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CHAPTER 17. JESUS, THE ONLY FORGOTTEN SON OF GOD
There are science fictions about all the trees around you going crazy. They can go crazy because
they have a certain kind of brain, a certain kind of mind. Now, it is a proved fact that they think, feel;
that they have emotions, sentiments; that they love, they hate. Now there are scientific proofs about
all this.
Buddha and Mahavira, twenty-five centuries ago, said not to hurt trees because they are as alive as
you are. People at first laughed, that trees... and alive? But Buddha and Mahavira had no scientific
proofs for it. It was only their experience in silence. Sitting under a tree, utterly silent, Buddha
suddenly felt that the tree is not dead, that it is thriving with life. But these were their personal
experiences; they could say it, but they could not prove it.
It was left to be proved by another Indian, Jagdishchandra Bose, who devoted his whole life to
finding scientifically whether Buddha and Mahavira were right or wrong. And he conclusively proved
that trees are alive. He was given a Nobel prize for proving trees to be alive. But that was only the
beginning. Then more and more researchers went into it. Just to be alive is not enough.
Soon it was found that they have a different kind of brain system, but they do have one. You should
not look for the same brain as you have. This is a stupid human idea, that your brain is the only kind
of brain. If there can be so many kinds of bodies why can’t it be that there can be so many kinds of
brain? And soon it was found that they have a certain kind of brain system, and things went on...
Just a few years ago it was found that trees not only have a certain way of knowing which we call a
brain, they have a heart too. Certainly it does not beat like yours, because they have their own kind
of heart. If their surgeons come to look around you, they will find no heart in you, no brain in you,
because they will be looking for their type of brain, their type of heart.
Trees feel emotions, sentiments. For example when a gardener comes to water the tree, the tree
feels happy. Now, the happiness can be measured on a graph like the cardiogram. The graph
becomes harmonious, as if it is a song, rhythmic. If somebody comes with an axe to cut the tree...
he is far away but the graph changes. The man has not even said that he is coming to cut the tree,
he has only thought about it, but the tree somehow has become aware of his thought.
If he is not going to cut the tree, and has no thought of it, he can pass by the tree with the axe in his
hand and the graph will continue the same. But if he has the thought to cut the tree, then the graph
immediately changes, zig-zags, all the harmony is lost, there is no rhythm. The tree is shaking with
fear And if he cuts the tree, then the graphs of other trees around start going berserk. They are
feeling hurt because one of their fellows, friends, a neighbor, is being cut.
So it is not impossible – if they have sentiments, emotions, a certain kind of thinking... my idea is not
outlandish: sometimes they can go crazy, because all these things are needed to go crazy. They
have them; and man has done so much harm to them that it is time they should go crazy. And he
goes on harming them. There must be a limit, and it is not far away....
Man has destroyed the whole environment.
After my graduation I went to the Hindu university in Varanasi to study, because that is the biggest
university in India. But I stayed there only twenty-four hours. The man I was staying with was Doctor
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