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Echoes of Eco

Bio-Diversity of RameshwaramIn this issue:

• Bio-Diversity of Rameshwar

• The Happenings-I

• From our Publications

• Visions of Wisdom: Eco-Ethics

Eco-Empathy Eco-Spirituality

The water is the source of joy and

for living a healthy life. It

is the immediate cause of all organic

beings such as vegetations, insects,

worms, birds, animals, men etc. Eve

the mountains, the earth, theatmosphere and heavenly bodies are

water concretized

- Chandogya Upanishad 7.10.1

Existence is Water

Concretized

May, 2015 Vivekananda Kendra- nardep Newsletter Vol:7 No:3

Service to humanity is the highest form of worship – Swami Vivekananda



If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation

to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man

and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper

course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels –J_C_Kumarappa

Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, May 2015, Vol. 7 No: 3

The above are excerpts from the book on Biodiversity published by VK-nardep with

support from the WaSH programme of UNICEF. It provides an overall insight into

the concept of bio-diversity and how it is very important to the Gulf of Mannar

region. The fact that the real wellbeing and development of the society in a region isorganically related to the healthy bio-diversity of the region cannot be

overemphasized. Rameshwaram island being situated in the Gulf of Mannar bio-

diversity hot-spot can exert human-activity based influence on the Gulf of Mannar

bio-diversity. The extent of awareness about the region’s bio-diversity and its

relation to the livelihood and safety of this ancient town will make the influence that

much positive for the posterity of human beings as well as other inhabitants of the

planet. For more information on Green Rameshwaram please contact: Secretary,

Vivekananda Kendra-nardep, Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari -629702

Email: vknarde @ mail.com Phone: 04652-246296 www.vknarde .or

The Gulf of Mannar :Bio-diversity

The Gulf of Mannar region

provides a very interesting

heterogeneous group of flora

and fauna. From this region

about 3600 species have been

identified. Of this, 186 species

are commercially exploited, 116

are vulnerable and 7 are

considered as endangered. In

the case of fishes of the 2200

fish species distributed in Indian

waters, 441 species have so far

been recorded in Gulf of

Mannar. Gulf of Mannar is one

of the best regions in the Indian

region in fish biodiversity

richness.



• Everything is connected to everything else,

• Everything must go somewhere,

• Nature knows best, and

• Nothing comes from nothing.

-Barr Commoner

Training programme on “Azolla was

conducted for 04 farmers, on 23rd of

this month and Smt. Premlatha was the

resource person,

Siddha Vaidyars Federation,

Virudhunagar conducted a seminar on

10th of this month at Cherukkur,

Srivilliputhur to commemorate world

Siddha day. 300 physicians attended the

function. Dr.V.Ganapathi gave a lecture

on “Varma Yogam”

Happenings this month:

SUSTAINABLE

AGRICULTURE

Workshop on “Traditional Siddha V

Bone Setting Practices” Was condu

on 26th and 27th of this month at

Kalluvilai for 55 traditional physi

Dr.Ganapathi and his team were

resource persons.

Happenings this

month:

Water Mana emen

Training programme on “Organic waste

based Bio-methanation plant” was conducted

at TRC, Kalluvilai on 23rd of this month for 4

persons. Er.V.Ramakrishnan was the

resource person.

Training programme on “Kitchen waste

based Bio-methanation plant” was conducted

with support from BrahMos, New Delhi on

4th

with 15 persons benefitting from thetraining and the resource person was

Shri.V.Ramakrishnan.

.

To know more about ‘Green Rameshwaram Pilgrimage’ Project contact:

Secretary, Vivekananda Kendra - Nardep, Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari-629702;

Phone:04652-246296, 9442646296 Email: [email protected]

Happenings this month:

Siddha-Ethnic Medicin

Green Health Home of VK-nard

functioned for 5 days and trea

131 patients.

