Echoes of EcoIn this issue:

Extracts from our book “Samagra Vikas” – Development with a Human face

The Happenings

Visions of Wisdom: The Universal Spirit Economy and Environment Real Liberation

“O earth! Wherever I am compelled to create cavities, may

they all be filled up again soon. May I not inflict any injury on

your bosom or cause pain in your heart. Lord Indra made this

earth safe from all enemies. May that land ever flow with

nourishing milk for me, as a mother caring for her child”

- Atharvaveda

Reverence for Nature

April, 2016 Vivekananda Kendra- nardep Newsletter Vol:8 No:2

Ecology is the universal law of reciprocal maintenance. Ecology is Dr.Albert Schweitzer’s ‘Reverence for life’; Ecology is Henry Thoreau’s ‘Let Alone’; Ecology is Epictetus’ ‘Sustain

and Abstain’.

Extracts from our book “Samagra Vikas” –Development with a Human Face by

Shri.N.Krishnamoorthi

Nature – it has a woven pattern which science seeks to read, each sciences following the threads of a particular colour .. There is a changing pattern in the

web, becoming more complex as the ages pass; and this is evolution. But the essential idea of the web is that of interlinking and ramifying

– J.Arthur Thomson

Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, April 2016, Vol.8 No:2

Through Nature, I become That; a part of the great order– Shri. Ashvin Mehta

Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, April 2016, Vol.8 No: 2

Training programme on “Bio-manure” was held at Vivekanandapuram for Womens Christian College, Nagercoil on 5th April. 35 students attended the training. Shri.S.Rajamony was the resource person.

Training programme on “Bio-manure” was held at Vivekanandapuram for Vivekananda College, Agasteeswaram on 6th April. 27 students attended the training. Shri.S.Rajamony was the resource person.

Man also steals birds’ eggs and animals’ milk. But the worst aspect of his pillage is his stealing of life. He steals life when he stills life.

– Dr.M.M.Bhamgara

Happenings this month:Sustainable Agriculture

Echoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, April 2016, Vol.8 No: 2

Happenings this month: Sustainable Agriculture

Happenings this month:

Green Health Home

Green health home which is very popular with the local communities worked for 6 days and treated 186patients.

Training programme on "Preparation of Growth Hormones" at Technology Resource Center on 16th April. 05 participants attended the training. Smt.S.Premalathawas the resource person.

Workshop on Awareness, Documentation & Standardisation of Varma medical practices was held at Technology Resource Center on 11th and 12th April. 64 participants attended the training. Dr.V.Ganapathy and his team wereacted as resource persons.

Interactive session on Growth Hormones

Shri.Rajamony explaining about Bio-manure technology

Students seeing the earthworms with enthusiasm

Training programme on "Azolla Cultivation"at Technology Resource Center on 23rd

April. 09 participants attended the training. Smt.S.Premalatha was the resource person.

Classroom session on Azolla technology

Dr.V.Ganapathy gave a guest lecture onSiddha Varma medical practices for common health problems” at Thanjavur on 15th April. 300 participants attended the lecture. The programme was sponsored by South Indian Cultural Center, Thanjavur

Practical demonstration on the Varma medical practices

Construction of Deenabandhu type 2 cum Biogas Plants

Perumbalore – 2

Happenings this month: Renewable Energy

Sources

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Happenings this month: Health, Water, Networking

Shri.V.Ramakrishnan taking class on Biogas technology in natural environment at Perumbalore

Training programme on “Three in one Bio-methanation Plant” at Technology Resource Center on 23rd April. 02 participants attended the training. Shri.V.Ramakrishnan was the resource person.

Student of Anna University Regional Campus, Tirunelveli undergone Project work on “Biogas Generation from co-digestion of water hyacinth with food waste” at our Technology Resource Centre.

If we could learn again to treat earth, air, water, fire and vibration-carrying space with the reverence due to their spiritual reality, as vehicles of union, all would be well.

William J.Jackson

Workshop on “Practical application of Siddha traditional varma medical practices” was held at Technology Resource Center on 23rd

April. 83 participants attended the training. Dr.V.Ganapathy and his team acted as resource persons.

Dr.V.Ganapathy gave a guest lecture on Siddha medicines for common health problems at Chennai on 17th April. 250 participants attended the lecture. The programme was sponsored by Ulaga Tamil Research Institute, Chennai.

Training programme on “Community Involvement – A key to water management” at Technology Resource Center on 18th. 33participants attended the training. Shri.V.Ramakrishnan was theresource persons.

Training programme on “Construction of Biogas Plant” at Perumbalore from 21st to 30th April. 13 participants attended the training. Shri.V.Muneeswaran and V.Ramakrishnan were theresource persons. The Programme was sponsored by DRDA, Perumbalore

Shri.Vijayaraghavan singing a song related with water conservation

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in space and time. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of Nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement, is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

When we speak of living in tune with Nature, we do not confine ourselves to the obvious physical Nature around. It is what the Chinese tradition calls the Tao that is meant. The Tao is the universal Spirit that is present everywhere, at all levels of existence, not merely the physical – unbounded, all–pervading, all-supporting Tao. It is universal in its character. But it has also a micro-dimension. Each one of us has the same organisation of Tao in ourselves, at some deeper level. Normally, we are unaware of it as we are lost in the petty rounds of our bounded Nature. Cut off from this source of our existence, we are unhappy, out of joint with everything. We stumble from error to error and never arrive at felicity, which we are assured is our birthright.

The Universal Spirit Economy and Environment

Real Liberation

‘How long can we go on and safely pretend that the environment is not the economy, is not health, is not the prerequisite to development, is not recreation? Is it realistic to see ourselves as managers of an entity out there called the environment, extraneous to us, an alternative to the economy, too expensive a value to protect in difficult economic times? When we organize ourselves starting from this premise, we do so with dangerous consequences to our economy, health and industrial growth’.‘We are now just beginning to realize that we must find an alternative to our ingrained behavior of burdening future generations resulting from our misplaced belief that there is a choice between economy and the environment. That choice, in the long term, turns out to be an illusion with awesome consequences for humanity’.

M.P.PanditProlific writer,

spiritual teacher, Devoted to Sri

Aurobindo Philosophy

Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, Kanyakumari-629702 Phone:91-4652-246296 www.vknardep.orgEchoes of Eco - Newsletter, Vivekananda Kendra – nardep, April 2016, Vol.8 No: 2

Albert EinsteinTheoretical physicist

Darryl D’Monte’sChairman Emeritus of

the Forum of Environmental

Journalists

Visions of Wisdom

“Love the earth as yourselves, then you can truly care for all things”. “The earth is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you

will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it”– Lao Tse