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Evolution Next — VI

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
We can regard evolution as a mechanical, inconscient process or a conscious unfolding. If it be the
former then there it is like a blind and random process at a mega scale where no one really has any
particular role in it. But if it is a conscious process with a direction and a plan, then we can not only
observe it but also consciously participate in it. There are several levels at which Nature unfolds itself
creating several levels of self-awareness. What is seen as unconscious at one level may well be seen as
conscious at another. What appears as lifeless and inert at one level of vision and understanding may
appear teeming with life and even idea at another, life pushing matter to organise itself in certain ways.

Evolution would mean that first man Normally Nature ties down a species to its
would become aware of the many-tiered fixed pattern of working by habit and law.
play and the deeper forces engaged in In fact the law of a species is nothing else
this labour. Breaking off from purely a but a habit or a conditioning, if we like. This
material understanding of creation and conditioning is not just at a macro-level but
the possibility of mastering these material at the very cellular and perhaps even at the
forces, we will begin to look at the other atomic level. While we cannot say with
avenues of Nature and other kinds of forces certainty about the atom, one thing is
and their mastery. Still, it would not make certain. There are glimpses of life or a life-
the evolutionary journey a safe one. Even like behaviour in the atomic particles and
when we have learned to master all the the ‘dead mechanical universe’, our very
forces of our inner worlds, learned to use earth behaves in many ways as if it were
them to harness and use our outer world living. Of course, we must not restrict the
better, the danger would still remain, this sense of living to certain fixed phenomenon
time not from outside but from within. That but to the fundamental processes that work
is why Nature sets a limit to this approach behind what we call as living. For instance
too. It yields the knowledge of certain occult living things come into existence, that is to
energies now hidden to the materialist’s say, are born, grow and disintegrate. Living
view but carefully guards her deepest things also tend to replicate, bring out new
secrets. but similar elements out of themselves. They

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