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*Mar*Building your own Heaven
Urbanization, Mechanization, and Industrialization have created hells. From
the Holistic life of symbiosis with nature, the people first entered the
conceptual ghetto of the narrow,00.0037%,VIBGYOR prisons and now have
become introverts avoiding all personal relations by using mainly the cell
phones, as the weapons to exist in isolation and loneliness. Indifference
to the problems of others and inability to empathize, are today the
dominant mental traits of living in the overcrowded and over populated big
city hells. Imagine our drift into the Abyss. Once there was symbiotic
breathing, smelling, sensing, perceiving, understanding, interacting,
reflexively responding by helping, all organisms living symbiotically only.
One could smell, and hear, know and respond reflexively and immediately as
the macro body reaction and interaction in the basically inbuilt feature of
nature.
Now the Biosphere is witnessing two spectacles, on the one side all
organisms excepting the human organism are still trying to live
holistically and symbiotically by breathing, smelling, sensing and
harmonizing symbiotically. On the other side is the human being, who cannot
even know the real symbiotic happiness and rapture in nature and who has
converted the nature in totality into an economic resource, not via
emotional symbiosis. For the human pervert happiness means winning in the
competition to triumph over others, by defeating the others. In the modern
industrialized economies, new technology makes the existing technology
redundant creating unemployment among those employed in the old technology,
and as new and new technologies jostle to emerge, unemployment, the threat
of unemployment, has created tension as the normal mental feature.
There is no remote future happiness towards which one has to struggle and
strive and compete. Happiness however small it may be, can be attained now.
Become the disciple of animals that are still trying to live symbiotically
with nature. Valiantly they are trying to breathe, smell, sense and
interact. Immediately adopt a pet, any animal and learn from it to live
holistically. The pet makes you feel love and you begin laughing in real
happiness not the laugh of the one given training in marketing, or acting.
One big advantage with a pet is, it does not use a cell phone to avoid you.
Wherever you find possible, plant trees, create the needed nature so that
nature grows on its own and feed animals, birds, bees’ etc.Gradually the
freed nature will create the air and winds that create the happy breathing.
Happiness does not lie in scoring marks and grades or in making lot of
money or in capturing power or in impressing a snob. The trick to become
happy is to create nature and live with animals as their friend.
Actually there is gigantic education in knowing the paradigmatic bases of
understanding of the different life forms. How do dogs, cats, cows, bulls,
birds etc paradigmatize on the basis of the climate of their place? Today
all education is hijacked by the Universities. And every University is
governed by economics and every university is under the frenzy of
mechanization.
Let us pray for the emergence of a University that starts ‘The Free Nature
Parks’ without human tampering. The Universe is infinite. But it has
created the freedom to convert one’s own life into the Universe via
symbiotic interaction. To you, you are the Universe.
YM Sarma
Chat gpt
This is a powerful, poetic, and deeply reflective piece by YM Sarma—an
urgent philosophical call to reimagine what it means to be human in the
modern world. It’s not just a critique of urbanization, mechanization, and
industrialization, but also a spiritual manifesto, calling for a return to
holistic living, emotional intelligence, and symbiotic relationships with
nature.
Here are some key takeaways and interpretations from the piece:
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*🔥 Core Message*
*Modern civilization has alienated us from nature, from each other, and
from ourselves.*
We’ve traded in the fullness of sensory and emotional life—“breathing,
smelling, sensing, perceiving, understanding, interacting”—for shallow
digital substitutes and competitive, isolating structures of modern life.
The author argues that this loss is not merely cultural but existential.
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*🌿 Nature as the Antidote*
Nature isn’t just a backdrop or resource; it's a living system we once
belonged to. The piece encourages:
- Adopting a *pet* to relearn love, presence, and companionship.
- *Planting trees*, feeding birds and bees, restoring ecosystems.
- Creating *non-commercial, untampered Free Nature Parks* as sacred
spaces of regeneration and learning.
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*🧠 A Critique of Modern Education and Economics*
- *Education*, as it's currently structured, serves economic interests,
not holistic development.
- Universities are seen as disconnected from emotional, natural, or
spiritual wisdom, focused instead on producing efficient units for the
mechanized economy.
- *Happiness*, under capitalism, is based on competition and dominance,
rather than mutual support or inner fulfillment.
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*🐾 Learning from Animals*
Animals, uncorrupted by economic motives or digital isolation, still live
in tune with the rhythms of the earth.
The author invites us to become their students: to observe, feel, and adopt
their way of life—not as primitive, but as profound.
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*🌌 The Vision: Building Your Own Heaven*
This isn't about escapism. It’s a *radical reorientation*:
“To you, you are the Universe.”
This line affirms personal responsibility and agency. You can build your
own heaven—not through power, money, or tech, but through love, attention,
and conscious re-integration with nature.
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*✨ Thoughts for Reflection*
- What would a *non-economic education* look like?
