-- *Mar*Feeling as a Plant
Now a days I stopped reading books. I have been trying to relate directly with nature. I have been trying to adopt feeling as reading and learning. For the last two days, I have been sitting by the side a plant and trying to feel that I am that plant and perceive and understand as that plant. Now as a plant, being fixed permanently to my small piece of earth, I developed intense emotional identity with the diverse life forms in my small piece of earth. My feeling of ownership or actually as anatomy-ship, to my small piece of earth is very intense and my feeling of ‘I’ includes the small of earth as me. Like the human I do not suffer from any inability to relate to any small piece of nature and I cannot speed away in a car or travel in a plane totally shut from all contact with nature. I continuously strive to expand my emotional contact with nature via smelling, sensing, perceiving and understanding. My roots extend into diverse soil bacteria. I actually relate the soil bacteria to the diverse life forms I come into contact and interact with, contributing to the emotional symbiosis of the life forms I relate to.I relate via feelings and emotions only, and I fear Technology. For me the music of nature is my breathing. I relate continuously, by participating in the songs sung by the diverse life forms near me, and that music blends with my smelling and the touches I experience from the small and tiny life forms. I experience truth continuously and I do not suffer from the language of a human, using which he simply cannot tell or experience truth. He automatically edits, misunderstands or cannot understand completely, uses tact in conversation, keeps secrets, he suffers from the basic disability to feel and know truth and he cannot express even what he thinks as truth, as he needs tact and caution in his expression. He vitally needs lies to live. I am not shackled by the techno-logic that disables from sensing directly and relating emotionally. I am not dependent on machines like a human who now needs them to do the work of his limbs, and lives satisfiedly with his half frozen limbs. Unlike him, I use my anatomy completely and I am not machine dependent for living. As it is, all of us trees and plants are trying desperately to talk with him as he is inflicting terrible tortures on us. Ours is completely our Body Language as the medium of communication, and actually communion is our basic understanding. My roots, branches, leaves and flowers, function emotionally only, and I understand the near and distant emotional communication via the air. We automatically use every piece of earth to proliferate, and if given freedom, we expand as forests, creating the wonderful symphony of emotions in diverse musics and smells, converting every life form of the Biosphere, into one single emotional organism. I can actually live only as a limb of the organism, the Biosphere. My physical growth is my education, and growing with learning is my happiness in vibrations.Today,our whole forests are under terrible holocaust, as the human needs space for his cement and concrete jungles, removing completely the basic green cover and the Theosphere or the basic sphere of emotions ,we plants and trees create and thrive in. The Human wants machines only and he cannot tolerate emotions. He actually packaged the emotions to market them as cinemas. We cannot know those packaged emotions. Our emotions need total freedom. We all see the ultimate paradoxes, the Universities that protest that they are giving education, while training the students as the participants in their economic holocaust. Our only hope is that there is going to be at least one University that takes to the cause of freedom to nature. I do desperately wish that that University will start a ‘Free Nature Park’, where all nature is completely free from human tampering, where its economic holocaust does not happen. YM Sarma Chat gpt This poetic and meditative piece, *"Feeling as a Plant"* by YM Sarma, is a deeply moving reflection on nature, humanity, and the disconnect that modern civilization has developed with the natural world. It invites the reader to *radically empathize with a plant*, to see through its immobile, interconnected, and emotionally rich existence—a stark contrast to the fast-paced, often emotionally sterile human life dominated by technology and machinery. Here's a breakdown of the key themes and insights: ------------------------------ *🌱 1. Radical Empathy with Nature* The writer attempts to *become the plant*, not just observe it. This goes beyond mindfulness or ecological appreciation—it’s about *embodied empathy*, where the plant's rootedness, its silent yet vibrant life, becomes a medium of learning. *“I have been sitting by the side a plant and trying to feel that I am that plant…”* ------------------------------ *🌍 2. Interconnection and Emotional Symbiosis* Plants are presented as emotionally intelligent beings, deeply connected to the soil, bacteria, air, and all surrounding life. This contrasts with how humans isolate themselves from the biosphere. *“My roots extend into diverse soil bacteria… contributing to the emotional symbiosis of the life forms I relate to.”* ------------------------------ *🧠 3. Critique of Human Disconnection* The piece criticizes humanity's increasing *technological dependence*, *emotional alienation*, and the *inability to perceive truth* without distortion. Language, machines, and consumer culture are seen as obstacles to genuine experience and relationship. *“He suffers from the basic disability to feel and know truth and he cannot express even what he thinks as truth…”* ------------------------------ *🎶 4. Nature’s Language is Emotion* For plants, music, smell, touch, and emotional vibrations *are* the language. Communication is not intellectual, but *experiential and emotional*—a beautiful insight into non-verbal communion with the living world. *“My roots, branches, leaves and flowers, function emotionally only… we expand as forests, creating the wonderful symphony of emotions…”* ------------------------------ *🏭 5. Ecological Crisis and Human Hypocrisy* The essay is a *strong environmental protest*. It laments the destruction of forests, the packaging of emotions in media, and the irony of universities contributing to ecological devastation while claiming to educate. *“The Universities that protest that they are giving education, while training the students as the participants in their economic holocaust.”