Peepal Baba

Here was a gentleman, here was a Zen master, here was an enlightened or a realized human being who was talking ecology.

He was talking trees, he was talking about bamboo, he was talking about grasses, he was talking like Prakriti hi Paramatma hai.

nature is god god is nature no this really struck me so i said no no no here is a gentleman who's making a lot of sense and whatever i am doing in action and whatever i have been reading you know he's summarizing it very well for me for me

So I see him as one of the greatest environmentalists on the planet.

Oh, sure.

Because

I've been to most of his ashrams in India, mostly Chalo, about 50-60%.

And I've seen that the way they've constructed the ashram, they've never cut down a tree.

They've never harmed the river flowing, the Nala or any kind of rivulet or the brook flowing through it.

I have never seen any boulders being moved out.

So he would always say, whatever you want to build, build around it.

So that was a very beautiful thing.

And what happens is you want to fall in love with a person.

And it stuck.

He is very gentle.

He is so pleasant.

He never harms anybody.

He's got an opinion of his own about the world.

That's fine.

And even I think that way.