As if Mother Nature did this deliberately, angrily, ferociously !!

A place, whose significance was due to the fact that Pandavas performed penance here to be relieved of sins of massacre, and to please Lord Shiva who was upset with them for being the reason for the bloodbath that happened in the war of Mahabharata, that place has today in itself become the reason of one of the deadliest massacre. This cannot be without purpose. This is some kind of signal or reprimand for sure. Was this nature’s way of telling us to see the Supreme in nature and naturalness? 

One of the holiest places in India today has turned into the scariest place. A place where thousands of people gather every year to pray, they come with faith and love. The aura, the vibrations, energy around that place and the atmosphere there is supposed to be so tranquil. On the main gates of the temple where the devotees stand with folded hands full of devotion is today full of corpses of those devotees.  It was as if Mother Nature was angry with us and this is how she showed her fury and punished us. But how can a Mother be so cruel to her own children?

We had seen such type of calamity some time back in Allahabad during Kumbh Mela. And every year we get to hear the news of people dying in such holy places or on the way to such places, due to stampede, due to accidents etc, but this time it wasn’t an accident, it wasn’t a stampede, it was not due to a human error, as we always tell ourselves and move ahead. It was as if Mother Nature did this deliberately, angrily, ferociously.

There are some questions that come up in my mind every time I hear any such incident and this time they have become louder.  Is there something seriously wrong in our religious practices? Is the Mother Nature unhappy with us? This time has she sent a direct signal and big and evident one by blowing away one of the biggest sacred places? Is this a question we should put on our beliefs? Is the Mother Nature unhappy with the abuse done to her for our selfish motives?

I believe a Mother can get this furious only when something very wrong is being done to her children or by her children. We are all her children,   Was she fed up with our degraded morality? Was she fed up with our demands of trivial worldly things from her, was she fed up of our sleeping conscience and insensitivities towards her and towards each other?  Murders, rapes, and deceptions all such heinous crimes are prevalent and dominant in our society; and with all this we contaminate her sacred home, which is not just confined to few places but it is the entire earth.  We must know the nature to be the manifestation of Supreme, respect it, love it and preserve it. Efforts should be to make environment we live in as ‘sacred’ through our thoughts and actions. Imagine if each home is like temple and one can feel love and austerity in every home. We won’t need to travel to other places in search of divinity. Holy places are those places where someone with good deeds and steady mind realized the ultimate truth; they felt the presence of Supreme there. The energies at those places are of course divine, but we need to prepare our self to be able to receive and benefit from such a place eternally.  And not just go and ask for some worldly gain. That would in true sense be pilgrimage.  Those people who suffered and died are just the victim of the collective immorality, irresponsibility and insensitivity of the society. It’s high time we learn our lessons.

And last thing that I would like to tell all the reporters on Television who are now going there and coming up with the sensational news headline that – It’s a Miracle Look at the Strength of Lord even such a calamity could not destroy his idols- the idols are intact, the inside of the temple is damage less.  For God sake just think before thinking and calling this as a Miracle. This cannot be God’s way of showing strength or power. God cannot so self-absorbed to protect its own sculpture and let his devotees die.