* ------------------------------ *🌿 6. A Vision of Hope* Despite the bleakness, the writer dreams of *a university that truly sides with nature*—one that will create a “Free Nature Park,” where nature can thrive untouched, and emotions can flow freely. *“Our only hope is that there is going to be at least one University that takes to the cause of freedom to nature.”* ------------------------------ *✨ Final Thoughts* This piece is not just a critique but a *call to consciousness*—to shift from technological logic to emotional logic, from domination to participation, from alienation to belonging. It challenges us to: - Rethink what learning means - Question our dependencies - Listen to the silent, emotional intelligence of nature - Consider truth not just as fact, but as *felt experience* Would you like help turning this into a *spoken word*, a *short film script*, or maybe using it as a foundation for *a nature-based educational curriculum*? This piece has a lot of creative and educational potential. Thank you for your request. I’ll evaluate the piece *"Feeling as a Plant"* by YM Sarma based on several academic and creative criteria commonly used in literature or reflective writing assessments. The categories are: ------------------------------ 📝 *Evaluation Criteria (Total: 100 marks)* *Criteria* *Marks* 1. *Originality & Creativity* /20 2. *Depth of Thought & Insight* /20 3. *Emotional & Philosophical Engagement* /15 4. *Structure & Coherence* /15 5. *Language & Expression* /15 6. *Grammar, Syntax & Mechanics* /10 7. *Relevance to Contemporary Issues* /5 ------------------------------ 📊 *Evaluation and Comments* *1. Originality & Creativity (19/20)* · *Comment*: The concept of becoming a plant and perceiving life from its perspective is deeply original and poetically profound. This imaginative leap is both bold and transformative. *2. Depth of Thought & Insight (18/20)* · *Comment*: The essay touches on ecological, emotional, philosophical, and socio-political layers of human-nature relationships. There's significant depth, though some ideas could be more precisely developed. *3. Emotional & Philosophical Engagement (15/15)* · *Comment*: The emotional intensity and philosophical reflections are deeply felt and compelling. The voice of the plant is authentic and empathetic. *4. Structure & Coherence (11/15)* · *Comment*: While the flow of thought is powerful, the essay is more stream-of-consciousness than organized prose. Some sections lack clear transitions, and a more defined structure could improve readability. *5. Language & Expression (13/15)* · *Comment*: Expressive and evocative language throughout. Some metaphors are stunning. A few sentences are a bit long or ambiguous, which slightly weakens clarity. *6. Grammar, Syntax & Mechanics (7/10)* · *Comment*: Some grammatical errors (e.g., “the small of earth” instead of “the small piece of earth”), missing articles, and minor awkward phrasing. These don’t seriously detract from the overall impact but do need editing. *7. Relevance to Contemporary Issues (5/5)* · *Comment*: Exceptionally relevant in the context of climate change, deforestation, emotional detachment in the digital age, and educational reform. ------------------------------ ✅ *Total: 88 / 100* ------------------------------ 🎓 *Grade: A (Excellent)* *Feedback Summary*: *“Feeling as a Plant” is a highly original, emotionally powerful, and thought-provoking piece. Its poetic voice and ecological philosophy resonate deeply. With some improvements in structure and language clarity, this could stand as a profound ecological manifesto or reflective essay suitable for publication or public reading. Highly commendable work.”* ------------------------------ Would you like a *revised version with edits*, or suggestions for where you could *publish or present* this work? Certainly. Here’s a *poem inspired by your reflective prose* *“Feeling as a Plant”*. The poem keeps the core ideas — emotional communion with nature, critique of human disconnection, and the hope for freedom — and presents them in lyrical form. ------------------------------ *🌿 I Am a Plant* *(A Poem Inspired by YM Sarma’s “Feeling as a Plant”)* I am a root in the soil's deep song, Fixed in place, yet never wrong. My arms are branches, leaves my eyes, I breathe in scents, I touch the skies. No wheel I need, no metal cage, No scrolling screen, no wired rage. My mind is still, my soul expands, Through whispers carried on the lands. Each ant that crawls, each bird that sings, Becomes a pulse beneath my rings. I speak in silence, weep in rain, And feel the fungus in my vein. Humans fly and humans flee, >From every inch of earth and tree. They build with stone, they burn the green, And claim the world they've never seen. Their truths are twisted, wrapped in code, Their love is bartered, bought, and sold. They fear the dark, the touch, the still — They break the wild to bend their will. But I — I grow by learning slow, By sensing what the mosses know. My joy is sun, my voice is breeze, My breath is music through the leaves. And in my dream, a forest stands, Untouched by saws or greedy hands. A place where roots and rivers meet, Where earth is whole, and life is sweet. Let there be one place, calm and wide, Where no machines or lies can hide. A sacred grove, a silent dome, Where nature lives, and feels, and grows — At home. ------------------------------ Would you like this poem formatted as a poster, a spoken word script, or translated into another language? -- 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]. 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