I was roaming about my office campus yesterday. It is a sprawling area and it has two makeshift water bodies. It is actually not even operational but has about 20% water. The area surrounding the campus is just empty land excluding some pockets of independent houses. The amazing thing was that there were about 15-20 storks in the water body. The campus was only operational recently. Somehow, these birds have a way of sensing the location of water here in the heart of this village. And it is anybody's guess where they come from.
Again, if you leave any food item outside for sometime, ants come there from nowhere. If you leave a large bowl of water in your backyard, birds start using it. There is a very deep sense of intelligence built into nature where these creatures perceive information related to their survival and procreation by tapping into this intelligence. Actually, I recently heard something that baffled me even more. Snakes at Velliyangiri can perceive if an "earthquake is going to happen in California". I trust the person who said this so that takes the bafflement to another dimension altogether.
We humans are also part of nature, only we don't behave that way. We are an arrogant lot, and only because we have access to the realm of logic and discretion. Even minor observation will tell that this logic is a pitiable substitute for the kind of intelligence that is in display on a day to day basis - take just our body for example. With this arrogance, we have brought this planet to the verge of a multi-pronged disaster - nuclear weapons, global warming and population. The irony is that, nature must display that same intelligence to sustain her blue planet - with our without humans. We can be sure she will, and we must brace ourselves for that.
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The same person said "Life is enormous intelligence".
Really wonderful isn't it. To be able to read the bird calls for weather patterns, stars for navigation, taste the wind, read footmarks of animals. Simple things compared to the animals though.
There are some survival camps where people are taught survival with few items. There they have to read the forest.
But why have we associated this kind of intuition with forest living! We should be able to do it anywhere- be sensitive and intelligent to handle situations/people. Sadhguru says Awareness and Intuition is absolutely necessary. :-)
This is the type of intelligence we are trying to copy and recreate in algorithms- "smarter systems" or something.
It is just that in a jungle situation, it can mean life or death without learning the ways of nature - so it might work for many people.
I remember in one Satsang, someone said, "If I close my eyes, I can easily see the kind of person coming in. This is not Yoga - your dog can also do this!"
Way to rub it in :)
We had a pet dog for over ten years, and I used to be fascinated watching him with his alertness and sensitivity beyond what I was capable. Obviously, we should be capable equally, if not more. The kind of damage our modern living has done is untold - because it is being offered as a substitute for these skills, not as a complement.
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