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Construction of Bio-Methanation plants:Bio-methanation plants have been

constructed at Kancheepuram and

Rameshwaram

• Portable type 1 cum - 2• Fixed type 1 cum – 10

• Fixed type 1 cum - 3

Demonstration at the Varma Bosetting workshop:

Happenings this

month:

Renewable Ener

World Siddha Day

Celebrations

Dr.Ganapathy lecturing at World

Siddha conference

Green Rameshwaram

Bio-methanation technology awareness

programmes for housewives have been

conducted at Rameshwaram.Lotus started blooming in the

renovated Rina-vimochana TeertConstruction work of fixed type

Bio-methation plant at Kalpakkam



The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the

past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time,

notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.

– Peter Kropotkin

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From our

Publications



We need to re-learn lessons from t

very societies and cultures of the hu

species where this consciousness

ingrained as a primary article of fa

The consciousness and aware

articulated itself in a body of poetry, and written, the evolution of a myth

world which drew attention repeated

the eco-system and interrelationship

series of festivals, customs, and rit

served as a constant reminder. Natur

the notion of sacred space and time

essential for how else could earth, wa

vegetation, air, rejuvenate themse

singly or together unless left fallow

undisturbed for a time. Mangro

rivers, water-bodies, such as lakes

tanks; tracts of land were accordesacred status as a most effec

strategy and instrumentality of ensu

non-pollution and purity to sustain

balances. The agricultural practices

other lifestyle functions were desig

to accommodate the cycle of inact

and activity, the latency and potency

both the natural and the human wo

We also know that this world-view

overtaken in some parts of the world

another where Nature was conside

"Red in tooth and claw". In that erathat the Vedic seers evoked as

waters, earth, mountains, rivers, tr

animals, air and fire was considered p

or at best pantheistic.

Individuals in a wide variety of species

ranging from elephants, dolphins and

whales to farmed animals like cows and

pigs and companion animals like dogs, cats,

and horses, may feel love for their

relatives and friends. We scientists in thepast often resorted to academic jargon.

Now many of us call it what it is: a deep

loving connection between two animals

such that when the two are forced apart

through death (or some other separation),

the survivor may feel profound grief,

visible to observers in new patterns of

social withdrawal and/or disrupted life

routines. … The key question now is, what

do we do with this knowledge? We should

use it to better the lives of animals who

presently are kept captive in biomedicallaboratories, circuses and theme parks,

and factory farms…. think of the factory-

farm cow who has her calves taken away

after a few weeks or months, over and

over again; about the orca taken from his

or her pod in the sea and brought to

captivity to perform for us; … The

growing scientific knowledge of animal

emotion can be put to excellent use. We

can move increasingly towards a plant-

based diet; refuse to support SeaWorld,

the circus, and other places that exploit

animals for our entertainment; and

agitate for an end to intolerable

biomedical research using animals.

co thics

co mpathy

co Spirituality

Kapila Vatsyayan

Evolutionary

Ecologist

That the sheltered life is no better for

plants than for man is suggested by an

interesting experiment. A plant, which was

carefully protected under glass from

outside blows, looked most sleek and

flourishing, but its conducting power wasfound atrophied or paralyzed. Yet, when a

succession of blows were rained on this

effete and bloated specimen, the stimulus

canalized its own path of conduction, and

the plant soon became more alert and

responsive, and its nervous impulses were

very much quickened. It is impossible for a

spectator of the Professor’s experiments

to make any attempt to separate himself

from the rest of life. In the matter of

automatic heartbeats the Indian plant,

Desmodium Gyrans, shows remarkableactivity, and Professor Bose, by obtaining

records of these pulsations, shows that

the throbbing in the plant are affected by

external agents in precisely the same way

as the heartbeats of an animal. Thus, in

plant, as in animal life, the pulse-frequency

is increased under the action of warmth

and lessened under cold. … The ancient

thinkers knew well that life and mind exist

everywhere in essence and vary only by

the degree and manner of their emergence

and functioning. All is in all and it is out ofthe complete involution that the complete

evolution progressively appears.

- Barbara King

Biological

anthropologist Sri Aurobindo

Mystic

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy

makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience

tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.-Stewart Udall

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