Not Floods or Quakes but Virus may Destroy Civilisation

  It is said that famines, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic disruptions have been the main causes of catastrophes which destroyed lives and livestock, flora, and fauna. Many civilizations have been obliterated due to these calamities. We have read in our schools and colleges that the mighty Himalayas sprung up from Tethys sea because of the huge volcanic disruptions which took place more than five crores years ago. We often read that because of global warming, some of the low-lying islands will be swallowed by the oceans.

   We have been also taught that there had been many civilizations like those of the Indus Valley, Egyptian and Roman, which met apocalypse because of the turbulence from beneath the earth or due to the natural calamities like floods and epidemics. We have still not been able to decipher the scripts of those civilizations, astounding advancements of their architectures, civic facilities and town plantings etc.,  Pyramids of Egypt amaze us to no end and we have not been able to find out as to which civilization was prevailing those days. Mother earth and nature throw wonder after wonder from time immemorial.

   According to Hindu Dharm Shashtras,  when the entire world was deluged, the Shrishti (life) again started with Manu and Shatrupa. It is said that neither quake nor inundation but the deadly Virus will bring the apocalypse. The precursor can be seen in COVID 19. Coronavirus might not have spread far and wide if we had not been able to develop the winged Aeroplanes. The virus that started from the Wuhan city of China has spread to almost all countries of the world because of the intermingling of fast the people of different countries due mainly to the fast transportation from China (Wuhan). It is also alleged that the coronavirus is manmade, and the world is getting punished for the crimes committed by China, which has now emerged as the enemy of humanity.

     It is again a matter of huge satisfaction that modern science would be able to invent the vaccine sooner or later to beat this deadly virus. The science will, hopefully, prove to be the saviour of humanity. But it is a double-edged weapon. While prudent scientists bring miracles, unscrupulous ones cause the doom. The world will do well to isolate such forces which are engaged in causing large scale deaths and destructions. A stitch in time, as they say, saves nine.