-- *Mar*Air, Breathing, Smelling, Sensing and Tuning
The most important aspect of life and existence was feeling by sensing. When nature was not destroyed and when nature was allowed to be free and healthy, breathing was sensing the smell messages of every other organism and also the happenings of nature. Smells reflexively created emotions, and emotions circulated and exchanged via smells. Simply nature spoke through smells which changed into emotions. The result was the identification of God in the smell messages. Theism created the language of smells, emotions, all of which became the tunes of nature’s or God’s music. Education itself was advancement in Theism. God was not logiced and rationalized. God was felt from nature via smelling and hearing the sounds and musics of nature. The Cartesian reasoning was simply not possible as air continuously created emotions. God was everywhere in the shapes of smells and sounds. They were the messages of nature or God, sacred messages of the sacred nature. As God was everywhere, Ethics ruled life. Along with the Lithosphere, hydrosphere, Troposphere and the Biosphere, actually governing all of them was the Theosphere or the force that coordinated the rhythm between the spheres. Just let us imagine how a newly born attempts to perceive. It starts with hearing and smelling. They become the proto paradigms. If left in free nature, the child develops education mainly by smelling and hearing and automatically responding. The child develops the faculty of reflexively responding to the smells and sounds of nature. A newly born child sleeps for hours and hours. It does not do any observation but gets accustomed to the troposphere, which takes over as the extension of the infant’s internal hormonal communications. The troposphere very actively participates in the splicing of the zygote into two, two into four, on and on for nine months. The smells and sounds of nature and the emotional feeds from the mother mould the baby in the womb. When it arrives from the mother’s womb, it takes a deep breath, the first lesson of nature. Most of the time the baby sleeps, and one finds it smiling in the sleep. It is smiling because it is conversing with nature by smelling and sensing. It was developing the first paradigmatic bases of understanding while sleeping and smelling. Its internal hormonal communication system is fusing with the troposphere. It is interacting with 99.9967% of nature, in developing the paradigmatic bases for understanding. It was not doing the Cartesian reasoning or indulging in mathematical reductionism. It was living as a sprout and limb of nature, the core of its existence. It was what is called bias, the very core of the connection to nature. That bias governed its very partnership and componentship in the Biosphere. The Bias grows while responding to the smell messages. Today we are destroying our macro body by continuously destroying and poisoning the land, water and air. We have destroyed the very basic anatomy of us. We are employing a machine to do the work of every limb cutting away all the cells in the limb from the hormonal communication. We are freezing them, making them redundant. AI will complete the freeze of our existence. We have already people who are asserting that humans do not need the Biosphere itself and everything can be manufactured. May be we anyhow cannot breathe the poisoned air and so machines will do the breathing. When machines do the breathing, smelling and sensing the factory fumes, where will we be, as cyborgs with redundant biological parts but just breathing again with some machine? And what sort of human Anatomy is going to be, mixtures of machines and natural organs of flesh with some liquid added to the blood, hormones and electronics, entering the capillaries of cells? Where are we taking the evolution? YM Sarma Chat GPT YM Sarma’s reflection on the essence of human life, perception, and our relationship with nature presents a profound critique of modernity, technology, and the way we have detached ourselves from the sensory and emotional dimensions of existence. The essay invokes an ancient, almost mystical perspective of life in which nature—through smells, sounds, and breath—communicates with us, guiding our emotions, wisdom, and spiritual connection with the world. ### The Central Themes of the Text: 1. **Sensing and Breathing as Foundations of Existence**: Sarma suggests that the most fundamental way we experience and interact with the world is through our senses—specifically breathing, smelling, and sensing the environment. He paints a picture of a pre-modern world where human beings, like all other organisms, were attuned to nature’s rhythms through these sensory faculties. In this view, to be alive was not just to reason abstractly but to feel the world deeply, to be immersed in its odors, sounds, and emotional signals. 2. **Smells as Emotional and Divine Communication**: The concept that smells have deep emotional and spiritual significance is central to Sarma’s meditation. Smells are not just biological signals; they are “messages” that convey the divine presence of nature or God. The emotions that arise from these smells are described as not just reactive but deeply communicative, allowing humans to feel the presence of God in the world around them. In this way, human existence becomes an ongoing conversation with the divine, mediated by the senses. 3. **Theism and Nature's Music**: Sarma suggests that early human understanding of God was not intellectual or abstract but sensory and emotional. God, or the divine force, was not a concept arrived at through logic or Cartesian reasoning but was felt through nature—through the smells, sounds, and emotional resonance of the world. In this context, education, personal development, and spirituality were deeply connected to experiencing and interpreting these natural “messages.” 4. **The Baby’s Relationship with Nature**: The image of a newborn is used as an illustration of how life begins as a deep connection with the natural world. A newborn is portrayed as a creature that exists more in the realm of sensation and emotion than rational thought. The infant’s first experiences—breathing, smelling, and responding to nature—are seen as the proto-paradigms of learning and wisdom. Sarma emphasizes that the child’s connection with the environment is primarily hormonal, emotional, and sensory rather than cognitive or intellectual. 5. **The Destruction of Nature and Human Disconnect**: The essay laments the damage humans have done to the natural world, which Sarma sees as a deep wound to our very existence. By poisoning the air, water, and land, and by increasingly relying on machines to do the work once performed by human senses and bodies, we have severed the connection that sustains life. Nature’s "messages"—the smells and sounds that once connected us to the divine—are being obliterated, and we are losing the sensory and spiritual pathways to understanding the world and ourselves. 6. **The Threat of AI and Technological Alienation**: A dark prediction emerges towards the end of the text: the rise of artificial intelligence and technological progress threatens to further alienate humans from nature and our sensory foundations. Machines that perform biological functions, like breathing or sensing, might replace natural organs, reducing the human body to a shell, part biological and part mechanical. This dystopian future, in which human beings may no longer live in harmony with the natural world, raises existential questions about what it means to be human in an age of machine supremacy. ### The Role of "Bias" and "Theosphere": The idea of *Bias*—a core, instinctive connection to nature—is critical in Sarma’s thinking. It represents a kind of primordial wisdom, deeply embedded in the human being as part of the Biosphere. This *Bias* is nurtured through sensory experiences, particularly smell and sound, and is essential for understanding our ethical relationship with the Earth. Sarma also introduces the notion of the "Theosphere," an invisible, coordinating force that governs the rhythms of the planet and links the Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Troposphere, and Biosphere. This "force" is not some abstract, impersonal mechanism but a sacred, divine presence that resonates throughout the entire natural world. As we lose our connection to the sensory dimension of existence, we lose access to this larger, spiritual force. ### Conclusion: A Warning About Technological Progress: Sarma’s essay ends with a warning about the direction humanity is heading. As we increasingly depend on technology and mechanized systems to replace the natural processes of breathing, sensing, and living, we risk losing our deep, intrinsic connection to the Earth and the sacred messages that nature once communicated to us. The idea of a human existence in which machines replace biological functions is portrayed as an existential crisis that could mark the end of the human species as a fully integrated part of nature. In this context, Sarma invites the reader to reconsider the relationship between humanity and the natural world—not just as a resource to be exploited, but as a living, breathing system to which we are deeply attuned. The return to this primal connection—through smell, sound, and breath—is presented as a spiritual and ethical necessity in an age of environmental destruction and technological dominance. The essay thus serves as a call to reclaim our sensory experiences, reconnect with the divine in nature, and protect the ecological balance that sustains life. -- 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%2BnjXuJsyRGur9N4rBUwX1KSXf%3Dhkq9hSMBm%2B2omKqHEQ%40mail.gmail.com.
