It is because the Divine has given man the exceptional privilege of being at least a partial or co-creator. And the first thing that man has done with this freedom is to act selfishly and most irresponsibly. He has immediately made friends with the Asura rather than growing into the godlike nature and thereby fulfilling his true role. Otherwise one can see such beauty even in the wild and the wilderness where man has not gone. Sri Aurobindo reveals in Savitri.
‘Magician of her rapt felicities,
Blithe, sensuous-hearted, careless and divine,
Life ran or hid in her delightful rooms;
Behind all brooded Nature’s grandiose calm.
Primaeval peace was there and in its bosom
Held undisturbed the strife of bird and beast.
Man the deep-browed artificer had not come
To lay his hand on happy inconscient things,
Thought was not there nor the measurer, strong-eyed toil,
Life had not learned its discord with its aim.
The Mighty Mother lay outstretched at ease.
All was in line with her first satisfied plan;
Moved by a universal will of joy
The trees bloomed in their green felicity
And the wild children brooded not on pain.’
Anyways this was a passage and now a new humanity is emerging out of the old who will hopefully not only reset the balance, correcting the errors of the past but also take Nature one step forward in her evolutionary journey through which she seeks to recreate the Divine in terms of form and name.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
