Natural remedy for population explosion

Not many of us know that with 17.3 per cent of world’s population, India has now become the second most populous country in the world and shortly its going to top the list for the very wrong reasons.

Such a rapid growth of population over the past few decades has resulted from an increased birthrate and low death rate. With rapid scientific advancement resulting in the decline of death rate, more people are now being added each day than at any other time in human history.

While irresponsible sex-indulgence is the sole cause of challenging population growth, celibacy or self control is the only effective solution to it. But, the tragedy of the present age is that men and women seek too much liberty for their lustful behaviour, leaving love to remain a showpiece of the museum.

Bodily union of the two sexes is no more a process of procreation but a mode of dirty and dangerous recreation, in the course of which, child comes as an offshoot with no place where it can be thrown, much less cared for.

Isn’t it a ghastly crime to indulge in such bodily pleasures and produce children that cannot be fed from the available resources on earth? Today, millions are already starving and yet multimillions are added every year to swell the number of hungry mouths and starvation deaths.

Shouldn’t we think about their plight? Modern man may probably laugh away or reject this cure or remedy of celibacy as impractical, but he can do so only at his own peril; for, the subtle laws of Nature will not pardon him.

There is a perverted notion prevailing in society that believes physical relationship to be a basic human and biological necessity. It is this wrong belief which has become the greatest hurdle in the application of this remedy. The way to its adoption will open only with the realisation that it is not a basic human necessity but a mental ill, which has made this world into a hell. Like all other mental ailments, this too can be corrected through proper psychiatry which will immunise the mind from this sensuous desire.

Practice of celibacy has so far been considered a preserve of those who have renunciated their hearth and home and have taken the path of the jungle; but it is high time that this wrong notion be wiped off and people are made to feel and experience that it is perfectly possible to make celibacy a norm of life within the fold of the world of activity by a simple mental training, whereby man cultivates soul consciousness as against presently prevalent body consciousness.

This change in consciousness will not only check population growth but would also have a curative effect on other vicious propensities of which the man is presently a victim because celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. So, let us make celibacy a way of living and relieve Mother Earth from the burden of ever increasing population.