No, you don’t. How can one make some water
dirty that he uses for various purposes? Then, why people jump into rivers to
take a bath or to take a ‘holy dip’? Maybe, it was alright a few centuries
before when the human population was much less and various pollutants were not as
hazardous as they are today, thereby permitting the flowing rivers to
effectively implement their self-cleaning mechanisms.
We
are not trying to interfere with the essence of some excellent religious
practices that connect the collectivity of the human race with the universality
of nature. People bring holy water from many rivers to give a bath to the idols
of their Gods. They connect the nature, the ‘ideals’ in their life and
themselves and surrender to the universal consciousness with humility and devotion.
Ancient Indian thinkers and philosophers thought of such rituals to teach and
remind the ordinary man that he is only a part, though an important one, of
infinite universal continuum that is beyond our comprehension of time.
We
also fetch water from community wells to clean ourselves, our clothes and
utensils. Why is it that we take a bath in entering into rivers and dispose of
all kinds of wastes into the rivers without realizing that their capacity of
cleaning through natural processes cannot be unlimited? Ancient Indian
philosophy asks the man to modify his way of life according to space, time and
circumstances. If we are not changing it is our fault, and not that of the
social and religious knowledge that was created by our forefathers.
VAGDEVI,
a voluntary organization has been endeavouring
to create, experiment with and circulate useful knowledge in the field of
education, environment and energy that can be used by an ordinary man for his
benefit, without any external support.
VAGDEVI
completes 20 years of its existence on
the 17th July 2015.
THE
VAGDEVI TEAM
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