Every monsoon, Nepal’s hills collapse into devastating landslides, and riverbanks swallow entire downstream settlements. Globally, we witness rising temperatures, erratic weather patterns, and accelerating climate collapse. It is convenient to dismiss these recurring tragedies as uncontrollable environmental crises or acts of God. Yet, on closer inspection, environmental degradation and climate collapse are not merely external phenomena; they are the direct physical manifestation of a deeper human crisis unfolding now: the erosion of our internal root systems, the fragmentation of our homes, and a society driven by the “Pakhe” disposition of superficiality.
Historically, the Nepali term Pakhe referred geographically to steep mountain slopes (Pakho) or rural settlements outside urban centres. Over generations, urban elites transformed it into a derogatory label implying someone uncultured or rustic. Evaluated through modern sociology, psychology, and philosophy, Pakhe is not a geographic identity, but a state of spiritual and intellectual poverty. It manifests as the supreme delusion of modern isolation, with humans acting selfishly as if they are the sole inhabitants of the universe, operating under the dangerous illusion that they can survive in isolation. In truth, existence is an inextricably interconnected and interdependent web of life.
A person can hold elite university credentials, wear luxury brands, and command high-achieving professional status, yet remain fundamentally Pakhe when they ignore this interdependence. Living purely on the surface, chasing external validation, adopting superficial trends, and neglecting internal self-awareness, which leaves us unrooted. This internal detachment from our core values (Svadharma) drives the reckless exploitation of everything around us, from the food we consume and the people who love us to our personal health and the natural world.
The inner universe: Microcosm of the gut-brain axis
When we live superficially, destruction begins within our biology. Science reveals an astonishing truth: a human being is not a solitary organism, but a walking universe carrying over 38 trillion microscopic creatures. We are over 50% microbe by cell count, harbouring an entire inner universe of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea inside our gastrointestinal tract and imagine these microbes having their own galaxy within.
This internal cosmos functions as an intricate biological society where millions of microbial species coexist in precise balance to regulate immune cells, synthesise essential vitamins, and communicate directly with the central nervous system via the Vagus Nerve, where 80% of signals travel upward from gut to brain. Microbes inside this cosmos produce up to 95% of the body’s serotonin and vital calming neurotransmitters like GABA.
To nourish this living galaxy, the microbiome requires diversity, whole foods, fibre, complex carbohydrates, and fermented foods, while suffering under ultra-processed foods, refined sugars, artificial additives, and chemical preservatives. A useful guideline for grocery shopping is to choose products that an insect has already nibbled, because bugs avoid heavily poisoned food, a telling metaphor for navigating our artificial world, according to my dad.
Furthermore, aligning meals with circadian rhythms allows the gut lining to repair itself during natural fasting windows, preventing metabolic disruption and systemic inflammation. Digestion itself begins in the mind and mouth, where eating in a state of stress or distraction inhibits digestive enzymes, whereas eating mindfully and chewing thoroughly activates the parasympathetic nervous system for optimal nutrient absorption.
When this inner universe falls into dysbiosis due to poor diet, chronic stress, or unaddressed emotional trauma, the systemic consequences are severe. Modern neuro-gastroenterology links gut breakdown directly to systemic inflammation, cognitive fragmentation, severe anxiety, major depression, complex personality disorders, and psychotic spectrum illnesses like schizophrenia. An unanchored gut creates an unstable, reactive, and restless mind, trapping an individual in survival mode. Consider this simple reality: when you are constipated for days, you cannot think clearly or maintain deep focus because your gut lining is compromised and leaking toxins throughout your body. This is precisely what we are doing to our environment. Chronically congested and overburdened, the Earth is now suffering from a disease spreading through it, much like malignant cells destroying a host. Without an inner biological foundation, we cannot cultivate peace or emotional intelligence, leaving us unable to maintain harmony within ourselves, our partners, or our families.
Our internal ecosystem reflects the external ecosystem. Humans often act as though non-human life exists merely for human consumption or convenience, failing to see that every living organism holds up a pillar of our shared existence. Consider the humble honeybee, a single insect species that quietly sustains our world through pollination. If pollinators like bees were to vanish, global agriculture would collapse within years, triggering a catastrophic domino effect of lost crops, failing livestock feed, and severe global famine.
The bee does not seek recognition, status, or dominance; it simply fulfils its Svadharma, keeping human civilisation alive in the process. From soil microbes and forest fungi to street animals and pollinators, every creature is part of a delicate web, and when we harm animals or poison habitats, we sever the very lifelines that keep humanity alive.
