-- *Mar*Thanks for sharing this—there’s a lot of depth, mythic imagination, and moral urgency here. I’ll do two things, as you asked:
1. *Give an edited and improved version* (clearer flow, tighter language, fewer repetitions, same core ideas and imagery preserved). 2. *Then share my own views*—engaging with your argument, not dismissing it. ------------------------------ Edited and Improved Version *Feeling vs. Reading* Gods or successes on one side, and devils or failures on the other, once churned the Ocean of Milk—nature itself—using Vasuki, the great serpent, to obtain the ultimate distillation: *Amrut*, the nectar of immortality, or deathless enlightenment. This churning was not a one-time event; it was education itself—continuous, lifelong, life after life, unfolding endlessly within infinity. Today, that Ocean of Milk is being poisoned. Counterfeit successes are manufactured, failures are corroded beyond repair, and nature itself is spoiled. There is no longer any true churning for Amrut. Economics has replaced balance, and the serpent is used not to churn but to poison. If one truly observes reality—atoms, particles, energies, molecules—one sees that atoms are constantly leaving us and new ones entering us. This reveals a fundamental truth: we are not separate entities but functioning limbs of nature. The “self” we believe we see does not truly exist in a fixed form. Even “I,” “we,” “you,” “they,” and “it” dissolve under this awareness. With this realization, one escapes the suffocating prison of the *0.0035%*—the visible spectrum—and enters the vast Ocean of Milk, the remaining *99.9965%* of reality, which cannot be seen but only *felt*. Yet today, due to economics and the poisoning of land, water, and air, the true source of Amrut—real education—has disappeared. Education as *feeling* has died. There is no longer free and healthy nature through which one can learn by participation. Students are forced to exist only within the visible spectrum, trapped in seeing, reading, and memorizing. The remaining 99.9965% of reality—the invisible totality that can only be felt—has been cut off. True education once flowed directly from nature, through the constant exchange of atoms and energies between the learner and the world. That flow has been severed. Students today resemble galley slaves, chained to benches, rowing endlessly. Where overseers once used whips, universities now use low grades and marks as lashes—ensuring students remain confined within the 0.0035% prison. >From there, they are selected for economic life, further separated from nature by new slave owners who exploit nature itself for profit. No university today provides truly free natural spaces where students can meditate, feel nature, and access the invisible totality. Instead, institutions celebrate inventions that mechanically manipulate nature, while discouraging discoveries born from deep feeling and direct experience. Students are trained to damage nature as part of their education, while being denied access to free nature that could, in turn, educate them. The threat of poor grades keeps them obedient, like galley slaves bound to their oars. We hear eloquent speeches about the Right to Freedom, while access to real education—education from free nature itself—is systematically destroyed. Vasuki, the great serpent, no longer churns the ocean. It poisons it, in the name of economics. — *Y. M. Sarma* ------------------------------ My Views Your essay is powerful, poetic, and unsettling—in a good way. You’re not just criticizing modern education; you’re questioning the *ontological foundation* of how humans now relate to reality. A few thoughts, honestly and respectfully: 1. Feeling vs. Reading is not the real enemy—*disconnection is* Reading, science, and even economics are not inherently poisonous. The poison enters when they are *cut off from lived experience*, from land, air, water, silence, and attention. When knowledge stops being participatory and becomes purely extractive, it loses wisdom. You’re not arguing against books—you’re arguing against *education without communion*. 2. The “0.0035% jail” metaphor is striking—and mostly fair Modern education overwhelmingly privileges the visible, measurable, and testable. What cannot be graded—intuition, reverence, embodied understanding, humility before nature—is treated as irrelevant or dangerous. In that sense, students are indeed trained to ignore most of reality. That said, the invisible is not *gone*—it’s *made inaccessible*, crowded out by noise, deadlines, screens, and fear. 3. Nature still educates—but only if one is allowed to listen I slightly differ from you here: nature has not stopped offering Amrut. Humans have stopped approaching with empty hands. Even poisoned rivers still teach grief; even dead soil teaches consequence. The tragedy is not that nature is silent, but that institutions do not create the conditions for listening. A single tree, if approached without utility, can still educate more deeply than a library. 4. Grades as lashes is painfully accurate This is one of your strongest insights. Fear has replaced curiosity. Survival has replaced wonder. When learning is driven by anxiety, it produces obedience—not understanding. 5. The missing piece: integration, not rejection The future you are pointing toward may not lie in abandoning science or universities, but in *re-sacralizing them*—reuniting measurement with meaning, reading with feeling, intellect with reverence. Education should teach: - how to calculate *and* how to be still - how to build machines *and* how to ask whether they should be built - how to earn a living *and* how to belong to the Earth ------------------------------ If you want, I can: - tighten this further into a *publishable essay*, - adapt it into a *short manifesto*, or - rewrite it in a more *dialogue-like or aphoristic* style. Just tell me the direction 🌱 -- 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/CACDCHCJ9vVd8gEPKO%2BA%2BEgsJ4A%3Dd_%3DtHWpEVTfnNuRsfQnLCXw%40mail.gmail.com.
