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Echoes of Eco Water Conservation
In this issue:
Water Conservation
Towards energy independent
The Happenings
Green Rameswaram
From our Publications: Gandhiji
on development
Visions of Wisdom:
Living Planet
Being a tree
Eco-Awareness
Peaceful be heaven, peaceful the
earth, peaceful the broad space
between. Peaceful for us be the
running waters, peaceful the plants
and herbs!
Peaceful to us be the signs of the
future, peaceful what is done and
undone, peaceful to us be what is and
what will be. May all to us be
gracious!
- Atharva Veda (XIX, 9,1-2)
Hymn for Peace
September, 2015 Vivekananda Kendra- nardep Newsletter Vol:7 No:7
Service to humanity is the highest form of worship – Swami Vivekananda
As a human being I have a custodial relationship to Mother Earth. Global warming testifies how
indifferent and careless we have been in fulfilling our care-taking responsibilities. Now that we see
the seriousness of this problem we need to take certain ameliorating measures.
– Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, September2015, Vol. 7 No: 7
The above is an excerpt from the book published by VK-nardep on rain water harvesting.
One of the aims of ‘Green Rameshwaram’ is to make the island water sufficient. The book
deals with the importance of water and with the changing climatic patterns how to make
the modern dwelling places good areas for rain water harvesting in an optimal manner
whenever monsoon comes. The book is important for both lay public and social workers
who take green technologies to communities.
For more information on Green Rameshwaram please contact:Secretary, Vivekananda
Kendra-nardep, Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari -629702
Email: [email protected] Phone: 04652-246296 www.vknardep.org
One needs to have an honest commitment to save Mother Earth, who has been relentlessly
patient and magnanimous since she began bearing life.The threatening inundation from the
melting icebergs in the North Pole is avoidable and the perennial flow of the holy Ganga and
Yamuna would continue if only there is a change of heart.
–Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
Happenings this month:
SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE
Training programme in NPK rich bio –
manure was conducted for 24 farmers at
TRC, Kalluvillai on 26th of this month and
the resource person was
Smt.S.Premalatha
Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, September 2015, Vol.7No: 7
Training programme on “Bio Manure plant”
was conducted at TRC, Kalluvilai on 26th of
this month for 7 persons. Er.V.Ramakrishnan
& Shri.V.Muneeswaran were the resource
persons
Happenings this
month:
Renewable Energy
Exposure visit of 17 farmers was organised
by the Farmers club, Kanjirapally, Kerala
on 14th of this month. They visited
Gramodaya park and J.C.Bose nursery and
learned farming technologies.
Happenings this
month:
Networking
Awareness programme on Cost
effective Bio manure. 38 students of
the Holy Cross College, Nagercoil
attended the programme in our
Vivekanandapuram campus on 25th of
September. The resource person was
S.Rajamony
Enriched Bio – manure training
programme was conducted by VK
nardep at Gramodaya park for 32
farmers on 18th September. The
Resource persons were
Shri.S.Rajamony and
Smt.S.Premalatha.
Training for Mason on “Shakti Surabhi Bio –
methanation plant” was conducted at Rural
Building Center, Anjaneyapuram on 3rd to 5th
of this month for 17 masons.
Shri.V.Ramakrishnan and his team conducted
the programme
Construction of Bio-Methanation Plants:
Fixed type 1 cum - 10 (IFAD)
Fixed type 90 cum – 1 (Promotion)
15 students of Govt. Hr. Sec. School
visited Vivekanandapuram on 1st of this
month and learnt Vermi composting and
Azolla technology, as a part of their
study tour.
Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, September 2015, Vol. 7 No: 7
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and
come to understand what it means to humanity.
-E.O.Wilson
‘Green Rameshwaram’ aims to realize one of the last dreams of Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam for his own native island
Workshop on “Traditional Siddha
Varma Bone Setting Practices” was
held at TRC Kalluvillai on 1st and 2nd
of this month with Dr.V.Ganapathi as
the resource person. 53 medical
professionals, students and
researchers participated in the
workshop.
On the occasion of International Day
for Biological Diversity – 2015 A paper
was titled “Increasing sub-systems and
biodiversity in Sustainable Agriculture”
by Shri.Aravindan Neelakandan was
published in their anthology ‘Biocultural
heritage and sustainability’
.
