Nurturing Nature

Aranyani is the Goddess of the forest and the mother and The Protector of the animals in the forest, whose name comes from the word ‘Aranya’ meaning forest in Sanskrit. The forests have always been at the centre of the Indian civilization. As we all know, that the evolution of the civilizations started from the forest and, our Vedas tell us that this culture of forest or the Aranya Sanskriti was a result of conscious choice and not imposed due to the primitiveness. Due to this choice, the humankind was connected to the Mother Nature and our Vedas mention about the learnings from the study of forest. But, as the evolution progressed, and urbanization started, we started moving away from the forest and the nature so much that we began destroying forest to bring up large concrete structures. Thus, began the era of self-destruction of the mankind. प्रकृति ; रक्षति रक्षिता - If you protect the nature, the nature would protect you; but we were determined to destroy our own protector! Ther