WorldEnvironmentDay was celebrated across the world. Only the ones who are un-polluted from within can take care of the environment. If someone’s mind is polluted with anger, aversion, hatred or greed how can that person clean the environment? A greedy person wont be concerned about the welfare of the environment. He will be busy doing his work.
Today, pollution in the environment is caused due to greed. See, If a person is angry all the time, he never finds anything right outside. His vision becomes clouded. And when the vision is distorted, the outcome of whatever work he undertakes will be similar. The person who is full of anger, his actions are followed by regret. This is for sure. You see within your lives, whatever you have done in the state of anger, haven’t you regretted it later on? It has to happen. This is because anger is not the right state of mind.
I am not saying that you should not get angry. But whenever anger comes, it should not stay for more than a minute in the mind. Then, it’s not pollution. But when anger stays for long in our mind, it creates pollution. You see, you eat a banana after removing the peel and leave the peel on the table, this does not create any pollution. But if, that peel stays at the same place for 2-3 days, then it creates the pollution. When you eat a chocolate and you leave the wrapper at the same place for 4-5days, it creates pollution. This accumulation of the garbage is pollution. Sometimes anger is needed in life, it can get work done. But when it makes a place within us, then it creates pollution. It pollutes our vision. Our work starts getting affected. We are filled with regret. Then there is hatred, it is solidified anger. A person who has hatred can never be sensitive towards the environment. The Nature and the environment are very delicate and sensitive. In order to grasp their delicate nature we need to have sensitivity within ourselves. The one who has this fluidity and simplicity within, can be sensitive towards the environment.
The environment is our first body. Out of the ‘Panchkosha’ – the environment is the first ‘kosha’(Sheath). Then comes the body made of blood and bones. The second ‘kosha’ is the ‘Pranamaya’ Kosha (Breath sheath), Third is ‘Manomaya’ (Mind Sheath), then ‘Vijnyanamaya’ (Intellect sheath) and fifth is ‘Anandamaya Kosha' (Bliss Sheath ). I believe that the environment is our body. How? See, if the air is polluted then your body cannot live. If the air is poisonous, the how will you survive? Therefore, it is the first body. We should clean up the pollution within our minds first. There are some people who say that the Art of Living has created pollution, it has become a fashion now. They say Art Of Living should clean the environment, we said we will clean the pollution from the minds first. The one who says that the Art of Living has created pollution, their vision is polluted. Clear the vision and you will see that we have not created any pollution. First we will clean the pollution from your mind then we will make you clean the pollution.
