-- *Mar*Certainly, Mr. Sarma. Below is a *carefully edited version of your original essay*, preserving your voice, ideas, and poetic depth—while improving clarity, grammar, punctuation, and flow. ------------------------------ 🌿 *The Patient’s Approach*
*By YM Sarma* Thanks to the scientific approach and the mechanization of our outlook, we now view nature as outside spectators and economic users—indifferent to the enormous destruction we regularly inflict upon it through our daily economic activities. We no longer even realize the terrible cruelty being continuously perpetrated on nature. We have adopted the indifferent attitude of a butcher—disregarding the life and sensitivity of every living form. Today, we find it hard to accept even the basic facts of ecology—that every life form is emotional, perceptive, understanding, and interconnected with us. We are part of a vast ecological web, not separate from it. An electron, when placed before a screen with a billion holes, passes through all the holes at once—by becoming a wave, like a water body spreading all around. After crossing, it returns to being a single electron. Similarly, in free and healthy nature, perception and understanding expand infinitely. By interacting with the world around us, our paradigms grow. Nature, when allied with, grants us the power of ever-expanding perception, insight, and awareness. But today, we no longer team with nature—we destroy it continuously. Economics has become an activity that kills and putrefies nature. We have surrendered the divine gift of natural perception and understanding—something that only thrives in free, living nature—to machines that are inherently destructive to the environment. We have lost our basic faculty of feeling ourselves as limbs of nature. Now, we drag ourselves, unable to interact with the natural world, relying on machines to do what our own limbs were meant to. We are slowly becoming cyborgs. When a mechanical device replaces a natural limb, there is no blood circulation into that part. The entire network of hormonal communication across organisms in the biosphere becomes stifled. Our hormones are actually linked to the internal signals of other organisms—through smell, sound, touch, and sensation. We are part of a grand, subtle biological network. The mechanical paradigm is killing our naturally expanding perception and understanding. Theism—or the belief in divine power—is not about worshipping a god with a postal address, Aadhaar card, or PAN number. God, or the flow of theism, is a feature of free, untampered nature. It is this theism that coordinates the macro perception and understanding among all life forms, making the biosphere a single living organism. When we use machines to replace our limbs, we freeze those limbs, becoming patients served by nurses—the machines. Mechanical inventions have displaced natural discoveries and revelations, which once emerged from our daily interactions with living nature. We are continuously destroying nature. And institutions like universities are complicit—they bludgeon students into programs and courses that contribute to ecological destruction. We no longer understand when or how nature might begin to repair itself. In doing so, it may simply destroy us—or make us extinct. And nature may take another million years to recreate a new biosphere. It is now the responsibility of universities to become sane. They must revive direct perception and understanding with nature—and recognize nature as divine. The most urgent, elementary step every university must take is to create a: *“Free Nature Park—Without Human Tampering.”* Let us give space for nature to be itself again—and for us to find our place within it. ------------------------------ Would you like this formatted into a PDF or printed document for easier sharing or publication? I can also help you write a foreword or introduction if you plan to present this to an institution or group. -- 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%2B5qqT10V_a%3DHwTpuKgKfbFX9P7VCETgYq1goOXnZ14QQ%40mail.gmail.com.
