Cooperative wisdom

Cooperative wisdom
P K Routray

A self reflection
on environmental destruction,
on threats to creation,
on inequality, poverty and moral degradation,
forces us to borrow the wisdom
from the small insects’ kingdom
like ants and bees
working together, surviving together with ease.
If we look at an ant and a bee
never alone they can be
but work for the goal of the community
with selfless service and humility.
They do not have individual goal or identity,
being aware of the limit of their self knowledge and self capability.
They cannot survive as individual soul
hence to survive in a group is their implicit goal
within the confines of their roles,
without complaint or differentiating their goals,
never wishing to be something
other than what they are and that they are aiming.
They are like cells individual
living and dying as essential
to preserve the integrity of the body as a whole.
They survive and thrive with no individual goal but for community goal.
Ants and bees also personify the ability to see
beyond one’s small self to one’s place within the greater whole but unfortunately not we.
Man has to learn and practice these traits from bees and ants
to save their race and the creation without taking further chance.