The Two Destructive Superstitions
Markendeya Yeddanapudi
The Two Destructive Superstitions
Theism is the symbiotic functioning of a free and healthy nature. The scents and soundless signals of diverse organisms blend and coalesce in the troposphere, forming nature’s coordinated direction. This ongoing grand symbiosis cannot be adequately expressed through language, for it is not a collection of separate subjects and predicates, but an indivisible whole.
This theism, emerging from the troposphere, remains a wonderful and unwordable feeling. Yet this feeling guides life, provided it is not contaminated by human interference. In a truly free and healthy nature, there is no place for sickness or disease. What we encounter instead is the symbiotic coordination of birth and death, which constitutes the fundamental rhythm of the biosphere. Every organism participates, through ecological links, in the continuous flow of theism.
In many books dealing with death, I have read that death itself is a wonderful and positive experience. Accounts from those who were revived after brief moments of death often convey deeply positive impressions of it. Yet today, medical science relentlessly strives to delay death, even when existence has become continuously diseased and unbearable. Our fear of death has grown so intense that we have lost even our curiosity about it.
Unfortunately, nature today is suffering under two destructive human superstitions: those imposed by religion and the virulent economic superstitions imposed by technology. Neither respects the rights of organisms other than humans, and both dismiss the very existence of nature’s macro-level symbiosis.
While religions often push aside rationality, they still allow, at least to some extent, the free functioning of the human body. However, one contemporary religion is now promoting misogyny in a shameless and profoundly disturbing manner.
Science, through the unchecked promotion of technology, is gradually eliminating our natural faculties altogether. When machines perform the work of our limbs, those limbs slowly lose their vitality. We have already lost many natural abilities and have come to accept this maiming as a mark of a higher standard of living. The marketing of technological gadgets routinely celebrates the functional weakening of the human body.
We are also conditioned to identify all bacteria solely with disease. The crucial fact that even the smallest functions of our bodies depend upon bacteria is deliberately ignored. We kill bacteria indiscriminately, treating this destruction as a necessary and virtuous act.
We urgently need free nature—nature without human tampering. Every university must immediately establish a nature park free from human interference, so that nature may once again offer us its health-giving and rapture-generating symbiosis.
— Y. M. Sarma
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