Everything is God’s Creation
Right from an ant to Brahma, everything is God’s creation. When we look at God’s most beautiful, wonderful and sublime creation, we are filled with bliss.
Humanity has been given every right to enjoy God’s creation. One does not need God’s permission for this. However, God has prescribed one rule. You may do whatever you want, but you must face the consequences of your actions, whether they are good or bad, sacred or unsacred. This is the law of creation. Keeping this law in view, one should decide what path is to be followed and what type of actions are to be performed. As you sow, so shall you reap. Similarly, as is the action, so is the result.
God’s creation is very sacred. Do not pollute it. How sacred are the five elements given by God! But, today, the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the sound we hear¾everything is polluted. All these sacred elements have been made unsacred by humanity. That is why the world today is afflicted with so many diseases. That one is a true human being who makes sacred use of the five elements. Never waste natural resources.
Sri Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 29 (1996)
Man is not making efforts to understand the relationship between Prakriti (phenomenal world) and Jeevatma (man) and Paramatma (Supreme Spirit). These are very intimately interrelated to one another. They are not disparate. The relationship between Paramatma and Prakriti, God and Nature, is the same as that between mother and child. The relationship between man and society is the same as that between the honeybee and the flower. Just as the child is fed by mother’s milk, as the honeybee is fed by the honey in a flower, man must enjoy the gifts of nature. From time immemorial man has been plagued by negative ideas. There is a legendary tale in which one greedy man killed the goose that laid, golden eggs thinking that he can extract all the eggs from it in one lump. Such acts of folly are committed freely by scientists today by exploiting Nature’s gifts beyond all limits, creating disastrous imbalance resulting in natural calamities such as earthquakes, spelling danger to humanity. We cannot blame science for this. Those who apply the scientific discoveries without discrimination are to be blamed for this. They fail to consider with deep deliberation the effects of excessive depletion of the natural resources.
Man must consider himself as a limb of the society and help in the welfare of society, just as the organs of one’s body are used for one’s well-being. Again, society is a limb of Prakriti (Nature) and Prakriti is a limb of Paramatma (Supreme Lord). Thus, there is close relationship between man and God. Nature is more progressive than man, and to protect Nature, man must exploit it within limits. When man tampers with Nature recklessly, it reacts adversely, and trouble arises. In order to protect Nature, man must practice ceiling on desires. He should not trigger the negative aspect of Nature. In this respect, scientists have no concern for the harmful effects that may accrue to society by their inventions. They don’t care for the welfare of the mankind and go on making use of intelligence to produce their weapons of destruction. Care should be exercised in providing comforts as excessive comforts may spoil man’s mind and cause misery instead of happiness. “Na Shreyo Niyamam Vina” (Nothing good can be achieved without certain restraints). Because of the advancement of technology and provision of excessive comforts, life has become mechanical, and spirituality has declined. Science fragments everything to pieces while spirituality builds up unity in diversity. Today man is not making efforts to cultivate the feeling of oneness among humanity.
Sri Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 23 (1990)
