Swami Vibudhesha Teertha Quotes on Environment Protection in Hindu Religion
Hindu religion wants its followers to live a simple life. It
does not allow people to go on increasing their material wants. People are
meant to learn to enjoy spiritual happiness, so that to derive a sense of
satisfaction and fulfilment, they need not run after material pleasures and
disturb nature’s checks and balances. They have to milk a cow and enjoy, not
cut at the udder of the cow with greed to enjoy what is not available in the
natural course.
According to Hindu religion, “dharanath dharma ucyate”—that
which sustains all species of life and helps to maintain harmonious
relationship among them is dharma. That which disturbs such ecology is adharma.
There is no life that is inferior. All lives enjoy the same
importance in the Universe and all play their fixed roles. They are to function
together and no link in the chain is to be lost.