Hi,
I participated in the Vyasa-puja celebrations on 19th Dec 2015 at Maha Mantra Bhakti Niwas, Kukatpally, Hyderabad. Vyasa-puja is an annual celebration by devotees of Krishna to offer homage to their guru, or a spiritual teacher. On that day, the disciples here at Bhaki Niwas in Kukatpaly came one after another, recollected their learning from Maharaj Radhanth Swami ji, and expressed their gratitude to him.
One of the devotees narrated and shared with us what he had recently heard and learned from the Swami ji's lecture at Google Inc in the US. He said that in that lecture Swami ji had given an example of the redwood trees and revealed the hidden secret behind their success. Redwoods have been surviving for millions of years. They are the tallest and the greatest tree species on the planet earth. There is so much we all could learn from this tree and use it for our own success. Here is the secret behind the success of this amazing tree.
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The hidden secret of the unstoppable redwoods of California revealed
From a seed no bigger than one from a tomato, California's coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) grows to a height of 367 feet (112 m) and a width of 22 feet (7 m) at its base. In other words, it is as tall as a a 35-story skyscraper in your city. The buildings stand tall and safe as they are built on strong foundations. But the roots of redwoods do not grow deep. They have no tap root at all. The roots are shallow and very close to the surface. But the redwoods survive safely and grow to be the tallest and the greatest among the trees. How come the redwoods still stood tall and survived?
Fossil records showed that relatives of today's coast redwoods in California thrived in the Jurassic Era 160 million years ago. And while most of the creatures of that age had long since disappeared, the redwoods continued to thrive. How could the redwoods survive?
The redwood trees experience massive forest fires, devastating earthquakes, frigid winters, storms, winds, tornadoes from time to time. But, they endure and continue to survive. The redwood trees can reach ages of 2,000 years and regularly reach 600 years. How do they keep standing?
Let me present the secret to you in Rathanath Swami ji's words.
"Underground, the roots cannot be seen. But the nature of a redwood tree is that the roots reach out to the roots of other redwood trees. And when two roots of two different trees come together, they wrap around each other and make a permanent knot. And all the roots of all the trees are reaching out to connect with each other.’ Unity is their strength, these gigantic redwood trees that are thousand years old that are so tall.”
– Radhanath Swami ji
"These giant trees, their roots go not only to other huge trees, but even to the little baby trees that are just coming out of their seeds. Their fine little roots are wrapping around the big roots and in this way they are empowering each other to grow. And because of their unity, through the fires and through the wind storms, they keep growing and growing and growing."
– Radhanath Swami ji
----------------------------------------------------------------------------One of the devotees narrated and shared with us what he had recently heard and learned from the Swami ji's lecture at Google Inc in the US. He said that in that lecture Swami ji had given an example of the redwood trees and revealed the hidden secret behind their success. Redwoods have been surviving for millions of years. They are the tallest and the greatest tree species on the planet earth. There is so much we all could learn from this tree and use it for our own success. Here is the secret behind the success of this amazing tree.
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The hidden secret of the unstoppable redwoods of California revealed
From a seed no bigger than one from a tomato, California's coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) grows to a height of 367 feet (112 m) and a width of 22 feet (7 m) at its base. In other words, it is as tall as a a 35-story skyscraper in your city. The buildings stand tall and safe as they are built on strong foundations. But the roots of redwoods do not grow deep. They have no tap root at all. The roots are shallow and very close to the surface. But the redwoods survive safely and grow to be the tallest and the greatest among the trees. How come the redwoods still stood tall and survived?
Fossil records showed that relatives of today's coast redwoods in California thrived in the Jurassic Era 160 million years ago. And while most of the creatures of that age had long since disappeared, the redwoods continued to thrive. How could the redwoods survive?
The redwood trees experience massive forest fires, devastating earthquakes, frigid winters, storms, winds, tornadoes from time to time. But, they endure and continue to survive. The redwood trees can reach ages of 2,000 years and regularly reach 600 years. How do they keep standing?
Let me present the secret to you in Rathanath Swami ji's words.
"Underground, the roots cannot be seen. But the nature of a redwood tree is that the roots reach out to the roots of other redwood trees. And when two roots of two different trees come together, they wrap around each other and make a permanent knot. And all the roots of all the trees are reaching out to connect with each other.’ Unity is their strength, these gigantic redwood trees that are thousand years old that are so tall.”
– Radhanath Swami ji
"These giant trees, their roots go not only to other huge trees, but even to the little baby trees that are just coming out of their seeds. Their fine little roots are wrapping around the big roots and in this way they are empowering each other to grow. And because of their unity, through the fires and through the wind storms, they keep growing and growing and growing."
– Radhanath Swami ji
The redwoods have no taproot. The roots only go down 10 to 13 feet (3-4 m) deep. But they spread outward 60 to 80 feet (20-27 m). They intertwine with the roots of other redwood trees. With such a bondage of interdependence, they survive together, grow together, live longer, stand taller, and serve greater. Why not we, as individuals, as companies, as corporations, as countries, and communities reach out to others, develop bonds of unity and togetherness, and support each other so that we too could survive, succeed, and serve better? Remember, "Together we stand, divided we fall."
To your unstoppable success,
With love,
Siva
PS: Info source:
2) http://www.radhanathswamivideo.com/video/radhanath-swami-at-the-clo-summit
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