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Sacrifice and the Mystery of Love and Evolution

Manoj Pavithran

Abstract
Sacrifice is a fundamental law of existence, driving evolutionary growth and transformation.
It’s not just a ritual but an inner process, symbolized by “yagna,” an offering to the cosmic fire.
Life evolves through mutual exchange, and evolution has stages: receiving like a child, trading
as an adult, and giving like a lover. The evolutionary progress accelerates when one discovers
the joy of unconditional self-giving to a larger whole, moving beyond self-interest. This leads
to spiritual growth and the blossoming of divine Love.

powerful material, psychological and spiritual
process driving growth, transformation, and
the unfolding mystery of divine Love on
Earth. Understanding this process opens the
doors of a profound secret for accelerating
not only individuals but also the collective
evolution of humanity towards its natural
evolutionary destiny.

The concept of yajna, the Sanskrit term often
translated as sacrifice, in India typically
evokes images of a sacred fire (Agni) into
Sacrifice: The Engine of Evolution which offerings are poured. While this
is a powerful symbolic representation, it
Sacrifice, in its deepest sense, is not merely a is crucial to grasp the psychological and
ritual or a painful giving away of something universal significance that lies beneath the
very dear to you. It is, as the ancient wisdom ritualistic surface. As the Vedic mantras and
of the Vedas and the Gitaa reveal and Sri the Bhagavad Gitaa teach, the true fire of yajna is
Aurobindo’s modern evolutionary vision richly lit within us. All our experiences, our actions,
illustrate, a fundamental law of existence, a our very being, are meant to be offered into

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