08 November 2007

WILD ELEPHANTS SAVING BY ELEPHANT SHOW


Nowadays only 4 % of the Indian surface is suitable for wild elephants; the decline is mainly due to the destruction of the forest habitats to make place for agriculture, cities, villages and the related infrastructures and hydrothermal plans
Poaching with ivory as the goal is still an item but is not the major reason of the killing of wild elephants. Villagers and tribal are increasingly encroaching in on forest land, forcing wild elephants to come closer and closer into the villages, killing over 100 people each year just by simple walking over them.
The villager’s tactics is to make fences from electric pylons all around the village. Instead of using a low power high voltage electrical fence has used in the west for keeping the cattle in the parks, they use the full 220 V, I assume with a rupee coin as fuse. This is not only extremely dangerous for their compatriots but for all other animals.
A dozen of elephants have been killed in the last few years, conservationist says.
Manindra Biswas postulate: “ The objective of using trained Elephants to simulate electrocutation scenarios is to generate sympathy for their wild friends.
The play open with six elephants looking tense after sniffing gunfire. One elephant walks up to the electrical wire, touches and crumples into a miserable heap. This starring role is played by Mainak the most talented elephant of the crew. Than the five elephants desperately try to revive their fallen hero and have the final act the crew salute their lost friends and walk away slowly and desperately with (crocodile?) tears in their eyes.
Hundreds of villagers have enjoyed the free play and understand without any dougt the moral of the story. An we all hope it helps, although I have the impression that is would be better to explain to these villagers and tribal how a real electrical cattle fence is build up by using a transformer and a big condenser in a way that all animals get only frightened but not killed. The actual situation is that from 50,000 wild elephants a century ago the population dropped now to 21,000 all mainly living in reserves.




















06 November 2007

GANGA AT RISHIKESH













05 November 2007

WISE WORDS IV

Why do our relationships turn sour?
Why are we disappointed by life?
Why we don't succeed to realize the happiness we expect?
One answer to all these questions: because of unrealistic expectations. Expectations by their nature are a never - ending cycle. To expect means to look at and speculate on beyond what you have in the present. It is avarice that drives you on towards impossible horizons and your expectations become a wall between you and reality. You fail to see the real person, or the real situation. This is even if your expectations are fulfilled, you remain unfulfilled. And if your expectations are not fulfilled you feel frustrated.
Look deep into the nature and structure of your expectations. Just by looking consciously they become blurry and eventually dissolve.
Once you drop your expectations you have learned to live. Then whatever happens fulfills you.
You never feel frustrated because in the first place you never expected. Frustration is a shadow of expectation. With expectation dropped, frustration drops in its own accord. Once expectations are not there you are free to move into and accept the unknown with deep gratitude. Whatever the situation you always feel at home.
When everything happens unexpectedly, everything becomes new. It brings freshness to your live, a fresh breeze is blowing and it does not allow dust to gather on you.
Life is pregnant with the unknown.
Drop the past and live each moment.

WISE WORDS III


The day you stop seeking for happiness in the outside world that is the day were you become truly contended. Then you won’t wander hither thither looking for happiness in different places because your thirst for happiness gets quenched in prayer, in meditation. Truly speaking that is the day when you become a spiritual - dharmic person, in the true sense of the word.
All that you desire is there right within you, it is with you but you don't have that will to seek. The work of sages is not to give you knowledge; the work of mystics is to light that fire within, to inculcate a longing, a feeling of restlessness inside you.
This longing makes you spiritual or dharmic in the use sense of the word. This longing makes you sing, cry, dance in the remembrance of God.

Excerpt from the Speaking Tree.- The Times of India

04 November 2007

GREETINGS FROM RISHIKESH



Rishikesh claims itself as the yoga capital of the world and that might be true , seeing the amount of yoga centres and ashrams pratiscing yoga. The city is completely sitting on the bank of Ganga , which lost here already is wild nature, but is still very impressive with a milky opaque but still very clean appearance, inviting for a bath and is preparing to enter into the flat area. There are numereous of temples and a crowd of shadus, but it is still a very quite and inspiring city , inviting for relaxation and meditation

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