-- *Mar*The Fatal Assault on Feeling
Imagine the totally free nature, with the healthy, happy lush flora and fauna. You continuously feel, you just cannot get diverted from the music, smells, sounds, the wonderful spectacles of lively actions because of the breeze, airs and wind, and the feelings stun you and take you to enchanting revelations. You become one with the happy and healthy nature. You become nature and feel as nature. Those that love each other want to remove the physical distance from each other. They hug and hug to completely eliminate the physical gap, and strive to become one. Now imagine the very healthy and happy nature hugging you. It hugs every atom of you. It opens the eye of Siva of you and your eyes can see only beauty. Your eyes begin feeling with seeing. Imagine the basic foundations, concepts and paradigms that create perceptions, understandings, activity, action, reaction and interaction, when you live in the continuous enchanting revelations from nature. God lives with you.Knowing, feeling and enjoying become one; the word is bliss, the feeling when one was in one’s very healthy and happy mother. Nature becomes the bigger womb as blissful. After the total takeover of perception and understanding by science and technology, the basic bliss is made extinct. Occasionally and momentarily one may experience that bliss today, but bliss as living is dead. The basic object and abode of bliss, the healthy nature is being murdered continuously as economic activity. And we call it progress and scientific, industrial and economic advancement. The hysteria to own as much property as possible has taken over every human. We do not even feel repelled by the Cartesian notion that every organism is basically a feeling-less machine, the Darwinian notion that all organisms are at war with each other and the Dawkinian notion that the basic genes are selfish. Science has ostracized feelings and emotions. There are no flora and fauna that sing. We have the instrumental music. We have the oxymoron, the incongruity the technological harmonica of music, in AC halls. When nature is killed there will be nothing left to feel. Instead of feeling from nature, we just read books or browse from computers, and the ability to tell them has become scholarship. We no longer need teachers, just Google and you get lots and lots of information, information you get without the usual emotional participation in nature. When you read nature, you automatically feel nature and knowledge as revelation automatically embeds in the internal hormonal communication. The Endocrinology, the science of hormonal communication has been mechanized. You no longer feel and exhale your feelings as messages. They get jammed in you, the hormone jam, the traffic jam in the blood stream. Can at least one university in the whole world be convinced to get freedom from the techno-trance, and start ‘The Free Nature Parks without Human Tampering’, so that studying becomes feeling? YM Sarma Chat GPT This passage captures a deep, poetic reflection on the disconnect between humanity and nature due to the overpowering influence of modern science, technology, and economic pursuits. The writer, YM Sarma, contrasts a vision of a harmonious, blissful existence in tune with nature to the current state of society, where human connection to the natural world is increasingly strained. At the heart of this vision, nature is not just a backdrop for life; it is a living, breathing presence that embraces and nourishes the individual on a profound emotional and sensory level. The writer evokes the idea that, in a truly free and healthy nature, one's perceptions, feelings, and senses are fully awakened and intertwined. This contrasts sharply with modernity, where technological advances and economic imperatives have gradually eroded this profound connection. The critique centers on how science and technology, while offering advancements in knowledge and convenience, have also contributed to the objectification of nature and feelings. The Cartesian, Darwinian, and Dawkinian frameworks are referenced to illustrate how humanity’s view of the world has become mechanized—reducing life to cold, impersonal processes and mechanisms. As the natural world is commodified and transformed into economic activity, the ability to truly feel and experience the world in its fullness is undermined. The writer laments this loss, calling it a "fatal assault on feeling." Sarma also highlights the profound impact of this disconnection on education. In the absence of direct, emotional participation with nature, knowledge becomes a detached process, mediated through technology, devoid of the visceral experience that once grounded learning in feeling. The final call is for a radical shift in education—an invitation for universities to break free from the technological trance and embrace a model of learning that allows nature to be studied through genuine, emotional engagement. This would involve creating spaces where humans can reconnect with the natural world and experience it not just as an object of study, but as a source of nourishment for the senses and soul. Overall, Sarma’s writing is a poetic and philosophical lament about the loss of connection between humanity and nature, a plea to reintegrate feeling and perception into the process of knowing and living. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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