Mother Nature

Recently read a news item. Apparently, it was the usual environmental story of how human beings are encroaching the animal habitat. What was unusual was the fight a mother put up for her child. The mother-daughter pair were in the bushes bordering the forests when a tiger attacked the young daughter as an easy prey. The animal held the child in its jaws. 

The mother put up a solid brave fight. She hit the animal with a branch. The angry animal attacked her ferociously, but the daughter could escape literally fom the jaws of death. Before the tiger could yet come again for the child, the mother, a wiry, hardly educated woman was fighting the ferocious animal in such a spirited fashion that soon it chose to slink away. 

That is a mother's nature, protect the progeny. The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic videos prove that this perennial feel is a primordial trait, present in wild animals as well. Our pets and other domesticated animals provide ample proof thereof as well.

Just behind our backyard, there was this family that used to rear goats. Now there is a tower though. Some proof of how human beings  are treating Mother Nature! One of the nanny goats that family had was somehow disabled. She could not run properly or fast. Instinctively, may be, she knew why her kids were being fattened. The moment her kids would be taken away from her even for a few minutes, she used to create a huge racket, bleating away to no end.

 As I used to give them twigs from our garden, the green peas shells and such munchy stuff, she used to limp up to the fence and ask for my help. She used to listen attentively when I would try to reassure her that her kids would soon be with her. She used to actually whimper and grunt, but calm down, anxiously awaiting her kids with the "ayenge, Mere Karan-Arjun ayenge" assurance.

That is the mother nature. The title of our blog today includes all shades of the ambivalent expression; mother's nature, mother in nature/animal world. It refers to the protecting streak, the extreme love unconcerned with the hardships to self. 

Before I conclude the blog, I want to add that actually it is the "parental" feel, not merely maternal. The paternal passion is equally intense. Hence the quote that goes, "nobody on this earthe can love you more than your parents".

pratima@"Next to God, the parents"