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| Ambika under a mango tree. |
Sri Yajnavalkya approached a mango and
said, “So Aamra-devi ! everything fine na?” Aamra-devi smiled. He added, “Behen,
I wish for two fruits from you tomorrow as some rishis are visiting the ashram.
This time, your offsprings will be grown in Divya-Vatika of Naimishaaranya. The
rishis will take your seeds with them to the Aranya.” Aamra got contented. She amplified the course of ripening of
fruits and started integrating her divine sweetness and pious curative powers
in them.
Well! She knew the plucking of fruits will
be hurting, but her spirit was functioning under two principles:
Innate Benevolence: Nature has given her
and all trees and plants the Doctrine of Dharma for selfless Paropkaar since
their very babyhood.
Simple sense of right and wrong: She surely
knew that one day, fruits will get knock down after rotting and then also it
will pain so it is better to provide them to the rishis. That was the time of
affectionate milking of nature and not its atrocious and lethal sucking.
Instead of milking, we are nastily sucking
our mother nature. It is the main reason behind routine-less changes in
climate, flood at one part of a state and drought at another of the same,
global warming and all troubles of same class. There is a great difference
between milking and the atrocious and lethal sucking.
Let us observe the
milking process. Consider the milking of Gau (cow). She is our mother. We offer
her food and nutrition. Then we allow the calf to feed on mother’s milk as he
has the first right on it. Even then the left milk-prasad is sufficient for our
need but it may possibly not be enough for our greed. This is our milking
culture. Sri Hari incarnated as Gopal to give this sanskaar to the world. He
was the supreme enjoyer and the supreme sustainer too. He served Gau and feeded
on her milk and maakhan(butter). The same milking was followed by us in regard
of our Mother Nature. We nurtured the nature by the sacraments like yajnas.
Then after the satisfaction of the first-right-owners like the wild-life
inhabitants of forests, we got enough for our healthy livelihood. The hostile
practice to this milking is sucking. This sucking was done by Krishna Gopal to
Pootna. He sucked all the milk and then all the blood of her body through her
breasts. She struggled and reacted fiercely and banged her hands and legs here
and there and ruined whatever she found. But Bal-Krishna didn’t forgive her. He
sucked and sucked until she died. Even a single drop of blood was sucked.
Nothing was left in her.Nature is Cow and not Pootna. And we are Gopals. Hence
we should consume with conservation. This may be called sustainable
development. There, Sri Krishna knew the intention of Pootna to kill him, so he
kill her. But if we are following the convention of sucking, there may be some
abysmal philosophy imported from west that nature is our foe or competitor and
we have to prevail over it. Assuming the nature as Pootna, when we suck her
blood, she counters and what we get are relentless natural calamities. Then we censure
her. The day when blood will be sucked
up, nature will die. Then we will repent for not being aware.
We should satisfy our right as supreme
enjoyer but before that, we should obey our duty of supreme conserver and
supreme protector.
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