Upheaval is becoming common because humans have ignored lessons that nature has to teach, says Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji

Over the last few years, we have been witnessing many incidents of natural calamities and destruction through tornadoes, cyclones, earthquakes and floods in different parts of the world. The recent one being ‘Kyarr’ and ‘Maha,’ the two cyclones that developed over the Arabian Sea. According to the weather forecasting agency, Skymet, India is predicted to break its previous record of having been hit by most number of tropical cyclones in a year. Another example is Cyclone Bulbul, brewing in the Bay of Bengal, which also made a landfall in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on Saturday. It is the seventh cyclone that hit the coasts of India in 2019.

The message is loud and clear — Mother Nature is not in a  tolerant mood. The prediction that climate change will one day lead to the collapse of human civilisation is becoming a reality. Different parts of India are witnessing severe rains and many parts are battling a severe drought situation. There is no doubt that the water crisis in these areas is because of a monsoon failure, yet one cannot deny that this situation arose due to man’s own deeds. The situation across the globe is becoming so bad that there is only one thought that comes to everyone’s mind — ‘Is there nothing that we can do against nature’s fury?’ Does this question really require an answer ? The point that we are missing is a need to look into the root cause of nature’s fury. Why is that Mother Nature which has been nourishing life with its bounties over ages, forced to revolt with such aggression? What has happened to the harmonious man-nature relationship? The truth is that lust, anger, greed, attachment and ego blinded humans into a mad race of development. They plundered nature recklessly, without showing any benevolence or giving back. Nations made claims over things which are freely available and excluded others from it. They exhausted these resources on account of their short-sightedness. The present civilisation is based on hoarding and exploiting resources rather than revering nature. It was not so long ago.

Scientists across the world have repeatedly pointed out that global warming is the result of man-made disasters that have been set into irreversible motion. And even if all these were abruptly shut down, the global temperature would still rise by at least two degrees. Despite this warning, the developed and the developing world both wait for each other to sign the protocol to reduce emissions first, fearing that they would lose in the race of progress or be encroached upon. And in this game of greed, ego and fear, the earth continues to be pushed to the brink each day. Unless we check and change the basis of our growth process, attune our lifestyle to respect the laws of nature, we can be sure that nature will continue to strike more ferociously. And the day is not far when everything that we are risking precious human lives for may be lying scattered under the rubble somewhere.

Our ancestors believed that the body of a person who has imbibed the lessons demonstrated by five elements of nature can never be hurt by the wrath of nature. This is so because the natural environment is an extension of our internal nature and the disturbance in the latter is finally replicated in the fury of nature. Natural disasters and upheavals are becoming common because along with misusing resources of nature, humans have ignored other lessons that it has to teach. So what we need to understand is that, closer the man is to nature’s benevolence, the more bountiful she becomes.