Small packets of Sugary water

The soft drinks advertises themselves as drink which can satisfy the thirst.

Todays man put corn sugar & some artificial flavour mix it with water & sell it for few dollars.

I was wondering are these really thirst quenchers ?? I didn't find it when i tasted these soft drinks.

Some even find same exact taste of fruits in chemical substance & add it to water to sell it as fruit drink with artificial flavour.

This is billion dollar business today !!

But people buying these products are not satisfied by the artificial nature of these products.

Indeed there is now more awareness of its disadvantages to health & nature.

The sugar in these soft drinks are more than our body needs it accumulates in the body 
& the soft drinks donot have the good amounts of vitamins,fibers etc either.

The plastics used by these bottles are more harmful to nature & is now a great menace around the world adding to severe pollution in nature.

But what drives man to create such business ?

Money ? yes

innovation ? yes 

But what is the deep down motivation in heart 

Imitate ??? 

Yes Man wants to imitate to what it see around in nature.

Nature also carries such sugary packets in the form of Fruits & vegetables 

& man thought " Wow ! can i create similar sugar packets at less cost & endeavour & sell them at huge quantities !?" 

& that triggered the so-called modern innovation of soft drinks,artificial flavours,plastic etc 

Nature also carries sugar packets in form of fruits & vegetables hanging on trees.

It contains sugar & vitamin,minerals & all natural things good for our body.

Even the nature packs the water in different colours & taste in a bio-degradable material compared to plastic !!.

You see Nature has provided all needs of human beings.There are urges & needs in Human body & nature has perfect answer product to satisfy them .

When there is summer humans need more water & nature provides oranges & watermelons which quench the thrist naturally & are summer fruits ie they grow most in summer.

And one doesnot need a factory or machinery knowledge but simple plantation of fruits saplings would give thousands of fruits to satisfy oneself & many others. 

In attempt to imitate nature & get more money man has created more problems than solutions.Just think it tried to replace the natural farming of fruits with artificial factory producing flavoured sugar water. What a waste of time & energy & money ? & moreover it is more harmful than of any good solution to us. !

Ancient Vedic text called Isopanishad gives nice solution to this problem 

om purnam adah purnam idam

purnat purnam udacyate

purnasya purnam adaya

purnam evavasisyate

TRANSLATION

The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.

The nature that has come from God , is a gift of God , is complete in its whole.It has all facilities to provide & quench our needs. We simply donot have to artificially find solutions to our needs.

Next time when you are store & want to buy a small packet of sugary water ...... choose nature gifts for that is Mother Nature's real gift.

Contended with what you have !

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8.19.24

yadṛcchayopapannena

santuṣṭo vartate sukham

nāsantuṣṭas tribhir lokair

ajitātmopasāditaiḥ

TRANSLATION

One should be satisfied with whatever he achieves by his previous destiny, for discontent can never bring happiness. A person who is not self-controlled will not be happy even with possessing the three worlds.

PURPORT

If happiness is the ultimate goal of life, one must be satisfied with the position in which he is placed by providence. This instruction is also given by Prahlāda Mahārāja:

sukham aindriyakaḿ daityā

deha-yogena dehinām

sarvatra labhyate daivād

yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ

"My dear friends born of demoniac families, the happiness perceived with reference to the sense objects by contact with the body can be obtained in any form of life, according to one's past fruitive activities. Such happiness is automatically obtained without endeavor, just as we obtain distress." (Bhāg. 7.6.3) This philosophy is perfect in regard to obtaining happiness.

Real happiness is described in Bhagavad-gītā (6.21):

sukham ātyantikaḿ yat tad

buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam

vetti yatra na caivāyaḿ

sthitaś calati tattvataḥ

"In the spiritually joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth." One has to perceive happiness by the supersenses. The supersenses are not the senses of the material elements. Every one of us is a spiritual being (ahaḿ brahmāsmi), and every one of us is an individual person. Our senses are now covered by material elements, and because of ignorance we consider the material senses that cover us to be our real senses. The real senses, however, are within the material covering. Dehino'sminyathā dehe: [Bg. 2.13] within the covering of the material elements are the spiritual senses. Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaḿtat-paratvena nirmalam: [Cc. Madhya 19.170] when the spiritual senses are uncovered, by these senses we can be happy. Satisfaction of the spiritual senses is thus described: hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaḿ bhaktir ucyate. When the senses are engaged in devotional service to Hṛṣīkeśa, then the senses are completely satisfied. Without this superior knowledge of sense gratification, one may try to satisfy his material senses, but happiness will never be possible. One may increase his ambition for sense gratification and even achieve what he desires for the gratification of his senses, but because this is on the material platform, he will never achieve satisfaction and contentment.

According to brahminical culture, one should be content with whatever he obtains without special endeavor and should cultivate spiritual consciousness. Then he will be happy. The purpose of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to spread this understanding. People who do not have scientific spiritual knowledge mistakenly think that the members of the Kṛṣṇaconsciousness movement are escapists trying to avoid material activities. In fact, however, we are engaged in real activities for obtaining the ultimate happiness in life. If one is not trained to satisfy the spiritual senses and continues in material sense gratification, he will never obtain happiness that is eternal and blissful. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (5.5.1) therefore recommends:

tapo divyaḿ putrakā yena sattvaḿ

śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaḿ tv anantam

One must practice austerity so that his existential position will be purified and he will achieve unlimited blissful life.