Nature sounds alarm calls but if we do not respond to them, it’s our fault that the ecosystem is falling apart, says Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji

The massive devastation, caused by recent heavy rains in many parts of the country in the last few days was indeed a grave tragedy, in respect of destruction of human habitats and human life. However, it would be wrong to put all the blame on nature, for there had been enough time during which some safety measures could have been taken by the concerned authorities. Looking at the monsoon patterns of last few years, and with latest technologies like doppler radars which are extremely helpful in rainfall prediction accuracy, it should not have been difficult to understand advance notice or warnings by nature.

Now, if despite of numerous repeated calls, we do not care to respond, the fault lies not with nature but with us. Isn’t it ? It has been giving us alarms to which we did not care to respond. So, laws of nature took their time and then the tragedy, call it calamity or catastrophe, occurred. When human beings work for blasting a rock or any other thing that might be a  danger for the humans, they also give verbal warning. They raise their voice to a high pitch and then repeat the warning a number of times whereas, in this case, nature had been more considerate and had warned us a hundred times or more. If after getting repeated warnings, a person does not take safety measures, then the responsibility lies on that person.

So, it is, perhaps our carelessness, laziness, indecisiveness, lack of understanding and judgement that has led to this tragedy of immense dimensions. Perhaps, it was a bit of all these. An inauspicious combination of all these caused loss of life and property on a gigantic scale. Would it then be wrong to conclude from this that there is some grave deficiency in our development as we are unable to understand and assess a situation properly? Well, not only this, we are not even taking adequate and timely action to co-operate with nature. Our human mind is defiled, polluted and clouded as we cannot see the necessary signs in time. Many of our abilities are not awakened and lie burried under our negative thoughts, which blur our vision or blindfold our inner eye.

Also, could not those, who are rushing help in kind or cash, show their human sympathies before the tragedy? If all these countries, people, institutions and agencies who show their generous side during such calamity, had done even a fraction of the generosity before the sad event took place, many lives could have been saved. This is not to say that acts of generosity, done now, have no meaning; indeed these are invaluable even now and are welcome and worthy of appreciation. But the point is, whether in the near future, we would co-operate with sections of humanity as parts of the human family, before any foreseeable calamity takes place? This would thus help the mankind to remain unaffected by these acts of nature. Its upon each one of us to decide this.