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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 2, 15th July 2022

it would be able to bear the expanding unity created by devouring and destroying,
force of life. Prepared through this process, a process that nature continues to use even
matter began to climb and reach out to the with man. Where there is resistance to change
skies through forms of life. Sri Aurobindo there often is a state akin to war.
speaks of this intense struggle and pressure
of violent forces through which creation has Though it appears as a war between two

emerged slowly out of its inconscient state. forms of life and hence takes the form of
a struggle for survival, in essence it is a
“No real peace can be till the heart of man struggle for evolution. What is meant by
deserves peace; the law of Vishnu cannot evolution here is that the higher life-forms
prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn are more capable of manifesting ranges and
aside then and preach to a still unevolved possibilities hidden in the blueprint of
mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers life. This blueprint is the consciousness
of the law of love and oneness there must be, for which seeks to express itself through
by that way must come the ultimate salvation. different forms. Thus, seen the forms have
But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, to adapt not only to outer challenges and
can the inner and ultimate prevail over the the challenges of the species that have
outer and immediate reality. Christ and emerged before and which do not want
Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra to give up their space and their hold, but
who still holds the world in the hollow of more importantly to the emergent powers
his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward of consciousness.
labour of mankind tormented and oppressed
by the Powers that are profiteers of egoistic Thus, for example, we see in life-forms
force and their servants, cries for the sword evolving from the first versions to man, the
of the Hero of the struggle and the word of progressive emergence of self-replication and
its prophet (1).” reproduction. Reproduction is obviously better
since it allows the emergence of diversity that
But the wrestle and clash of forces does not a mere self-extension may not. Then there
cease with the emergence of life. If anything, is the emergence of processes of life such as
it increases. Life brings in the possibility of breathing and circulation of energy, storing,
endless expansion, an unceasing forward utilising and circulating energy received from
march replacing the inertia of matter with outer sources. There also develops a simple
the kinetic drive and push in creation. But prototype of receiving and transmuting
each step forward implies leaving the step and transmitting simple information from
that was rooted behind and taking it and the outside world. All this would develop
integrating it with the step in front. This through a long winding complex evolution
takes the form of a struggle between the into an intricate system of nerves and blood
past forms and the future life. Where the vessels and lungs which will then allow for
past forms get easily assimilated with the the emergence of various activities of the
future through a process of integration, senses and the hands and feet or wings and
there is little difficulty. This involves the finally thought. The outer challenge is in fact
taking up of the former into the latter, a is a spur to adapt in such ways that the new

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