Morning is delicate, refreshing and filled with energy of beginning day but what appeals me more is village dawn, the rather darker, more mysterious time of nature when the virtuous have not awakened eyes yet and the vicious have long disappeared in the night.
If you have been disgusted with selfish, phony and short aged dark of urban life and want to slow down in life, its high time you should spend time in village at leisure in order to know the dark.
The dark of dawn allows us to become its intimate friend. The sky seems slowly opening its bosom just only before us. The lack of light will not frighten you if you accept its natural existence. Although you might be walking on the man made black tar road but it is also integrated part of nature. dense and optimist of sunlight.
Our cumulative culture had termed the dark as sinister, inauspicious, a kind of underworld where evil resides so humans should avoid it. In almost every myth of world, the dark is presented as something to be afraid. Our literatures are filled with heart rending description of dark and our paintings have poured over the bottles of black colour into our imagination so that we cannot think differently about dark. However, they cannot be blamed solely as they were encircled with limitless dark. It was a mystery for them to solve and therefor they imagined accordingly.
The time started to change especially after the renaissance in Europe. Every preconceived ideas, imagination and institutes were challenged. The efforts at demystification of phenomena were handsomely paid. We not only succeeded in braking the hegemony of priestly class which was considered most bewildered; we also replaced it with the more rational, scientific class of educated people. This whole journey of man is termed as transition of god centric world to man centric world; new trends of humanism came before us which gave priority to experiments rather than intuition. Since then the battle between reason and intuition has been going on till today.
Science and technology have been the masters of the modern day man. Men/women engaged in this fields have day and night toiled to remove the darkness-both materially and rationally- from human world and succeeded to a much significant way.
The darkness, which is termed as ignorance in figurative way, was a protective veil which barred us from knowing the its mystique of imperishable creation. As soon as the science helped us unveil this mystique, we have become the master of exploitation of nature.
The concept of nature as something to be worshipped, something to be afraid soon turned into ‘natural resources’ with passing of the dark.
Humanism which started in the 14th century against the irrationality of god centric world has turned into the unprecedented exploitative phenomenon which no historic or prehistoric era had ever witnessed. Rivers have been ravished, land destroyed, trees looted; birds and animals have been molested, bred and eaten alive. And yet the look at the human dictionary meaning of ‘humanity’ and ‘animality’.
Undoubtedly, new efforts at nature preservation have started and young men and women have coming out for the cause. But the real concern which still need greater amount of address is our sensibility for nature. We must reinvent that joy of being enthralled and awed by natural phenomena. We must change our terminology to nature centric words. Only then this ‘son of man’ can save his existence.
If you have been disgusted with selfish, phony and short aged dark of urban life and want to slow down in life, its high time you should spend time in village at leisure in order to know the dark.
The dark of dawn allows us to become its intimate friend. The sky seems slowly opening its bosom just only before us. The lack of light will not frighten you if you accept its natural existence. Although you might be walking on the man made black tar road but it is also integrated part of nature. dense and optimist of sunlight.
Our cumulative culture had termed the dark as sinister, inauspicious, a kind of underworld where evil resides so humans should avoid it. In almost every myth of world, the dark is presented as something to be afraid. Our literatures are filled with heart rending description of dark and our paintings have poured over the bottles of black colour into our imagination so that we cannot think differently about dark. However, they cannot be blamed solely as they were encircled with limitless dark. It was a mystery for them to solve and therefor they imagined accordingly.
The time started to change especially after the renaissance in Europe. Every preconceived ideas, imagination and institutes were challenged. The efforts at demystification of phenomena were handsomely paid. We not only succeeded in braking the hegemony of priestly class which was considered most bewildered; we also replaced it with the more rational, scientific class of educated people. This whole journey of man is termed as transition of god centric world to man centric world; new trends of humanism came before us which gave priority to experiments rather than intuition. Since then the battle between reason and intuition has been going on till today.
Science and technology have been the masters of the modern day man. Men/women engaged in this fields have day and night toiled to remove the darkness-both materially and rationally- from human world and succeeded to a much significant way.
The darkness, which is termed as ignorance in figurative way, was a protective veil which barred us from knowing the its mystique of imperishable creation. As soon as the science helped us unveil this mystique, we have become the master of exploitation of nature.
The concept of nature as something to be worshipped, something to be afraid soon turned into ‘natural resources’ with passing of the dark.
Humanism which started in the 14th century against the irrationality of god centric world has turned into the unprecedented exploitative phenomenon which no historic or prehistoric era had ever witnessed. Rivers have been ravished, land destroyed, trees looted; birds and animals have been molested, bred and eaten alive. And yet the look at the human dictionary meaning of ‘humanity’ and ‘animality’.
Undoubtedly, new efforts at nature preservation have started and young men and women have coming out for the cause. But the real concern which still need greater amount of address is our sensibility for nature. We must reinvent that joy of being enthralled and awed by natural phenomena. We must change our terminology to nature centric words. Only then this ‘son of man’ can save his existence.
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