Jwalant Swaroop
Humanity today is engaged in a relentless race to extract rare earth metals, lithium, cobalt, neodymium, and others, driven by the hunger for technological dominance, economic growth, and material comfort. These elements, hidden deep within the womb of the Earth, are treated merely as commodities to be conquered, traded, and exhausted. Yet from a spiritual perspective, nothing in creation is accidental, and nothing exists merely to be consumed.
If Mother Earth holds rare metals in limited quantities, it is by divine design, not by oversight.
In Indic thought, Earth is not an inert mass of rock and soil; she is Bhūmi Devi, a living, conscious being. The Rishis never perceived nature as Jad (dead matter) alone, but as a sacred interplay of Jad and Chetan—matter infused with consciousness. Rare earth metals, therefore, are not simply resources; they are locked energies, held in trust, meant to be accessed only with reverence, restraint, and a matured level of human consciousness.
Extraction Without Consciousness: A Spiritual Violence.
When extraction happens without awareness, gratitude, or balance, it becomes a form of spiritual violence—himsa against nature. Mountains are ripped open, rivers poisoned, forests erased, and ancient ecosystems destroyed, all in the name of progress. The material wealth gained is immediate; the spiritual debt incurred is invisible but cumulative.
Nature does not protest in words. She responds in frequencies:
• Climate imbalance
• Earthquakes and landslides
• Floods, droughts, and ecological collapse
• Rising mental unrest, anxiety, and emotional epidemics in human society
These are not punishments. They are corrective responses. Just as the human body generates fever to fight infection, Mother Earth manifests upheavals to restore equilibrium. When her sacred layers are violated repeatedly, her resistance begins to appear as fury.
Rare Earth Metals vs. Rare Earth Blessings
The true tragedy is not that humans extract rare earth metals, it is that they have forgotten to receive rare earth blessings, which are offered abundantly and freely:
• Clean air that heals without cost
• Sunlight that sustains life without invoice
• Soil that feeds generations without patents
• Water that purifies without ownership
• Silence that restores the nervous system
• Forests that regulate climate effortlessly
These are not lesser gifts. They are higher technologies of existence, far more sophisticated than anything humanity has engineered.
A tree gives oxygen freely, asks nothing in return—yet humans now put price tags on oxygen cylinders. A river sustains civilisations—yet is reduced to a utility pipeline. The Earth nourishes life selflessly yet is mined as if she were lifeless. This inversion reveals a deep spiritual poverty, not a lack of intelligence.
Why Does Humanity Ignore These Blessings?
Because modern humanity has shifted from receiving to grabbing, from communion to consumption. The more consciousness declines, the more extraction accelerates. The less inner richness a civilisation possesses, the more aggressively it seeks external accumulation. When spirituality disappears, materialism turns predatory.
Ancient cultures worshipped the Earth not out of superstition, but out of intimate knowing. They understood that taking without gratitude leads to collapse. Rituals, yagnas, and prayers were not symbolic acts; they were technologies of balance, ensuring that whatever was taken from nature was accompanied by reverence, restraint, and responsibility.
The Arrogance of Ownership: Who Gave Humanity the Right?
If humanity were asked a simple question, Can you replenish rare earth metals once they are exhausted? the answer would be a clear no. Then by what right does humanity claim the power to extract them indiscriminately, without consent, without restraint, and without restoration? Nations today are willing to go to war, occupy territories, and destabilise entire regions merely to control lands blessed with rare earth metals. In this madness, they ignore the delicate balance the Divine has created to make Earth a living, life-sustaining planet. What is being violated is not just geography, it is cosmic order.
Are We Heading Toward a Disaster Greater Than War?
Humanity has mastered the art of taking, but has forgotten the sacred responsibility of giving back. Ecological balance is not restored through treaties or technologies alone, it is restored through humility, reverence, and conscious restraint.
If this imbalance continues, we may be heading toward a catastrophe far worse than a thousand nuclear explosions , not because of a single moment of destruction, but because of slow, irreversible civilisational collapse.
In our ignorance, we are turning rare earth blessings into the worst possible curse for mankind, poisoning the very womb that sustains us.
Conclusion: The Forgotten Art of Receiving
Humanity stands at a decisive threshold.
One path continues blind excavation, mistaking short-term wealth, technological supremacy, and territorial control for success.
The other path restores reverence, recognising that Earth is not a warehouse of minerals, but a living mother, whose generosity has no parallel and whose patience is not infinite.
Rare earth metals may power machines. Rare earth blessings sustain life.
Until humanity learns to value the latter, the former will continue to cost far more than they are worth.
Mother Earth gives freely.
It is man who has forgotten how to receive.
