Thursday, 10 October 2013

Musings on Awareness 5 - Prof. G. Venkataraman


One Mother Earth, 10 Billion Children to Feed
By 2050, the Earth's population is estimated to be about 10 billion. Would we be able to feed ourselves?
Apart from spiritual reasons, conservationists have done some practical calculations and have come up with a very compelling reason why mankind simply cannot afford to eat meat, which is now so popular in most countries. Believe it or not, it has all to do with land and water.
Food = Land + Water
The embedded water content of a product is the total volume of fresh water that is used to produce the product 
                      PRODUCT                                               EMBEDDED WATER CONTENT
                                        (1 kg)                                                                                      (in litres)
                                Wheat                                                                                      1300
                                Rice                                                                                         3400
                                Milk (1L)                                                                                   1000
                                Sugar                                                                                      1500
                                Chicken                                                                                  3900
                                Beef                                                                                        15500
                                1 Apple                                                                                     70
                                1 Cotton Shirt                                                                          2700
                                1 cup of Tea                                                                             80
                                1 x A4 Paper                                                                            10

Source: waterfootprint.org/virtualwater.eu

Omnipresence of God
Man must go through life with full awareness of his Cosmic nature and his Cosmic connection with Creation. This awareness is vital because it alone gives expression to the Soul of man.
Today's world is full of problems and mostly due to the dominance of the head over the heart, with the soul being denied self-expression. The head can easily create problems but seldom solves them, especially when the problems arise from lust, greed, anger and jealousy. By denying our finer nature, we keep shutting out the soul from being given a chance to bring peace and harmony to a troubled mankind.
Divine Signature in every Atom
All creation, be animate or inanimate, is made up of atoms of all kinds of elements ranging from oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, all the way to calcium, phosphorous, iron and so on. There are atoms present everywhere and locked within it, enormous stores of energy. In fact, the energy contained in just five grams of uranium was enough to wipe out Hiroshima. The presence of atomic energy everywhere is one simple example of the signature of Omnipresence.
                                                                                                                     to be continued
 
 

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