Mother Godess...I bow my head( Mother's Day blog contest)

As all know that I am a big fan and follower of BAPU- but coz I never ever wrote about BA does not mean I do not adore her. Though I remember her too, I forget to say thanks to her.She, whose shoulder-which supported Bapu - is hardly chronicled.
Is it not like what we do always....we remember our mothers only when they are not around to care for usDrowning, and then we write chronicles in their names.

Do you know that the first deity to be worshipped was THE MOTHER GODESS and that too in many parts of the world. She denoted the mother earth who gave us all that we needed and in that too bountiful. So why is that when we think of Maan, Mother, Ba, Aayi, Mom, Walida, Amma or whatever we call her( even Aunty/Mami at times...heheBig Laugh), we forget to thank the MOTHER EARTH or BHUDEVI( Hindu) or GAIA( Greek) or MATKA ZEIMIA(Slavic)- Janani for all of us.

The stone age man never forgot to pay obeisance to the Mother Godess before starting any new work, we have changed from that species I feel . We just use her but forget to even say thanks...The coming up Earth day is just a KHANA PURTI....i.e. just for name sake.

Even the old tradition of nature worship is smirked upon by the so called educated people, who fail to realise that the 'wise men' of the yester years, rather the yester ages, started these to be reminded of the importance of nature in our lives.

If we have started environment and ecology conservation campaigns...they too are to save our own species. There are few Bishnoi like communities or the Silent Valley like spaces , where people strive to keep their ecology safe just for the love for their surroundings, and to keep them unchanged and serene for the generations to come.

Sustainable development is the way we now device to save our planet . But...ab pachtaye hot kya jab chidiya chuug gayi khet....what can be done when now the time to act has passed. And the key word here too is development and not reverence for the mother nature.

I Sunderlal Bahuguna for his CHIPKO movement. What he has done for the awareness about environment's protection , could not be achieved by crores of rupees spent on programmes by our Govt. Because our heart is not in it.

Talking of the heart I am reminded of a touching story of a mother who allows her son to take out her heart to give to his lover. But while going to his lover - he slips and falls down, and the mother's heart asks ' OMG sonny are you hurt?'


What more can I say after this....just that before I salute my MOM , I would salute my granny - my NANI; and before that her nani and so on. But before I salute the whole of my maternal geneological tree ------- I would salute MOTHER EARTH .


SHe who feeds me,
She who soothes me,
She who quenches my thirst,
She who just gives and forgives.......

And despite the fact that I bleed her
She still bears me.
My big bear hug for her.
My mother godess
I bow my head before her.........



P.S.Tomorrow is the 40th annual observance of Earth Day. The first one being in 1970. I could not have written this at a better time.