This is the first month of the 150th birth
anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. VK-nardep has planned to create a
series on how ecological thoughts are integral and implicit in Swami
Vivekananda's worldview. So this month we present how Swami Vivekananda
views the entire existence as one grand organic whole. His concepts of
'Akasha' and 'Prana' are vital to his idea of cosmic inter-connectivity.
It is this which
connects the individual organically and vitally with every other human
being at the social level and every other organism at the ecological
level. So we do hope you will enjoy reading these aspects of Swami
Vivekananda's views.
In our happenings apart from Azolla training,
Bio-methanation plant training and installation of biogas plants, we
have also conducted this month an "“in-plant training in Green
Construction Technologies” for college students. It is very essential
that eco-awareness is taken to the generation. Also important this month
is the news aboutthe participation and contribution of Sis.Saraswathi
is providing inputs regarding
the pros and cons of eco-tourism in the Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. The
workshop on traditional Indigenous medical systems has also attracted
different generations. Clearly need for the conservation of indigenous
knowledge is a great leveler of generational gaps.In our publications
sections this month, we present one of our earlier and a very innovative
attempt. This is a publication of folk-tune based multi-lingual
eco-themes with attractive posters and both transliteration as well as
translation in Hindi and English. It brings to children (and adults)
also both eco-awareness and also national integration. The book also
presents musical notations which makes the teacher or inst
ructor
provide an approximately correct version of the multilingual songs.
This innovative effort at eco-education needs to be revived.
the pros and cons of eco-tourism in the Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. The
workshop on traditional Indigenous medical systems has also attracted
different generations. Clearly need for the conservation of indigenous
knowledge is a great leveler of generational gaps.In our publications
sections this month, we present one of our earlier and a very innovative
attempt. This is a publication of folk-tune based multi-lingual
eco-themes with attractive posters and both transliteration as well as
translation in Hindi and English. It brings to children (and adults)
also both eco-awareness and also national integration. The book also
presents musical notations which makes the teacher or instructor
provide an approximately correct version of the multilingual songs.
This innovative effort at eco-education needs to be revived.
In our w
isdom
section we have three passages: one from Stephen Jay Gould on how
ecology is changing our perspective and laying emphasis on
interconnectedness. Then we have a passage of Sri Ramana Maharishi who
speaks about the self - an inner-connectedness and then we have Sri
Aurobindo who discovers in natural processes anindepth-connectedness
with all life.
isdom
section we have three passages: one from Stephen Jay Gould on how
ecology is changing our perspective and laying emphasis on
interconnectedness. Then we have a passage of Sri Ramana Maharishi who
speaks about the self - an inner-connectedness and then we have Sri
Aurobindo who discovers in natural processes anindepth-connectedness
with all life.
So as the year celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Swami
Vivekananda begins, we wish all our readers a very happy new year -
2013.
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Ref. : http://www.vivekanandakendra.org/english/report/2013/january/08/discovering-the-self-in-ecology-vivekananda-150-vk-nardep-newsletter
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