Pradeeptam Jvalanam Patanga Vishanti nashaya samraddha vega

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 This one verse from Bhagavadgita summarizes the world we live in and the current situation.

 यथा प्रदीप्तं ज्वलनं पतङ्गा विशन्ति नाशाय समृद्धवेगाः ।
तथैव नाशाय विशन्ति लोकास्तवापि वक्त्राणि समृद्धवेगाः ॥ २९ ॥

Transliteration

yathā pradīptaṁ jvalanaṁ pataṅgā viśanti nāśāya samṛiddha-vegāḥ
tathaiva nāśāya viśanti lokās tavāpi vaktrāṇi samṛiddha-vegāḥ

Meaning :  Just as moths rush with great speed into a blazing fire to perish, so too do all these worlds rush swiftly into Your mouths for their destruction.

We know that the gadgets we use, the vehicles we drive are changing our earth and its weather and we still keep buying these things competing with one another. We know that the wars destroy everyone and everything, not just soldiers, but common men and women and children. Still we actively or passively support or participate in wars - or our leaders do with our silent support. We know that the Pandora's box we have opened or the monster we have created called AI may make our lives unlivable. Still each and every one of us take the help of this 'intelligence', and make this render us dumb and dumber. 

Disregarding the advances made by science and technology, we try to disbelieve them, discredit them, instead believing that some invisible power is going to save us from all these disasters we have created for self destruction. 

Certainly we are moths flying with great enthusiasms towards the fire - but moths don't have brains, We don't use ours.  

 

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