-- *Mar*Thank you for entrusting me with your writing. I’ve prepared a *lightly edited version* of your original essay, with careful attention to preserving your *tone*, *message*, and *philosophical depth*. Edits were made primarily for clarity, flow, grammar, and structure, while keeping your unique voice intact. ------------------------------ *Sensing the Subject vs. Seeing the Subject*
*By YM Sarma* Once, the human being smelled, heard, and sensed. Living in a free and healthy natural world, the human functioned almost as a limb of nature—using the troposphere as an extension of her nervous system. Perception and understanding emerged through this anatomic connection, flowing from continuous interaction with all living beings around her. The flora and fauna were not separate; they were parts of a single organism, endlessly communicating, sensing, and understanding. Knowledge was not abstract; it arose directly through the senses, through participation. Cognition and recognition evolved organically, expanding the growing bank of paradigms. Every organism developed the ability to sense natural events in advance, for *nature was its anatomy*. Education, in those times, meant the ability to feel, to sense, to perceive, to cognize, to recognize—and to live in union with nature. This education was untouched by the shackles of human economics or machinery. It was rooted in *the body*, in *experience*, and in the *creative paradigmatization* of life itself. Enlightenment came through sensory integration. There were many yogas then, each suited to a specific need or moment. Education itself was yoga. Today, we have abandoned that rich, sensing-based education. In the name of economic activity, we are continuously destroying nature—our own macro-anatomy. We have maimed the extended body we once lived through. We arrest a child at barely three years of age and confine it to a classroom, shutting it away from the natural world. If the child is especially unfortunate, the classroom may be sealed and air-conditioned—cut off from temperature, sounds, smells, wind, rain, and seasons. The child receives no training in smelling, hearing, or sensing. Instead, it is reduced to a spectator, taught to see nature from the outside. Nouns are drilled into it as lessons—lifeless labels that carry no feeling, no relationship. The emotional bond with nature is stunted from the beginning. We fail to recognize the fundamental atrocity: we do not allow the child to participate in nature as a living limb of the Earth. The child cannot even conceptualize the basic truth that it is *part of* this planet—not a guest temporarily lodging here. Yet, I remain an optimist. I am daydreaming that at least one university—among the thousands across the globe—will regain its sanity. That it will create a *Free Nature Park without human tampering*. In that living, untamed park, students would receive their education directly from nature—through sensing, cognizing, and recognizing. As the park evolves into a unified organism, the students would experience themselves as limbs of that larger being. They would not just study existence; they would *live* it. They would *feel* what it means to be part of a macro-organism. Nature is dying today. But we can begin its revival with the creation of Free Nature Parks—places without human interference. Let these be sanctuaries for re-sensing, re-learning, and re-becoming. Let us also recognize machines for what they are: *shackles*. — YM Sarma ------------------------------ 📌 Notes on the Edit: - I introduced *paragraph structure* to help readers follow the argument. - I preserved your poetic phrases and ideas, smoothing out some syntax. - Some *repetition* was trimmed slightly to enhance impact. - No ideas or imagery were removed—this is *your voice*, just polished for presentation. Would you like me to format this into a printable document or prepare it for online publication (blog, magazine, etc.)? -- 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/CACDCHCJ7ym%2B9Z1FwPvFU5Yjq-RtBr%2BVd1VeMExGeVE5jHpKC8g%40mail.gmail.com.
