I Am Water – Part 5
By Dr. Rajendra Singh*
(Translated from Hindi by Deepak Parvatiyar, Member, World Water Council)
Also read:
- The story of water – 1
- The story of water – 2
- The story of water – 3
- The story of water – 4
- The story of water-5
Troubled Times
I am calm and transparent because I feel safe and secured. When I feel safe then I provide solution. When man receives the solution from me then he feels the joy and becomes calm. Only someone who is calm can be transparent.
I romp and my romping can be seen in all parts of the river. Everyone can see all my activities. More than man, animals know about my flow better. Plants and trees too, understand me quite well.
Only man alone makes me angry. Otherwise I remain calm. I am also completely transparent. Everybody feels assured in life because of my transparency. I am equal to everyone. This assurance makes me calm and transparent. All those who I have created also become transparent because of my behaviour.
Everyone likes my calmness and transparency, but man, who I have created, doesn’t become like me. If he becomes like me then I will never become angry. This means that then there will be no drought or floods in the planet. Everyone’s life will become happy and transparent. Man is in illusion and has forgotten this joy and transparency. That is why he has become restless and secretive. If man starts following my clam and transparent nature and stops scaring others, he can instil confidence in everyone’s life.
Man should learn from me. What I teach is auspicious for the universe. It is good for everyone. Transparency ensures everyone’s right to live and allows penetration of peace, simplicity and innateness in everyone’s life. Peace and Transparency are complimentary to each other. Transparency comes with peace and vice versa. I encompass both of them and from me they reach out to the living world.
I am the Trinity. I am Brahma, I am Vishnu and I am Mahesh (Shiva). In all these three conditions I am always treating everyone equally. I give birth to all, I take care of all and am used equally by all. I made this earth by cooling fire and masses of gas. I am Brahma who created this Earth. I created all creatures on this planet — whether plants or animals. In this process of creation, I had first created unicellular amoeba. After amoeba, different types of flora and aquatic organisms were created. I created all aquatic creatures, terrestrial animals, and birds, and then also started nourishing them. I became everyone’s guardian.
Before man, I gave the message of “Live and Let Live” to all creatures and vegetation. But this message lost its relevance after man came into existence and started flaunting it without understanding its true meaning. This message has nothing to do with man’s behaviour and sacrament. I had created man for alimentation, but he instead became an exploiter and destroyer. To exploit he imbibed the qualities of an exploiter and polluter. In order to satisfy his greed, he first started polluting me. My quantity remained the same but my quality went down and down. None other than man ruined my qualities.
As Brahma and Vishnu, I kept creating and nurturing life but greedy man became the destroyer. He became the destroyer of this universe. His greedy nature clearly suggests that man is ‘Mahesh’ (destroyer). Mahesh destroys in a natural manner but man has been doing everything that is against the Nature. I am all. Indians know this. I am Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. I create everything and I destroy everything. That is why now man (Mahesh) too is getting scared by me. He is now getting worried about all his wrongdoings.
A worried man now thinks that the troubles of Mahesh will increase because of angry water, which can cause floods and droughts. There was a time when Mahesh had saved the world by drinking poison. Today Mahesh (Man) does not think or see beyond self. This way he is only enhancing his own sufferings. If man had understood my forms of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, then there would have been a good balance maintained between the three.
Brahma is the creator of entire living beings. I am equal to all. I had created everyone as equal but man raced ahead with his development works to become Mahesh. As Vishnu, I took equal care of everyone but today’s Mahesh has found all means and started destruction through encroachment, pollution and exploitation.
It is only I who has been trying to make his understand by instilling my fear in him. But still his greed is bigger than my life. But when this happens, I show my anger from time to time. When his sin bin is full, I will create holocaust. Holocaust is related to me. I am the reason behind holocaust but it is caused only because of man. But man misunderstands me as Mahesh. I am the basic creator of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. I am water.
To conclude…
*Dr. Rajendra Singh is an internationally acclaimed water conservationist and is also known as the Waterman of India. The views expressed are personal.
