Jai Gurudev !!
It was a non detailed lesson in my school days . I was so much fascinated by the experiences of Sindbad in his seven voyages . In one of his voyages , Sindbad and the co sailors would get attracted to a lovely island and they would start to have a great fun time there . They would even start to cook there by litting off the fire. The island then would start to shake and move . Very soon they would come to know that it was actually a Big Blue whale which had appeared like an island . The heat of the fire had woken up the huge creature. All the sailors on the whale would fall in the ocean. Only very few survived. Sindbad somehow had a miraculous escape after a great struggle in the ocean. The story goes that way...
This Blue whale story still has a deep impact in my mind and it just brings to my thought that we , all living creatures indeed live in the Earth , a Living body ofcourse. Just because the Earth is a living object , it is able to sustains us , living beings . Can a non living object support life ? Only a living object can give rise to another living object , as we are aware .
And as humans , we exploit the Earth to it's maximum , causing her to provoke due to which the Earthquakes, Tsunami , Climatic changes , Global warming etc is starting to happen at an alarming rate . It's time for us to wake up and join hands to minimise our devastating effects on her .
We are also the sailors of Life like Sindbad , having a gala time at the Earth, who is of a loving and kind nature ....
We do not know when will she become so furious that no longer can she sustain our exploitation ?!
One thing is for sure that , that time is not very far !!
Love & smiles...
I hadn't thought of it that way. Sindbad really did experience a sort of 'living earth' beneath his feet. The whale/island is even described as having sand and trees growing on it's back. It had been some time since it submerged. You've also reminded me of the old myths about the Earth resting on the back of a giant turtle or of a circle of elephants. I've been reading the Sindbad stories to my children and we've been learning a lot. Here's a post I wrote on it: http://stansgreatbooksblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-memory.html
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