Shreepal Singh
It is most reasonable to supppse the omnipresent order that rules Nature is not ignorant of why this universe is here. This omnipresent order of Nature is the bedrock on which our positive science is founded.
Life in man – man who is product of this order – is busy in trying to understand why this universe is the way it is. Achievements of modern science are the proof and measure of the success of man in his efforts to understand this riddle of universe.
Logically such efforts and these efforts’ success prove that this omnipresent order has descended to the low level of life and this low level is now trying to know why this universe is the way it is. It is discovering of this order of itself. In this universe only two things exist: Nature and Nature’s order.
This effort to understand is nothing but an ascent of life – life in man. An ascent from its low level to the level of the omnipresent order that rules Nature. It is descending and ascending. It is evolution.
It is a cyclic evolution. This is understandable because it is so reasonable. Perhaps it would be difficult to find a person who would not agree to this fact. It is stating of a fact that is apparant and does not contradict physics.
It may be a new concept – concept of evolution – discovered by science recently. But it is what ancient Rishis of Sanatan Dharma had said thousands of years ago: to wit, Divine is everywhere and Divine in man is working to merge in Divine.
It is called by those Rishis self-realization. Self-realization is beautiful word and full of substance: It is first descending of the omnipresent order to the low level of life; and then ascending again to its original status. It is “Mukti” of Hindus, “Enlightenment” of Buddhists, “Kaivakya” of Jains, “Jyoti Jot” of Sikhs and “Baikunth Lok” of Hindu subsects.
The only thing that is not apparant, that is not accepted by science, is that the life – life in man – is working ceaselessly in cyclic manner from birth to birth just to merge in Divine. Even on this count too, science’s ignorance is factually proved by the cases of rebirths.