Climate Change and பகவத் கீதா

Before writing on the Bhagavad Gita its better we try to take a note on what few of the great minds born in different religions and countries have said on Bhagavad Gita….For its universal message did long back as far as 1650s(http://picasaweb.google.com/smaramanan/TheySaidIt#5258325732178525122)
have taken the people…attention. But with modern communication devices and technological progress has Bhagavad Gita reached its wider audience?

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous. – Albert Eintein

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. – Aldoes Huxley

Warren Hasting the first Governor-General of India (1773-1784) in his foreward to Bhagavad Geetha..These books will stay even when our rule disappears. English empire whether it existed may be doubted but the greatness of Bhavag Geetha shall be eternal and their value is timeless....my attempts in translation
http://picasaweb.google.com/smaramanan/TheySaidIt#5258325790460587026

Oppenheimer remembered the Bhagavad Gita lines: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one." and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-03-08.html
Perform prescribed duties (not something you choose in modern casteless societies and then wait for job bank to send an offer or compensation or making societies to dive in anarchy because of unemployment and more of its explanation here
http://www.kamakoti.org/newlayout/template/hindudharma.html/3/1/hindu/The+Vedic+Religion+And+Varna+Dharma
)
http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-03-09.html
Actions in sense of sacrifice
http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-03-10.html
Creation explained and more here..(As I have already stated, their sound produces in our nadis as well as in the atmosphere vibrations that are salutary not only to our own Self but to the entire world. Here we must understand "lokakshema" or our welfare of the world to mean the good of mankind as well as of all other creatures. This concern for all creation that finds expression in the Vedas is not shared by any other religion. "Sanno astu dvipadesancatuspade"-- this occurs in a mantra: the Vedas pray for the good of all creatures including bipeds, quadrupeds etc. Even grass, shrubs, trees, mountains and the rivers are not excluded from their benign purview. The happy state of all these sentient creatures and inert objects is brought about through the special quality of the Vedas.http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap15.htm
)
http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-03-11.html
http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-03-12.html

Purpose of Yagnas or sacrifices in fires to appease Devas (Devotion, Devotees are from Devas but are we doing what is prescribed to be done for Devas? பலர் செய்வதில்லை It all begun when the Agni worshipers as Atar or as ‘Yasna’ or Zarathushtra or Zorostrians felt to keep ‘No worship to Devas’…
http://picasaweb.google.com/smaramanan/SwedishLearnings20042006#5252498982452576306
which is sincerely followed by its cousins of the mid east religions…Krisha tells us ‘those eating without offering to Devas in sacrificial offerings are thiefs’(What is a yajna? It is the performance of a religious duty involving Agni, the sacrificial fire, with the chanting of the mantras. The word itself is derived from the root "yaj" meaning "to worship", to evince devotion. The performance of a yajna is meant to please the Paramatman and the various deities. Yajna is also called "yaga". http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap16.htm)
‘The third purpose is the most important and it is achieved by performing sacrifices, as taught by the Gita, without any expectation of reward. Here we desire neither happiness in this world nor residence in paradise. We perform sacrifices only because it is our duty to invoke the blessings of the Gods for the welfare of the world. In this way our consciousness will be cleansed, a pre-requisite for enlightenment and final liberation. In other words the selfless performance of sacrifices means that we will eventually be dissolved in the Paramatman.’ http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap18.htm

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap19.htm
The Lord himself has spoken about them in the Gita. When Brahma created the human species he also brought the yajnas or sacrifices into existence, bidding mortals thus: "Keep performing sacrifices. You will obtain all good fortune. May these sacrifices of yours be the cow (Kamadhenu) that grants you all you desire"
Saha-yajnah prajah srstva puro'vaca Prajapatih
Anena prasavisyadhvam esa vo'stvista-kamadhuk
If we assume that Brahma "created humans and with them sacrifices", it is likely to be construed that he first created human beings and then sacrifices. But actually it is stated in the Gita that Prajapati created yajna along with humankind (saha-yajnah prajah srstva). Yajna is mentioned first and then praja (mankind).
Since the mantras of the Vedas are the source of creation, the vibrations produced by chanting them will bring the divine powers invested with the authority of performing certain functions. To recite such mantras at a sacrifice is like writing the address on an envelope. It is by performing homa in this way that the oblation is conveyed to the deity invoked by Agni.
The real punch from Mahaswamigal’s here an example ‘Englishmen thought up a shrewd plan. They induced other countries to start factories using machinery and fomented new, unnecessary desires among people there. And they sold lumps of coal and chalk to these countries and got in return foodgrains, cotton, etc, in abundance. In this way they brought country after country under their heel.’…’ Our country grows cotton. When our spinning mills did not prosper, the English took our cotton to Lancashire, made "nice" cloth and sold it to us, making in the process four times profit. The celestials produce rain for us from the water vapour formed from our own seas. But, unlike the English, they do not make any profit out of it (in the transaction).’

Is it all that matters?
Absolutely not…the further explanations comes here

‘However, we need the grace of the gods if we are to be blessed with rains. To deserve such grace we must perform sacrifices. Otherwise there will be no rains on earth. The result will be famine or the rain will fall into the sea and not on land, or it will be either ativrsti (too much rain) or anavrsti (no rain). We have to depend on the denizens of the celestial world to send us the right quantity of rain to create abundance on this planet.’
http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap19.htm

Recently read in a Tamil newspapers some Vedic Chanting priests were invited to Rome to chant/perform and explain in Vedas…It shows the world is beginning to change its opinion for a better direction…but still a long way to openly talk about in their popular channels of mass media.