Green Philosophy.

Today the new flavor is towards the green movement, organic farming, recycling, energy conservation and working for a sustainable environment. However this has always been the fundamental principle of the Vedic philosophy. The interlinked chains of cause and effect are inherent in the eastern metaphysics which ecological science is discovering. Eastern Vedic spirituality state s that the natural world is a subtle balance of complex inter-relationship in which the existence of organisms is dependent on the existence of others in the ecosystem. Our embeddedness is in line with the evolutionary and ecological approach. So celebrate the beauty, wisdom and grasp the suffering which is part of existence David Barash an evolutionary biologist understood this principle as he states in this review, “all individual lives are eventually over but their constituent parts continue living for ever in an ongoing process of bio-geo-chemical cosmic reincarnation”. Hence the Vedas urge us to be sensitive to the suffering of all sentient beings – as we are all evolved from spare parts scavenged from the same cosmic junk. The key teaching is compassion which is different from empathy or sympathy – as there is no self in the deeper sense and no one exits as an island isolated from the rest. Many in the western world now espouse eastern spiritual philosophy – succumbing perhaps to its chic Hollywood appeal where Tantra, Yoga and Meditation are the latest fads, while others endorse a world view with political implications that go beyond bumper stickers – demanding a free Tibet