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

upon while the predator shows a decline over leading to a constant clash and quarrel
centuries or millenniums. Slow though it may to affirm and assert one’s own separate
be for our impatience, nature has the art and ego-individuality. Here we must draw a
the wisdom of accomplishing its purposes in distinction between separate and distinct.
much more comprehensive ways than a quick Distinctness and differentiation is part of
hasty solution would admit. Yet one can the evolutionary process. But the sense of
consciously engage with this urge towards separation is different. It makes an individual
Unity provided we widen our consciousness. erroneously believe that he is not only
different but separate from everything and
But this widening will not be enough and everyone else. Here we can take an example
even dangerous if it is without the wisdom of the human body. Each part of the body is
that has organised life. A thoughtless widening distinct and has its own unique place and
will tend to reduce things to an early primitive function in the totality. Each is a necessary
undifferentiated tribal state of mankind where part of the whole. But if any of the part begins
the only difference is physical and certain habits to act as if independently and completely
of living that develop depending upon the oblivious of all others, if each begins to
outer circumstances of birth and life. Rather, threaten the existence of others and multiplies
we must strive to access the wisdom that has inordinately then we have a situation that is
arranged things in a graded evolutionary dangerous both to the body as well as the
hierarchical manner in Time and Space. organ itself. So how are the different parts of
the body held together? It is through some
We have to also respect the rhythm of kind of a central will that holds the sense of
progress that is different in different stages of a larger whole against whose background
evolution. This distinction and differentiation the different parts function.
and the evolutionary rhythms cannot be done
by arbitrary human reason. It is possible only The individuals must function in a similar
if we access the Wisdom hidden behind its way. If each strives to find the central Will
works in Nature. This is what the seers and that operates within him and fulfil its purpose
yogis of the Vedas were arriving at, through rather than succumbing to the law of desire,
which they organised a many layered, many- that imitates will but is born out of the
hued rainbow social order in India. Their separative ego-individuality, then half the
search led them to a state where Truth in all problem will be over. The other half can be
its vastness as well as complexity could be dealt with if we understand the larger context
discovered. They used three words to express in which we operate. Thus for example, if an
R
it:Satyam, Rtam, Vrhatam. This was their royal individual functions in the larger context of
r
road to build harmony for true unity that a nation, a nation in the larger context of the
takes care of diversity and which can only world and the world in the larger context
be built by an ascending harmony and not of the earth and all its creatures then we

through a forced absorption and uniformity. shall be closer to discovering the ways and
means of eradicating war. It means a coming
The psychological reasons are of course the together of individuals for a common good,
strong sense of ego and desire in everyone, a consideration of the common aim of life

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