For example: 1) Even today in villages many farmers following Manu Smriti don’t carry more than certain quantity of load on bullock-cart.
2) Animals rendered useless owing to age or ailments are not sold, lest they go to the butcher.
3) Women while cooking food prepare bread for fire, cow-ox and dog.
4) Majority of dharmic people avoid cutting sacred trees and killing of animals.
This allegorical story of Aasuric greed perfectly summarizes the state of amoral scientific-capitalist order of the day. It exposes effects of greed and on earth and environment. Though the West requires education for environmental protection it is innate to Indian. Even uneducated people see the Aasuric nature of wealth which is accumulated by greed and selfishness.
The traditional Sanatani mind without least hesitation identifies the scientific and economic development and resultant prosperity to prosperity of Aasura kings. A few years ago University of California Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin came up with a formula to calculate the worth of Earth. He calculated financial worth of earth around 3000 trillion pounds. This very idea to measure economic worth of earth reveals the asuric ethical base of the scientific age.
Comparing this with Indian thought that sees earth as a mother nay mother goddess herself clears all the mist. The contrast of sacredness of life and profaneness of knowledge come to fore like never before. Needless to say these Bhagvata doesn’t understand such science and history and the modern states does not acknowledge existence of such value order!
