Effective Microorganisms
By Karmayogi
The small is
significant. We realise it only when things go wrong. The value of things is
seen only in their absence. We have heard of micronutrients in agriculture.
When the value of vitamins was first discovered, medical science found that
permanent ailments could be cured by small doses of the missing vitamins. A
Japanese scientist working in agriculture accidentally noticed the inherent
value of MICROORGANISMS. He found them effective, developed his theory,
practised it and published books on it 10 or 15 years ago. He called it EM,
effective microorganism. His theory is interesting.
To him the life of the soil is infinitely larger than we are using. We use,
according to him, only 5 p.c. of the effectivity of the soil. He calls that
part positive. As against it, following the natural law of opposite dualities,
there is 5 p.c. of negative effectivity in the soil. The rest of the 90 p.c. of
the soil is neutral. Suppose, for some reason the positive 5% is increased to
10 p.c. the neutral 90 p.c. shows a tendency to turn positive and that makes
the soil rich. He says it is true even if the 5 p.c. is increased to 6 p.c. His
practice was successful. He wrote books on it. They were welcomed by an eager
market. Now he says farmers from several countries including India have started using
it. He does not give the name of the place. His continued experiments and their
increasing success led him to think that earth's pollution can thus be
neutralised. He extended his experiments to human health and even there met
with striking success.
Micronutrients are physical. Microorganisms are of life – vital – and we can
extend it to the MIND. Their representative in the mind is opinion. Change one
opinion of yours, a miserable life becomes a happy life. There lies the value
of HUMAN CHOICE. Business in the West is booming. One of the reasons is they
have changed their opinion about the customer. Originally the idea was the
customer should buy what is sold or produced. Now they find out what the
customer wants and produce it. Sales have boomed.
Let us take a family where the atmosphere is quarrelsome. Let them teach
themselves to look at the ISSUE from another man's point of view. Suddenly
all quarrels will vanish. When the spirit is awake it is capable of seeing the
other man's point of view easily.