Swami
Vijnananand provided guidance to the teenagers through series of
discourses on various subjects. In one such series of discourses he
talked about the behavioral aspects. Our mind is expressed through
the behavior. “Why one behaves in certain way” and “How should
one behave in proper way” were the subjects covered. While dealing
with the human behavior, he related its origin to the process of
evolution of mind. His views expressed in informal language are
summarized as follows:
What
do we (New way philosophy) want to say about the evolutionism?
What
they are saying is that amongst all the stages in the movements which
took place in nature, the non-material (Ajada), the so- called
non-material was created from material (jada) – to say this in
their own terms, living beings were created from non-living. But what
we say it isn’t so. We have already shown the reason to you until
now. Now understand what I am placing before you.
The
basic rule of jada (matter) is that, speed & heat are convertible
in both ways. Then what is the rule of heat? It is the same rule as
that of speed. In the laws of speed, Newton has told that while you
are pushing the table with your finger, even the table is pushing you
simultaneously. (Action is equal to and opposite reaction). See it
creates a depression (pressure, dent) on the finger with which you
are pushing the table. A bigger thing giving to a smaller one and a
smaller thing giving to the bigger one, always goes on. It won’t be
right to deny it.
It
means that both of them are living together or by coexisting and
adjusting with each other.
Similar is the case with speed and with heat.
So
the law of heat & speed tells you that both of them will reach an
even state in the end.
What
will happen in the whole of this universe? One day the movement of
the whole universe is going to come to a standstill. That itself is
called as the ‘state of entropy.’ The second law of
Thermodynamics tells the same thing. (Energy flows from higher to
lower level till it attains entropy)
…
Finally
everything in this universe is going to enter the state of
equilibrium. Everything is going to have one temperature. The stage
and the speed of everything, the intermixing and internal stirring,
is going to stop and everything in the world is going to enter one
phase. This is the natural attribute of matter. You should take this
into consideration.
‘All
that got created was from matter.’ Every matter has action. Every
action has a re-action. From this battle between action and reaction,
the state of ‘Entropy’
is going to arrive eventually. The state of ‘Entropy’ is the very
Dharma (characteristic) of the matter. Now the evolutionists have
once for all accepted this fundamental theorem. There are no
conflicting opinions there.
Now
if you have propounded the theory of communism, that is, the theory
of equality, if you accept that the matter is going to finally enter
the state of Sarva Shanti ( total peace) and Sarva samata (total
equality), then how can Darwin’s theorem of ‘might is right’ be
true? If the basic law of ‘might is right’ is prevalent in the
world, it cannot ever establish equality.
Just
remember what I am saying. If the matter says that I am always going
to fight and the one who wins in the fight will become mighty, how
did progress of evolution go up to the stage
of humans?
What
was your definition of progress? You have defined progress in a wrong
way.
This
is the real question. And if the evolutionism is unable to give a
satisfactory answer to this, then the situation will arise when we
will have to put materialistic evolutionism aside.
But
don’t we see ‘might is right’? We do see it like that. But I
don’t think of that state as a permanent stage. There was a saying
in the old times. See, I am giving analogies.
‘The
(flame of) lamp gets bigger before going off’.
The
second analogy is that of a cat. If you catch a cat in a corner,
it will resort to attack finally.
Fundamental
law of matter is the state of entropy only; it is not ‘might is
right’
The
true law instead of that is of peace, adjustment, adaptation.
We
have seen the mutual adjustment as the way to progress. We call it as
‘Symbiosis’. (we)
term that as the state of peace, state of adjustment. And if that is
the state, then you have to take that state into consideration. It
won’t be right to go by ‘might is right’. You have to believe
that the one who adjusts has the ability to change the world. The one
who adjusts can reach the real next stage in evolution.
The
evolutionists say that if you learn to make adjustment and if that
adjustment is accepted by nature, then you can reach the next stage
in evolution.
So
remember, what should a person do? We have to make adjustments. What
does the nature do? It suddenly gives him a prize. It
is termed as mutation.
While describing evolution it is said that a person makes an
adjustment. Then
what does the power of nature do? It selects the one who has the
maximum ability of adjustment, out of all of them.
But
again our question is, what if the one who does adjustment, is a
sweet talker and a cunning person. And then even he will win. So the
fact remains again that the cunning person wins. Hence we have to
arrive at his motive. His motive should be that of peace. And hence,
it is not sufficient for the person to make an adjustment; the nature
also has to approve your adjustment.
The
question is, what is the basic principle for natural selection?
So.
if you accept that there is equality in the original form of nature,
then it cannot be stupid. And
hence it will look at the motive. It will select the only one who has
the intent (motive) of equality.
See
how correctly we put forward this.
If equality is the final word of the nature, then to whom will the
nature choose? Who would it elect? Who would it select? It will
select the one who has the intent of equality; we have to draw such a
simple conclusion.
Then
who will have that motive?
Would it be with the inanimate object? And if it is not with an
inanimate , who will have it? Motive is the characteristic of Mind.
If
the motive is with the inanimate then why don’t you say that every
material particle has a mind of its own?
