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Mother Nature, and so is the dark deep lush take us and how much more damage await.
forest. Both are images of the Mother; one in
the form of the natural vegetation and life, the All governments have declared a war on this
other in the form of an animal. Corona, then, virus, but are we not going to accept that it
is a natural entity that has lived in the ‘womb’ is us humans who have been waging many
of Mother Nature and is the soul qualities such wars on the rest of the inhabitants of
of a deep peace, a sense of inclusion rather this planet? Yes, we must protect as many
than contraction, within our own ego-formed human lives as possible, but the enemy is not
boundaries; and being a soul-presence, being out there as Covid-19 or AIDS or any such
aware of our immortality and experiencing entity, but within us. We are head-deep in
a deep communion with all that exists (yes, that. The enemy is ego.
,including this virus) are some of the qualities
that I can think of. Female is also generative, In her 1967 New Year Message, The Mother
thus capable ofgiving birth to unique solutions declared:
which are beneficial to all, and not just a select
few. Our soul, being one with all creation, “Men, countries, continents!
is incapable of causing irreparable damage The choice is imperative:
to other forms of life, because there are no Truth or the abyss (2).”
‘others.’
I do not think we have much time left to
It is again very interesting that a virus made choose, in fact perhaps the choice has been
us overcome all differences which till half a made already, and now it is to be seen who
month ago seemed so ‘real and true’. After all, will have the conviction and fire to surrender
the West really was ‘evil’ to the Islamic world, all, and mould to Truth rather than ego.
just as right-wingers could never compromise
with the Communists. This virus has made References
all that so trivial, and now everyone wants
to reach out to everyone else with whom 1. Sri Aurobindo. Birth Centenary Library,
they could not even exchange civil greetings Volume 28. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
before. We have looted all our natural life to a Ashram Trust; 1970, p. 11.
point of no return and now rather than being
aggressive and bent on increasing the GDP 2. The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother,
and economic/military might, we may have Volume 15. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
to pause and introspect as to where it will Ashram Trust; 1980, p. 193.

Poorva Sharma is a psychology student based in Delhi.

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