Harmony in Nature

The Four Orders in Nature

If we look around beyond the earth, the material order is visible even in the form of stars, planets, moons
and several astronomical bodies. Humans are the smallest order and they are referred to as Human Order
or gyãnaavasthã.
Interconnectedness and Mutual Fulfilment

Each order is connected to each other

The Material Order provides the nutrients to the Plant/Bio-Order in the form of soil, minerals, etc while the
Plant/Bio-Order decays and forms more nutrient, thus enriching the soil. The Plant/Bio-Order also decays to
substances like oil and coal, which are stored deep within the earth as protection against the heat from the molten
core inside the earth as well as the heat from the sun (today, this is the material we are removing and using as fuel!).
Plants help move the nutrients through the various layers of the soil. The roots of the plants hold the soil together and
prevent the soil from erosion. Plants produce oxygen/ carbon dioxide and thus help in the movement of the Material
Order. Thus Pranic order and Material Order, naturally exist in a relationship of mutual fulfilment with each other.
They also co-exist, they don’t deny the other. There is a mutual interdependency and co-existence we can see here.
Material Order, Plant/Bio Order and Animal Order

The Material Order provides the basis for movement of all animals, birds and fishes. Water, Oxygen and other gases
are necessities for both plants and animals. At the same time, the Animal Order helps enrich the soil with its excreta
and this excreta helps the plants with nutrients. The Plant/Bio Order provides food for animals, birds and fishes. The
Animal Order helps in pollination of the flowers of the Pranic order. The relationship across all three orders is –
naturally one of mutual fulfilment. None of these orders denies the other.
Material Order, Pranic Order, Animal Order and Human
Order
When we look at the connectedness with human beings, we find that each of these orders is fulfilling to the human
order. We humans also have a natural acceptance to be mutually fulfilling to these three orders. However, we are not
able to ensure this mutual fulfilment. We are dependent on the material order for soil and minerals and metals, but
only end up polluting the soil and depleting the fossil fuels; we are dependent on plants for our food and holding
together the larger ecosystem, but we have destroyed forests and destroyed multiple species of plants and herbs; we
are dependent on animals to carry out our production and transportation activities, but have made many species of
animals enxtinct, and are today known for our cruelty towards animals.
We thus see that the three orders besides the Human Order are in harmony and are fulfilling to the human order.
However, we as humans have not yet understood and learnt to live in relationship of mutual fulfilment with these
three other orders. This is because we have not understood the harmony that exists between these orders. We have not
even understood our own needs properly, nor have we understood harmonious ways to fulfil our needs.

On the other hand, if we explore our natural acceptance, we find that we want to live harmoniously with nature.
This is important for our own happiness. This is an undeniable and a very significant relationship for each one of
us. This is a relationship we need to properly understand.
Recyclability and Self-regulation in Nature

• These two characteristics namely, cyclical nature and self-regulation provide us with some clues of the harmony
that is in nature. These are visible signs we can see with our eyes, and understand.

• The appropriateness of conditions for growth of both plants and animals are self-regulated in nature keeping the
population proportions naturally maintained. Breeds of plants and animals are similarly self-regulated in their
environment. In a forest, the growth of trees takes place in a way so that the amount of soil, plants and animals
remains conserved.
Human Beings - Our State Today
We can make the following observations based on the table above:
What is written for ‘I’ on the right side makes the basic needs for us as human beings. Without these, there is no
definiteness in our conduct; without this, we don’t have satisfaction, we don’t have a continuity of happiness.

We can’t do away with our need for continuous happiness, because it is our innateness, it is intrinsic to us, it is our
& Dhãranã – it is inseparable from us. So, surviving alone is not enough for us, we want to live with happiness and
its continuity, and this is not possible without having the right understanding/knowledge.

We can’t live with cruelty or just avoiding to be cruel, and still be happy, because, that is not our natural
characteristic, it not our svabhãva, it is not our natural acceptance, it is not naturally acceptable to us. Our natural
acceptance is for perseverance, bravery and generosity, and this is our svabhãva, this is our natural acceptance.
Unless we are according to our natural characteristic, we are not according to our natural acceptance, we cannot be
happy. We can try many things, but it is not possible for us to be happy.

Our basic need is not just physical facilities, but relationship and right understanding/knowledge as well.

To live as in the left is called living in animal consciousness and to live as in the right is called living in human
consciousness.

Unless we exercise our need and capacity to know, we shall continue to create problems for ourselves and the rest
of the orders in nature, since we have far greater faculties and the ability to have a large impact on our environment.