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Not just words but deeds are necessary for the environment

A spiritual teacher's urgent call to action regarding global pollution and ecological crisis.

"The planet is polluted through and through... the only ones to be blamed are the humans."

"To save and protect the planet is also spirituality... it will take some time, but I am sure it will be successful."

The speaker addresses a gathering, detailing severe pollution from aviation, plastics, and pesticides contaminating all water and causing species like vultures and bees to vanish. He blames humanity squarely, critiques empty global conferences, and calls for concrete, cross-cultural action. He asks the audience to write down clear, implementable points and suggestions for alternatives to chemicals and synthetic products, proposing to form new, persevering movements and health programs based on yoga and naturopathy.

Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Welcome Seminar

The space is very polluted. This is due to the fuel burned by airplanes. The atmosphere is heavily polluted by combustion, fuel, airplanes, other metals, and plastic. Because of plastic. And pesticides, because of pesticides. Pesticides, because of the pesticides. Almost everywhere in the world, there is no water available that does not contain a certain quantity of pesticide. What you call mineral water, what you are drinking, also has content of pesticides. So, the planet is polluted through and through. Now, the result of this is that many lives, many creatures, are disappearing. Very important creatures, which keep nature in balance, are disappearing. The birds which were used to living in the forest, the non-vegetarian birds, are not available anymore. They died out. In India, a few years ago, you could see what you call vultures, many, many flying in the sky, and now you see them nowhere. They just disappeared, died out. And now the bee is disappearing, the honey bee. So now you can imagine, the animal which eats, the animal dies. So what is the condition of that animal which eats the grass or something that we are polluting? And many diseases appear in the world, which are out of our control. So this is a very bad picture of our world. And caused by ourselves. Only and only, the only ones to be blamed are the humans. Now, if we call this development and progress, what should we call this? This destruction which we made and are doing is horrible. And I think we should do something very concrete towards this. And for this, we have to cross the limitations of our religions, cultures, nations, languages, traditions, and so on. Many things you are doing because you think you are Indian and you must do like this. Or you think you are European and you must do like this. So there are many, many conferences going on around the world, but they only talk. Very few implementary things are done. So I was thinking yesterday that we shall write some points and we should follow this. In many ways, we are so much dependent that we can't avoid. But besides this, there are many things which we can avoid and make people more conscious about this and show them different paths. So all of you sitting here, if you have some ideas, write down very clearly points, not commentaries, but some points. We will collect them, we will go through them, and in the next meeting we will think them over and we will do something. So everyone who is sitting here right now, think this through and write down your thoughts, your suggestions. Just briefly, in very clear points. You don't need comments or explanations. Write down the essence in a pile and put it on a piece of paper. We will collect them, work them out, and we will come up with something for the next meeting. We can do something. Or if there is someone who knows how to replace these artificial fertilizers and what you call the pesticides against different bugs and illnesses for the plants. Maybe there is someone among us who knows how and what we would replace artificial fertilizers and pesticides with natural things to protect plants from pests and diseases. All the washing powders, soaps, shampoos, cosmetics, creams. If you know how to produce, we shall buy from you. We shall learn from each other to help. Organic, grown corn, weeds, vegetables, fruits. So there are many things and we shall begin with this. Maybe we have to make new organizations, or new movements on this. There are many in the world, but they failed, because the members themselves were not able to go through. But if you will be able to do something, if we will be able to do something, then be sure our names will be written in gold in the Book of Zinni, of God's book, you know. And now is the time to support one of our centers. We can have a lot of health programs, either in Croatia, Hungary, or the Czech Republic. From there, this health program consciousness should awaken, because to save and protect the planet is also spirituality. It will not happen from today to tomorrow. It will take some time, but I am sure it will be successful. And then from here, we can spread around the world. So that could be a very big and very beautiful work for us now, besides our yoga and daily life. The multi-activities, the yoga, the naturopathy, the Āyurveda, and so many different things there are all about health. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Welcome Seminar

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