Nature And Man In The Epic Of Nature, The Mahabharata

Environmental conservation is a very strong and powerful message of all literature from the whole of the world. Writings are the record of our journey and the Mahabharata gives full details of its time. From time immemorial Nature has got maximum place in the Mahabharata that devotes a book to the forests called Aranya Parva and reveals the importance of trees which has been explicitly became the theme of several Puranas. Ruthless exploitation of natural resources by man has already wreaked havoc in our environment and protection of environment is a burning problem of our global world nowadays. This is a matter of pride for us, the Indians that this concept of protection of the environment was already present in our ancient texts including the Mahabharata. Now it is our responsibility to maintain the equilibrium and see that Nature is not disturbed or interfered with, lest it should lead to chaos and confusion as aptly pointed out by Earnest Hemingway, the famous American novelist whose warning is, “Mending nature is ending nature”. Thus, we must follow the highest ideal needed in our present competitive era to make our global village fit for us.: Sarva-bhootasuhritva.(SrimadBhagavadgita 6.31