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Evolution Next — X

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
Adaptation and change are the guiding principles of evolution. The great game of life seems to favour co-
existence and co-habitation over survival through exclusion of other types. But this adaptation is of various
kinds and depends upon the level of our inner evolution. An evolutionary ladder exists within us through
which we must climb to discover the right law of our being and living. At the lowest rung of this ladder is a
life lived for oneself and one’s selfish survival and growth. At the other pole is a life that is lived taking into
account the value and importance of other forms of life on our planet.

One thing is obvious, if experience and seemingly separate unit is held together in a
empirical evidence counts, and it is this, that vaster collective consciousness. That is how
evolution is unstoppable. It is in the very fabric the game of life goes on where each must
of the universe, interwoven in its texture and adapt to the presence of the ‘others’ which
design. We are mistaken when we say that are none other than different aspects of the
evolution is about survival. Survival is only an ‘Same’. Each and every unit of creation is
end-result, the crucial element is adaptation. built up of the same essential building-blocks.
Adaptation implies a holistic growth. It is not The difference is on the surface but the basic
about the strong and mighty species wiping constitution is the same. Oneness is behind
out the rest. Nature does not seem to favour everything and hence, even for mere survival
it. Otherwise the mammoth and the dinosaur each must adapt to the other units.
would not have become extinct and the tiger
stand on the verge of disappearance while Adaptation
the preyed-upon deer thrives and multiplies.
The survival of a species, like the survival But what is adaptation? It is the ability to
of an individual, is favoured only if it is in accept and adjust and accommodate, to create
sync with the existence of other individuals space for one another, to stretch out time until
and species. This is simply because there is all that comes as your share of life slips into
nothing really separate and isolated in this it. This is difficult when we live too much in
grand universe. All is interconnected with the sense of our separateness. In that state
a web-stream of forces and energies, each we want more and more space exclusively

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