Dust thou art, and to dust thou returnest, insists every religion. There is this lovely Kabir doha, for instance, that narrates, "Mati kahe kumbhar se/tu kya ronde mohe/ek din aisa awega/main rondungi tohe". Some reminder it is of how we are just dust particles despite our bombast and despicable attitudes, our prides and our prejudices.
As per the Bible, too, man was made of dust and God blew life in to it let man come alive, and after death, the rituals re-turn man to dust whence he came. The birth of Eve is a different story altogether, not the concern right now.
Why the need for all these discussions, you may ask. Well, today is the soil conservation day. Actually, the earth, the soil is the mother of not only the farmer, but of us all. In our consumerist greed though, we have completely ruined and rubbished it. The chemicals in every possible form, the cruel and vicious excavations in search of minerals, the erosions due to deforestation, we have devastated dust, too.
If life is to thrive, we must let soil survive! Only a rich soil can get us healthy food, any water at all to drink, if you remember the life cycle we studied during our school days. A child is born, lives healthy-n-happy if and only if the mother is hale-n-hearty. That is the relationship human beings share with the soil, too. Let soil revive, and we would all survive!
Pratima@ if ill is the soil/life would have to toil.
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