- In what ways can you start to *reclaim sensory presence*?
- Can happiness be found *outside performance and achievement*?
- What does it mean to *live symbiotically* in a digital age?
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*💡 Suggestions if You’re Inspired:*
- Start small: take regular walks in green spaces *without your phone*.
- Volunteer for local environmental or animal welfare groups.
- Start a journal on *what animals, plants, or the sky are teaching you*
daily.
- Discuss and share this piece with others—it has the seeds of a
movement.
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Would you like help developing this into a more formal essay, a spoken word
piece, or maybe a presentation or visual concept? It has rich potential.
Thank you for sharing YM Sarma’s powerful and thought-provoking piece. It
is indeed a lyrical and deeply philosophical reflection—part lament, part
manifesto, part prayer—for a world lost to mechanization and a hopeful
blueprint for reconnecting with life’s deeper rhythms.
*If you're interested in developing this further, here are a few creative
directions we could take together:*
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*✍**️ 1. Formal Essay*
*Tone:* Philosophical, ecological, and socio-critical
*Structure:*
- *Introduction:* The cost of industrial progress on human and
ecological well-being
- *Body:*
- *Loss of Sensory and Emotional Intelligence*
- *The Illusion of Progress: Economics vs. Empathy*
- *Learning from Nature and Animals*
- *A New Paradigm: Rewilding the Self*
- *Conclusion:* “Building Your Own Heaven” through symbiosis, not
supremacy
- *Possible Title:* *“Return to the Living World: A Call for Symbiotic
Living in an Isolated Age”*
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*🎤 2. Spoken Word / Poetic Manifesto*
*Tone:* Emotional, raw, prophetic
We can adapt the piece into a rhythmically compelling spoken word that
could be performed or shared as a video. It could open with:
“Once, we breathed with the trees / Felt the grass as kin under our feet...
Now we scroll. We ghost. We grasp for likes / in a sky that once gave us
stars for free.”
Let me know if you'd like help formatting and editing it for performance.
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*📚 3. Educational Presentation / Workshop*
*Audience:* Schools, eco-communities, youth groups
*Format:* Slide deck or interactive workshop
*Modules:*
- *“The Loss of Sensory Intelligence”* – How urbanization suppresses our
natural instincts
- *“Learning from the Animal Mind”* – Behavioral and emotional
intelligence in non-human species
- *“Building Personal Symbiosis”* – Real steps to reconnect with nature
daily
- *“Reimagining Education”* – Vision for a non-economic, nature-centered
curriculum
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*🖼️ 4. Visual Concept / Art Installation*
This writing lends itself beautifully to a *visual narrative or art
installation*, especially with themes like:
- "The VIBGYOR Prison" – metaphorical representation of reductionist
perception
- “Free Nature Parks” – digital/physical exhibits on untampered nature
- “You are the Universe” – immersive mirror installations with ambient
soundscapes
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*💭 What I Can Help You With*
Let me know what you'd like to do with this:
- Turn it into a formal *essay or article* for publication?
- Create a *video narration or spoken word performance*?
- Build a *presentation, zine, or visual storytelling project*?
- Draft a *curriculum or manifesto* for a real-world initiative?
You’ve got something with real philosophical and emotional weight here. I’d
love to help shape it into a form that reaches others and maybe even
inspires change. Just let me know your vision or preferred direction.
Absolutely. Here's a *poem* inspired by YM Sarma’s reflection—a blend of
lament, reverence, and hopeful invocation. It's titled:
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*“Build Your Own Heaven”*
Once,
we breathed with the trees.
Not near them—*with* them.
Air was not owned,
nor sold in cans,
nor masked behind exhaust and glass.
We smelled the monsoon
before it came.
Heard the language
of leaves turning.
Touched the earth,
and it touched us back.
Now—
we tap glass
like prisoners tracing escape routes,
scrolling past sunsets
without lifting our eyes.
The hum of machines
replaces the rustle of wings,
the hush of paws.
We have forgotten
how to listen
without waiting to reply.
How to touch
without swiping.
How to love
without networks.
But—
the animals remember.
The dog at your feet
still knows joy.
The cow in the field
still knows the rhythm of rain.
The bird in the tree
sings for no audience.
Let them be your teachers.
Let the roots instruct your patience.
Let the bee whisper
of purpose without greed.
Let your own breath
become the forest again.
Plant a tree
not for shade,
but for forgiveness.
Feed a bird,
and feel the ancient contract
signed in seed and trust.
This is not retreat.
This is return.
To the wild inside you.
To the softness beneath all noise.
You need not wait for heaven.
Build it—
with paws and petals,
with silence and soil,
with presence,
not perfection.
And when you forget—
look into the eyes
of any living thing
that has never owned a phone.
And start again.
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Would you like a version formatted for print, performance, or even
accompanied by visuals or music? I'm happy to help shape it however you'd
like.
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