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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 4, 15th January 2022

new possibilities seem to emerge as a result ageing and death.
of evolutionary challenges. It is as if there is
concealed within each atom of existence a However, this is possible only if he does
tremendous evolutionary impulsion that is not stifle these possibilities by offering
pushing matter to evolve from what we call second-hand remedies such as the massive
as inanimate matter to a half-conscious man. health-structure we have built. What is
But is matter really inanimate and non-living needed however is to tap the possibilities of
unless we define life in certain fixed restricted conscious evolution through yoga, for that is
ways? The universe expands (moves) and what yoga really is. It is conscious and hence
brings out of itself many seeds called stars concentrated evolution, taking place through
while absorbing back those which are born union with our own highest possibility of
and die or disappear into oblivion. The day perfection. In other words, two things are
we understand that matter is living at some required to actualise these higher possibilities
level and there is in it consciousness pushing of the body.
it towards newer manifestations then we shall
find the key to the mystery of the human First is a faith in these possibilities, a faith
body and its evolutionary capabilities. It will that is consistent with reason in the sense
be inconsistent with the logical trajectory of that if evolution is the mechanism through
evolution to believe that evolution is over which the human body has developed so far
with man. through all the forms that preceded it then its
further evolution is a logical conclusion. The
This can at best be an anthropocentric view human body itself then becomes a means, a
of creation but one that cannot hold long foot stool or a scaffolding for the evolutionary
because it is inconsistent with creation. power, call it whatever, to build further, to
Its only use or rather misuse is to paint evolve further, to lead us further to a newer,
God in a human image and then to curse higher and better body which is the direction
Him because He made us so incomplete that evolution tends to take.
and limited. But if we take the view that
there are infinite possibilities hidden in Secondly, we have to disinherit the belief
matter itself, then it will not be difficult to that whatever we have discovered so far
assume that the story of evolution is not yet through a material approach to a living
finished and man himself is a bridge or a body is the last limit. There could be
catalyst towards still higher creations. He
is, at worst, a transient being whose fate
hangs in the balance of how he responds
to the evolutionary pressure from within
and around. At best, it opens the doors
to a conscious evolution and thereby not
only overpasses his present limitations,
but discovers the ultimate possibilities
that he dreams of, among which there
is eventually the conquest over disease,

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