Unhealed Parents: The First Bully and the Roots of Personality Pathology
An unstable mind in the home transforms domestic space into a breeding ground for generational trauma. Long before a child steps into a classroom, their emotional reality is shaped by their domestic environment, where an unhealed parent is often a child’s very first bully.
When parents carry unaddressed emotional wounds, chronic stress, or unexamined toxicity, they unconsciously project their insecurity onto their children through criticism, emotional withdrawal, unpredictable outbursts, or conditional love.
Through this early conditioning, children learn the mechanics of power, fear, and vulnerability. They absorb this dynamic and adapt in one of two ways: they either learn to become the bully to protect themselves from feeling powerless, or they adapt to being bullied, carrying a subconscious template of victimhood into adulthood as chronic people-pleasers. Tragically, many children raised in these environments develop severe personality pathology, turning outward as narcissists, emotional manipulators, or gold diggers who perpetuate the cycle.
However, a conscious few utilise this pain differently by deeply understanding the nature of their wounds, choosing to transmute trauma into empathy, and growing up to dress the wounds of others rather than inflicting them.
The chain reaction
Human consciousness operates as an interconnected ecosystem where an unanchored mind and gut dysbiosis ripple outward into unhealed parenting and dysfunctional homes. This domestic breakdown fosters an unconscious generation characterised by narcissism, bullying, and personality pathologies.
As these individuals step into society, their internal disconnection manifests as short-sighted exploitation of nature and humanity through deforestation, toxic food systems, and systemic corruption. Ultimately, this macrocosmic reflection of micro-cosmic internal disorder produces ecological disasters, landslides, accelerated global warming, and traumatised families, perpetuating the cycle endlessly.
When individuals lack emotional processing and internal grounding, domestic life breaks down. Marriages crumble under unhealed childhood trauma, communication failures, and the normalisation of infidelity or superficial distractions, which is hugely in trend these days, pursued under the guise of being modern. This leads to Pakhe individuals, Pakhe family roots, and ultimately a Pakhe nation.
Children raised in trauma-heavy homes, where emotional, mental, financial, or psychological abuse is present, absorb this instability, fracturing their developing nervous systems. When these children grow into leaders, engineers, policymakers, and citizens, they make decisions from disconnection. They build roads without ecological foresight, strip hillsides of native roots for short-term profit, and consume resources either from nature or from other human beings mindlessly to escape reality, directly driving criminal mindsets, cheaters, corrupt individuals, professionals and systemic collapse, leading to a corrupt society and corrupt nation. Global warming and natural disasters are simply the macrocosmic mirror of humanity’s micro-cosmic internal disorder.
The foundation of the “Grihastha Yogi”
Real, enduring transformation begins only when we understand truth at a fundamental level and choose to change ourselves. We align our energy through deliberate internal steps, beginning with periods of solitude and self-observation to quiet external noise, introspect, and understand our internal landscape. This is paired with a systemic lifestyle shift in what, when, and how we eat, aligning our thought processes (Bichara) to generate love within and release regulating hormones from the gut that spread harmony outward.
Furthermore, we must treat the home as a sanctuary by actively choosing to build and rebuild our marriage every day through accountability, honest communication, quiet dedication, surrender and exposing each other to mutual vulnerability and trusting that we are protected despite the exposure. Continuously nurturing a partnership quiets a reactive mind, pulls us out of survival mode, and lowers cortisol to promote physical health. Spiritually, true commitment is a practice of surrender and unconditional love that reflects the divine cycle of creation, preservation, and transformation [GOD: Brahma ( Generator ) , Vishnu ( Operator ) , and Maheshora ( destroyer/ transformer ) ]. Socially, a secure home creates a healthy baseline that allows us to interact with the world with empathy, clear boundaries, and deep-rooted confidence.
When we intentionally build our domestic foundation, we give future generations a template of stability, emotional intelligence, and self-love. Ego must stay out of marriage for a simple reason: a house divided against itself cannot stand. Just as a country suffering from civil war is powerless to make progress nationally or internationally, a family torn apart by ego loses its capacity to thrive or heal or be able to get out to the world and do something great. The home is our first nation, and peace within these four walls is the prerequisite for all outer strength. By establishing ethical boundaries, mastering the discipline of saying no, and protecting our homes from internal enemies like ego, anger, rage, revenge, etc., we become a Grihastha Yogi. We raise conscious, grounded individuals who do not need to exploit people, animals, nature or partners with wandering eyes and cheating tendencies to feel complete. We consciously breed an individual who understands the responsibility that leaves no room for excuses once we choose to bring children into the world.