Green health home worked for 7 days
and treated 199 patients
The search for the lost traditional
water harvesting structures have
been going on relentlessly. Equipped
with survey maps and local oral
traditions as well as ancient
literature. Shri.Pakshisivam a local
Research scholar and
Sis.Saraswathi along with the team
of workers have been working over
the time to discover these lost
structures. This is indeed a race
against time as encroachments can
completely swallow the traditional
water bodies. The recently
discovered Parasuramar Teertham
is a classic example of the
Traditional Water Body associated
with a lot of pan-Indian cultural
linkages – in the form of
‘Namakkatti’.
Happenings This
Month: Holistic Health
A special meeting of the Varma
documentation team was held at
Kendra on 28th September
This is the only solution of the problem. Those that blame others
— and, alas! the number of them is increasing every day — are
generally miserable with helpless brains; they have brought
themselves to that pass through their own mistakes and blame
others, but this does not alter their position. It does not serve them in any way. This attempt to throw the blame upon others only weakens them the more. Therefore, blame none for your own faults, stand
upon your own feet, and take the whole responsibility upon
yourselves. –Swami Vivekananda
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting
one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I
think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy,
more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
– Ellen Degeneres
From our
Publications
Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, September 2015, Vol. 7 No: 7
This is an excerpt from the book on renewable energy published as part of Green
Rameshwaram drive. For more information on Green Rameshwaram please contact:
Secretary, Vivekananda Kendra-nardep, Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari -629702
Email: [email protected] Phone: 04652-246296 www.vknardep.org
Other books in this
series that might
interest you.
Love is also the positive resonance at
the heart of our enjoyment of the
natural world, whose presence, as
Wordsworth wrote, “disturbs me
with the joy of elevated thoughts.”
In the encounter with the
multidimensional beauty of this
planet, the great being within which
our species has evolved, positive
emotions like inspiration, gratitude,
awe, and love are born in us.
Nowadays we can only benefit from
every opportunity to embrace the
Earth, in every particularity. To
become like this is to offer and be
offered in reply a recognition so deep
that our own faces appear in every
detail of the living world. To
recognize the Earth in such a way is a
deep spiritual practice, one that
proceeds wholly beyond the terminal,
parasitical relationship toward her
into which humanity has fallen.The
Metta Sutta of Buddhism
recommends that we cherish all living
things, “Even as a mother protects
with her life her child, her only
child.”
Indian tradition is emphatic in its
veneration of the sacred order of the
cosmos. The Atharva Veda invokes
earth as a holy mother. The Indian
rivers Ganges, Yamuna, Narmada, and
Kaveri are living symbols of the
highest spiritual purity. Fire is
personified in the Vedas in the divine
figure of Agni, and air in the figure
of Vayu. All four of the elements—
together with the fifth, space—are
bounteous channels of grace,
purification, and benediction. The
Vamana Purana sings, “Let all the
great elements bless the dawning
day: Earth with its smell, water with
its taste, fire with its radiance, air
with its touch, and sky with its
sound.” … Further, the texts make
clear the error of imagining human
life as hovering autonomously above
the natural world. Mystical
contemplation of the human form
conduces to the realization that the
body is profoundly embedded within
the wholeness of nature, a totality
that each human physically and
spiritually personifies.
Embedded Nature Being a Seed
Caring for all life
The need to participate with a
greater awareness evokes in me the
image of the seed and the question: in
today’s culture, what are we really
rooted in? We wish for a fresh start,
like a new seed, a new growth. The
power of a seed is unimaginable.
Within it lies the mystery of time, the
cycle of the seasons and of death and
rebirth. The power of a seed is
unimaginable. It possesses both
masculine and feminine qualities which
are in constant creative dialogue.
From the dark womb of the feminine
the direct force of the masculine
emerges and shoots up into the light.
Light and dark are in constant
relationship. The seed is also both the
center and the circumference, calling
us to remember the sacred nature of
life, the interconnected language of
the universe, a song of oneness
communicating to us and telling us,
again and again, that we too are
partaking in a primordial whole.
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan Sufi Mystic
Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, Kanyakumari-629702 Phone:91-4652-246296 www.vknardep.org
When we recognize the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some
kind of connection—love is born. We want to be connected. That is the meaning of love, to be at one….
You would do anything for the benefit of the Earth, and the Earth will do anything for your well-
being.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
- Dr. Susan Murphy Roshi Zen Buddhist
- Anat Vaughan-Lee Spiritual Ecologist