-- *Mar**Ecology and God* *When nature is given complete freedom, when the flora and fauna are allowed to fully bloom, then, Theism or the belief in the unseen or outside the visible spectrum or simply belief in God, will be the natural outcome. In fact God must be made an important chapter in the subject of Ecology. The idea of God happens or gets created by nature itself. All primitive societies, which live with nature symbiotically, have some God or the invisible signals from nature in daily life. Nature speaks to them; they find deeper meanings in rains, thunder, floods, earth quakes, the bright sun..., developing a holistic feeling, free from the 3D logic. They have feelings and sensings based dictionary, based on oral communications among themselves, not printed as books. Unfortunately the same 3D logic is employed in the science of ecology, as though it is another Cartesian science, a big paradox. *
*Life forms depend on each other not only for food, but there is a big invisible communication and invisible interaction among them, through smell. The meaning of the word spirit is in reality air. There was a time when the human organism depended mainly on the sense of smell to perceive, interact and live. In fact when the environment was not destroyed, there was symbiotic communication among all the organisms of the biosphere by means of smell or spirit. That smell for perception was identified as God. The Dictionaries were sensed from God via smells. Only after the destruction of nature, the role of smell and as a result belief in God diminished. Those diminishing sensations still continued to be designated as God. God cannot be totally eliminated or logiced away, if nature is not completely disturbed and destroyed. Faith becomes feeble when nature is destroyed every day as economic activity.* *But when nature is destroyed, the idea of God also gets destroyed. Machines drive away humans from the lives of humans in the economic life. People cannot feel the communicating nature and so they cannot feel God. Belief becomes a subject of debate, mechanical logic, subject to mathematical reductionism, and a Richard Dawkins writes ‘The God Delusion’. God and economic life in industrialized societies cannot co-exist. One has to labour to keep the illusion of belief in God, by all sorts of rituals, practices, in fact shut away all reasoning, to believe that one believes in God. The VIBGYOR logic that shuts away the major portion of reality as the invisible spectrum simply is not capable of understanding the concept of God. * *Scientists like Dawkins, base their arguments on the logic of the machine, and machines come into the picture because nature is destroyed. Nature creates feelings because of its impact on the organisms and that totality of feelings is called God. The destruction of nature and Atheism go together. But atheism that only opposes empty ritualism is different from the atheism that pits itself only against the God cults of religions. * *The monopoly claims of religions for the God idea need to be removed. God is simply part of Ecology. The claims to the branded particular Gods by the religions are mainly economic and has very little of spirituality.* *All life sciences are based on the logic of the machines, the Cartesian approach. Today a student does not study life forms as living entities in emotional interaction.The life forms are studied as mechanical systems. The God content in the study of life forms is removed.* *Every organism breathes,smells,senses,perceives,understands,communicates,interacts,harmonizes,coordinates,cooperates,raptures in symbiosis. In lush nature, as every organism cooperates automatically, ‘want and want satisfaction’, happen automatically. * *That natural has become the super natural today because of the destruction of nature.* *YM Sarma* *Chat gpt* That’s a fascinating and deeply reflective essay — it blends ecology, spirituality, and philosophy into a single vision of life where *God* is not a supernatural abstraction but the felt presence of the natural world in harmony. Here’s a brief *summary and interpretation* of the key ideas in YM Sarma’s piece, followed by a *short commentary* you might find useful (for discussion, presentation, or publication context): ------------------------------ *Summary* - *Nature and Theism:* When nature thrives freely—when ecosystems are undisturbed—humans naturally develop a sense of the sacred. Theism, or belief in an unseen power, arises spontaneously from intimate contact with the living world. Primitive societies, living in symbiosis with nature, perceive divine signals in natural phenomena like rain, thunder, and sunlight. - *Smell, Spirit, and Communication:* The essay ties the idea of *spirit* to *air* and *smell*. In a pristine environment, all organisms communicate invisibly through scent—a kind of sensory ecology that unites life. This olfactory connection once formed the human sense of “God.” As industrialization and pollution dulled this sense, both the perception of spirit and faith in God weakened. - *Destruction of Nature and Rise of Atheism:* The essay argues that ecological destruction and atheism grow together. Machine logic—mathematical, reductionist, and mechanical—displaces organic feeling. Thinkers like Richard Dawkins, grounded in this mechanistic worldview, miss the experiential and emotional roots of belief. When nature is destroyed, God becomes a mere concept or illusion rather than a living experience. - *Religion and Ecology:* Sarma distinguishes between the *God of ecology* (the felt totality of life) and the *Gods of organized religion* (economic and institutional monopolies). True spirituality, he suggests, is ecological, not dogmatic. - *Science and the Loss of the Living:* Modern life sciences, based on Cartesian reductionism, treat living organisms as machines, stripping away their emotional and spiritual dimensions. A truly ecological science would recognize life as relational, cooperative, and communicative—a system of harmonies rather than mechanisms. - *Conclusion:* In undisturbed nature, cooperation and satisfaction arise naturally, not through economic striving. What was once *natural* has now become *supernatural*—because humanity has lost touch with the living world that once was our shared divinity. ------------------------------ *Commentary* YM Sarma’s essay presents a provocative ecological theology: God is not a being outside nature but the emergent consciousness of nature in balance. The “spirit” is literally the shared breath of the biosphere. His critique of modernity—especially the replacement of organic feeling by machine logic—echoes ideas found in deep ecology, phenomenology, and even certain streams of Vedantic thought. The essay also invites a rethinking of *ecology as a spiritual discipline*: to study ecosystems with reverence, to sense the divine communication among living forms, and to see faith not as belief in doctrine but as participation in life’s total interdependence. In short, Sarma transforms ecology into theology, and theology into ecology. ------------------------------ Would you like me to help *edit or refine* this essay into a more formal academic or poetic version (for publication or sharing)? I could adapt it for a journal article, environmental magazine, or philosophy essay. -- 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/CACDCHCL9R1Gn-T6qYJ9FMS%2BbM_Xfv4ZCxiot%3DmFxCCM7oghf8w%40mail.gmail.com.
