Acharya Pradyumn ji

Yog guru Baba Ramdev's birth place is less than 10 km from my home town. The gurukul where he took his education is even lesser. His Sanskrit guru Acharya Pradyumn ji is a great sanskirt scholar. It’s indeed an achievement for a guru that he is known by his disciple's name, acharya ji can be proud of this. But this ascetic is away from these worldly things. He is busy in gurukul's affairs. But now days I see him sharing his knowledge on Astha channel. It was last year, before the rainy season, when I last had opportunity to have an interaction with the holy soul. When we wanted to plant some pipal trees and wanted to know if there is some thing in our Vedic literature about pipal. Acharya ji wanted to know y only pipal. I replied that we would plant neem too. He was happy. But frankly I was and i still am, interested in planting pipal more than neem. As I find the man is the biggest enemy of plants. They smash them under their cars' tyres when they are plants. They cut them to widen roads, to built concrete jungles, to encroach public places when they are big trees. And I find man fearing from cutting or harming pipal trees. But I dint disclose this to acharya ji. May be I dint feel it appropriate to do so. Anyways, acharya ji just raised his hand to reach to his rack of books and took out a book, Srimad Bhagwad Geeta. Randomly turned some pages and a verse, which meant Lord Krishna saying Arjun "I m pipal tree amoung trees". Now nothing had left acharya ji told to elaborate it as much as we wished once Bhagwan compared pipal with him. Pipal is known for its enormous qualities and uses besides providing food and shelter to a lot of living beings. But my aim primarily was to protect it from damage by the human.

Before we left from there acharya ji said, "I see people so desperate about having children and why not they are for trees. If each person plants a tree, how many trees we shall have."