After Desire. The influence of nature upon us is clear. We understand it fully. We know how to avoid and protect ourselves from extreme weather. We enjoy the seasons. We enjoy a nice, pleasant breeze, warm near a firepit in freezing weather, build a snowman with the first snow, and countless are the ways we embrace nature in our daily lives. Nature and our lives are reflections of each other. From rockets to essentials are derivatives of nature. Synthetic materials are derived from nature as well. Every atom we consume, use, and enjoy is exclusively obtained from nature. It is self-evident. Scholarly and unscholarly would indisputably agree upon the profound impact of nature on our lives. We need not bring up the impact on humanity with cataclysmic events. Its devastation is evident to everyone who experienced it. Nature’s anger, or calm is felt across all species. What is nature?
Nature, is it merely matter? Is there more to nature than the resplendent beauty we cherish when it is calm, and take shelter when angry. Is a tree merely a tree? Is a stone merely a stone? Is a mountain merely a mountain? A river. An ocean. The clouds. The Sun. The Moon. The planets. The galaxy. And everything in between. We derive usefulness from the vastness of nature. Useless matter does not exist in nature. It may not be useful to us, but its usefulness to other occupants in nature is unquestionable.
Useful is nature. Qualities in nature are useful to us, and every species in nature. Innumerable qualities in nature. Our attraction to nature is via the quality in the matter. We discard when the quality, or usefulness in matter is consumed. Discarded matter eventually returns to the original elements consisting in nature. Nature seeks to derive value from qualities, and we seek to extract the value of those qualities for our purpose. The transaction between nature and humans is transformational in value. We possess the desire, intelligence, and ability to transform nature for productive human use. Nature desires to reach humanity, equally, to be transformed. A diamond adorning the neck of a woman is infinitely satisfying to the diamond too. Stuck in a mine, a diamond, is unembellished. Would we ever find diamonds if it opts to not broadcast their usefulness to humanity?
A diamond takes a rebirth adorning the neck of a beautiful woman. The quality, inherently, present in the diamond is carefully crafted to shine bright for use. Purpose fulfilled for the diamond. It emerged from the darkness of the mine to be topic of discussion in a party. The quality of the diamond achieved a purpose. Every quality in nature seeks to achieve a higher and higher purpose. Diamond and quality are two distinct entities. Quality is an attribute of the carrier of the quality. Quality, and carrier of the quality are evident from the example of the diamond.
Sun is the body, and luminescence is the quality of the Sun. Sun is luminescence, and quality is luminescence as well. Distinction between the body (carrier of the quality) and quality is absent. Indistinct is body of sugar (molecule of sugar), and sweetness (quality). Similarly, a molecule of salt. When sugar and salt melt, distinct matter from sugar, or salt is absent. Quality, and the carrier of the quality with sugar and salt are indistinguishable. Quality resides in a body. Without a body, quality cannot exist. Sun, sugar, and salt are distinct where the body and quality are identical. A lime possesses sourness as quality. Squeezing the sourness out of the lemon leaves us with the carrier of quality, which we call lime. Lime is sour, but the body is distinct from the quality.
Possessors, and qualitative attributes are nonidentical in nature. Exceptions are rare as in the case of Sun, sugar, and salt. Poison is a quality in nature as well. It is useful too in rare instances. We do not seek out poison in our daily lives. Qualities, or attributes, thus, are either good, or bad for us in nature. Both attributes are discoverable qualities; good as adoptable, and useful; bad as discardable. Just as we accept the sourness from lime, and discard the body of lime.
Why would nature possess uncountable attributes without a discoverer? A beautiful woman would like to be admired. Unadmired, does her beauty serve any purpose? We seek recognition for our existence. We seek admiration of our family, friends, and even a stranger’s praise is valued if unexpected. Animal species seek the same too. Plants and stones too. Do we not value precious stones, and cherish wearing them! Sentient, and insentient are journeying together in nature for discovery. For, without a discoverer existential truth is indigestible. Life falls apart. Nature exists in a transformative state. It is relentless in transforming one to another. Even though unique we are as a species, our qualitative attributes are inseparable from nature. Admiration is not a unique attribute to humanity. Everything seeks admiration. We are unique in that we can express admiration in the form of words, and pass on vital knowledge forward to unborn generations for their journey to continue from a step, or steps ahead of previous generations. We can write history for posterity. We share adoptable, and discardable elements in nature. Imagine the plight of humanity if each generation had to commence a journey in life from step one. It is against the principles of nature. We live with ancestral wisdom embedded in our deeper layers of the possessor of the human body. Just as nature exists with the possessor of Her body.
Just as a quality needs a body for existence. Desire needs a Desirer! Without a Desirer, how can desire manifest itself? Imagine the entire Milky Way as body. The vastness of the Milky Way would not have been discovered without a Discoverer. Can we as humanity share in the joy of Milky Way for being discovered. Milky Way rejoiced with our discovery should not be in doubt. Benevolence oozes out from greatness for the discoverer, and the uncountable generations coming after must be a humanitarian endeavor. If we do not admire, who is left to admire Her? The Milky Way has a Desirer. Sun has a Desirer. Moon has a Desirer. Earth has a Desirer. Sand has a Desirer. The vastness and the atomic admire humanity for our intellect and ability. Our Desirer has to be awakened to meet the Desirer in the Cosmos. For without a Desirer, we are a dead body.
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Fragrance of Humanity 
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