STRONG SUPERSTITIONS…

(Stream flowing, which is worshiped)
What’s so incredible about Indian wildlife, or nature? Strong mountain ranges, curvy rivers, streams, channels, brooks, blossoming flowers, chirping birds, noisy cicadas, roaring Bengal tigers!!!! These are the very few things to name, in reality NATURE to understand and more importantly to digest it is so like a horizon to us. In cities we rarely come across nature, and we forget that NATURE is dead for cities! Moving a little away from cities we see green rice fields, age old trees, flowing streams, lively waterfalls. Our journey begins and we think how it is preserved here?
(thick bamboo cover in the forest) TAMHINI- a small village which happily dwells in mountain’s lap is worth visiting! Decent forest covers the small village, and a beautiful, pure, clean stream flows through the forest. It’s a place where our mind experiences divine peace! Biodiversity found here is mind boggling and it’s a treat for naturalists. Rainy season cordially invites number of frog species and thus a food web develops strongly! Photographers enjoy thoroughly and return home satisfied by capturing such a splendid beauty! Why am I talking about this when title is STRONG SUPERSTITIONS? Because superstitions have conserved this nature, they have saved our mother earth from deteriorating! Stunned???? Villagers have a superstition that the stream flowing through the forest is of GOD. They worship this stream, they care for it. Hence, villagers never wash their cattle, clothes, utensils in the stream. Thus, maintaining in its natural form. Neither, they cut any wood from forest. A small deity temple is constructed on a hill and the forest surrounding it is called as DEVRAI. This is preserved in the name of goddess VINZADEVI.

We spontaneously raise eyebrows when heard of superstitions. But never analyze why these are being followed for years together. I thank all those who follow such superstitions. These are contributing immensely in conserving nature. I wish everyone in cities too; believe in such STRONG SUPERSTITIONS… I AM HIGHLY SUPERSTITIOUS!!!
(All photos by SOHAM)