How one should behave in proper way! (E. O. M. -14)

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

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“Pardon me not, God,

Punish me for every fault,

For a single unjust pardon,

Will liquidate almighty Lord”!

Vijay R. Joshi.

Why one behaves like this! (E O M - 13)

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:

While we were thinking of ‘why do we behave like this?’ we explored various areas and said that we behave in that

manner because of our anatomy (the science dealing with the structure of animals and plants).

Human beings haven’t been born all of a sudden on the Earth. This progress is happening over a long period of time. Right

from that of the smallest particles which were created in the world, from the time the world came into existence the

progress took place in minute steps.

Where is the root of a child’s existence?

If you take this link into consideration, you would realize that the stream of evolution that is flowing over thousands of

millions of years, is responsible for our behavior and also for child's existence.

How did evolution take place? how did it happen? How human beings came into existence? Let us try to explore with some

l
ogical thinking.

Newton has told how a stone behaves. But how does a human behave? That was told by Darwin. So remember, Darwin

is Newton of Biology.

Newton made mistakes, Darwin also made mistakes.

what was the difference between Darwin and Lamarck?

It was that Lamarck unified Anthropology and Evolutionism. Darwin separated them

The contribution of Lamarck was also quite huge. Now, many people have begun agreeing with Lamarck’s views. We are

gradually getting more proofs supporting Lamarck even today, but still, there are more supporters on Darwin’s views.

We (New way philosophy)) are saying that the truth is even beyond this.

It won’t be sufficient to study merely Neurology and Physiology. As we are of the opinion that we should study psychology

too! While understanding the evolution process, we also have to bear in mind that the scientists of that era and many

scientists today have accepted Darwin, between Darwin and Lamarck.

Darwin held the opinion that , “Human being makes effort. He struggles while doing efforts and if he succeeds in those

efforts, nature appreciates the success. Nature favors him (the human being). Favor meaning, it becomes gracious and

there is a chance of changes taking place in his body. And then those changes can reflect in his descendants.”

As per Darwin, first the human being has a desire, then he makes efforts for fulfilling the same. After this efforts, if the

nature accepts it and if that effect is stable, then it enters into the descendants, in the children. It means human beings

have achieved permanent progress.

If it is so, then why the children of great people aren’t great?

Our conclusion should be that Darwin’s theorem is not sufficiently pervasive. 

If the only rule in the nature is that you gain strength while thrashing others, and you live, expand your community and

develop further, and if only this much is written as the motive of the nature, you should say ‘ Go! close all the schools 

down  and start gymnasiums.’ Everyone is well-nourished and hence so strong

Everyone with a big tummy, with both hands placed on it. “Come here and I will thrash you.” But effect of it will only be 

that everyone will be so swollen, so huge! How much will you swell? …Many time we have stated that comfort will eat you 


up. Nature cannot have such a rule. (Rule which says “might is right”)

Why did Dinosaurs die? They died because of comfort; they died due to eating too much. The situation came when no

competition was left. Hence, if you restrict the meaning of ‘might is right’ as relating only to physical power, then it won’t

be correct. We should gather another proof. That is, it will be realized that the world is not sustaining merely by “Might is

Right”, nor has the world grown further by merely attacking others The species which came afterward haven’t grown by

merely killing each other; they have grown by helping each other as well.

Symbiosis: What does Symbiosis mean?

When crocodile wants to eat flesh, the pieces of the flesh are stuck in its teeth. The birds fly down from the trees. This

crocodile opens its jaw wide & sits in the sun, its mouth wide open. Then these birds come and they pick food from its

teeth. Now, the crocodile can easily eat up a number of birds by merely closing the jaw. But the crocodile doesn’t eat

them. Why so? It certainly knows that someone is helping him. There we come across symbiosis. Hence ‘might is right’

does not apply there.

Here the so called mighty one is tortured by that mere piece of flesh. Hence we state that the cooperation & 


surrendering  are also the two methods of evolution. It is called as symbiosis. That means the phenomenon of helping 


each other.

If you want to build the life afresh, if you want to give new meaning to life, then you should be studying scientifically while

applying logic and appropriate tools. Only then you would be able to do something different. Remember, it is 

not  sufficient to know how the world is. You should also understand how to change the world.

Almost all of the scientists accept Darwin’s principle of evolution from one perspective; maximum of them, not all of them,

but most of them. But again there are so many proofs against Darwinism.

Still Darwin is generally considered as a great man. Even critics call him a great man. There is a minority which considers

him to be an utter crook. So if you leave out that, we have to consider with a calm mind and should say that he was great.

