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Namah Vol. 24, Issue 3, 15th October 2016
eventually be modified and adjusted in the
new species that will eventually evolve. We
can see this in every leap but so well marked
in the leap from the ape to man as well as in
the leap from four-footed land mammals to
the sea-loving dolphins.
Another interesting thing is that when a
radical departure takes place, the previous
species loses something in order to gain the
new quality. Very often it is the strength of
the previous species that is lost in order to
gain the new quality. To put it a bit poetically help this leap. It is only the outer façade that
but also figuratively, in a way, the fish loses
its ability to breathe in the water for it to
crawl into the mud of earth. This infant step
which seems almost a regression, when
we compare the best water fishes with the
mud-fish and the tadpole, is actually not a
regression but a preparation for Nature to
start a whole new adventure of evolution. It
is almost like the predator holding its breath
in an outer stillness, even moving a few steps
backward before it would advance through
rapid decisive steps towards its prey.
Holding back
This holding back for a moment is like a
preparation, a gathering of its energies and
focusing on the next step. The reptile must
lose its thousand legs that crawl swiftly on
ground to be able to fly into the air, as an
aircraft draws back its wheels to fly swiftly.
And yet again, Nature clips the magnificent
wings of the bird and brings it back to ground
so that it can develop its intense vitality and
run and leap across trees and forests as
naturally as if in its home. But Nature does
not stop here. It launches into its extreme
experiment with man. The vitality of the
animal, its strong sinews and muscles, its
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ability to leap across trees and swim in the
rivers with natural ease is lost with the birth
of man. Man must learn all this anew with
the help of another faculty called the mind.
Yet this mind will recollect, perhaps secretly
remember the lost evolutionary footsteps
and devise ways and means to dive deep
into the ocean and fly far in Space beyond
what any fish or bird could even imagine.
Evolution seen this way is not merely a survival
game but more importantly a game of new
expressions. Survival is merely a challenge to
hides Nature’s real intent just as a crisis hides
behind its unpleasant mask the possibility of
an evolutionary growth.
Following this natural law of evolution, we
may well conclude that man may be on the
threshold of a new evolutionary leap. As a
species, man is certainly going through a crisis
of sorts. The crisis is not just environmental
(and what else is environmental but largely
his own creation) but even more so a mental
crisis. He has exhausted or is on the verge
of exhausting the possibilities of his mental
intelligence. Beyond a point his mind seems
to be moving in endless circles without
finding the way to go beyond the neat atomic
world and the imaginative limits of Space. His
mind falls either blind or silent when it faces
the two negations. On one side, the negation
of the objective world around him, which
stops short at matter without letting it go past
its quantum structures. On the other hand,
his subjective world wherein he is trapped
in the sense of a transient ephemeral self.
He feels intuitively the sense of greatness,
even of immortality and invincibility but is
violently thrown back to his bodily self as if
this were all. If this is all, then surely there
is little hope and even if there is a further