Question: What is your opinion about the pollution of the environment?

Sri Chinmoy: It is a very sad thing that nature is being destroyed, the environment is being destroyed. It is nature that keeps us beautiful and soulful. When nature is destroyed, when artificial things replace the natural beauty, all the good qualities that we, as human beings, have will be ruined.

Unfortunately, people like artificial things, glamorous things. Most people do not like natural things. But natural things have their own beauty, purity and divinity. I feel very sad that the environment is being polluted and destroyed. I feel that we should pray for nature to be preserved. Nature should remain natural. The beauty of nature should remain always as it is, so that we can derive from it our purest joy, purest love and purest oneness.