He conducted deep study. He studied in detail. We have to accept him. When Darwin died, a woman in his neighborhood

had said: “This Darwin was not believing in God lately. Yet, he was such a nice person by nature that God will pardon him

after his death.”

He provided a new direction to the world. That went wrong. That’s fine; you correct it. But until the point that he took the

effort and made you say ‘His direction is wrong’ at least, he made you undertake a new study -- be thankful to him for this

at least!

You ought to be thankful to Darwin. It doesn’t mean that ‘whatever Darwin does is correct’. No, not because ‘Darwin says

so!’.

Natural selection functioned in combination with qualitatively new social-economic factors but its importance grew less as

the role of the latter increased.”

It means that the principle of natural selection, meaning ‘might is right’ was there at the beginning of the world, but it

changed later.

Who changed it? He has given an answer for the same below. He said, it was changed by human beings who came later. A

community was created by humans. He has stated that many a times it is apparent that humans changed the nature.

Columbus discovered America. Then the natural selection ceased to remain a natural selection. Then what happened?

Mixed breeds of humans were created, hybrid races were produced. A few new sprouts were added to the human race

But my question is simple. You will get only contradictions. Why so? because you deny (the existence) of mind.

See what Darwin has stated “ But I was continually struck with surprise how closely the three natives on board H.M.S.

Beagle, who had lived some years in England and could talk a little English, resembled us in disposition and in most of our

mental faculties.” He says that the races or the communities weren’t produced unequally. Then what has happened? Then 

races…meaning African is dumb, black. And who is this European? He is fair, tall, huge, mighty, very strong. Then the

differences are actually apparent, but this author says that it isn’t correct ($). See the interesting argument. An African

mentioned was short, small, evil, stupid, and the European was big, huge by physique; he was mighty. So don’t say that he

is different. Why so? Then he has stated that, on our ship called ‘Beagle’, the person of a (so called) lower race, that is of

African race, stayed for three years, he slowly started to look like us. He started to behave like us. And he started to speak

English like us. Isn’t it right? Then you take his principle for consideration. This means Darwin has waged a war against

Darwin (himself)

($). Reference : This was the book by Popular Publications for ‘Steps in Biology’ Standard 12^th. By Prof. Apsangikar, Dr.

Dhage and Dr. Golatkar

Even Darwin himself has given several examples in his original book that, this can be changed in one lifetime, and now

several new proofs are coming to light that in one lifetime itself, meaning within a short span, few generations, few years,

this wonder can happen.

Darwin has made an interesting statement. “When discussing the expression of emotions, of spiritual experiences by

means of the face muscles, Darwin came to the conclusion that there is an amazing similarity in this respect among

representatives of different races.” Remember this. Now could an atheist have a spiritual experience? And again the word

‘mental faculties’ is used. So ‘mind’ has to come. You will realize the same thing here as well.

See how that interesting word has appeared here. Whose wish is it? Nature has chosen the mighty.

Who is mighty? The one who won the fight. He had a wish ‘I want to be powerful’ isn’t it? It is right. The wishes

originate from mind, don’t they? It is correct. Now the question arises that if this wish is of mind, then whether he

became ‘mighty’ for being capable of the desire or because he was chosen by the nature? Tell me who gets the credit?

See what a big confusion he has created! The human being accumulated power with efforts, did he get the status of

‘mighty’ because of the consistency of efforts or because of being chosen by the nature? And if because of power, meaning

if he had earned this status of ‘mighty’ because of the unwavering efforts, then the choice of nature has no consequence.

Who is nature to choose that? Tell me in certain terms what it is. Are you getting what I am trying to say?

Well, you have to draw only one conclusion:

• the mind is beyond this brain and body
• it is the one which has desires.
• As long as it keeps doing justice to its task, it will keep on winning until that point.

Real Evolution is here. The balance between power and peace, even the feeling of helping each other, has helped to gain

victory in the nature.

The second example is important. ‘Dedication’

Balanced dedication is needed. To convince a wise person to come round on your side, to surrender to him, to bow down

to him – this is what is meant by Samarpan (Dedication), Sama plus Arpana means to dedicate to the wiser so that he and I

can come together. If you cannot do it yourself, then bring the person who has been successful in this, on your side.

So the word ‘might’ doesn’t mean only the physical power but the sturdiness of mind, steadfastness of

intellect, ability to surrender, each of these factors or their appropriate mix. Evolution has taken place as a

result of these attributes. It is not sufficient to describe evolution merely as ‘might is right’.






Vijay R. Joshi.