Water Water Everywhere

They say that the world faces a greater peril than we now know . If the wars that mark our generation are those over oil - Those that will define generations to come will be ones fought over another precious , yet often easily ignore resource- Water .

In Shantaram one of my favorite passages from the book is where we're told how we are born from water and how to water we all must return . Several eons ago - there was water everywhere . The earth was one big ocean . Then as life began and evolved over the decades - we began to live on land . Yet - it is water that flows through our veins distributing life saving enzymes and hormones and platelets to our organs and cells , it is water that we cry through our tears ..And it is water that we are surrounded in for close to 9 months even before we step into the world. Its remarkable then that even as we walk with our feet on the ground ..Firmly most of the time , the saline content of the water that surrounds the baby in an expectant mother - is exactly the same saline content of the ocean . Not more ..Not less .The same .

Water has been worshipped and revered in all religions . In Hindus - its water that we pray to ..In almost all rituals...In a satyanarayan pooja , we even attempt to gather the water from all the seas and rivers in a kalash and pray to it . Its water that baptizes babies in other religions and marks their entry into the world . Every religion and scripture in the world ..Tells a scary story about the world ending through a merciless deluge of -Water .

Water calms , soothes , heals , purifies and loves . ..destroys

I read an amazing book not too long ago called Hidden Messages in Water , that made me think of these and other things . A Japanese scientist decided to take different petri dishes of water from the same source . He subjected each Petri dish to different environments . Some were placed in a home with happy families , some in an office with squabbling colleagues , some Petri dishes were exposed to classical music , others to heavy metal rock . Some were taken to war zones ..Others were taken to Machu Pichu and to the himalayas.Some were whispered words of love and loyalty and friendship ..and others were yelled and mocked at .

Then he took these Petri dishes and froze them till crystals were formed in each of them .
When those crystals were observed under a microscope - the result was shocking . Water , that had been exposed to positive emotion , love , beauty , peace , happiness , classical music ..All had formed beautiful crystals . The most beautiful crystals were formed by saying Thank You and Love and Gratitude . On the other hand - water subjected to negativity , fear , anger , war , was in a unrecognizable frozen mass.

The theory went that water absorbs everything . If you take a glass of water and put it in the center of a room - you see yourself , the glass and the entire room in it . Water more than anything is the creator and the sustainer of life . When you take any liquid and freeze it - the resulting solid is always denser . Not Water - Ice floats on water ..So that even in the coldest sub zero temperatures - ice floats on water maintaining a constant temperature below it - so that sub aquatic life forms may previal . Water - the preserver . So Water preserves the emotions of its surroundings ...reflects and reproduces those emotions .

One of the most interesting interpretations in the book was that of the theory of relativity . E = MC2
E = Energy
M= Minds
C = Consciousness

So the amount of energy generated by a group of minds is equal to the number of minds by the square of their consciousness .

A group of people in Japan set out to do that . In Hundreds - they gathered by a side of a polluted lake . And chanted prayers and meditated for hours . After that - the level of pollution in the lake actually dropped. Its said that their breathing and meditation generated ultrasonic waves of a frequency - that even most pollution experts said - is believed to destroy algae and reduce the effects of pollutants .

Theres a lot of things I have read about Water - since that day that have taken me by surprise .
I guess I dont realize how lucky I am to drink a glass whenever I have the need to .
The book ended with a chapter on how we should be nice to Water - and say Love and Gratitude or Thank You before we drink a glass . I've been doing just that ever since . It makes me smile ..Even at tea end of long tiring days like today .

Love ,Gratitude and Water .