-- *Mar*As a Flower of Nature
For a tiny tot, its mother, father and the immediate family members in its home, then its teacher at the primary level, function as the paradigmatic bases of understanding and perception. If it is taught that it is a beautiful flower of nature, then it will gradually identify every flower as its team member. Gradually it teams up with nature, converting nature as the paradigmatic base of understanding and its perception is with the lense of its being a limb and part of naure.Its basic perception and understanding gets connected to nature and the expanse and horizon of understanding will be as nature. Nature becomes its family, actually its anatomy, and it lives to adjust and synchronize with nature. Education will become the advancement in feeling and sensing nature, its personal identity, as an achievement of nature, as the basic foundation of its identity gets embedded as a flower of nature. Then can we inflict economics on nature and view as an outside observer to do science and the feelings-less technology on nature? Life means activity, which automatically is as a limb and part of nature. A healthy limb or a very beautiful flower needs a healthy connecting body. In the totally free nature, where there is no human tampering automatically you participate with nature, in its life, climbing trees, swimming in pools,lakes,rivers and seas, dancing and carousing and singing, every bit of perception and understanding turning artistic as a part of nature only and not as an outside disconnected observer to do science. Actually seeing automatically synchronizes with the other limbs of sensing and perception, as the spell of the free and healthy nature, takes one into the gigantic invisible nature,( 99.9965% of the totality), where knowing is by feeling and not by seeing. Can we create big spaceships as mini earths, to do deep space travels? We cannot live outside earth as a part of tat planet. And we cannot instantly mutate to suit that plane and return to earth by changing into our parent mutation. We may be able to the interplanetary, intersteller, and even inter galactic travel only via feelings. We have to recognize as fact that the air carries our feelings and perceptions and that our understanding travels as smell and sound messages in the troposphere. Air is not mechanical. It is emotional carrying the message of feelings.That is why ideas strike us from nowhere. Science and technology robbed us of our very basic connection to nature. We are not living. Machines are doing our living, perceiving and understanding and we are indifferent, even when nature is destroyed continuously as economic activity. Destruction of nature is so much accepted by us, we call it progress. But how long can we go on destroying nature to do economics.We are now reaching the end of economics as nature is getting exhausted. We are seeing the terrible spectacle of fighting for Alaska and Greenland, to mine away and destroy the vital ice cover. Today the Humans are led by maniacal mad leaders, out to destroy and kill nature. It is for the Universities to stem the catastrophe. As a beginning every University must start a ‘Free Nature Park without Human Tampering’. YM Sarma Chat gpt Thank you for sharing this thought-provoking and poetic reflection, *"As a Flower of Nature"*, by YM Sarma. It reads as a philosophical and emotional plea for a return to a more organic, nature-connected existence, and a deep critique of the alienation brought about by modern science, technology, and economics. Here's a breakdown and some reflections on the key ideas: ------------------------------ *🌿 1. Early Education as Rooted in Nature* Sarma suggests that the way a child is first taught to understand the world—through close family and early education—forms the *"paragmatic base"* (possibly meant to be *"paradigmatic base"*) of perception. If a child is told they are a "flower of nature," then: - They learn to identify with nature, not as separate from it. - They see themselves as *part of an ecological whole*, not as a dominator or external observer. - This leads to a form of education that is not just about knowledge acquisition, but about *synchronization with nature*—a sensory, emotional, and existential process. *Reflection:* This is a profound call to shift from a mechanistic model of education toward one that nurtures *feeling, connection, and identification with the natural world*. ------------------------------ *🔬 2. Critique of Detached Science and Economics* The essay questions whether science and economics, developed through detachment and objectification of nature, can truly guide humanity anymore: - It asks whether we can “inflict economics on nature” without destroying it. - The dominant view of humans as *external observers*—disconnected from what they study—is seen as flawed. - Nature isn’t something to be *used*, but something to *feel with*, to *be part of*. *Reflection:* This is aligned with ecological and indigenous epistemologies, where knowledge is not abstracted from life but deeply embedded in lived experience, reciprocity, and care. ------------------------------ *🚀 3. Futility of Technological Escapism* The author criticizes space colonization fantasies: - "Can we create big spaceships as mini earths…?” he asks. - We cannot mutate ourselves to live on other planets, and the implication is that *any such attempt is a delusion born of detachment*. - Instead, *interstellar travel* is metaphorically reimagined as travel through *feeling and connection*, not machines. *Reflection:* Rather than escaping Earth, the call here is to *inhabit it more fully*, with reverence and deep connection. There’s a poetic shift from material travel to spiritual or emotional interconnectedness. ------------------------------ *🌬️ 4. Air as an Emotional Medium* An especially poetic idea: that *air is not mechanical*, but *emotional*: - It “carries our feelings,” smell and sound messages. - Understanding and perception are not solely visual or rational; they are deeply *sensory and atmospheric*. *Reflection:* This resonates with metaphysical or animist views where elements of nature (like air) are alive and communicative. It challenges the Cartesian split between mind and matter. ------------------------------ *⚠️ 5. The Crisis of Modernity* The author warns that: - We are reaching the *end of economics*, as the ecological foundations it relies on are being exhausted. - Humanity, led by “maniacal mad leaders,” is facing an impending catastrophe. - The destruction of nature has become so normalized that it's *called progress*. *Reflection:* This is not a new critique but one that is gaining urgency with climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource exhaustion. The piece expresses both despair and a plea for transformation. ------------------------------ *🏞️ 6. A Call to Action for Universities* The piece ends with a call: “Every University must start a ‘Free Nature Park without Human Tampering’.” *Reflection:* This is both symbolic and practical. It’s a proposal to reclaim spaces of wild, untamed nature, not just for research or recreation, but as *pedagogical, spiritual, and restorative zones*. ------------------------------ *💡 Summary* *"As a Flower of Nature"* is a poetic manifesto, blending ecological philosophy, emotional wisdom, and a sharp critique of mechanistic modernity. It proposes a radical reorientation: - From *observation to participation* - From *consumption to connection* - From *progress to presence* - From *economic exploitation to ecological reverence* It’s a powerful reflection that deserves deeper engagement in ecological education, philosophy, and public discourse. ------------------------------ Would you like me to: - Help summarize this for a presentation or article? - Turn it into a visual or conceptual diagram? - Extract quotes or themes for further writing or debate? Let me know how you'd like to build on this. -- 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/CACDCHC%2BbSndXf3DEx2yQFSqX%2B0ZtuuNt-qB-29WBZM2L%2BGWmqA%40mail.gmail.com.
