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LEARN TO LOVE FROM NATURE Love is neither a hunger nor a thirst. Love is one’s awareness to the presence of elements around one’s own-self. Love is the other name of the awareness of Nature. When one becomes aware of the subtle substances of creations, when one feels like having communion with it, this process is the process of love, the process of awareness. The upsurging of the different emotions in the process of communion with nature is the process of love and awareness. One cannot fall in love, be it with the fellow species or others or things without being aware of the subtle substances present. Love or awareness whatever may be the definition, has to manifest in every individual to make one perfect. Love or awareness only have the power to accept or reject eccentricity, and opens the door to inner communications and tranforms hate and dislike into elements of awareness and love. Only Nature has the power to create or stimulate awareness or love in any being, in any atmosphere. “Nature is the first book of learning for the entire creation.” In nature everything is always in love with one’s own nature. Even the clouds of different direction love each other. Let us learn to love, learn to be aware of ourselves, by observing these tiny weeds growing into each other without feeling congested but instead supplementing each other. Page - 110 Evolvulus alsinoides (linn.) Linn. Of the family Convolvulaceae. This bitter acrid weed grows on its own throughout India, in open areas upto 6000 ft elevation and is very popularly known as:
A small, hairy, precumbant, diffuse, perennial weed herb with little wiry root systems. The leaves are simple, alternate elliptic oblong or oblong-ovate, apiculate, covered with fine silky hairs; flowers blue or light blue, single, rarely in pairs, axillary joined near the middle of the peduncle where two small opposite lanceolate, bracteolates are present, styles two, distinct from the base, each divides again once thus producing four stylar branches, fruits globus four valved drooping capsules. The whole of this weed herb is useful in Pitta related problems, intermittent fever, asthma, cold, stomach problems, forgetfulness, hair tonic for graying and falling hair and a tonic for general debility. Page - 111 of the family Liliaceae Popularly known as:
Mindless collection of this plants rhizomes, for the purposes of alkaloid extraction has put the species on the brink of extinction today. Grows throughout India and Sri Lanka, up to 500m, in low shrub growing areas, which can be any garden or back yard of human habitatation. A handsome native beauty, herbaceous tendril, tendril; an extension of the tips of the almost sessil ovate-lanceolate, alternate leaves, climber with under ground roundish whitish tuberous rhizomes, the most needed part. Flowers; fashionably showy, resembles the tongues of soft autumn camp-fire, solitary or sub-corymbose, greenish at the base, later gold-yellow and finally fiery scarlet or crimson. Fruits; oblong with prominently lined capsules, seeds rounded like mustard seeds, many in numbers. One of the subtlest qualities of this climber’s flower is that it ’s subtle fragrances and proximity reduces the tendencies of quarrelling in humankind, in all living being. It is advisable to try to grow a few of these climbing friends to create an atmosphere of amity in the family. The rhizomes are acrid, bitter and thermogenic in characteristics constituents, as it has the properties to induce abortion, so poisonous. Useful in vitiated conditions of Kapha and Vata, parasitic skin diseases, helminthiasis, flatulence, scrofula and most important off all indigestion. Page - 112
Evolvulus alsinoides Convolvulaceae Page - 113
Gloriosa superba Liliaceae Page - 114 In the cases of painful childbirth, a small dose helps in the expulsion of the placenta. But large dose are highly poisonous and will cause vomiting, purging, burning sensations, gastrodynia and abortion. So therefore, one should be sure of the causes and doses before use. Those who do not wish any more child can use for further pregnancy abortion, a little consciously at the early stages, without having to bear the expenses of money and painful after-effects. Keep the digestive system fit to keep yourselves fit, take a pinch of its powder, just lick, to cure you of indigestion. Page - 115 |
