The Worthy Worm:
The
photo remains as the landmark event of awarding All India first Organic
Pesticide Certification India in the year 2012 for Neem based Azaractin. A
commendable effort in collaboration wih Tamil Nadu Agricultural University for
a tiny step in ensuring safe food in India.
In
one seminar where the organic pesticide was introduced for the first
time, the astonishing discovery of a useful worm and its useful
effect on the vegetables were described. By using the chemical
pesticide,the good bacteria was also being eliminated along with the
bad bacteria. Being an engineering student, I was not aware that
there is good and bad bacteria in the world. By spraying the chemical
pesticide, the good bacteria gets destroyed along with the harmful
bacteria, but later the absence of this good bacteria, other issues
crop up. This phenomenal discovery led to the discovery of natural
pesticide.
Then
I understood that, all our theories are limited to the knowledge we
have today and what we do now could be a foolish act tomorrow as our
knowledge is totally incomplete. Nothing remains as eternal except
the real truth. Our Limitation is the difficulty in understanding
this and realising the worth of each creation by GOD.
The
importance of this discovery was revealed to me when I happened to
read an historical incident. During second world war, where the
soldiers used chemical pesticide to remove the bushes, as these
bushes were the breeding ground for mosquitoes. These mosquitoes were
causing lot of problems to the soldiers. To remove these bushes, they
sprayed the chemical pesticide and the residues of these pesticides
slowly reached the pond during rain. As the pond got contaminated,
the frogs in the pond vanished. Vanishing of these frogs led to the
cascading effect and doubled the mosquitoes. Ultimately I arrived at
the same conclusion of the theory I put forth ' The effectiveness of
any system made by Man is limited by the knowledge of that time and
no knowledge stands against time.” That means -at no point of time,
no system is complete.
Irony
here is the the good [in our eyes] and bad worm [ According to our
eyes and understanding ] are allowed to live and grow together for
the best reason known only to GOD. In real life, we fail to
understand the principle that our understanding is incomplete and the
perception will change with time and probably the good one will
become bad and vice verse. At this point- the moment of truth -we
will say 'each worm is a worthy worm'.