“Hey Ishvara !! Hey Prabhu !! Why Are You So Heartless ??”

Early morning walk is an anathema to me as walkways are mostly crowded, people eager to talk politics aimlessly seated in concrete benches and I neither have extra Kilos to burn nor desperate to normalise my blood sugar level. My age-old affinity for relaxed evening stroll with my mind and intellect allowed to go contemplative rather meditative, I often move out quite expectantly to enrich my Cerebrum with absolutely newer thoughts and intellectual thunder. One of those evening strolls turned out to be intellectually thunderous in real sense of the term when I was accosted by an enormously magnificent personality with an indescribable splendour. So proceeded our intellect-boggling tete e tete –

 

“Pranam”, I submitted my adorations with folded hands and both palms joined.

“Ashirvada” responded the glorious and gorgeous one, “ I am Vishnu, descended to meet you as you often remember me with lot of queries and comments that leave me quite uncomfortable in Kshir-Sagar. My consort Laksmi too, is often perturbed by your piercing questions and she exhorted to me to interact with you one to one earliest.”

“I am grateful to you. Why didn’t she accompany you ?”

“It’s an exploratory mission at the moment. I decided not to bother her on this occasion to begin with.”

“I am overwhelmed by your very kind generosity. May I now straightaway switch over to brasstacks without going into niceties as you have an intrinsic habit of disappearing any moment owing to paucity of time.”

“Absolutely. By all means.”

“What the hell for you created this human specific virus Corona, landed it in Wuhan, lakhs have already died and nobody knows how many more shall perish. All very precious lives. It doesn’t really behove of the Supreme Entity that you claim to be….”

“I never created even a single virus intentionally or by design. All viruses are by-products of DNA engineering that I have to enact to create various organisms ranging from microscopic to gigantic dinosaurs, now extinct.”

“Explain more. I am quite lost in your verbosity.”

“Recall a carpenter busy in fabricating various components of a piece of furniture, the way wood is scrubbed, chopped and sliced into components ready to be assembled into a usable table, chair or whatever. Lot of wood crumbs are automatically generated falling on ground or even flying around before broomed, collected and the workplace cleaned. When I undertake DNA engineering to create genomes of various organisms, DNA/RNA cumbs are generated, fall on ground that are eventually ingested by insects, birds, animals etc. I have gifted them bio-faculties to sustain and resist these genomic crumbs to protect innumerable lives from their pandemic consequences in the living kingdom.”

“But then how come…” I interrupted assertively.

“Listen to me patiently without interrupting. If man ventures to feed on these creatures of animal kingdom dedicated to enacting the vital role of bio-scavengers instead of feeding on beautiful fruits, vegetables and grains meant for them, genomic waste is automatically transferred to them causing havoc as you behold now.”

“But is the violation so grave as to invite deaths in lakhs all over the world ?”

“Of course. Man had been traumatising nature for centuries, anti-nature felonies accumulated beyond manageable dimensions even for the Divinity, consequences have to follow…”

“Are you now referring to Karmayoga ? Are we standing in Kuruksetra ? Are you beholding an Arjuna in me ? You wish, I should visualise Vasudeva Shri Krshna in you ?”

“Karmayoga is an institution, ceaselessly in action even for perfect renunciates and ascetics, even for emancipated ones. Entire universe is Kuruksetra and there is an Arjuna in every creature while Vasudeva Shri Krshna is eternally vested in me.”

“But the august institution of Karmayoga is deeply flawed as you erred quite humanely !!”

“That’s a stunning allegation. I am puzzled. What’s the flaw ?”

“You have allocated certain gestation period for every Karma. In very large number of instances, gestation periods transcend several mortal lives. For Punya Karma-s it may be acceptable but certainly not in the case of Papa Karma-s.”

“But why so ? Why are you so biased against Papa Karma-s ?”

“That’s mainly because you do not allow remembrance of Karma-s of past lives. Consequently people are unable to co-relate joys and agonies with their corresponding Karma-s of past.”

“How does it matter to you and to them ?”

“It does matter and matters a lot. If Papa Karma-s are allowed to be redeemed in the same life, there shall be steep decline in incidence of Papa Karma-s, society shall be exceedingly peaceful and world a much better place to dwell in. Your objective of streaming Maya eternally shall continue to be amply redeemed. So shall it be a Win-Win stuation.”

“With drastic reduction in Papa Karma-s, not only there shall be a Karmic imbalance but also decline in enrichment of experiences of Maya for me. In absence of an extensive and balanced enrichment of experiences, cosmic process of creating a better universe, an improvised living kingdom shall be hampered.”

“Hey Ishvara !! Hey Prabhu !! Why are you so heartless ? So merciless contrary to your image ? For the sake of enrichment of your experiences, you have jeopardised millions of human lives ? So cruel of you !! Can’t you contract or moderate your objectives for the sake of mitigating human sufferings ?”

“I have never ever been cruel to anyone. Jivatma-s enact Karma-s and invite corresponding Karmaphala. I bless them a piece of my Chetana, well-crafted bodies, continue sending Guru-s and Tapasvi-s to guide them on how to blissfully survive in this world, very large variety of food, Aushadhi for every disease…then why can’t they follow laws of nature ? Why can’t they live a disciplined life of piety without ravaging nature ? Why do they slaughter defenceless animals just to fill their bellies when a variety of grains, fruits and vegetables are available in plenty ? If man is going to feed cows lumps of meat only to increase milk production and cows falling sick with ‘foot and mouth’ disease, then you really have it.”

“Hmmmm”

“And slaughtering lakhs of human beings in the name of ideologies, in the name of territories…”

“Enough, enough. I am struck by your candid outburst. Where do we go now from here ?”

“This pandemic is a mild warning. If humanity does not strictly follow rules of nature, protect defenceless animals and standing jungles, I shall be ruthless and inflexible. There may be pandemics of gigantic dimensions incomprehensible to humanity. Or I may even be impelled to annihilate the race of Homo sapiens and nurture a far superior race of humanity in the world. Remember, just one meteor-strike was enough to annihilate entire species of dinosaurs from the face of this world.”

“Why did you destroy dinosaurs by the way ?”

“They were eating away entire biomass of the world. They hindered survival of others. They had to go.”

“You have effectively modified my mind-set. Instead of commanding nature and the world, we must dwell in the world as being commanded by nature. I confess that unequivocally and categorically.”

“That’s when the objective of my condescension is over.”

And He, who had introduced Himself as Vishnu, suddenly disappeared without waiting even for a moment to allow me to express my deep sense of gratitude and adorations. I gradually moved back to my pavilion intensely contemplative and introverted.

 

Humanity does not require any more Pravachan / pontification over the crisis tormenting the world. Options are amply clear. It’s we who have to write down our destiny and decide after intense contemplation whether we intend to exist on this Planet Earth or not.