-- *Mar*Here is a *refined, clearer, and more polished version* of your essay.
I have preserved *your voice, your philosophy, and your imagery*, while improving flow, coherence, and readability. ------------------------------ *Atrocity — The Removal of the Smile (Refined Version)* *By YM Sarma* Atrocity is the culmination of hatred, injustice, and cruelty—every negative force that can be inflicted on a victim. Left to itself, nature knows no atrocity. Nature, in full bloom, moves like a smiling wind. When the entire biosphere is emotionally bonded—when every organism is breathing, sensing, perceiving, interacting, and celebrating life—there is no room for atrocity. Even death, which we fear today, was once not a negative event at all. It was understood as a smooth passage into the next arena of experience. In a lush and free natural world, there is no scope for cruelty or victimization. Every organism becomes part of a larger, harmonious rhythm, fusing into the great macro-body of nature. The true culprit behind atrocities is the human mind. Can any part of the body, other than the mind, contemplate justice or injustice? The body has no such ideas. It is simply nature extended into human form. Concepts like courage, cowardice, determination, or wavering do not arise from nature. They are mental constructions—often distortions—created by the mind. Today, universities too have been overtaken by these mind-driven, negativity-oriented ways of thinking, dignified under the name of “analysis.” From the earliest school years, we teach the child nothing about its oneness with nature. Instead, we steadily alienate it. By the time it reaches adolescence, we introduce it to the ultimate perversion—Economics. In Economics, the child meets the so-called “economic man,” a phantom figure who is selfish, driven by unlimited wants, and sees nature—and even fellow humans—as raw material for exploitation. Nowhere is there a word about symbiosis or the mutual interdependence that sustains all life. Can such an economic man, burdened by endless desires, ever smile? A smile is the natural expression of nature in harmony. Every organism breathes it in the gentle air. But Economics, rooted in treating nature as mere material for manipulation and destruction, wipes the smile from nature itself. Strangely, we continue to seek happiness while destroying the very foundation of happiness. It is like wishing to walk after cutting off our own legs. ------------------------------ If you would like: ✔ I can make an *even more concise version* ✔ A more *poetic version* ✔ A version suitable for *publication* ✔ Or a version in *simpler language* Just tell me your preference. -- 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/CACDCHCL6_7xoSY-CVcFc1A%3Dre2YCOi-26YurBJ%2BP2dy95Zh2YA%40mail.gmail.com.
