Acharya Prashant: What’s worse, there might be much more lethal and incurable viruses to come in the future.
We talk of the virus as the problem. In fact, if you go to social media to get a hang of how we are looking at the whole thing in a cultural way, you often find the virus being depicted as a demon or a horned monster or something, right? That’s how we are trying to portray the virus. But is the virus to be blamed? Did the virus conspire to come and affect and kill humanity? Or did we go and force the virus to come to us? In a lighter vein, even the virus must be in a state of shock right now. The virus was gladly living where it was.
Questioner: Where it must be.
Acharya Prashant: Where it must be, in the lap of the jungles. But when we go to the jungle, we destroy the jungle. We want to just eat and consume anything that we can lay our hands on. And so, we have forced the virus to come to us. And now, it is the nature of the virus to mutate and travel and propagate itself and infect as many as possible. The virus is doing what the virus must. We are not doing what we must.
The virus is almost a chemical, you see. It is just a little heap of genetic information. That’s all that the virus is—it hardly has any consciousness. In fact, we do not even know whether to call the virus a living or a non-living thing. So, the virus is almost a chemical. Now, what we are saying is, that the chemical is to be blamed! Is the chemical to be blamed? Seriously? It’s almost like saying carbon is evil. But then, who is emitting all the carbon into the atmosphere? We are saying CO2 is the problem. Has CO2 decided on its own to invade you and maim you?
