..續本文上一頁s which is 52 in number. Mind gets polluted due to the bad mental factors which are called ashovana chetasika. The ashovana or akusala cetasika makes the mind impure creating impure environment pollution. Following are the 14 unwholesome cetasika that creates mental pollution:

　　Moha - Ignorance

　　Ahirika- Lack of moral shame

　　Anotappa-Lack of dread

　　Uddhacca-Restlessness

　　Lova - greed

　　Dristi-Wrong view

　　Maan-InfatuationDvesh - Anger

　　Irshya - Jealous

　　Maccharia-Stinginess, Avarice

　　KukuChha-Uneasiness of conscience

　　Thin-Torpor

　　Middha-Sloth

　　Vicikichha -Sceptical doubt[ Nyanatiloka - Buddhist Dictionary,(Singapore: Singapore Buddhist Meditation Center, 1946), P 39]

　　 Those above mental factors are emerged in the mind of people making the whole environment with polluted mental vibration. Peoples full of those types of mentality destroy the peace and prosperity of the society. Such type of people every time creates the tense and conflict situation which eventually makes quarreling, vandalizing. Person who comes in contact with such environment become unhappy and become unproductive. The whole teachings of Buddha are concentrated to get rid from that unwholesome mentality and to produce positive vibration in the environment.

　　 Delightful environment through good mentality

　　 Buddha had said that good or bad environment is also the product of the vibration produced by people living at the place. Good vibration is produced by the people who are free from defilements; the place would be cheerful and peaceful where the saintly person with out defilement lives. It is because each and every person produces mental vibration in the atmosphere creating good or bad environment. So the place would be delightful if there are people living with good vibration and vice versa.

　　 Buddha in Dhammapada had uttered the verse in this respect as:

　　Game va yadi va ranne

　　ninne va yadi va thale

　　Yattharahanto viharanti

　　tam bhumim ramaneyyakam[ Op. cit. f.n. 8, P 93]

　　This means:

　　 Whether in village or in forest, in vale or on hill, wherever Arahants dwell, - delightful indeed, is that spot.

　　 According to Buddha mental vibration has powerful effect in making the environment delightful. Only making good environment physically is not sufficient, people inhabitants should also possess good mentality in order to make the place delightful. One can”t live happily and peacefully at that place if the majority of people there are full of anger, hatred and illusions. But people even with full of tension can feel happy and peace if the place is full with loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity. In this way a person with good mentality can contribute for the good environment in the society.

　　Conclusion

　　 In this way good environment is the aggregate of both physical as well as mental environment. Only protection of physical environment is insufficient and not a complete protection of environment. In Buddha”s teachings there are several discourses of protection of not only of physical environment. It also has focused on the need of protecting mental environment. Buddha”s teachings if is securitized properly it reveals the protection the society from the pollution that could be from the Kaya (body), Vacana (speech), and Mana (mind). Buddha had inspired to make good environment because it helps to get success in social life, economic life and spiritual life. If the teachings of Buddha are propagated properly the problem of environmental destruction can be minimized significantly.

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