Galloping jump from evolutionary night to dawning light

About two billion years ago when the world had just come into existence, the so called atoms of energy carried the manifestations of consciousness that we find today in human beings.

The darkness of evolutionary night began to fade when the first ape-like creature deserted his tree-branch kingdom and shambled out into the light of the plain. He was guided by something he could not understand: something un-apelike. Somehow, somewhere in his seething body chemistry, something had changed. In his brain lay the seed of humanity; in his strangely bright eyes, the dark shadow of a hidden dream.

Time passed slowly. The new creatures developed and multiplied. The wonderful changes in their bodies and minds continued; their brains, nerves and glandular systems grew in complexity and specialization. New behaviour patterns evolved and after some time, emotions and feelings unknown and denied to all previous forms of life found their means of expression.

The Dawn of Man was reached at that auspicious hour. Everyone of us carries within him the hidden memory of that first sunrise, and even beyond it into the darkness of antiquity. We are, by means of this primordial memory, which is part of our human heritage, intimately connected to all forms of life.

After millions of animal lives, created beings attained human form. That is why all the scriptures speak of the rarity of human life; you have achieved human frame – you must make it meaningful by your sádhaná (spiritual practice), service and sacrifice.

But despite its advent onto this earth long ago, humanity is not yet capable of building a well-integrated and universal human society. This is in no way indicative of the glory of human intellect and erudition.

In the past, there have been crises in different branches of civilization, crises in the realm of education, and so on. But nowadays, the entire human society is facing the crisis of civilization as a whole, and particularly a crisis in the field of existence.

Today all over the world, a grim fight has started between the evil forces and the benevolent forces. Only those who possess the moral courage to fight against the evil forces, can give a soothing touch to the struggle-torn earth with the balm of peace. Peace is the result of fight. Peace-lovers of the universe must not keep themselves away from fight. As for those who have been dreaming of keeping humanity imprisoned by dogmas, their days are numbered; their blissful dreams are being shattered to pieces.

And all of a sudden there are galloping jumps – epoch-making eras. Before and after a jump, there is biological change, historical change, agricultural change and human psychic change – change in seasonal order, in the psychic arena, in the socio-economico-political and cultural spheres and in biological structure of nerve cells.

Staticism, superstition and narrowness stand for cimmerian darkness. The creatures of darkness never want the expansive exaltation of human society. Even then, human beings shall march ahead. No one can arrest the speed of their progress.

Remember that light, not darkness is veritably the truth of life. The light of new ideas shall certainly illuminate every nook and corner of human habitation, in spite of the inroads of countless forces of denunciation, denigration and contempt.

The struggle between the good and the evil forces terminates in the latter’s rout – this you have seen, are seeing and will see in future. Only remain vigilant that the evil forces under no circumstances receive any indulgence from your side.

The flame of a lamp lights up countless lamps. The touch of a great personality wakes up innumerable sleeping hearts. In the same way, the eternal glow of the boundless élan vital of Cosmic Consciousness has been illuminating the life-lamp of universal humanism since time immemorial, is illuminating it, and in future will do so even more intensely.

In order to turn personified love into universal love one must colour the molecules and atoms of this dusty earth with one’s love. A person who has developed universal love will be able to do very great work. The universal love which has remained suppressed in the human mind is bound to express itself one day. That day is not very far away. When love awakens those sleeping souls, then true human beings will emerge.

Encourage everyone to build their career in a nice way. Let none get the opportunity to think that their life has become useless. Whenever considering doing good works, do not hesitate – do them immediately. Whenever contemplating doing bad works, linger and delay, so that the thought of performing them will wither away from the mind.

You should know that great, or good people are few in number, they are not many. And these few, they are the torch bearers of human society, they are the pioneers, they are the vanguards of human society… And those who are unable to shoulder their own bags and baggages – their responsibilities are to be shouldered by you.

The majority of people are in darkness. That is why you will have to carry the collectivity with you, because the collectivity is yours. The collectivity is not outside you – your future is inseparably connected with the collective fortune.

Unity is the natural course, and division is unnatural. The Cosmic Energy will not long tolerate what is unnatural. So it is natural for human beings to live together and to make a Great Universe. The world is moving rapidly from physicality to intellectuality. A day is sure to come when this intellectuality will be transformed into spirituality.

Spirituality is not a utopian ideal, but a practical philosophy which can be practiced and realized in everyday life. Spirituality stands for evolution and elevation, not for superstitions or pessimism. All divisive tendencies and group and clan philosophies which create shackles of narrow-mindedness are not connected with spirituality and should be discouraged. Only that which leads to broadness of vision should be accepted. Spirituality stands for universality.

With the help of spiritual practices, the human beings of the future will increase the functional jurisdiction of their brains with accelerating speed. The human beings of the future age will be very sensitive. Today human beings seldom have subtle experiences, but in the future they will occur naturally and spontaneously.

Be the vanguard of a bright future; the crimson light of that future breaks on the eastern horizon. We should welcome it – we must welcome it. There is no alternative but to welcome it. A bright future awaits you – your future is glorious, your future is luminous, your future is effulgent.

This was shorthand compilation from some speeches of Indian scientist and spiritual leader P R Sarkar, between 1955-1990. Didi Annapurna

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