The Destiny of Man-16.

In one word, as experienced and envisioned and declared by your great ancestors, great philosophers of divine experience and wisdom, in one word it is evolution.

Evolution means a steady upward movement into perfection, gradually transcending all limitations, all defects and ultimately finishing your ascent in a state of absolute perfection.

It is called evolution and it is inbuilt into cosmic nature also, even into this physical nature.

Take anything, any living thing in this universe.

Ponder it, observe it, what do you see?

Somewhere in a bush, in the branches of a tree a little bird has built a nest, an empty nest.

After some time you see a tiny inert pebble-like object, maybe with delicate designs and colours.

You are looking at this little inert object which you call egg, but you are not seeing it—seeing it, yet you are not seeing it.

For within that delicate shell a tremendous cosmic dynamism is taking place.

Some wonderful, marvellous thing is happening.

The life principle is moving in the contents of the egg, ever progressively, ever ascending.


And that life principle, that tremendous movement that is going on and is not seen by you, ultimately brings into being a perfect prototype of the bird which brought into being the egg.

Held within that delicate shell is therefore the beautiful melody of birdsong, there is dormant, latent the colour of the plumage, the wonderful sweetness of the bird’s flight into the blue skies, the grace of its movement through the air, the descending, all these, sweetness, grace, colour, melody, beauty, everything is there—the fullest potential for it is there.

And this law of evolution, this tremendous activity is going on unceasingly, day and night, even when you are sleeping.

Ultimately what happens?

Though it contained nothing of this when the egg was laid, the egg hatches and out comes a living thing.

Not very beautiful, immediately no one will make a marriage proposal to it—no feathers, no proper wings, all beak and all tummy—but then the same process is going on.

The tremendous process of making an incomplete into a complete thing, an imperfect thing into a thing of perfection, a partial thing into a whole thing.

Taking all powers around it, the nourishment of the mother-bird, the warmth of the sunlight, the wind and then the day comes when it spreads its wings and out of the nest flies into the sky another bird.

SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
To be continued .........