A Tribute to Hinduism - Nature Worship - Mandhata Global

Himalayas to Sahyadri which is not somehow
integrated with Indian life. The Himalaya is the
devatatma and the mount Kailasa is the abode of
Shiva. The Vindhyas are also sacred; the Aravaliis
with Mount Abu and Amba Devi are centers of
pilgrimage. When we come to the rivers, it is not only
the Ganga and Yamuna that are sacred, but
Narmada, Godavari, Kaveri and others are also holy.
To each locality its river is sacred as Ganga. The
Peepal, Banian, Neem trees, Tulasi etc., are also the
useful part of our life. In fact the Hindu culture, like the Hindu temple, is permeated with reverence
for nature. It is the harmony of man and nature that is the basic concept of our life and culture.
What is needed today is to remind ourselves that nature cannot be destroyed without mankind ultimately
being destroyed itself. Centuries of rapacious exploitation of the environment has finally caught up with us,
and a radically changed attitude towards nature, is now not a question of spiritual merit or condescension,
but of sheer survival. This earth, so touchingly looked upon in the Hindu view as the Universal Mother, has
nurtured mankind up from the slime of the primeval ocean for billions of years.
Let us recall the ancient Hindu dictum:
“The earth is our mother, we are all her children.” Mountains are mystical realms of Gods, heaven and
spiritual masters. Trees and termites, all of Nature has been venerated by ancient Hindus, Greeks, Native
Americans and other Pagan religions around the world. They worshipped Nature and to treat the forces of
Nature as heavenly superhuman powers. Zeus, Apollo the Sun god, has his own attending ministers;
Minerva, the Goddess of wisdom, a western Saraswati, for whom learning springs from the head of love."
" God sleeps in the rocks, proclaims the Hindu scriptures, "dreams in the plants, stirs toward
wakefulness in the animals, and in mankind is awake to his own ego individuality. "
" Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam -- The Whole Universe is one Family. "
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– Rajeev Srinivasan, Indic Journalists' web-posting dt. August 10, 2003.
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history is currently scouring the archives of Goa to show how Indian medicine influenced the West.