Sir,
Religious pilgrims has been in practice in our country since the time immemoral. Its sanctity and all pervading acceptance originates from the deep rooted faith and intense desire for salvation. Blind faith, of course, is synonymous to the blind alley which leads no where defying all logic and rationale. Contrarily faith is our perennial source of strength and life line of cultural heritage. Almighty God, the infinite had created universe with vast natural resources. Earth planets is a peerless wonder evolved out of divine creation. Homo Sapiens are equally unique manifestation of cosmic creativity in the sense that God has blessed them with unusual facilities of thinking and reasoning to deal with challenging situations in their life span. The modern man has made profuse use of his resources and in the whirlpool of comforts woven around himself and being under the stupour of misplaced intelligence. He got tempted to commit certain idiosyncracies in the process of his hot pursuit of having a tryst with God realisation taking recourse to short cuts of undertaking frequent sorties to far flung places of worship.
At this critical juncture when the nation is grappling with worse ever Tsunami of nature’s anguish we need to sweep aside our vested interests originating from petty politics for personal gratification, insatiable lust for power, grabbing credit, unauthorizedly and unashamedly. This is not time to score points over political opponents but to undertake serious self introspection and deep analysis of the manmade tragedy. Some where our unwise and lopsided approach towards religion, spirituality and nature, lack of value based education, absence of awareness and callous disregard of the science of environment, ecology and above all the seismological pattern of hilly terrain of Uttrakhand has played its role. Over powered by sheer bigotry and under the influence of vote politics, we have deeply hurt the magnanimity and motherly instinct of nature. Infrastructural development is undoubtedly indispensable requirement but not the panacea of all human ills.
We cannot afford to push the most bountiful and vastly philanthropic mother nature to the point of extinction in the name of development to facilitate the exhibition of fancy spiritualism. It will be no exaggeration to underline that by virtue of this. We are becoming instrumental in ferrying killing pollution to the divine places which accelerates ecological imbalance and infuriates the pious nature. At the critical point of time when the tragedy has happened as sequal to our veiled miseeds, we need to act in double quick speed to counteract the venom oozing out in torrents from the nature’s womb. Coordination of all segments of society in line with the services being rendered by bravehearts of Army, put effective disaster management system in place to prevent the recurrence. There should be regulatory body to conduct the religious tourism. Make the entire region plastic free zone and restrict vehicular traffic way behind the place of worship and stop tinkering with natural topography. Let us cultivate the habit of learning from mistakes.
Yours etc…..
P.C. Sharma
Jammu
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