The
one who is struggling in the evolution, the one making adjustments,
possesses life. It is the intellect or the inspiration behind the
motive. ‘When
environment changes, the organism makes conscious efforts to adapt to
the surroundings’. This isnwhat Lamarck says. It is right. But
conscious efforts? OK. So he tries wholeheartedly. Yet has Darwin
denied it at all? You will come to know about that, when he gives an
example in the following pages in the book.
According
Darwin’s evolutionism, they have stated while giving an examples of
giraffe, “Ancestral giraffes with variable length of neck, (cause
of variation is not explained.)” implying some giraffes had longer
necks. Some giraffes had shorter necks. Giraffe is that animal with
long neck. He is able to eat the foliage at a height, as high as his
height takes him and he won’t be able to eat if he is short.
I
have told you in the beginning of the lesson, you don’t know about
the zero. You don’t even know properly the number before one or
after ten very clearly…What happened to them? You say that we do
not know that at all……Then we say, what was the fault of the
giraffes with shorter necks? It was not their fault. Then what was
the virtue of the bigger ones? Adaptation, they adjusted on their
own. What does it mean they did? What was the adjustment they did?
Why don’t you tell us in definite terms?
So,
if there is no motive, no effort, then what did they do when it is
said that they made efforts, made adjustments? Otherwise, why would
someone adjust if there is no motive behind?
The
motivation is independent of material. If I mix up motivation &
material, then such confusions are bound to arise. Moreover,
we do not know the cause in the first place. We do not know why the
necks were short. If, therefore, we go on explaining the philosophy,
what purpose does it serve? The confusion is here itself.
I
am making no change in the main theme of Darwinism. Living being has
knowledge which says ‘I want pleasure’. The living being has a
motion. According to
our principle of evolutionism, the root cause of this motion is
pleasure. The
animate longs for the state of happiness & that’s the reason
he gets sorrow along with it. Here he is bound to get misery as the
reaction. When he will get to know this (equation of happiness) –
whoever this creature is, - he has acquired some basic knowledge, but
the rest of it is ignorance.
That
is why he is making the ‘so called’ progress. Hence he is getting
the pleasure of motion. Ultimately he is going to get pleasure and
pain as action-reaction. As that creature will go on increasing in
size, more complex & dynamic, he, that is, humanity is going to
get more grief. We are experiencing it today. And even science has
stated the same. Many of its proofs are given over in our e book
‘Buddhiyoga’.
We
are getting those experiences in modern times. Where is the peace
today? Miseries of the dynamic life have been created in the form of
reaction. So now we have to acquire that ‘knowledge’ (to know)
why we were born? Why has this Universe come into existence? And how
this nature is going to move towards the end? What will happen if he
connects this knowledge to his life, instead of clinging to the
ignorance? Well, then definitely the state of equilibrium will come
about.
The
theory which we are presenting is valid from the perspectives of
science, religion & communism.
We
demonstrated to you that if people interpret Darwinism in a wrong
sense merely as evolution of the ifeless, of the inanimate, that will
result only in creating proofs which are opposed to each other.
If
matter is going to assume the form of entropy eventually, if the
motion that gets created in the matter is going to be converted into
the state of entropy, how is that going to happen?
From
one way the evolution theory says that there is a motive to the state
of matter that makes efforts as well as to the state of being animate
which struggles. Further it says nature selects him. This implies
that even the live individual has a motive and the nature too has a
motive – merely for making a selection. If it is so, what is the
motive? If you have accepted it as an even state (entropy) itself,
then even the religion states the same, science states the same ; and
if you assume a motive in the case of an animate, it means you have
already accepted non-matter.
However,
from one angle you say that the matter has no motive. As You say that
nothing will be moved unless moved . While laying down the law of
motion you have said that matter itself as such has no motion of its
own, it also means it has no motive as well.
After
all this, the definition we are making of the living creatures, the
other proofs and the adjustment we are telling - should be accepted.
You need to state that Darwinism leads to the self-destruction
because of the lack of logic. The research by Darwin is very good.
Still however, the theorems which he has proposed are bouncing on
him. He has to swallow his own words.
Hence
you need to have a well- meaning motive. That motive should be full
of knowledge. We saw this third type of proof over here. The
one who couldn’t acquire knowledge on his own, should submit
himself wholeheartedly to the one who has acquired the knowledge.
This is what we get to see in nature or should be seen.
Here
we need to carry out research on the above points. We need to acquire
proofs for this hypothesis..
Critical
self-introspection, acceptance of own faults and be ready to
willingly suffer the unpleasant
consequence of own karma is the
essence of self purification to make a progress in the life of an
individual .
Our noble desires only can fetch us noble reward.
Swami
Vijnananand not only preached the importance of self-purification but
practised this concept in his life
till the last moment. His desire
of highest self-purification is reflected in the prayer he has
written on the
opening page of all the books he wrote
.
“Pardon
me not, God,
Punish
me for every fault,
For
a single unjust pardon,
Will
liquidate almighty Lord”!
Vijay
R. Joshi.
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