Pranam
- *Trees provide shade and cooling*. They reduce temperatures through
shade and by transpiring water. One mature tree can produce the same
cooling effect as 10 room-sized air conditioners. This becomes an effective
tool in reducing urban heat islands and hot spots in cities.
- *They help clean the air*. Trees filter the air of contaminants and
are proven to absorb carbon dioxide, which comprises over 80 percent of
greenhouse gases in the US. Planting trees remains one of the cheapest,
most cost-effective means of drawing excess carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.
- *Trees can help us save energy*. Having plenty of shade trees in your
yard can help reduce your energy bill by allowing you to save on air
conditioning. Carefully positioned trees can reduce a household’s energy
consumption for heating and cooling by up to 25 percent.
- *They contribute to our health and provide us with oxygen*. Trees
breathe in pollutants but then breathe out oxygen. One large tree can
provide a day’s supply of oxygen for up to four people.
- *Trees help clean our water*. Trees serve as natural sponges,
collecting and filtering rainfall and releasing it slowly into streams and
rivers, and are the most effective land cover for maintenance of water
quality. The ability of forests to aid in the filtration of water provides
benefits to our health and the health of an ecosystem and can aid in water
treatment. Forests provide these benefits by filtering sediments and other
pollutants from the water in the soil before it reaches a water source,
such as a stream, lake, or river.
तरु, वृक्ष, कुज, द्रुम= Trees in sanskrit. Taru (तरु).—*a.*
[*tṝ-un* Uṇ.1.7]
Protecting. (Taru vanam). Vṛkṣa (वृक्ष, “tree”).—One the
classifications of plants according to their stature. Vṛkṣas are plants
that bear flowers and fruits and have trunks and branches such as Kovīdara
(Bauhinia). The term is used throughout Ayurvedic literature such as the
*Suśruta-saṃhitā *and the *Caraka-saṃhitā*. Kuja (कुज,
“Earth-born”).—One of the names of the Goddess, Devī, who is regarded as
the female principle of the divine; the embodiment of the energies of the
Gods.
- SKANDA PURANAM: ON FLOWERS: I shall recount the efficacy of
flowers as well as the names of flowers which undoubtedly give me great
delight.
3-5. They are Mallikā
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/mallika#purana>, Mālatī
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/malati#purana>, Yūthikā
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/yuthika#purana> and Atimuktakā
(all varieties of Jasmine), Pāṭala
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/patala#purana> (Trumpet flower),
Karavīra <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/karavira#purana>
(Oleander), Jayantī
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/jayanti#purana> (*Sesbania
aegyptiace*), Vijayā <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/vijaya#purana> (a
variety of the former) (*Terminalia chebula*), Kubjaka
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kubjaka#purana> Stabaka
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/stabaka#hinduism> (*Trapa
bispinosa*), Karṇikāra
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/karnikara#purana> (*Cathartocarpus
fistula*), Kuraṇṭaka (Yellow amaranth), Caṃpaka
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/campaka#purana> (*Michelia campaka
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/campaka#purana>*), Cātaka
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/cataka#hinduism> (?), Kunda
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kunda#purana> (Jasmine), Bāṇa
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/bana#purana> (*Saccharum sara
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sara#purana>*), Karcūra (Turmeric
mallika <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/mallika#purana>) (*Jasminum
zambae*), Aśoka <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/ashoka#purana>,
Tilaka <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/tilaka#purana> (*Clerodendrum
phlomoides*) and Aparayūthikā (a variety of Jasmine). These flowers are
auspicious in my worship, O son.
6. The following cause immediate pleasure to the: Ketakī
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/ketaki#purana> flowers and
leaves (*Pandanus
odoratissimus*), Bhṛṅgarāja
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/bhringaraja#purana> and Tulāsī
leaves and flowers.
7. Lotuses growing in water, red and blue lilies and white lily-all
these are my great favourites in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/margashirsha#purana>.
8. Only those flowers which have good colour, taste and fragrance are
excellent (for me), O my son.
9. Those without fragrance are also considered by me (tolerably) good.
Other fragrant flowers except Ketakī (are also good).
10-11. Bāṇa, Caṃpaka, Aśoka, Karavīra, Yūthikā, Pāribhadra
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/paribhadra#purana> (*Erythena
fulgens*), Pāṭalā <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/patala#purana>,
Bakula <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/bakula#purana> (*Mimusops
elengi*), Giriśālinī, Bilva
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/bilva#purana> leaves, Śamī
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/shami#purana> leaves, Bhṛṅgarāja
leaves, Tamāla <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/tamala#hinduism>
and Āmalakī <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/amalaki#hinduism> leaves
(*Emblic myrobalan*)—all these are excellent for my worship, O son.
12. I should be worshipped with forest flowers or leaves from mountains.
They should not be stale (i.e. much time should not have elapsed after
plucking). They must not have holes in them. No insect should stick to
them. Before worship they must be sprinkled with water.
13. I can be worshipped with flowers from parks and gardens too. If I am
worshipped with flowers of excellent quality, the merit shall be greater.
14. By offering flowers in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa, a man obtains that
merit which people get by giving ten gold pieces to a deserving person
endowed with good conduct, penance and mastery over the Vedas
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/vedas#hinduism>.
15. If a single Droṇa
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/drona#purana> flower
(probably of *Leucas linifolia*) is offered to me, one gets more than
the merit obtained by giving ten gold pieces, O son.{GL_NOTE::}
16-19. Know from me the difference between flower and flower. Khādira
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/khadira#hinduism> (*Acacia catechu*)
is better ṃan thousands of Droṇa flowers. Śamī flower is better than a
thousand Khādira flowers. Bilva flower is better ṃan thousands of Śamī
flowers. Baka <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/baka#purana>
flower (*Sesbana
grandiflora?*) is better than thousands of Bilva flowers. Nandyāvarta
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/nandyavarta#hinduism> is better
than thousands of Baka flowers. Karavīra (oleander) is better than a
thousand Nandyāvarta flowers.
