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Evolution Next — XI

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
Evolution is not a simple straight line nor is it exhausted with one brief life. If evolution is real then
logically we have to bring in the idea of next life. This changes our entire perspective on child education
and upbringing. We need to help them prepare for the future. This needs a new understanding and a new
initiative

If we take into consideration the Indian our present balance of life located in a certain
thought and experience on the doctrine of context of our birth.
rebirth, then we have to concede that not only
humanity in general but individual beings (souls) It also means that a child holds within itself a
are becoming increasingly complex having gone whole world of past experiences and future
through many lifetimes of evolution. There possibilities. The present is not an isolated bit
is more and more accumulated experience of and particle even though it seems to be so,
the race as well as the individual preserved but simply a wave, ascending or descending,
in some adytum or psychological recess of ascending to descend and descending to ascend,
our being that we need to take into account. and it must follow the curve of its growth.
This memory preserved through lives may It changes the way we look at children. At
be a help or a hindrance in our evolution. present we deal with them all the same and
It may serve as an evolutionary drag or prescribe and proscribe the same rules and
may erupt suddenly as an evolutionary use the same methods for each one in a bid
boost. Past habits come back to haunt us, to create a standard adult of our dreams. But
phantoms of past deeds and now oblivious dreams are dreams. Reality is much more
personalities return in new forms and bodies, complex. Our evolution is many-layered and
waking in us tendencies and impulses that spans many lives. These differences begin to
may be discomforting and even unnerving show up as children grow and manifest what
for our present formation. At the same time is concealed within them, both as unfinished,
fruits of long labours may also return upon unresolved issues and tendencies of the past
us enriching us with swift illumination or as well as seeds of the future, whose time has
sudden disclosures. Either way, it may upset come and which are ready to sprout. While

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