Equinox. Equal day and night.
Tesla stocks are down by 50%. Will it bounce back?
CBI concludes: AIIMS states – Sushant Rajput was not murdered, it was a case of death by suicide; No one forced Sushant Rajput to die by suicide; Ms. Rhea Chakraborty, her family get a clean chit.
Water. H2O. A transparent, tasteless, odourless and nearly colourless liquid. Solid ice, water vapour. An important element in the five elements, five great elements, pancha bhuta – Prthvi (Earth), Jala (water), Agni (fire), Vayu (air), and Akasha (space). Water is essential for all known life. Regulates body temperature; assists in various functions; solvent of many body’s solutes. Fundamental for metabolism, enzyme functions, photosynthesis, and respiration. Water covers 70% of Earth’s surface. Water moves through the water cycle – evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, and runoff between atmosphere, land, seas-oceans. 96.5% water is in seas-oceans; 1.7% groundwater; 1.7% glaciers, etc. 70% freshwater goes into agriculture. 69% of global freshwater is in glaciers and permanent snow cover; 30% in groundwater; 1% in lakes, rivers, atmosphere, and biota.
After agriculture (and related: livestock etc., using a lot of water for meat production), industries use water significantly. Water pollution is also a result of industrial use, apart from sanitation, sewerage systems. Water is also giving hydroelectric power.
Civilizations have been around rivers, waterways. Cities have also come up around rivers, waterways, coasts, and islands. Safe potable, fit for human consumption, water is not accessible to 10-15% of the population. A third of the world’s humans suffer water scarcities. They do not receive a minimum of 1,700 cubic metres of water annually, or 50 litres a day. Human body contains 55-70% water. 1-7 litres per day needs to be consumed. Lot of the water would come through food. 2-3 litres or so required to be consumed as water daily. Apart from taking into us – only water, and as food, we use water for washing ourselves and other objects we use. We also use it for transport, recreation. Water, water bodies, lakes, rivers, and seas-oceans take us into spirituality. We tap water directly from rains; from streams, rivers; from lakes, reservoirs; from springs, bores, and wells. Often, we transport water for several kilometres to supply to villages, towns, and cities through canals, pipelines, tankers, pots-jars and of late as bottled waters. Waste water is getting treated, purified for reuse, recycling; or before releasing into flowing waters into rivers, seas-oceans.
Can we care to ensure access to potable, safe water to all of us? Can we care to: use water judiciously; draw only the bare minimum required; conserve water, harvest rainwater, reuse/recycle as a matter of routine? Can we also care not to pollute water, freshwater, water sources?
Let us wish ourselves ‘enough’. Enough salutations, blessings; enough sunshine, rain; enough happiness, pain; enough incomes-surpluses, losses; enough hellos, smiles, goodbyes, and tears. Enough hope, grace, faith, promise, and love. To coexist with no bitterness, with no compromise.
Can we get ‘enough’ to get going then? Leading to live, learn, and love, be in five elements. Fresh five. Now.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Being in, with, near water. In N? sukhijalayoga for 7L.
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