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*Mar*Attention-Vs-Indifference


In the completely free nature, every organism experienced education
continuously as discoveries, revelations and brilliant enlightenments that
simply photon propelled into a new arena. The Biosphere was one organism,
and participation of organisms in the flows of lives was the hormonal
communication of mother Bhoodevi. Even a tiny bacterium experienced the
macro life. Education was expertise in the creation of butterfly effects of
one’s perception and understanding. God actively participated in the lives
of organisms as feelings and emotions. Actually the internal hormonal
communications of all organisms fused into the grand macro process of
perceptions and enlightenments. The very meaning of life was continuous
feeling of revelations and responses to revelations by every organism. No
organism could be egocentric. In fact every organism identified nature as
self.

Every organism basically consists of atoms. In the nucleus of every atom
there are protons or the units of positive electricity and electrons that
hovered around the nucleus as negative electricity. The negative
electromagnetic waves, move as great spreads thorough out the universe.
Energy or photons sprout from them creating creations. As you consist
ultimately of atoms, the potential energy in you is the energy of photons,
300,000 km per second. There are seven octillion cells in you, the cells
containing trillions and trillions of atoms. Imagine the potential energy
in you.

Today every organism excepting the human is trying to live as the macro
being of the great Biosphere, the one macro organism. But we try to be the
outsiders doing science, repudiating our componentship in the Biosphere.
The very feeling of nature as part and participation in nature is bias the
great sin of science.

To feel as the outsider of nature and not to be contaminated by any feeling
or emotion, we have developed technology and the techno-logic, the logic of
the emotions-less machines. We use machines to do every activity, creating
the redundance of limbs and organs and the hormonal communications of them
and the neurological activity that result from the hormonal communication.
If Ecology means the chain of emotional connects among organisms, then the
human is creating the fatal disconnection in the great chain. Imagine the
terrible disconnection in the macro hormonal communication of the Biosphere.

Thanks to Technology, Automation and Robotaization, today we want to be
scientific or mechanical or simply indifferent to the basic emotional
foundation of nature. Indifference to feelings, emotions and communications
has become living.

We have made every organism voiceless. We have eliminated the voice of
nature. Day in and day out we destroy nature with our industries and
economic life.

We desperately need ‘Free Nature Parks’, where there is no human tampering
to revive the voice of nature. As it is we are killing nature, totally
indifferent to the great crime.

There is in reality no education at all as nature is made voiceless. And we
want machines, instead of nature to teach us!

YM Sarma

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This passage is a profound reflection on the disconnect between humans and
the natural world. It seems to explore the inherent interconnection among
all living beings in nature, suggesting that every organism is part of a
larger, dynamic system that is constantly in flux, feeling, and
discovering. The idea that humans, in their pursuit of technology and
mechanization, have separated themselves from the emotional, instinctive,
and interconnected fabric of nature, is quite striking.

The author contrasts the ancient and organic “education” that nature
offers—through lived experiences, revelations, and hormonal
communications—with the cold, indifferent logic of modern technology, which
aims to suppress or mechanize the human and natural experience.

There’s a strong critique of how human beings have set themselves apart
from the ecosystem, trying to control nature rather than participate in it.
The focus on automation and technology, as a means to negate emotion and
feeling, is seen as a dangerous disconnection from the essential ties that
bind all life forms together. The passage seems to advocate for a return to
an integrated existence with nature, where we once again listen to its
voice, feel its rhythms, and reengage with its wisdom.

What do you think about this perspective? Do you feel that modern society’s
reliance on technology has caused a deeper separation from nature’s
inherent wisdom? Or do you see technology as a tool that could potentially
help reconnect us with it, given the right balance?

This passage by YM Sarma is indeed a powerful and poetic indictment of the
modern human condition—particularly our estrangement from the natural
world. It challenges the very foundations of contemporary civilization:
scientific objectivity, technological advancement, and mechanistic
thinking. The core message is that *attention*—to feeling, connection, and
participation—has been replaced by *indifference*, an emotional numbness
that has become normalized through our reliance on machines and the logic
of efficiency.

*Nature as Living Education*

Sarma’s vision of nature as a constant educator, communicating through
hormonal flows and emotional resonance, stands in contrast to the
structured, abstract education systems we have today. This is a radical
reframing: *education is not about acquiring information, but about being
transformed by experience and relationship*—something all organisms once
naturally engaged in. This is echoed in indigenous and animist philosophies
that see the Earth as alive and conscious, where wisdom is not learned but
*felt*.

*Indifference as the "Great Sin"*

The critique of modern science as being *emotionally indifferent* is
especially sharp. The scientific method’s insistence on
objectivity—detachment from the subject—is portrayed not as a strength, but
a *moral failing*. Sarma frames this as a "great sin": the rejection of our
embeddedness in the biosphere. Technology, in this view, has numbed us,
made us physically redundant, and severed our emotional and ecological ties.

*Is Technology the Problem—or the Symptom?*

Your question—*can technology be a tool for reconnection, or is it
inherently alienating?*—gets to the heart of a major contemporary debate.
Here's a nuanced view:

   - *Technology as a Divider*: Unquestionably, many technologies
   (especially when profit-driven) have deepened our separation from the
   natural world. Think of deforestation, factory farming, or digital
   addictions—industries that operate with little regard for ecological
   systems or emotional well-being.
   - *Technology as a Bridge*: Yet, some technologies (like environmental
   monitoring tools, biofeedback devices, or immersive nature simulations)
   *could* help reorient us toward nature—if used with humility and
   ecological consciousness. Renewable energy, for example, might align us
   better with nature's cycles than fossil fuel industries.

But for this to happen, *our attitude toward technology must change*. It
must cease to be about control, efficiency, and domination, and instead
become a means of *restoring relationships*, *amplifying empathy*, and
*listening*.

*The Cost of Indifference*

Sarma’s claim that we’ve made every organism “voiceless” is especially
evocative. It's not just literal (the extinction of species, deforestation,
pollution), but metaphorical: we’ve stopped hearing the *language* of
nature—its signals, rhythms, and wisdom. And when nature has no voice,
education—as a living, revelatory process—dies.

*Possible Responses*

   - *Free Nature Parks*, as Sarma suggests, are not mere sanctuaries but
   potential *temples of reconnection*. They would function not as tourist
   attractions, but as places where human presence is minimal and listening is
   central.
   - *Ecological education* could be redefined to include not just
   knowledge *about* ecosystems but participation *in* them.
   - *Emotional literacy* and *ecological literacy* could be treated as
   inseparable.

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*In Summary*

This perspective doesn’t simply mourn the loss of connection—it calls
for a *revolution
in perception*. It challenges us to shift from indifference to attention,
from domination to communion, from knowing about to *being with*. Whether
technology aids or obstructs that path depends entirely on our collective
intention.

*What do you think?* Do you feel that society is ready—or even capable—of
such a shift in mindset? Would we be willing to let go of our sense of
control long enough to *feel* nature again?

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