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Is mankind the cancer for the universe?

On Hindu mythology, we believe that there is Brahma the creator, Vishu the sustainer and Shiva the destroyer. Man has been around for more than a million years, however it is only the last 10000 years, where we have really moved ahead of every other species. We have grown and multiplied from 4 billion to 8 billion in less than a 100 years.

So are we entering the era where the world will be coming to an end? Are we growing uncontrolled like the cancer cells destroying everything else around us?

Are we the ones who are killing ourselves for a new earth to be born? We are in the Kaliyuga as per Hindu mythology. Which is the beginning of the end for the world. Have we reached the end? So that all the development culminates in the end of the world as we know it? And the beginning of a new world? Are we the last of our race to step into the unknown by becoming robots or the terminators as James Cameron portrayed in his movie? Are we headed out to the space to be lost there forever?

So many questions but no answers. I guess only time will tell where we are headed. Till then, let us pray so that God is kind to us and guides us on His divine designs. Amen!

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