THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE.

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The two great teachers cannot be denied their high grounds in any aspect. Nature and mother. Mother is a great teacher in the sense that apart from a partner in creation she is the one to teach the most difficult lesson to a small child how to take the first step.

He is admitted to the school of life? The small step is the beginning of a long journey of life. Now it is his duty to read and acquire knowledge from the surrounding nature. Nature has enormous and unlimited knowledge to offer to humanity, relates to humans in its own language. Those who use their faculties of seeing, listening and analysis acquire what no man made institution can offer. The beauty of nature that it speaks in its silence and it's noise. It unfolds itself to be read. Few of us has the capability to do it.

Nature does not like to be limited nor tolerate inhibitions and hindrances. Those who try to built hindrances, the response always match the obstructions. Let us look at the vast and deep ocean They have a huge universe in its depth. The very depth of holding so much secrets of nature, gives it the power and might.

The depth gives tolerance and serenity. Less disposition to express. Watch it's surface, calm and quiet. What to say of noise there is no whisper. We have expressions like, still waters run deep or the lull in the sea is always followed by a storm. If we think over it the storm is always a reaction to obstruction or an internal disorder.

If we correlate this characteristic to human, a knowledgable intellectual will speak less and listen more. His depth of patience will be more. Provocation will agitate him comparatively less. Hardly with an inclination to show off.

It is the ignorant and particularly those with little will create more problems and speak louder than what they know. Arrogance will be his second nature. He is like a river with no depth. But in spite of less depth, its nature does not tolerate obstructions and hindrances to its free flow. The rivers roar, when it hit obstruction, retreat and hit again. It rumbles, change direction and cause destruction. The same may happen in sea but when there is a volcanic eruptions or gross interference in its internal chemistry. In it's depth lies its tolerance.

The great people owe this behaviour to nature. The depth of their wisdom, experience and knowledge purify their soul and mind. Their tolerance threshold is unimaginably very high. They hate vulgarity and damaging others.

If we spend a night amongst a thick forest of pines and listen to the music when the breeze is blowing it is the taller trees that sing. The smaller trees will dance more and sing less.

How much we have common in nature and without realising how much we have inherited from nature. How much nature broaden our horizon and vision if we ponder over it for a while?