Hindus and conservation of Environment

  

Hindus never look dreaming in thought that the life of man is useless and to eradicate this suffering from their live is to exile from this world, They never think to keep the view of this world as unreal as because if this could be the base of their philosophies, the life had become useless and imaginative and so the suffering in life could never be dealt so widely and therefore life and suffering become synonyms.

One of the most important optimistic aspects of Hindu philosophy was the conservation of environment. The concept that every animal and every plant have soul or consciousness and it should be preserved. The nonviolence thoughts of Jainism made such a great influence that Hindus learnt not to hurt even a tree or cut a branch of a tree. The non-violence against animals saved the ecology of this land for thousands of years and therefore there is no brutal rituals found practiced in Hindus that abolish the human right in original philosophy of Hindus.

 Mythologies suggests that after long waited opportunity, the life as a human being is able to form for any soul and this is the only life where one can try for liberation to attain knowledge.

 “The pleasure which arises to men from contact with sensible objects is to be retinquested as accompanied by pain-such is the warning of fools, the berries of paddy with the finest white grains, what man taking his true interest would fling there away to covered with husks and dust,” added Servardharma Samgraha page 4.

 Somehow, it proves that Hindu thoughts clearly reflect the world of reality, the only way they tried to rid from the pain and sorrow which this world have and to dwell in the state of bliss i.e. to make life better and happier in accordance to knowledge.

 The concept of pleasure and happiness is related to the school of Bharaspati, emerged at the time of post Vedic age, and Hindu philosophy in no way mark things which only and only advocate to destroy the body to realize the real essence of soul and therefore the happiness and bliss comes at end. It also look like that Hindus usually ask the soul to detach from the material or taking a soul apart from the body to attain solace but these philosophies never advised suffering or penance.

 Hume rightly noted, “You would surely more irritate than appease a man lying under the rocking pains of the gout by preaching up to him the rectitude of those general laws which produced the malignant humours in his body, where they now excite such delight torments.”

 The Hindu thoughts gave rise to moral and ethics in society and they made the rules inherent in every man of the society to live a life keeping in view that they have to avoid suffering and attain bliss with true knowledge.

 Fuller and Memurrin in the History of Philosophy page 12 realized, “Man would not excise unless, in all his active and practical relations with the world and in the ideals generated by them, he were implacably anthropocentric and determined at all costs to have the world, As he wishes it to be we might expect then, to find this determination gritting the teeth of his philosophizing as well, and spitting out and false and illusory whatever is to hard or to harsh for them to crack.”

 And even now, the Hindu society, practicing religion at large but busy in mundane and worldly affairs every day, they are offering prayers, sweets, money, ornaments and every accessories, generated every day, just because they wanted to live this world.

Even today, at present, Hindus know that, only soul is immortal and body has to perish but they, in this world are caring only the body. The aim of practicing the religion is not the solace of soul or meditation to increase the right knowledge but to make their world better with the blessing of god or gods. Thousands of rituals, prescribed or un-prescribed by the Hindu books are practices daily so that they don’t annoyed god or gods who are with them in the struggle in this real world.