OH MAN!

At the beginning, he was in foetal position, in the cool comfort of the womb of his mother. He was regularly getting the food and water thru the umbilical cord.

Staying within, he started hearing sounds from outside and he would quietly listen to the noises. He then understood that there is a world outside from where he is currently now. And the noises tempted him to get out and reach that world.

In his desire to see the world, he started kicking the wall of the womb. Little did he realise that to his mother, that was the moment of physical pain and positive pleasure.

Days passed and he succeeded in getting out. He was born to the world.

As he opened his eyes, he saw lots of faces looking at him and he cried loud out of fear. Soon he would hear a lovely lullaby, would immerse himself in that and would sleep off peacefully.

He started growing and started learning many things. He learnt from many; first being the mother, also from other connected human beings and of course, from the nature that was around.

Mother helped him a lot. He started crawling, thereafter, trying to walk and fall, then again, walk straight without help ……..

He learnt many things from people and other creatures around. He learnt about the unity of ants and the ability of each ant to carry bodies having hundred times its weight. He understood the saving habit of storing grains by the ants.

He saw the mother hen protecting its chicks, fighting multitude of crows trying to attack them.

The nature taught him the wind, the rain, the heat, the cold and the weather changes.

For someone who started out on pure milk of the mother, he progressed into solid food and then into junk foods that were adultered. His body, mind and thoughts also started getting adultered. As he grew, his hubris also grew along.

As the body grew, he also developed feelings such as love & lust along side.

From boyhood, through student-ship, he advanced into a youth, learning many things in the process. Looking at the world, he understood that money is the single most important thing in life. And, slowly he forgot all the values taught by his mother and the nature. He married and celebrated parenthood.

As he became rich, he realised that his parents are distasteful in comparison with his new friends and relatives he had acquired. He developed a high ‘status’ for himself.

Though in his childhood he loved the hills and backwater, now he destroyed them to make houses, shopping malls & resorts. He illegally annexed land from the poor and shooed away those who approached him with hunger.

Time passed. Standing in front of his imported Belgium mirror, he saw his crumbled face and fast graying hairs and he didn’t feel good. One day, he fainted and collapsed. People brought him to the hospital.

For weeks together his languid body, strapped with equipments, was laid on the ICU bed. Hazily but, he could hear his children around fighting for the wealth created by him. He sadly realised that every one of them wanted him to die.

Then the angel approached him with the coldness to fill his body. He cried out to them to spare him. His begging for extending his life fell on dead ears, for the angel was strictly doing its assigned duty.

As the angel carried him, he tried to shake himself off from its grip. He thought that like he did in the womb, he could jump out to life again. But with no energy, he really felt fatigued and humbled.

His children buried his body and went away. Slowly, it decomposed and the worms started feeding  on it. The seeds that were thrown over his grave germinated into plants and absorbed the manure that his body had become.  

That has been the nature’s course, to give his body away to the plants and the trees that he destroyed while being alive! 

Oh man, the way  the cycle of Karma works