Religions and Trees

Peepla is the only treee that emits oxygen during day and night unlike others that emit carbon dia oxide in night. Banyan tree is shady. The suggestion is welcome. No doubt, the trees are significant to Hindus. They worship Peepla tree. But this cannot be a reason for rejecting the suggestion. 

Agreed with Gulshan Ji, The tress should be planted on merit basis and not based on religion. We can add neem tree also which is as good as banyan and peepal. We can add Cheed and other trees of this family.

No tree verifies one's antecedents, precedents or religion. They give their cool shade to all. It's we the narrow minded see all these useless petty things.

In fact some trees are related to specific religions, like Hindus worship, Pipal, Banyan, Tulsi, Neem etc because of their beneficiary properties. I would like to mention other religions have particular trees related to their faith like Christians have Fir Tree and Muslims respect date palm, olive, etc and a certain religion worships cedar, pine etc.  But I repeat the trees should be planted according to Geo-conditions and benefit of people as a whole.

Worship is directly related to a belief pertaining to a religion but, here I stress upon the utility aspect of a Tree. Here I'd like to add. There is an Ayurvedic medicine that is sold with the name "Panch Tulsi". Non - Hindus do not purchase Panch Tulsi simply because Panch Tulsi is made from a Plant worshipped by Hindus? If I want to avail the medicinal qualities I would buy Zindatilismath an Unani medicine.

Trees do not have any religion; it is man who imposes religion on them based on his faith, beliefs and spirituality. Let his beliefs save him. Anyway,  it is always good to plant any tree that gives shade or have some medicinal value, without bothering about its religious background. 

You're free to follow your faith and beliefs, I'm not a hard core believer but don't mind watching people worshiping, banana, banyan, pipal and tulsi. 

Tulsi is being worshipped for both religious purposes and therapeutic purposes.

The whole point of making trees such as peepal and banyan sacred to Hindus is simply because they are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent and have numerous medicinal and other benefits. So even if they are labeled as religious to just one community, planting them is good for us in all aspects considering our geophysical and meteorological conditions. Here I must point the fact that even though foreign trees such as raintrees, gulmohar etc. do quite well, they are proving detrimental to our geographical conditions. So planting indigenous trees is prudent and if any one is opposing them on religious beliefs, they are welcome to get out of our country.,

I agree with you Kalyani. Peepal and Banyan trees are considered holy and sacred for Hindus.. But these trees were useful for every community and religion, offering their cool shade without asking the religion of those who sit under its shade. For example the world renowned Banyan tree of Adyar in Tamilnadu  which is in the premises of Theosophical society of India is 450 years old. Did any one question the religious aspect of this Banyan tree?  No. Religion has become a pretext to the political parties to throw dust on other religions.

The overall utility aspect has to be taken in to consideration instead of questioning a tree's origin of the religion/

There is nothing religious about trees since they represent nature and life and each region and lifestyle requires the support of certain trees ...We cannot grow pakms in Europe similarly many trees that grow easily there cannot be grown here.I feel that we should keep religion out of this..

It is a pity these politicians dragged trees which are a part of nature and useful for the humanity since time immemorial  in to their dirty net of politics.

usha manohar wrote:

There is nothing religious about trees since they represent nature and life and each region and lifestyle requires the support of certain trees ...We cannot grow pakms in Europe similarly many trees that grow easily there cannot be grown here.I feel that we should keep religion out of this..

True...we should keep religion and politics out of such issues. But on the contrary, when we think more about it, truth is religion is still responsible for saving so many trees. I am not sure about other states, but in Maharashtra each village used to have its own special grove of woods which contained specific varieties of trees indigenous to that particular region. That grove used to be called "Devrai" Dev means God and rai means a small forest. All the trees were considered extremely sacred and it was forbidden to cut even a single branch or a leaf of any tree. Only the fruits and dried branches that fell on the ground could be collected. This lead to flourishing of forests and maintaining ecosystems to the micro levels. So I think religion pl,ayed an important role in saving environment.

@ Kalyani.

Very very true. Truth itself is religion. Saving trees means saving ourselves from the environmental disasters. Let these trees be kept aloof from politics.

Lord Jagannath is built with wood logs, in every 19 years, and in tribal areas people used to worship wood logs and other nature elements. 

I agree. Much ado about this Human friend trees. A political colored noise.

rambabu wrote:

I agree. Much ado about this Human friend trees. A political colored noise.

 

If you agree with this issue at this point then the whole problem is resolved... Don't you think so bigbro? :)

 

suni51 wrote:

rambabu wrote:

I agree. Much ado about this Human friend trees. A political colored noise.

 

If you agree with this issue at this point then the whole problem is resolved... Don't you think so bigbro? :)

 

I agree. but other valued members too should agree Munna. Don't you think so?

 

 

We have to accept all that is good. It matters little whether some body worships or not that tree. I like date fruit and will eat even if this is worshiped by Muslims. However I shall not worship this tree. Muslims can also have 'tulsi' plant in their homes. TRhey will be benefited. However they may not worship Tulsi as Hindus do.  

Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:

We have to accept all that is good. It matters little whether some body worships or not that tree. I like date fruit and will eat even if this is worshiped by Muslims. However I shall not worship this tree. Muslims can also have 'tulsi' plant in their homes. TRhey will be benefited. However they may not worship Tulsi as Hindus do.  

 

Absolutely. If a thing is good grab it without looking into it's origin and religious aspects.