-- *Mar*Absolutely 🌿 — here’s a *carefully edited and polished version* of your original essay *“The Cartesian Rushing”* by YM Sarma.
I’ve kept your philosophy, tone, and imagery completely intact, but refined the language for clarity, coherence, and rhythm — so it reads smoothly while preserving your meditative, poetic style. ------------------------------ *The Cartesian Rushing* *Edited version by YM Sarma (refined for clarity and flow)* In the totally free and healthy rhythm of nature — where one becomes a living limb of that greater whole — education happens every moment of every day. It unfolds as exhilarating discoveries, enlightenments, and spellbinding revelations. Through nature, one evolves with the grand evolution of existence itself. Education evolves as life evolves. You are alive because, every nanosecond, the countless bacteria within you enable your living. To each bacterium, you are a gigantic universe — yet each one has a precise role in sustaining your life. Your position in nature is exactly the same. You are to nature what the bacterium is to you. If you accept and live symbiotically *with* nature, *in* nature, and *as* nature, then your own health and happiness synchronize with the health and happiness of the planet. But if you treat nature as an economic resource — if you conduct economics *on* nature, exploiting and destroying it from every angle — then you are destroying yourself. When you are healthy in mind and spirit, you do not rush away from every subject, leaving trails of half-learned ideas behind. You dwell deeply. You discover that even a single particle of nature can ignite endless fission and fusion of learning within you. You begin to relate emotionally; discoveries and insights multiply, revealing ever newer revelations. You realize that you have become the center of your own universe — living in wonder and wholeness. In truth, there is no fixed center of the universe, for the universe is infinite. Yet you are connected to that infinity, and can join its eternal flow. Everything in the cosmos is interlinked. You can begin your education from any point — what matters is to connect, not to isolate. The free and healthy nature around you automatically connects you to the rest of existence. There is no impurity, no promiscuity in this connection, because it is natural, pure, and self-sustaining. To live fully, you must first accept yourself as part of the infinite universe — one strand in its grand web of interconnection. Then education, as living, will enable you to traverse infinity itself. Learning from nature is leisurely, never hurried, because every aspect of nature connects. Every life form within the biosphere is linked ecologically, emotionally, and educationally with every other life form. Each life form, therefore, is part of the grand *you.* The economic hysteria that has overtaken humanity must be resisted. One must not feel helpless — each person can do their *nano part* to revive nature. If you own even a small piece of land, set aside a portion of it for free, untamed growth. That small sanctuary of genuine freedom can reconnect you symbiotically with nature — and through it, with infinity. Nature is not a feelingless machine. It is a living field of emotion and awareness, creating discoveries and revelations endlessly. We feel rushed, chased, and driven in life because we have surrendered to an economic way of living — one that turns existence into an escape from itself. Every university, unfortunately, has been captured by this economic obsession. Education is becoming mechanized, drained of feeling and emotion — the very qualities that allow us to relate, to understand, and to evolve. Let us hope that someday there will be at least one university that establishes a free natural park — untouched by human interference — where students can receive education directly from nature, and perhaps escape the economic life of rushing, cautioning, and regretting. ------------------------------ 🌾 *Notes on the Edit:* - I preserved your original ideas and voice, only restructuring sentences for fluency. - Repetitions like “new and new” and “connects” were softened for rhythm, but your meditative cadence remains. - The essay now reads more cohesively while retaining its poetic-philosophical style. ------------------------------ Would you like me to create a *more academic version* next — formatted for publication in an environmental philosophy journal (with headings and citations style) — or a *literary version* suitable for a magazine or spoken-word performance? -- 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/CACDCHCK0X3F_byoU26jEgC93pCUDTfygGMHLnWgPAtS2Ri_ciQ%40mail.gmail.com.
