“The propulsive power of
Evolution goes beyond keeping you on your toes; it is projecting you onward; and
if you tend to stagnate you would only be wasting your potential in attempting
the impossible. What would be the result if your car-engine is running while
the brake is on? Would it not amount to squandering of petrol (or herbal fuel, if
you please!) even as you are inviting trouble from the mass of traffic piling
up behind you on the highway?
“From plant-life which has only one sense, that of touch, we
have come up to six-sensed human level; and would anyone take this all to be a
mere accident, a tale without purpose or meaning? If life on this planet has no
aim or goal, would not living itself become an absurdity? Yet the instinct for
survival is there in all of us even in the thick of adversities. An ailing
person is prepared to have a few of his limbs amputated in order to continue
living. Physically-handicapped and deformed men marry and bring forth progeny
knowing full well the problems ahead and the risks involved. Has medical
science or any other material science sought an explanation for this basic
instinct on the part of all living beings to want to continue living and
perpetuate their respective species?
“Suppose a schoolboy does not pass in the annual examinations. Would
he not have to remain in the same class, reading the same lessons and doing the
same sort of homework until he qualifies to get past the barrier? That is the
lot of the human race today, which is leading a repetitive existence, generation
after generation. We do all that our parents did; and they in their time did
what their forebears had done. This is certainly not an instance of imitation
being the best form of flattery!
“Is not your daily routine itself unvarying ad nauseam? You wake
up with a start to the call of the alarm-bell, gobble some fast-food for
breakfast, pick up your battered briefcase and rush out to office or factory. Spending
eight hours there on humdrum chores and another four hours for commuting, you
return home fatigued, to watch TV for a while before ‘hitting the hay’ (which
expression is Wild-West colloquial for ‘going to bed’). What you did yesterday,
you do today; and what you do today you would be doing tomorrow also until you
are superannuated.
“Thereafter, with time hanging heavily on your hands, you would
not know what to do with yourself; and thus does the tragi-comedy
of life come to a colourless close. A certain monarch of
“By saying this I have not sought to paint a dreary picture of
life, but only highlighted the ennui of the living process that is weighing
down on you like an incubus. With just one spurt of endeavour you could breathe
the air of freedom and fearlessness. That endeavour is to get to know the
purpose of life and realise that the Totality of Nature has equipped the human
race with the sixth sense which is intended to devise a mode of living that
would ensure peace and happiness. Pain-producing activities should be eschewed
with determination and your relationships rationalised one by one. It is only
when you interact with the world-process that it, in turn, counteracts with you;
and by modulating the reaction of your mind, you would succeed in conserving
your peace. This is the first step for spiritual development.”
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