The Destiny of Man-18.

Take an unripe fruit on a fruit tree appearing like a hard button.

You bite in it and you make a face.

But give it some time.

Here also the same life principle is going on.

It makes use of all things, sunshine, rain, water and nourishment from the earth and gradually it grows, develops, changes colour and inside that dry button juice comes to be, and then taste, sweetness, fragrance, the power to satisfy, to give joy.

Then it is a ripe, mellow, juicy, tasty delicious fruit upon that selfsame tree upon which was a green, sour, tasteless bud.

So you see everywhere in nature is this movement towards becoming a perfect unit of the same species.

An apple will be a perfect apple, a mango a perfect mango, a vegetable will be a perfect vegetable, a bird’s egg will become a perfect bird, a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis and afterwards it bursts out into a butterfly with amazing colours and design.

When a butterfly spreads its four wings, no human artist can ever fashion these colours and that delicate texture.

They were not there in the caterpillar climbing the stem of a plant where it makes itself into a chrysalis, and goes into a cocoon and there I think it meditates itself into a butterfly, and when it bursts there is this beautiful butterfly—children dance with joy when they look at it. It flits from flower to flower, beauty meeting beauty!


So we see that in the whole of nature there is this process of evolution, which is the law of life moving towards a state of fullness and perfection of its own species.

But then there is something wonderful about you—there is something wonderful about the destiny of man. And here we come to the heart of the theme.

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