By and large, human beings tend to lose what is given because they don’t know how to use it.
Moreover, they have mind; mind either constructs it further or destroys it.
You know, our life, usually connected with nature and when we study science, you see chlorophyll,
the green pigment, it metabolises – uses the carbon dioxide and gives the oxygen.
We as humans, animals and other living beings … we use oxygen and emit carbon dioxide.
So, we have a complementary relationship as far as life is concerned. I do also find when
you look at it spiritually, manush (human) with manas, with mind,continues to change
the surroundings based on his thoughts, actions and other things that go around his life.
When we observe a party going on, a party of romantic people, there is a certain level of vibrations.
When we visit a smashan bhumi, a crematorium, there is a certain vibratory level. When there is a newborn
child in someone's house there is a jubilant joyful environment then. A marriage ceremony – a similar
environment based on the couples and their families that’s entertaining this marriage wedding ceremony.
Our actions and our thoughts create an environment, either we spoil it or we make it so
magnificent and glorious. Now when it comes to plants and trees, they don’t have manas (mind) like us.
They also have some level of consciousness but it is not changing. You cannot change it.
Of course, you as a human being can influence with our manas the consciousness,
the vibratory pattern of the green environment, nature itself. And nature retains such divine charge
for a considerably very long time. But I have seen in my capacity as a Guide of the Heartfulness Way,
when you transmit this spiritual charge to a human being, either that person will retain it for
five minutes and lose it in the sixth minute. There are individuals who will retain it for
a very long time and they take it further with their own sadhana, with their own practice.
So it depends on individuals, but by and large human beings tend to lose what is given because
they don’t know how to use it. Moreover, they have mind; mind either constructs it further or
destroys it. Plants and animals, I mean plant kingdom doesn’t do that. So it’s a great relationship.
I also have found, you know, once I was very sick and I was told by one healer from Europe,
“Why don’t you sit with a prayer to a tree, “Would you exchange….?” Our relationship with
trees – it's a complementary relationship. What is not good for us they make use
of and what is not good for them we can take it. So there is a vibratory exchange.
So the healer told me,”Why don’t you sit – after a prayer asking the tree for some permission
to sit – and with the prayer you sit.” I said okay. “But make sure the trunk of the tree is smaller than
your back and whatever sickness you have, you offer it and say, “Okay, take this away please
and take what you need from me and give me the strength to survive and heal myself.”
So, I have seen this quite often where the trees and us – we have a good relationship.
We have to look after them.