What a timely read. Book : "Traditional vision of Man" by A.K.Saran
"Traditional technology, accordingly, is simultaneously instrumental and symbolic; being controlled by cosmologically oriented sciences, it is governed by the principle of the optimum and not by that of the maximum. Because the unity of man and nature is given (man being a microcosm), and because each technical skill is symbolic of a higher realm (and hence of a higher skill and mastery), the question of "conquering" and "possessing" Nature does not arise except as a temptation to be resisted precisely for the preservation of human dignity and freedom."