An interesting ayurveda article as word doc attached K R IRS b141124 On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 at 21:53, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > -- > *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/CAL5XZoqytUS6BtsdWOC5mDx%2BirEkjNSnit1W%2BC7Cm%2BaRhUKAZA%40mail.gmail.com.
Panch Mahabhutas.docx
Description: MS-Word 2007 document
