Certain trees were reverenced in India. Among those, the most important and significant is the Peepal tree. The peepal tree neither has solid wood nor tasty food. You can question that why then people admire the tree and considered the peepal tree so valuable?
Peepal tree or Sacred Fig is capable of generating voluminous oxygen 24 hours a day. In the past era, our ancestors knew that the peepal tree is able to produce such an amount of oxygen each day and night, making it crucial to maintain ecological balance.
By associating peepal tree with the divine, our ancestors made sure that peepal tree never gets cut or damaged in any way!
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