20-24. Śveta <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/shveta#purana> flower
(white bignonia? MW) is better ṃan a thousand Karavīra flowers. Palāśa
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/palasha#purana> flower is better
than a thousand Śveta flowers. Kuśa
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kusha#purana> flower is better ṃan
a thousand Palāśa flowers. Vanamālā
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/vanamala#purana> (wild Jasmine?)
is better ṃan a thousand Kuśa flowers, Caṃpaka is better than a thousand
Vanamālā flowers. Aśoka flower is better than a hundred Caṃpaka flowers.
Śevantī flower is better than a thousand Aśoka flowers. Kujaka flower is
better ṃan a thousand Śevantī flowers. Mālatī flower (Jasmine) is better
than a thousand Kuja <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kuja#purana>
flowers. Sandhyā
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sandhya#purana> flower
(*Jasminum grandiflorum*) is better than a thousand Mālatī flowers.
25-28. Trisandhyā
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/trisandhya#purana> flower (*Hibiscus
rosa sinensis*) is better than a thousand Sandhyā flowers. Trisandhyā
Śveta flower is better than a thousand Trisandhyā red flowers. Kunda flower
(*Jasmine*, *Jasminum multiflorum*) is better than a thousand Trisandhyā
Śveta flowers. Jāti flower (*Jasminum grandiflorum*) is better ṃan a
thousand Kunda flowers. Jāti flower is better than all other flowers.
Listen to the merit of the man who duly offers to me a very splendid
garland having a ṃousand Jāti flowers.
29-33. He lives in my city thousands of crores of Kalpas
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kalpa#purana> and hundreds of
crores of Kalpas. He will have the power and valour equal to that of mine.
If the flowers are excellent for my worship, their leaves too are good. If
they are not available, the fruits (can be used). By worshipping me with
these flowers, leaves, and fruits one obtains the benefit of offering ten
gold pieces. If people worship me in the Mārgaśīrṣa month with these flower
varieties, I grant them devotion on being pleased. There is no doubt about
it. Propitiated by these flowers, O Lord of Devas, I grant them wealth,
sons, wives, and whatever they may desire.
-
Druma (द्रुम) or simply Dru refers to a “tree”, as mentioned in a list
of twenty-five synonyms in the second chapter (*dharaṇyādi-varga*
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/dharanyadi#ayurveda>) of the
13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). The
Dharaṇyādi-varga covers the lands, soil, mountains, jungles and
vegetation’s relations between trees [viz., Druma] and plants and
substances, with their various kinds.
-
Thus Dharmo can also be said as Drumo rakshati rakshita:. KR IRS 19122
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 06:03, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> *Mar**Architecture-Home as Temple*
>
>
>
> Life is symbiotic and not darwinian.Organisms inhale messages from the
> other organisms and exhale the symbiotic, action oriented responses. The
> Biosphere becomes one healthy organism.
>
> The Power of God in a Temple depends on the thick, lush and free nature
> surrounding the Temple. The Power of God in a Temple is the power of
> symbiosis of the thick, free and lush Biosphere engulfing the Temple. In
> such a Temple, one’s breathing becomes spirited and uplifting, making
> spiritualism sprout from the Bhaktha,( now a pejorative to the champions of
> economic development).
>
> Spiritualism is feeling, creating the hormonal emotions, the symbiotic
> emotions that take one to the bliss of rapture.
>
> A Home which creates the flow of the smells filled, messages filled free
> air flow from the Biosphere, becomes real Home, the abode of emotional
> bliss. Every organism is basically emotional, every tree, plant, blade of
> grass, is basically emotional, inhaling the messages of smells and exhaling
> the responses of smells, and they convert the Home into a Temple.
>
> A Temple in thick, lush and free Nature, really grants the satisfaction of
> every symbiotic need, which nature automatically senses, and nature
> automatically repairs one, so that one joins the active ecology. The God in
> such Temple, surrounded by thick, free and lush Biosphere, creates the
> needed will power, and one’s internal hormonal communications coordinate
> with the air outside or the hormonal system of the Biosphere, which when
> free, becomes one single organism.
>
> When nature is destroyed, it automatically destroys one’s own hormonal
> communications, and the blood circulation becomes the circulation of fear
> and terror, creating the neurotic way of tension filled life.
>
> A disease needs the negative internal hormonal communication. The blood
> circulation carries continuously the negative instructions to the cells.
> Where nature is destroyed because of urbanization, then Coronas, Omicrons
> and new and new viruses take over to reinforce, the bacteria that create
> many diseases.
>
> Please rehabilitate God, by planting trees, and allowing freedom to all
> life forms which develop naturally. Then God takes over your internal
> hormonal communication and you begin breathing success and freedom from
> disease. Ease is health. Disease is ease removed and disturbed and
> destroyed.
>
> Free nature automatically creates wonderful ease. Disease changes into
> ease.
>
> A Builder of Homes, every Architect has to keep in mind that a Home must
> be part of free and lush nature, and not the fraud painted with the latest
> colors, like the packaged goods sold in shops.
>
> A Home in the midst of thick and free nature creates love for self,
> because one’s own body becomes the sprout of rapture. Destroy nature, then
> your body becomes hell and you try to escape from your own body.
>
> Thick and free nature cures you of every disease. Just breathe under a
> happy tree and you converse in wordless abstract pleasant feelings with the
> tree.
>
> YM
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