Chapter 3 verse 14
“From food, come forth beings;
from rain, food is produced; from sacrifice, arises rain and sacrifice is born
of action”
From one angle of pure nature and
science, this verse makes references the 5 elements of nature- earth from which
food arises which nourishes beings, food is produced with water, water comes
from vapor generated by heat of the fire and one cannot get fire without being’s
effort to generate the fire. This describes the inter connectedness of nature’s
elements enumerating that action is essential to leverage nature.
However the important angle to
note here is that each of nature’s elements does their job with no desires
associated with the result of their action or inherent nature. For example the
nature of fire is to provide heat and it does that without fear or favor, same
goes for wind-blows without fear or favor. Only when a person does their action
without expecting a particular result in divine sacrifice mode, nature’s laws
are kept intact. Otherwise the whole nature’s laws get disrupted. There is a
tamil saying that “There is rains in a community or nation only due to the good
nature of beings in that community or nation” The import of this saying is that
nature works only when all constituents do their bit according to their
prakriti (nature!).
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