to penetrate nature to get more power, and there are many systems which penetrate your innermost being – but again the goal is to get more power. Whether you become powerful in a scientific way, or you become powerful in a psychic way, it makes no difference. Now the West is becoming interested in psychic sciences, but the urge is the same – to be more powerful. The religious person is one who wants to be in such deep harmony that there is no question of conflict. He is seeking love. He is seeking a love affair with the universe. He never asks about power. He asks how to lose separation, how to merge. He asks, ‘‘How to be in such a total surrender that i don’t move in any way against the whole or separate from the whole, so that i can move with the river of life. And wherever the river of life goes, i can go with it’’. -TOI
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 06:07:41 +0000
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