Evolution towards Perfection
From the inanimate to the animate goes the process of evolution. For instance take a piece of stone. It has neither the power of action nor the sensation of mind. Because no manifestation of mind is in the stone at all. Consider the plants & trees. They are more animate than the stone. There is activity in them. They grow, draw the vital juice from the earth. They maintain their species by creating seeds in their own bodies. They enjoy & suffer pleasure & pain. We see the manifestation of consciousness in them.Thus progressing on the path of mental development , we see in humanity its greatest manifestation. Just as evolution takes place from the subtle to the crude, similarly the Unit entity reverts step by step from the crude to the subtle, towards the same Absolute Consciousness from where it came. It is just like the waves of the sea, rippling back from where they have come.
Life is movement from imperfection to perfection. When inanimate abject become animate there is progress. & there is further progress when animate beings become multicellular metazoic organisms. More & more complicated structures. Human being is the highest being, most perfect in structure. But this is the beginning of progress for humanity. Humans will have to achieve further physical, intellectual& spiritual perfection. Movement towards perfection. God is human’s dharma. Movement towards imperfection is against one’s dharma. The former is life & the latter is death. Human movements towards animalistic is therefore not life, it is death.
No Movement is free from friction or obstacles. Even when you walk, the force of gravity obstructs you. Movement towards perfection is obstructed by all the forces of imperfection of evil. The sinful, the crude, the narrow obstruct all movement for the expansion of the human mind. But perfection is towards Godward movement. The mission of human life is to move towards perfection., towards God. This is one’s duty. In this struggle the forces of evil are bound to be defeated. Humanity standing as the top of the evolutionary ladder, may sometimes feel proud & sometimes commits wrong. Yet one should always remain vigilant against this.
Avtk. A’nanda Prabha’ A’c