By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group
I had read a story in my childhood. A magician arrived in a king’s court and after enchanting everyone with a display of his magical artistry, when the king asked him to ask for something, he said, “O Rajan! Provide me with doubling rice in each chess square.” The king thought that there would be only a handful of rice, but when the rice was counted, the total rice of his kingdom fell but the magician’s bag was not filled.
This old story is reappearing today in a new version and cover of the Coronavirus. ‘Corona’ is the magician, the ‘whole world’ is chess, and ‘we and you’ are those grains of rice who are ready to go to the magician’s hungry bag geometrical equation every time’ unless we destroy this magical chain of magicians in time.
It is as if we are all the characters of a Hollywood fantasy movie and the whole world is facing the invisible army of the fiercest fighters of any celestial folk. All our weapons have become mere toys in front of this invisible venomous superpower, and all of us are looking with our eyes in the sky for an ‘Avengers’, our protectors. The only difference between this fantasy and our reality is that in the movie, wearing many different costumes, with amazing weapons, many global warriors can save our beloved earth and us by putting themselves in life danger, but in real life, no such Avenger will ever come from outside to save us.
It is probably a matter of disappointment for us that any Avenger is not going to come from outside to save us, but it is certainly a matter of joy that there is an Avenger hidden inside each of us which we have to take out and with the most powerful weapons of ‘prudence’, ‘caution’ and ‘vigilance’, we have to fight this great weapon of creation and defeat it forever.
How the Coronavirus (Kovid-19) was born, how it evolved and how it engulfed the whole world, all these facts have reached us through many mediums and now we all must believe that today, the world is sitting on a pile of explosives made by it and its burning exploder is coming nearer second by second to the pile. The truth is that if we break the geometrical progress of this virus, then it will be a simple means that we have disconnected the exploder, moving towards said pile of explosives and we have got the world secured from the great disaster. This may sound a little difficult but not impossible.
It is our good fortune that as long as the DNA of Corona is broken by the Scientists of the world, we have come to know the initial weaknesses of the Corona and we have come to know that the Corona is such a superpower that we may not be able to beat it with strength but we can defeat it with its own weaknesses. The Corona virus does not travel in the air and its kill is carried out through spit, sneeze, and touch of the infected person and if we can stop its journey away from the scope of its limited range then the maximum age of this virus is only fourteen days. These facts are our strongest defense tools.
Ishwar, Gad or Allah protects us with his thousands of millions of hands, makes us run through his thousands of feet and determines our fate with his unlimited knowledge and wisdom. The truth is that our hands are His hands, our feet are His feet and our Conscience is his wisdom. We all have Ishwar, Gad, Allah in ourselves and we have to use our own hands, feet, and conscience and this is the divine help for us.
The Mahabharata describes a war strategy ‘Chakravyuh’. The Corona virus has created a trap for us and to end the Corona, we have to set our collective Chakravyuha, and each of us should keep a certain distance from each other. It is to be kept so that we can remain free from corona-wise and to destroy any possibility of infection along with the continuous hygiene of our hands and body in the scheduled way.
We do not go to our religious places to get any light from outside but to engrave the mascara that is frozen around the lamp burning in our heart so that our light can peek outside. It is proved again today that despite the closure of the Temples, Mosques, Churches, Gurdwaras and other religious places around the world, God is present in our hearts and our prayers should not be for any celestial divine power, but for our own God present in our hearts so that our faith in ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (Entire World is a Family)’ can survive.
At the time of the First and Second World War or any great disaster, Indian Railways has never stopped till today, but today if the world’s largest railway service has blocked itself, then any other question is not left about the severity of this great disaster called Corona.
The third world war is started. This war is not to be fought by bomber airplanes, WarShips, Paten Tanks, Fire Missiles or sea-going giant fleet or Submarines, but by our Understanding, Mutual Coordination, Vigilance, Caution, and Global Teamwork. In this world war, the whole world is on one side and Corona virus on the other side. If we lose the whole world will lose and if we win, the whole world will win.
Amen!
