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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 1, 24th April 2023

often serve to enrich the soil for future plants
to emerge. Such seems to be the general law
of life here. We can extend this to say that
the greater the destruction, the greater the
possibility of a new creation. Perhaps this is
what we seem to be witnessing today.

Faced with the challenge posed by life, we This giant leap is the evolution that species
can choose either to revert to the previous take after several successive efforts that
status quo or else take the bold leap towards grope now in one direction, now in another,
the future. This leap is akin to a caterpillar creating awkward creatures in the process.
leaving its safe cocoon and transmuting into a But the awkward is only the middle term, a
butterfly. On a less drastic scale, it means that temporary resting ground for the new normal.
the little bird safely resting in the nest takes It is the shaky and stumbling stride that nature
the challenge of life and spreads its wings takes before stabilising on the next level. This
and flies into the danger and the delight is what we seem to be witnessing today. On
of the skies. This needs courage and trust, the one hand, there is a multiplication of
the willingness to face the dangers and the the awkward and the abnormal, so much
challenges that life brings. Courage comes so that one could say without exaggeration,
when it knows that it is better to try the new that abnormal is the new normal now. On
and the unknown even if it ends in failure the other hand, we also see novel thoughts,
and falling than to rest in the old. After all, new ideas, new ways of dealing with life and
failure is never a final point. It serves as a events. On the one side we see the dance of
starting-point for a new attempt. Falling is death while on the other side, as if in parallel
never the permanent resting-ground but a worlds, a grafting of two wings on the body
temporary moment to recuperate for the of a caterpillar. It is yet to fly but the wings
next level of effort. It is only through such are palpable. With the increasing suffocation
successive efforts and attempts that eventual and the stifling there is also the stir towards
success comes. The first flight, whether of a a new leap towards the future.
bird or an aeroplane is limited in its scope
and distance. But it is these small efforts that But while all this is happening rather un-
eventually create the possibility of a giant consciously under the secret evolutionary
leap. impulsion of nature, is there something we
can consciously do? A section of humanity
The two steps is busy discussing whether evolution is or
is not, whether nature is secretly conscious
There are two basic steps to evolution, or only an inert mechanical brute machine,
whether it be the inner or the more visible whether man carries something divine within
outer. Inner evolution is the change of him or he is nothing more than another
consciousness that involves the contact of animal species that may survive or pass off
our limited consciousness. depending upon the random play of chance

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