Learn order and organization-II; Pujya Gurudev

Learn order and organization from the world of nature 

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma acharya

                The honeybee is a social creature too, with a specific structure of community organization. At the center, there is the queen bee. 
There are some idler princes, and the rest are worker bees that do all the labor ranging from gathering honey to the protection and service of the queen. The termite, too, is known for its community life and organizational prowess. Its existence on the earth is believed to be 250 million years old. 

The termite lives in colonies, each such colony inhabited by many thousands. It is a marvel of its power of organization that, in Africa, huge termite colonies, towering up to twenty feet, are found. Even bulldozers become inadequate to raze these, and explosives have to be used. Any talk of hard labor, organization and sociability will remain incomplete without the account of her ladyship, the ant. Ant is an insect, which can be found in every nook and corer of the world, barring only the Polar Regions and the snow-capped mountain peaks, there are approximately fourteen thousand sub-species of the ant. Ants living and behavioral pattern is entirely social, and we are hardly aware of the excellent mutual cooperation that exists within its community life. In size, ant is tiny, but its smallness is deceptive. 
On the strength of its organization and skill, ant is able to repel even much larger insects. Ants tend to roam in large clusters; each such cluster may comprise up to twenty million ants. 

That is why even much bigger insects cannot confront them. When the caravan of African red ants is on the move, people start fleeing from their houses, and village after village becomes deserted. All creatures that come in their way, ranging from the smaller ones to even elephants and camels, dread these ants. Ants do their work in groups. Collecting food, making of holes, procreation, and rearing of young ones  all these tasks are performed with excellent rapport. In ant society, there is a preponderance of females. The male ants role is confined to procreation only, and its life span, too, is very short; it dies after just one coition. The emergence of ants after monsoon gives the impression that columns of their army have been let loose from some military cantonment. 

The sight of winged and flying ants suddenly appearing into view in the rainy season evokes wonder. It is another matter that abandoning the ground and taking to the air in this free manner often proves fatal for them, as they become easy prey to insectivorous birds. While this fate of ants holds a lesson for observance of prudence; their feature of the division of labor is at once very remarkable as well as educative. 

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma