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efforts to reach their innermost core.
Bela is an eastern flower just as religion is an eastern flower. Science is a western flower. Science can happen only in a cold climate where people have to struggle with nature, fight with nature. In the East nature was very very co-operative. There was no problem to fight; the idea has never existed. Books like The Conquest of Nature have never been written in India. The very idea was thought to be absurd. It is not a question of conquering . Nature was already giving so much that people were thankful. But in a cold climate you have to fight, struggle. And the struggle is so long, that it makes your whole consciousness focussed on the poverty. But now it is possible that the East and West can meet. That's what is happening here. Now for the first time it is possible that the earth can become one. Now religion can even grow in the West and science can grow in the East. Remember Bela as representative of the eastern fragrance, the fragrance of Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna, Kabira. The message is to make a total effort to awaken yourself. That very effort creates the heat, the right heat, the right temperature in which the fragrance is released.
Just one Champak flower is enough
To make the whole house full of fragrance.
Just one flower in the garden
And the whole garden will be perfumed.
And it is a small flower.
Appearance-wise it is not beautiful at all
Appearance-wise it is very ordinary.
But don't be deceived by appearances.
It is said that Jesus was not a beautiful man
In fact he was an ugly man.
Many people simply laughed at his ugliness.
They missed the point, they could not see deeper.
If you come across the champak flower
You will see a very ordinary flower
Not worth looking at twice.
But it is the most precious of flowers.
It contains the greatest perfume possible.
So always remember: the appearance
Is not the real determining factor in life.
The container is of no importance
But the content is.
The body may be ordinary, homely, and yet
It may have a
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