A paradigm shift in education
To sustain this shift across generations, we must reimagine how we educate our children. Addressing Honourable PM Balendra Shah and Honourable Education Minister Sasmit Pokhrel, education must transcend job preparation to cultivate the whole human being by integrating foundational wisdom with modern science.
A reimagined 12-pillar curriculum must introduce age-appropriate psychology and nervous system regulation early in life, while restoring the essentials of childhood through unstructured play, restorative sleep, and nutrient-dense whole foods. It must teach children how to think through deep introspection rather than what to think through rote memorisation.
Linguistic architecture should be taught through Sanskrit as a precise mathematical and acoustic science that sharpens cognitive processing and neuroplasticity. Ecological literacy must be grounded in farming, soil science, and the lesson of the honeybee to teach fundamental interdependence. Sound therapy and Nada Yoga through music and intentional prayer can harmonise brain hemispheres and stimulate the vagus nerve.
Ayurvedic functional nutrition will teach children how food (Aahar) affects their microbiome and innate healing capacity, while daily Yoga practice regulates the nervous system through conscious breath and somatic awareness (Bichara and Aacharan). Rigorous Bigyan (modern science) and mathematics will build analytical logic, while Jyotish (astrology) and Vastu introduce awareness of cosmic cycles, spatial balance, and karmic choices.
Finally, financial education must reframe money as an energy of exchange, ethical earnings and responsibility, and abundance rather than an instrument of greedy hoarding or superficial status. Equipping children with this integrated wisdom cultivates conscious, responsible individuals capable of facing real-world challenges with resilience, ultimately providing them with true liberation and non-attachment.
Realising “Aham Brahmasmi”
This integrated approach culminates in the realisation of the Vedic Mahavidya: Aham Brahmasmi (I am the Divine Infinite Consciousness).
When an individual recognises that the divine source of life resides within themselves, within their family, within the microscopic bacteria in their gut, within the honeybee pollinating a flower, and within nature as a whole, the desire to destroy or exploit another being vanishes. They no longer seek superficial validation, nor do they treat their homes, animals, or the Earth as disposable.
This is how we cultivate a conscious child, society, and world.
In the end
We cannot repair our climate, prevent landslides, or build a resilient nation while our internal lives and domestic foundations remain fractured. The journey back to sustainability begins within our intimate internal and external environments. Nature’s law remains immutable: only trees anchored by deep, unyielding roots endure the storm.
By shedding the superficiality of modern Pakhe living, Pakhe thoughts and actions, we restore our physical health, shield our children from trauma, honour all living beings, and heal the world within and around us, ultimately guiding us toward true liberation (Moksha).
Crucially, liberation does not require renouncing the world as a Sadhu or abandoning worldly duties. True liberation is achieved by stepping fully into our responsibilities: growing, evolving, and sharing wisdom from every moment of existence. Human life is a continuous dynamic evolution where the person you were at ten should not be who you are in your twenties, and the mindset you held in your thirties must evolve before you reach your forties and fifties.
If we remain stagnant, refusing to learn, adapt, expand our consciousness, and cultivate wisdom, we squander the precious gift of human birth. Even the Divine manifests in human form (Avatara) to restore balance and drive systemic change, because the human incarnation alone is uniquely blessed with the higher cognitive capacity to discern right from wrong, exercise free will, and reap the karmic fruits of those choices. Yet, for this higher brain to function with clarity and moral courage, we must return to where consciousness takes root: our gut health. When we heal the inner microbiome cosmos and anchor the Gut-Brain Axis, we clear the biological fog, allowing the human mind to fulfil its highest cosmic purpose.
This profound reality exposes the core of our modern turmoil, illuminating the path forward: where human effort ceases, we bow before a greater, absolute truth, knowing that when logic stops, the extraordinary takes over. To truly liberate is the ultimate meaning of love, and within that love, we experience GOD: the eternal cycle of the Generator (Brahma), the Operator (Vishnu), and the Destroyer or Transformer (Maheshar). Through this divine alignment, we make the conscious choice to choose love, transform, heal, outgrow our limitations, and set ourselves, our environment, and our loved ones free. This is how we and let our loved ones achieve Nirvana and Moksha. And this is the ultimate goal/ truth of any living or non-living beings that reincarnate on earth. You, me, dogs, crocodiles, snakes, trees, etc.
