ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ideas of Nature, body and God and how the linguistic redefinitions of the same may have influenced our perceptions, experience and treatment of them. The author sees the ecological crisis not so much as a result of humankind’s disuse of Nature, but rather as the unsustainable definitions that may have been crafted over the last few centuries, definitions that may allow and sanction such disuse. And considering that all these definitions have been formed from the perspective of Modernity, it would also be imperative to define the dream and scope of Modernity as well and how this dream might influence our relationship with God, Nature and body. The case is presented from the perspective of a dancer, evoking the aesthetic theory of Bhava-Rasa (particularly the aspects of anubhava, vibhava and satvika bhava), which calls into play both the body and an imagined poetic-object that can be contiguous to the notion of God. In trying to trace the genealogy of this crises that is not alone ecological, but equally sociological, cultural, political, aesthetic and so on, and that is looming and seemingly inevitable, the author’s limited conclusion points to the gross lacuna in Modernity and even Enlightenment.
