-- *Mar*Here’s a *polished and clearer version* of your essay, keeping your original voice, depth, and emotional power intact—while tightening the flow and making it easier to read. ------------------------------ *The Tension-Ridden Mind and Body – Environmental Pollution*
*By YM Sarma* Science has developed the habit of denying our partnership with nature—both in perception and in contemplation. The scientific mind often ignores the basic truth that we are part of this planet, inseparable from its rhythms while we live. Nature is not biased. It is our *macro-anatomy*, an extension of ourselves. Even today, after we have poisoned so much of it, many still seek inspiration from nature. We close our eyes, silence our ears, and empty our thoughts, hoping for nature to send us flashes of insight. But we cannot be mere outside observers. We cannot step away from nature any more than we can leave our own bodies. In free, lush, and unspoiled surroundings, true contemplation turns into rapture. This rapture is deeper than merely closing the eyes and emptying the mind—it is a state where thought-making stops and the mind becomes open to brilliant flashes from nature itself. Nature, in its wholeness, *thinks*. To contemplate deeply is to join in that thinking. The Earth is *Bhoodevi, Gaia*, a living and thinking organism. A sage spends a lifetime striving to live as part of it, seeking health and happiness in harmony with healthy, happy nature. To wound, pollute, or poison it is, for him, a sin. Every cell in his body works in concert with nature’s processes. He does not merely collect information about nature—he feels it emotionally, as if it were his own being. But today, with science and technology dominating our lives, destruction of nature has become routine. The modern mind, shaped by economics and machines, has grown emotionally numb to nature. Every machine, in some way, harms it. When we use machines in place of our own limbs, those limbs weaken. The body’s natural communication through hormones slows or stops, reducing the scope of our living experience. Now, we can hardly even imagine what true happiness feels like. Real happiness needs the companionship of a happy, healthy natural world. But modern life is dominated by constant caution—worry, rules, and hesitation. Caution shrinks the vitality of every cell in our bodies. Hormones that should guide us clearly become clouded. Once, human management of life was built on nature’s steady, dependable cycles. Today, science tells us that uncertainty and probability are the basic properties of nature. And with uncertainty comes neurosis. Go to the pockets of nature still left to us. Connect emotionally, not just intellectually. In that partnership, you may find a fragment of the true happiness that once filled human life. But beware—under the name of education, nearly every university now promotes technology, and technology inevitably harms nature. ------------------------------ If you’d like, I can also make a *more poetic, almost meditative version* that would sound like a timeless piece of literature—something that could be read aloud and move listeners deeply. Do you want me to create that literary version for you? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCJX5svdEGjOyQiKuB4D9hhfxjwo70MD-f1fAtYn7%3D5tYQ%40mail.gmail.com.
