The Power of Nature

By

S.Vaishnavi

I still remember the balcony in my flat in Chennai, that used to house those pretty roses, jasmines n the sacred tulsi.

It was a period of fantasies for the six year old kid that was me.

The number n nature of questions I used to ask (still ask) were more than enuf to drive any human crazy….maybe that’s one reason I consider my mom superhuman…:-P. Here goes a sample of my daily incessant Tug-o-words with momma…

“amma… what happens if we do wrong….?”

“U get what u sow sweetheart…”

“That even I know….obviously….how can we get mango when we sow apple? Hahahah…”having proved myself wiser than my mom…..I would be gleeful n run around the house…..

And one more outrageous habit with me was (n is) to pick up the threads of a topic long stopped n continue it all of a sudden, when everyone least expected…

So that’s what happened few days later... when momma was tending to her flowers…

“momma…u said we get back from world only what we give rite?’

“Hmm..?”

Not being discouraged having not received a sumptuous response, I continued...

“So that means, what we feel about others is the same we get from them?”

“Not always…but yes…some way or the other…it does cum back to u…that’s the law n power of nature…”

“N ya, how cum our flowers are always so big? N so cute?”

“Coz I tell them so…”

“what…flowers can hear us? Amma! I know my age …but u also know I hate being lied to..!”

“now, who lied to u?”my mom askd innocently…

“  u did!”

“no I dint…u will learn a lot of things later…but let me tell u a story that u shud remember …it will help u forever…wherever u go, whatever u do…

Thus having aroused my inextinguishable curiosity my mom started off…

“once, ther was a kingdom on earth, long before we humans came to earth…

there were all creatures except human beings…

giraffes, cows, lions, plants, trees, flies, insects, land, water, clouds, sky…

they all communicated with each other

whenever there was a violation of too many rules, the Queen Mother, NATURE, as they called her, wud burn upon them with all her might, n put them back in place, true to the word mother,  as she was always keen on remonstrating her kids, not just in brandishing brutal punishments upon them…

everything was going on well…wen humans arrived…

they learnt the language of nature…the natural language….emotions…n used it to bring out the best in everything they saw…they knew how to appreciate Nature’s beauty n Nature, as flattered n pleased as she was, showered them with a flood of treasures…

it was all going fine….untill one day, when humans started appreciating the beauty of Nature only to make use of it later…

Not only that, they forgot the true essence of the Natural Language, though they passed it on it bits n pieces to their children, n totally forgot to mention the vital fact that the language can be used with Nature to a greater extent than it can be used between humans..

Everytime a human has been close to nature, he has been close to discovering this secret….but the wrath of mother nature for having been betrayed, lets only a very few actually discover this secret, thereby drawing them even closer to the reality…

This applies everywhere…

To god when u pray, Pray with all ur heart, n he will hear u…

To ur friends when u speak, speak ur mind in its true state, n later than sooner, u will be more loved than appreciated..

To ur loved ones, just think of them n wish them well, they will be fine, as long as u want them to…

To nature, tell what u want, honestly, earnestly, n reasonably…there’s nothing Nature doesn’t have, it has in abundance everything for every one…u just have to ask with faith, belief, n patience..

Every thought u sow in ur mind, has an energy, positive or negative, n it has the power to fulfill whatever it is, negative or positive…

Be pro-Peace than anti-war ….

Be pro-love than anti-hatred….

Be pro-positive than anti-negative….

cos the word ‘anti’ itself is negative, n so powerful so as to stop the power of all the positive notions that come after it…

I don’t know how much of this u understood, but remember them n think of them, n one day, u will get the true essence of it…”

This was past…

But it never left me…

Eleven years elapsed by…

But her knowledge remains with me, even tho we r continents apart…

A book that I recently read, n wud recommend for any soul that has the question “Who AM I?”, brought back these thoughts in me…

A lot of u wud have heard various versions of the same fact…..The Secret….wherein ur wish will be ur command….etc

But this book which I read recently laid out the blunt facts of life in front of me…

The Book’s name is… “ILLUSIONS-The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah”, by Richard Bach.

Therein, there’s one thing I wud like to mention,

“u r free to do anything not as long as u don’t hurt others, but as long as u don’t hurt urself…..anyone who gets hurt, is hurt because he has let himself to, or has made himself to…u decide ur own fate….

May be this is how we account for karma…

It may sound irrational n radical at first sight, but it’s the blunt truth of nature….

Whatever it is…as my mother always said, n as I still remember, try to make out the best meaning of all that is said to u…. all that is shown to u…. all that is spoken out of u….

N u shall get only the best!

What a simple TRUTH…n what a lot of time have I wasted in realisin it…

AMEN!!!