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1) From coldest snowy peaks and rocky terrain
Flow Crystal streams through vales and verdant plain;
A
blessed gift of God’s mercy immense
Nourishing fields with life sustaining essence;
To cracked lips of dry earth a blessed sight
A
visual treat to peasants, a festive delight;
Alas!
We poison them with tons of chemical waste
With
filth and dirt, in worst polluted state.
Our
lakes and wells became a filthy garbage store
No
potable water seen anymore.
2) This
earth of which we have been made
Our dear mother who feeds and gives us shade
Selfless saints, these fruit yielding sylvan
trees
Sacrificing their every bit with
liberal ease;
How can we kill them with rude thankless hearts?
We dig our graves with dire destructive thoughts;
These worldly charms God-giv'n in
plenteous treasure
Beyond the skills of Science and
artistic measure;
This fabulous gift, for greedy ends, we
turned alas!
To a lifeless maze of concrete mansions gross!
3) Our life-breath, this gentle caressing
breeze
Which fills our lungs with vital strength
and ease
And flows through nerves and veins to
every cell
And pulsates every part with dynamic
spell;
A rarest gift of God not seen elsewhere;
Even this man’s perverted wit does not
spare;
Like gigantic monsters with roaring sound
These factories splurge out fumes beyond
bounds
Even tearing the protective airy zone
Endangering health to vile diseases
prone.
4) Our ancients worshipped the
sacred fire
As God of light and knowledge they did
admire;
We turned this force to destroy
the world entire
For selfish power and pelf, with weapons dire;
With nuclear power in a frenzied rage;
Who can restrain this self-destructive craze?
We turn our God-giv'n gifts to malignant
curse
In devilish wars engaged for power and purse;
We left not even far away ethereal space
We claim our dominion there, a shameful
disgrace!
5) The
broad expanse of boundless space, a precious boon
Wherein revolve all planets, stars, spheres,
sun and moon;
Bound by forces and pure layers of ether clear;
We struggled for years to fly with speed and
go near
Those far-flung spheres with rapid
scientific zeal
The secrets of creation to explore and
unveil
Crowding the space with satellites
and waste
Leaving it in a disastrous congested state;
Our greed perverts us from our goals to
stray
Our hasty deeds aggravate pollution’s sway.
6) How long does Nature bear our wicked deeds?
Upsetting her poise with diabolic greed
We
pushed ourselves to disaster’s edge
Our mental pollution who will purge?
Showing no concern for other beings' welfare
We make them suffer and their lives we do not
care;
Awaken soon and see the approaching signs
Of total doom and try to curb and restrain;
Our reckless exploiting of these precious
boons
Will strike our existence and devastate us
soon.
Note : Overuse and misuse of the five God-given gifts is the
capital sin of
mankind, especially of the modern era. Paradoxically man is made
of these precious
gifts and is an inseparable part of creation. Already the
entire world is facing the
consequences of his indiscriminate exploitation of
these five gifts. Still man in his
mad pursuit of power, wealth, false prestige
and luxuries is involving all other living
creatures in this head on downfall
and impending catastrophe of total destruction.
Our immediate need is to take
stock of this grim state of affairs and avert this
universal hazard by making
earnest efforts and by overcoming their narrow
prejudices with a broad outlook
bearing in mind the wellbeing of all living creatures
which are subject to
intense suffering and gradual extinction for no fault of their own.
The
perilous signs of environmental degradation are already seen in plastic
pollution,
melting of Arctic glaciers, global warming, depletion of Ozone Depletion (20%),
irregular and abnormal behavior of monsoons, depletion of groundwater levels,
spread of many viral diseases, death of many sea organisms and extinction of
many
flora and fauna.
Pollution is the most dangerous man-made blunder which is turn will
boomerang on him and wipe out his existence from this world. It is as if the
culprit
himself is preparing his own grave. Most of the rivers, lakes and water
bodies are
polluted. In U.S.A. nearly 64% of lakes are highly polluted. In
China 70% of rivers and
lakes are polluted and 78% of the water from China’s
rivers is not fit for human
consumption. It takes many years to clean the holy
river, the ganges which is one of
the most polluted rivers in India.
The air we breathe
is mixed with many poisonous gases and dust. Nearly seven
million people die
due to air pollution in the world. The testing and stockpiling of
nuclear
weapons is the most potential danger of the present day world. There are
more
than 15,000 most deadly nuclear weapons possessed by various countries in
the
world, a few of which are enough to destroy the entire creation and produce
radiation that will impact the world for centuries. More than twenty nuclear
accidents
occurred killing many people and affecting the health of thousands of people and
their
families.
Apart from this, conquering space and exploring other planets resulted
in polluting
the space with space junk and debris which poses another threat to
survival of
mankind. There are more than five lakh pieces of space debris and
1450 satellites
around our earth creating congestion and risk of collision with
these that may result
in huge damage and destruction to our world.
The prime cause for pollution is man’s lack of vision,
narrow-mindedness,
indifference and lack of concern the wellbeing of future
generations, lack of sense of
responsibility and unbridled avarice for power
and affluence. Pollution is a global
threat and all countries should deem it as
their common and prime responsibility to
reduce and resolve this threat of
impending universal disaster. This man-made crisis
of gigantic proportions
envelops and devours us all irrespective of races, ideologies,
and nations.
Even from humanitarian and moral point of view, it is our bounden duty and
obligation (Dharma) to show gratitude and make proper use of these five
precious
gifts and protect them for the sake of the future living beings. Let
us not befoul and
abuse these gifts for our selfish purposes. Simple life, use
of natural things and
organic products, cultivation of greenery, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases,
maintaining water sources pure and clean, giving up use of powerful chemicals and
fertilizers,
reducing lavish consumption, caring for fellow-creatures and environment,
and recycling are some of the useful things we can
do to protect our earth and other
elements gifted by God. Let us live in harmony
with Nature and other living creatures.
Otherwise we are committing a most
heinous crime for which many coming
generations have to suffer for many decades
or may be centuries.
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13th June, 2017 Somaseshu Gutala
