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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 3, 15th October 2018

vulnerable to, may well be the search for a methods but more importantly also foresaw
new normalcy or rather the supernormalcy the emergence of a new life of humanity, a
of tomorrow. It is a cry for evolution so to new light, a new daybreak that will expunge
speak. What is needed is to understand it and and annihilate the terrible dreams of the night
to give it direction and shape, to channelise that mankind witnessed in the previous few
it rather than to label and drug it to sleep. centuries, nightmares of gory wars and mass
This is not to say that there are no cases of executions and ethnic cleansing and an utter
other conventional types of ‘depressions’ depravity of taste and values as if everything
and ‘schizophrenias’ and perverse forms of that we once called as human was fading into
human behaviour. That continues to exist, some dark abyss. Or was it perhaps returning
in fact also spikes up as the common ground with a glorious face with the outbreak of a
of humanity is lost. We are no more a stable New Light? This gives a new sense to yoga. It
human mass, if there ever was one. We ceases to be something personal, meant only
are either moving upwards or gravitating for individual mukti or nirvana, let alone for
downwards leading to an increase in extreme one’s own health and fitness, but is emerging
forms of manifestations. But behind it all as a means for hastening the collective advance
one can sense the increasing evolutionary of mankind. Each individual who breaks free
pressure to make it or break it; to remake from the prison-house of humanity and yet
our humanity into a newer and better and refuses the lure of dissolution in some beyond,
diviner mould or to break it so as to give helps others to break free and arrive at a newer
way for something else that we yet cannot mode of living. This means humanity as a large
conceive or imagine. mass gaining an evolutionary momentum
until it reaches the tipping-point and then the
The concept of individual evolution through crucial and critical breakthrough when the
yogic processes has always been there since new species arrives!
antiquity but the idea of conscious collective
evolution is relatively new. Nirvana is no more The Evolutionary Energy
the highest ideal but a change, a transformation
of earthly life. Mukti in some other-worldly But what is this Evolutionary Energy that is
state is no more attractive but as a state of ever at work in creation, shifting its elements,
inner Freedom here and now. True, this bringing out new ones for better adaptation,
need for inner freedom takes an outer form, taking away the old ones that are no more
a thing impossible so long as we remain what needed for her grand plan? Whatever we
we are, but behind it all there is a conscious may say or argue, and there is no end to this
urge to be free even while we live and act debate, Nature does seem to work as if it is
in the world. Though the idea of collective driven by a Conscious Intelligence that adapts
evolution through yoga has been hinted in very well the means to the end. We are unable
the Vedas, the Upanissads and the Tantra, it to fathom its intentions since we see things
has been brought to the forefront in the Gita, on a small scale of time. Our consciousness
and has found its fullest justification in Sri is limited by our own lifespan or of a few
Aurobindo’s work and vision. He clearly saw generations this way or that. But when we
the collapse of the old world, a failure of all its look through larger spaces of Time we shall

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