Mango tree8/3/2023 ![]() ![]() This is what yoga-sthah kuru karmani means. One day, the mango will drop on your head. When it is time, the fruition will happen quickly. And don’t try to pluck the mango prematurely. Ripe fruit will turn to its mature color and become soft to the touch similar to a peach. Let fruit ripen on the tree for the best flavor. Mango fruit matures 100 to 150 days after flowering. Saplings usually take 3 to 5 years to bear fruit. Don’t wait in front of the mango tree, praying for fruits to come. Mango trees bear fruit about six years after seed sowing. Once the seed is planted, don’t dig it out after some time to see if it sprouts. You are given the raw material – what you make out of it is up to you. If the source of creation finds expression, you become an utterly beautiful piece of creation. The seed is good – the very source of creation is within it. This is how life is made – first you have to establish a solid basis. It would be foolish to think after a couple of years, “Nothing happened, so I’m going to chop down the tree and throw it away.” You have to wait for years for a mango tree to bear fruits for the first time. But initially, four, five years, nothing happens. From then on, they will be growing bigger by the day, until they are full of juice and sweetness. Suddenly, one morning, you will see the tree is full of tiny little mangoes. Then, some small, innocuous looking flowers will bloom. If you look at a mango tree in February, March, there will be nothing but green leaves. These days, even the majority of Indians do not know this anymore, because they all cut and eat them. You must know which mango to bite which way. I could tell you exactly where to go, what varieties of mangoes to eat, and how to eat them. If you already like the mangoes that are grown in other regions of the world, you must travel to India and spend some time there during the season to taste Indian mangoes. If I delve deeper into the subject of mangoes, I want to go back to India! To me, what is being served as mangoes elsewhere are not really mangoes. Probably most of you know the famous story of Ganapati and Kartikeya, the children of Adiyogi and Parvati, competing over a sweet, luscious mango. Even gods were described as eating mangoes. Mangoes have always been a part of this culture. They have been wiped out by the multi-national agricultural conglomerates and their seeds, which dominate agriculture today and could destroy the biodiversity of this planet. This not only applies to mango varieties – a number of fruits and vegetables we had in India when we were children are not available anymore. Since mangoes are grown in increasingly large farms, the varieties that are grown are chosen based on commercial aspects, like shelf life, and so on. Today, many of the varieties that we had then have disappeared. There were over 300 varieties of mangoes in South India, mostly grown wild and on a few farms. ![]()
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