Trees, plants, all this Nature, is part of us;
rather, we are part of them
we cannot exclude them.
Bring them in more and more into your life
and see how life changes.
We have invaded nature,
and we try all our best to win over nature,
but you can never do that.
The moment you annihilate nature,
that means you are trying to cut your own legs.
We have a partnership,
we have a symbiotic relationship with trees, with plants.
They take in carbon-dioxide that we exhale
and they give us back oxygen, in turn.
It is a great partnership.
We get so many herbs with medicinal qualities
and such stuff that can help us
to improve our health, and provide nutrition also.
Likewise, I have learned that not only
do they provide such physical things but,
at times, when you are meditating with a tree,
they exchange their vibrations with us.
Suppose you are not well
and you can try this
you pick any tree whose size is smaller than your back
and prayerfully request the tree,
“Would you mind exchanging your vibrations with mine,
your energy with my energy?
Take what you like from my system
and provide me with health, your strength.”
And you sit with closed eyes with
your back supporting the tree,
only for ten minutes,
and see what happens to your health.
I assure you that it will change.
Within ten minutes, eighty to ninety percent of your health
will improve in a very short time.
Trees, plants, all this Nature, is part of us;
rather, we are part of them
we cannot exclude them.
Bring them in more and more into your life
and see how life changes.
We will be gone.
For me, another ten years perhaps, another twenty years,
who knows. We do not know.
But they will be there.
For another two hundred years, another three hundred years,
they will share the vibrations that I shared with them.
What I shared with them,
they will also be able to share my vibrations
with my children, with my grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on.
So they are actually depositories of love.
We can forget, because we have a mind.
We can spoil it with our mind,
the love relationship that we have.
Just like that, we are able to tell our friends,
“I do not like you.”
A dog will not say that
because it does not have such an awakened mind to reject you.
And trees? Never, ever.
They do not have Manas (mind) to fight.
Whatever love you give, they retain it,
even for a thousand years.
So, they are great repositories of great vibrations.
Even bad vibrations, they can keep within themselves.
But why not share with them love and good vibrations,
so they can manage to share - store and share?
So, if you really want to give something,
beyond material things
– you are not going to see your great, great, great grandchild -
but you can pray to this tree that,
“I am leaving my love,
for you to share with so-and-so
Please do it for me.”
They will do it. You can trust them.
So, to me, trees play a very huge role in human evolution.