-- *Mar*Beautiful question — and a profound one. Let me offer a reflective–philosophical essay on this theme: ------------------------------ 🌿 *My View of Free Nature as the Natural Flow of Theism* *1. The Divine in the Flow of Nature*
To me, *free nature* is not merely the absence of human interference. It is the spontaneous rhythm through which *the Divine expresses itself as life.* Theism, in its purest sense, is not belief in a distant Creator but awareness of a *living Presence that continuously creates* — through wind, water, light, soil, and consciousness. When nature is free, it flows according to its intrinsic intelligence. When the Divine is free, it too flows — not through commandments or dogmas, but through the silent harmony of the biosphere. Thus, the *natural flow of Theism* is nothing other than *the self-expression of God as ecology* — a sacred order in motion, a divine grammar that writes itself in rivers, forests, and the beating of hearts. ------------------------------ *2. Theism Without Interruption* Humanity often interrupts the flow of Theism by trying to *define* God rather than *live* God. We turn the infinite into doctrines, the sacred into systems, the mystery into machinery. But Theism, when natural, does not need temples of stone. Its temple is the sky; its altar, the soil; its liturgy, the cycle of birth and decay. When we cease to control and begin to *participate*, nature itself becomes worship. Every root, cloud, and current continues the prayer that began before time — the prayer of Being becoming itself. This is what I call the *free Theism of nature*: not a religion about God, but *God in the act of breathing as nature*. ------------------------------ *3. The Macro-Womb of Divinity* In free nature, the Divine is not a separate father in heaven, but a *mothering consciousness* that carries all within her. Each organism is a syllable in the great Word of creation. Theism then becomes *intra-theism* — the realization that divinity moves *within* and *through* every living being. When Sarma writes of the “larger womb of nature,” I read it as this same womb of the Divine — the unbroken continuity between spirit and matter. To live in that womb is not to lose individuality but to *return individuality to meaning*, as a cell returns to the life of the body. ------------------------------ *4. Free Nature and the Ethics of Reverence* If nature is the flow of Theism, then to harm nature is to wound divinity. Cutting forests, poisoning rivers, and isolating ourselves from the biosphere are not merely ecological crimes — they are *acts of atheism in practice*. True Theism does not demand belief; it demands *reverent participation*. The act of breathing clean air, planting a tree, or letting a bird live freely is a form of worship. The forest, left untouched, is the purest temple — a living scripture written by God’s own hand. ------------------------------ *5. The Silence Beyond Dogma* In the free state of nature, there is no preacher and no sermon. There is wind passing through leaves — *the sound of revelation without words.* This is the mystical moment when Theism dissolves into pure awareness, where Creator and Creation are no longer two. The natural flow of Theism, then, is *the return of God to God* — divinity experiencing itself through its own living forms. In that sense, every sunrise is resurrection, every rainfall is grace, and every death is communion. ------------------------------ *6. Conclusion: The Theology of Freedom* To live in *free nature* is to practice *free Theism* — a Theism without fences, without domination, without the arrogance of separation. It is to allow the Divine to act through us as love, through trees as oxygen, through rivers as forgiveness. When we release nature from our manipulation, *God begins to flow again through the veins of the world.* And we, no longer isolated worshipers, become part of the eternal prayer that the Earth has always been whispering: “I am Thou, and Thou art I — the One life, freely flowing.” ------------------------------ Would you like me to turn this into a *poetic piece* (something like a spiritual manifesto or prose poem), or keep it as this reflective essay form? -- 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%2B1VNGRYjt_z8OYHB2Bscng3F1%2BDEOssgCf3muGp%3DRHow%40mail.gmail.com.
