One of the biggest challenge facing us and the future generations is that of global warming & limitless plundering of natural resources by mankind. All this is due to excessive consumption on part of all of us.
In a recent Kaya Kalp retreat at Katarkhadak, Guruji Rishi Prabhakar praised the virtue of a simple life. He even attributed the economic recession in the world to the excessive greed of the people of USA. I chose to investigate into this aspect of excessive consumption.
In our basic SSY class, we have all seen the importance and usefulness of operating from ‘acceptance’. I could always see ‘acceptance’ work miracles in my life but could never fully establish the principles of nature which made it work.
SSY, as discovered by Pujya Guruji, is a science along the lines of Adwaita-Vedanta as propagated by Shankaracharya and Maharshi Raman. Along the lines of the same Adwaita philosophy, here is the reason as to why acceptance works :
