This Prakruti is, as we know, is made up of Panchabhootas – earth, air, water, fire and sky. Anything you physically see/feel with your eyes/senses are direct products or derivatives of these elements. We have to get adequate exposure to these elements in its naturally occurring state, as relevant, to have a healthy body and pleasant life. This is my understanding of living an organic life.
Think about the below:
1. How many times have you walked on a grass patch with your bare sole? (earth)
2. How many times have you taken a dip in water in a lake or a pond or a river? (water)
3. How many times have you eaten a wood fired pizza? (fire)
4. How many times have you seen the night sky with all its brilliance? (sky)
5. How many times have you taken a early morning stroll with it chill air flowing across your face? (air)
6. How many times have you felt the burning appetite in your stomach before you started eating it? (fire)
7. How many times have you happen to accidentally get drenched in rain? (water)
8. Have you played football in mud grounds with bare foot? (earth)
9. Have you enjoyed the breeze in a beech? (air)
10. Have you visualized/felt cosmic plunge while listening to a transcendental music? (sky)
11. So on and so forth …
But to the contrary we are seeing the below lifestyles especially in mega cities:
1. People living their entire life insulated from the Panchabhootas or used to the poorer forms/representations of Panchabhootas such as
- Never felt the earth with bare foot (always wearing shoes)
- Never dipped in a naturally occurring water body.
- Lived withing the confines of claustrophobic mega cities the entire life.
- Breathed air laced with poison most of the times.
- Always relied on fast foods and rapid heating technologies
- Enclothed with synthetic clothes/footwear most of the times
- So on and so forth …
2. A personal fast-paced lifestyle with choking financial circumstances with no breather with an aim to have an own personal concrete nest in a bustling mega city!
3. Night life in dens with hallucinating agents in full use with no recourse to proper sleep filled with happy dreams!
4. Overeating, oversleeping, and overindulgence seems to be the order of the day.
In order to come to a natural balance in life, I, therefore think about the below alternate lifestyles/good practices.
Building and expanding urban forest concepts in big cities
Building foot paths – having natural stones (no concrete) and grass paths encouraging bare foot walking.
Building more sun lit public parks.
Building abutments and safeguards to support bathing in natural water bodies.
Encouraging the holding of star gazing events/astronomy events in public parks and schools at the night preferably in the same local communities.
Eating healthy organic foods most of the times and make/grow it cheap in an affordable ways.
Encouraging gardening
So on and so forth …
If we follow this alternate lifestyle, we can accrue long term benefits like being able to move about even at ripe old ages, addressing the mobility/stability related problems faced in old age, avoiding frequent visits to the hospitals and clinics, and believing and benefitting from the practice of considering food(organic) itself as the medicine.
Hari Om!