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Unconditioned & unlimited nature

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Shri Suktam: Shlok-6

Translation:
I surrender myself to Thee, O Thou resplendent like the Sun! By Thy power and glory, plants like the bael tree have grown up. may the fruits there of destroy through the grace of all inauspiciousness rising from the inner organs and ignorance as well from the outer senses.
Unconditioned & unlimited nature

Sun – unconditioned love:
Have we ever asked sun to stop giving us light? Do we ever remind him of starting sun light at the designated time? Have Sun ever asked us something on behalf of sunlight? No, We dont remember such incidence. Sun reminds us of unlimited forgiveness and consistancy. It is said that,”People admire rising sun.” Why is it so? Because, Sun is the endless source of energy. It is excellent source of energy. It has different parameters ranging from mild sunlight of morning which provides Vitamin D as well as strong sunlight of afternoon which can cook food. It also provides sun light to trees helping them to grow fruits and leaves.
Mother is the form of unconditioned love. Author thus compares motherly goddess lakshmi to Sun. Imagine, his hypothesis of ideal mother and imagine her children. So powerful! Do we come under this category? If not then, forget about wealth. We never thought of sun having unconditioned love and forgiveness towards us because it never allowed ourself to feel like that. That is the reason that we surrender to those who are shining bright like sun and thus goddess Lakshmi. Our attitude towards the wealth should be like sun. We should be unlimited giver and should never ask for the source. We are at this stage because of help of somebody, friends, family, parents, donor etc. Now, its our turn. We should contribute something which includes not only money but service. We should provide honorary services whereever we can. We should donate whatever we are not using or which are beyond our contented life. That is the right way of achieving blissful life.
Bael tree – unlimited services but not attitude:
It is also popularly known as Bilva, Bilwa, Bel, Kuvalam, Koovalam, Madtoum, or Beli fruit, Bengal quince, stone apple, and wood apple. In Hinduism, Lord Shiva is said to live under the Bael tree. In India, the tree is often found in temple gardens and its leaves are used in religious celebrations. Bilva is considered sacred to Lord Siva . Durva to Lard Ganesa and tulsi to Lord Krisna. The leaves of these herbs are offered in prayers to respected Gods and they are said to alleviate vata, pitta and kapha dosas respectively. Bilva is mentioned in all ancient scriptures of Ayurveda, as well as in the Rgveda and the Yajurveda. As the leaves are used for worship, the Bilva trees are cultivated in the vicinity of Siva temples. The Bilva tree is also called as Sivadruma Ц the tree of Siva, Sadaphala Ц always bears fruits, durarudha Ц difficult to climb as it is thorny, trisikha Ц has trifoliate leaves etc. The roots are used as a drug to cure diarrhoea, dysentery, dyspepsia, stomachalgia, cardiopalmus, seminal weakness, vomiting, intermittent fever, and swellings. The leaves are used to cure ophthalmia, deafness, inflammations, catarrh, diabetes, and asthmatic complaints.
Bael tree which is grown by Gods for our wellness. Trees are another example of forgiveness and consistancy. Bael tree has such extra ordinary medicinal value from not only leaves and fruits but also from roots which can cure more than dozen of diseases. They dont ask anything on behalf of such free outstanding service. And, what the human did? They killed such trees and never tried to grow them back for the sack of momentary benefit. It happened because of humble trees and cruel humans. If those would be like us, there would be somany Mahabharata and Ramayana would have happened in this world. As well said ‘No meal is free’, we had to pay this back in the form of ‘Global warming’ and ‘Green house effect’ which are so huge that not even groups of human races can cure it.
Trees provides us such unlimited services without any attitude. It is also said that treess as they grow they lean towards others and we are doing opposite to that and that is the reason trees like bamboo (humans) cannot grow much or are of no importance.
Mayamantra:
Life is full of matrix and we need to find a way to survive within the matrix and with realistic thinking. We dont know how we are all evolved, even we dont know how the world works. We just have some bizzare clues from our history and established literature. We are trying to get away from it with the world of fantasy. We need to establish a place to study the basics from our culture especially the learnings of life so as to get prepared for such matrix. We had the resources but we are hesitating from taking any action and those hesitations are established by matrix.
Learnings:
1) Learn from nature, not just take but also give
2) Grow unlimited but without attitude or ego
3) Learn to live in the matrix with Vedic Learnings
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