Newsletter – Jun 2024
Enrich GREEN and adopt a simple lifestyle for bettering our planet Earth
Dear Member Friends,
I wish and hope this newsletter finds you all in good spirits and cheer!!!
Happy World Environment Day to you all
Today, the world is facing the problems of global warming, erosion of the ozone layer, soil erosion, air pollution, and noise pollution, industrial pollution and in parallel, we suffer various new viruses and diseases because of ecological imbalances in the atmosphere.
What do we have to do to protect the environment?
We have to adopt simple living by following waste reduction, planting more trees, eliminating plastic usage from our day-to-day life, and using less pollution generation means for transport, cooking, and various industries like garments, chemicals and others. UNICEF also proposed to adopt an eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle to save energy, save water, say no to plastic, and adopt the four R principle. The four R principles mean to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover
- Reduce: aims at cutting down the use of plastic materials by adopting an alternative in our day-to-day life
- Reuse: means using the material again in another usable form.
- Recycling: is converting one form of plastic into another usable form.
- Recover: means converting solid waste to other forms of energy.
We speak according to our education and upbringing but do things according to our inner minds. We need inner transformation to bring positive changes into this world environment scenario.
How to get a transformation of your inner self?
In the past, we used to have joint families, and the family head used to think about many, and now the scenario shifts to nuclear families. The family head responsibility in nuclear family is the wife and children. We stopped bothering about others as our minds were in the clutches of our things. The modern lifestyle has become so hectic that there is no time and space for others.
Now…..
Let us apply spirituality to our life, and start doing sadhana to expand ourselves so that our mind grows to the state of “Vasudhaika Kutumbam (the world is one family)”. Through sadhana, one becomes more conscious and starts feeling about co-humans and the universe. In such a state of mind, many new inventions will come out of human intellect to protect the planet Earth. Sadhaka also becomes very refined in his private life, relations, and prosperity, everything improves. Spirituality is not about staying aloof and doing penance – the sadhana is to stay here in this world and practice silently for the benefit of mankind. Even we can say every good deed is spiritual. When we expand our inner consciousness, we become more sensitive, responsible, and pure and that’s what is essential to protect our planet and its resources. Spiritual practices result in human inner transformation and a complete change of mind from selfish and selfless.
Sath Guru always preaches to protect the planet by planting more trees and he blessed us with a program called “NA MOKKA NA SWASA (My tree is My breath)”. Every member has to plant three plants and treat them like their own Guru. For every occasion, instead of other gifts, SVVAPeetham’s members are giving plants. As per Sath Guru’s directive, we must propagate spirituality and help humans become more sensitive to self, family, surroundings, and universe.
Thanking you
Spiritually yours,
Renuka Devi Vangara
