I always wondered why the Sun was referred to as the greatest of all Gods for a Hindu. As I grow up and know more and more about the Sun, it is so obvious! I am curious how the wise people from ancient India knew about it all. What I learn with that, is also how it all has been just a matter of chance. You, me, all the life on Earth, and all the life through Geological time of the past and future. Of all the 150 odd moons of solar systems, Earth's Moon is the only one, which along with its parent planet is at the 'exactly right' distance from the Sun and from each other, and are of 'exactly right' size to superimpose onto the Sun so perfectly during an eclipse. The Earth's perfect distance from the Sun, and Earth's own mass, together makes it possible to have the atmospheric envelope and just perfect gravitational pull to have the water preserved on the planet, to support all the life that ever existed on Earth.
Amazing!
So many nights I have spent wondering about this miracle and that boils up the philosophical questions.
Coming back to all these accidents of perfect mass, perfect distances, perfect balance of energy and water to produce further complex accidents like origin of life and its sustenance through Geological time, what do we understand about all these systems?
I sat down to write about how delicately the natural systems are balancing life on the planet, for a period well beyond our imagination and on the scale also beyond our comprehension. Would we ever know enough about how this all works around us and how it all has ben working around the same space over millions of years to be able to predict how it will change in the future to come?
Today as I was looking through the bus window at a small patch of grass on the bank of the Brisbane river and thinking about how everything is bound in a cycle of creation and destruction as I was listening to 'अंत उन्नतीचा पतनी होई या जगात... सर्व संग्रहाचा वत्सा नाश हाच अंत... जीवासमे जन्मे मृत्यू... जोड जन्मजात... दिसे भास ते ते सारे विश्व नाशिवंत...'
For a moment, all the depression captured me and everything from restoration, sustainability and yes, also 'mined land rehabilitation' all started appearing so very futile. A few miserable moments and I recovered myself. Boy, who gives us the right of interfering with the Nature and this whole drama? We, the humans, by no means have a right to disturb the 3.8 billion years rhythm of Nature and start changing things on such enormous scale. We better start putting the pieces of the Lego back, before the Natures discovers who destroyed his castle and breaks us the same way we are breaking his creation - with utmost cruelty and speed!
And as I thought about this, the bus stopped at another bus-stop and I felt huge respect for the tiny ants near the bus - stop moving randomly and haphazardly (to my naive understanding of their system), a creation of a 5 million year old process of Nature...
Amazing!
So many nights I have spent wondering about this miracle and that boils up the philosophical questions.
Coming back to all these accidents of perfect mass, perfect distances, perfect balance of energy and water to produce further complex accidents like origin of life and its sustenance through Geological time, what do we understand about all these systems?
I sat down to write about how delicately the natural systems are balancing life on the planet, for a period well beyond our imagination and on the scale also beyond our comprehension. Would we ever know enough about how this all works around us and how it all has ben working around the same space over millions of years to be able to predict how it will change in the future to come?
Today as I was looking through the bus window at a small patch of grass on the bank of the Brisbane river and thinking about how everything is bound in a cycle of creation and destruction as I was listening to 'अंत उन्नतीचा पतनी होई या जगात... सर्व संग्रहाचा वत्सा नाश हाच अंत... जीवासमे जन्मे मृत्यू... जोड जन्मजात... दिसे भास ते ते सारे विश्व नाशिवंत...'
For a moment, all the depression captured me and everything from restoration, sustainability and yes, also 'mined land rehabilitation' all started appearing so very futile. A few miserable moments and I recovered myself. Boy, who gives us the right of interfering with the Nature and this whole drama? We, the humans, by no means have a right to disturb the 3.8 billion years rhythm of Nature and start changing things on such enormous scale. We better start putting the pieces of the Lego back, before the Natures discovers who destroyed his castle and breaks us the same way we are breaking his creation - with utmost cruelty and speed!
And as I thought about this, the bus stopped at another bus-stop and I felt huge respect for the tiny ants near the bus - stop moving randomly and haphazardly (to my naive understanding of their system), a creation of a 5 million year old process of Nature...
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