Geology Brother, I applaud your opinion and agree with it wholly. I just posted the above thread to attract people towards an important but long ignored dimension of our existence - spirituality. I have learnt from Shri Ram Sharma's teachings that the entire world including our parents, sea, river, mountains, everything seen/unseen, etc is a part of God or God himself. Hence, to serve them would be a true worship of God, and this is what you advocate above. Service to one's family is one's duty, but that duty should be extended to everyone around; at least an effort can be made. We may not be able to clean up the environment on our own, remove other's sufferings; but at least, we can chant "sarve vanantu sukhina", and some "shanti path", even this will help spread bad waves.

P.S.[Now I am not preaching anything here, but this is a science. When we chant a mantra, the waves goes into the sky. (Energy can never be destroyed), and hence resonate. Since these are good waves, they help purify the bad thought waves emitted by other people. These mantras work like chemicals to purify the enivornment both physically and spiritually.]

Brother, take this as no offense. Again, I apologize if this sounds offensive, but my journey did start reading Laxmi Prasad Devkota's books and hearing his songs, and still I hear them. But my journey didn't end in just that. It has taken the goodness from everywhere, and most recently, Shri Ram Sharma has become the ocean of knowledge/guidance/divine light that I have come to. When mother Ganga flows from the Himalayas, she does not just stay there; she journeys down through the valleys and reaches the ocean ultimately. Devkota, Mother Teresa, Dayabir Singh Kamsakar, Gandhi Ji, etc are truly source of inspirations from which one can learn, but the learning should always grow, and not just stop with them.

Here's what one needs to understand. If one just worships idols and offers incencse to an image, he gets nowhere even after years of such ritual. Trueness in worship comes only after that one offers his service to the society. This service must be selfless (Karmayog), must be done with a feeling of devotion to the Lord (Bhakti Yog). And yes, it is VERY ENOUGH even if you practice what you believe above (service to helpless, poor, family, mountains, seas, etc); that is what true love to God is all about.

If I have offended you in any way, please forgive me. I am writing this thing with all humility. But people do say, I ramble a lot. I guess I am just an old man who likes to preach a lot.