Sambit kept the folded newspaper on the table and taking up the glass of water muttered to himself, "It's better to stop reading the newspaper at all than reading the same news repeatedly."
Mohidhar heard him as he was entering the room and asked, "Why, what is the fault of the news?"
"Oh. Come in. Don't ask! Whenever I open the newspaper, I see the news of fighting, killing etc. How long can one tolerate all these?"
"You are absolutely right." said Mohidhar,"And you know, what is more unfortunate? Not only in our country, throughout the whole world religions plays a special role in all these. There is a continuous competition regarding whose religion is the best, whose religion will get the crown for being the greatest etc. But we forget a simple small truth. Due to the rivalry among religions, if the Earth becomes unsuitable for habitation if the ground standing on which the claimants are fighting for eminence - ceases to exist, then on which ground will mankind stand to fight?"
"Whatever you are saying is utterly true. Having heard your words, I also feel now that the Earth is enduring everything done by us. The Earth is doing the greatest deeds silently without any noise. We capture the treasures of the Earth and declare with pride, “I am so rich, I am the owner of such a huge property but actually, the owner of all the treasures of the Earth is Mother Earth herself. If a human being gets the 'Guard of Honour' for doing some good work, great jobs, then our beautiful Mother Earth, which is the motherland of millions of creatures should get the 'Guard of Honour' at least once every day anywhere in the world. I at least - think so".
"You have said precisely the right thing. Really our Mother Earth should receive the 'Guard of Honour' from all of us every day and I have an idea of my own regarding this. May I tell you?" inspired Mohidhar said.
Sambit answered with hearty laughter, "Of course you may, but my 'job' should not leave me and go away for grazing in the field."
Listening to him Mohidhar also started laughing "Oh, no! Your job will not go anywhere. My conception is that every morning when we wake up from sleep, some of us remember our parents, some of the Gods and Goddesses we worship, to pay respect to them - at the same time every morning we can pay our homage to our Mother Earth and tell her how grateful we are towards her! You have bestowed on us your magnificent beauty and infinite treasures. That's why we love you so much; you are so close to us! If we can express our gratitude in this way, we can take care of the Earth, and then even in this age of terrible pollution, we may live a healthy, disease-free life for 80/90 years by the blessings of Mother Earth.
Only the love towards our Mother Earth can bring "Permanent World Peace". It will be possible if all of us can love our own countries. Each country is a very small portion of the Earth. If all human beings can love their own countries, then that love will take a much greater form and envelop the whole Earth. From our side, if we can provide love, the Earth will give us everything else needed by us. We boast that we have done this, we have done that, but actually, we cannot do anything totally on our own. Whatever we do, we take help from the Earth.
We should remember something else too and that is natural wealth, mineral wealth, aqua wealth - the wealth of the Earth is not unlimited. We have been using all those wealth as per our own will for billions of years. At the same time, the amounts of waste and destruction are also huge. Another cause for concern is the population explosion of the present times, so the population control measures have been invented and are put to use. And you see how surprising the foresight of our Creator is! He knew that the natural wealth of the Earth created by Him was not limitless and never-ending. One day will come when due to the huge population there will be a shortage of natural wealth. So He sent human beings to the Earth endowed with intellect and knew that with the help of the intellect man would one day solve the problem. And it happened just like that. Man himself realized that the population explosion throughout the world was bringing about the message of the advent of a terrible danger that if the population explosion could not be controlled immediately, then the trove of natural wealth would soon be finished.
I believe that if the "Population Control Measures" can be used in the right way, then a balance will surely remain between the natural wealth and the population of the Earth. In short, to keep our love, hope, yearnings and dreams alive we have to take care and keep the Earth in good condition". Mohidhar finished his words. A captivated Sambit extended his right hand and touched lightly the hand Mohidhar kept on the table.