PLANET EARTH: CLOSED FOR REPAIRS! A REJIG

PLANET EARTH: CLOSED FOR REPAIRS! A REJIG

It is well known that Mother Nature is the biggest experimenter, seen over centuries that nature has its own way to Rejig its own creation. The mild are termed as calamities or natural disasters while the most aggressive are the elimination of the entire species like the Dinosaurs, Saber Tooth Tigers, Ramapithecus, Neanderthals. Some of which survived for over 200,000 years.
The question is, Why does nature do this? What is the need? The answer is as simple. Anything that is not beneficial to the WHOLE gets a Rejig as warning before it gets discarded. The Dinosaurs ruled the planet with its dominance but then came a time when it started eating Humans for its hunger which was against the WHOLE. There seemed to be no other way to protect the Human Species than the elimination of the Dinosaur species. And Nature intervened.
Let us consider another Law of Nature. Every other species kills another species either for its hunger or survival, when it is threatened. It is only Humans who are supposed to cultivate for hunger and still cannot kill until it is life saving, only for survival. A simple example would be even if a Human nourishes a hundred lives in a complete life span with full dedication and honesty a Human still cannot take away a life imposing his right over it. There is a strong reason to this law as it is beneficial to the WHOLE. But we do not follow. We kill other species to show we are superior over them or we kill to prove our dominance or even for pleasure and luxury.
The Human species started evolving from Adam and Eve, as we best know, to evolve to Clusters, to Community, to Dynasty, to States, to Countries and Continents evolved as mere availability of land. With time, their emerged generations and generations to the Human species. Their contribution to the WHOLE  is best known to the Creator, as is said He uses our Hands to complete His tasks on Earth! What we as Humans can relate to is that we exist for the development, we started believing in Science more than Nature as our contribution to the WHOLE. We started developing Science and distancing from nature to the extent we find logic in saying- There is NO God. There is Science behind life, in every form.
Some time back there were times where at least three generations lived together under one roof. Each individual taking care of one another, small or big. Slowly, we started feeling so important on the planet for our contribution to science and the development that we started giving priority to our work than those who were Ours. Families started to disintegrate. Joint families became nuclear families. Concept of Old age homes and health centers started flourishing. Every member of the family started working, creating further distance from those who were ours. It is commendable that science advanced for all our collective contributions in whatever form we did. We now look up to Alexa/ Google home for reminders which was earlier happily done by our loved ones. The spat, the schuffle, the tiff  went missing! The best, which is just at our doorsteps to be embraced, is the introduction of Robots. A Replica to the Human Species. If this was not enough to accept it as a machine we are now adding emotions to a Robot and expecting it to have a reach to ever family in the coming times.
We are Separating! As a Community, as a Society, as a Family, as Humans. We are reduced to mere machines following our work life balance. Detached! From Ours, from Ourselves, from our Conscience, from Nature. The Voice of the Soul is a phrase beyond us and we seek spiritual lessons to understand the very concept.
Hence, a Rejig! CORONAVIRUS! A tiny spec of nature has the ability to destroy us! This is a crisis to open our eyes to the reality of our existence of being beneficial to the WHOLE. Very conveniently nature has confined us to our shelters with bare necessities and forcing us to live with the limited for infinity. As we have no idea when would life normalize to our expectations or will it be a new normal. Now we have our social media full of messages from ours, of the chirping birds the calm streets looking beautiful, a talk to dad was long scheduled.  We now notice the clear sky. To top it all we have more people going out taking responsibility of the families being affected due to the shut down. We are now reconnecting. A little more time and we will realize our purpose on this planet and stop being machines.
Hence CORONAVIRUS!!! A wake up call, to be Beneficial to the WHOLE and not just to ourselves. Unfortunate that we pay a very heavy price by losing so many of our companions of this journey on planet Earth.

Priyanka Banga
Sarcoma Cancer Care Foundation