Evolution
My friend Kathleen said a wonderful thing in one of our recent discussions. She was talking about the "evolution of consciousness". The real meaning behind our evolution is the development of our consciousness. And this keeps evolving for all of us until it ultimately merges into the universal consciousness. That is the most wonderful defnition of evolution I ever heard!
It is not necessarily about the evolution of mankind from using stone tools to computers but how much are we unfolding the universal Truth within our minds. And everyone of us is at a different stage in this evolution. The earthworm is at a different level than what I am and further the sage is at a much higher level than me. My friend Kalyani always says that everybody's starting point is different as far as their spiritual endeavours go. And this difference I think is because we all are at different stages in this process of evolution. And it encompasses several generations or if I may say several lifetimes for an individual.
As Swami Vivekananda says, the difference between me and a worm is only in degree, not in kind. And that difference is in our levels of consciousness.
Hari Om.
It is not necessarily about the evolution of mankind from using stone tools to computers but how much are we unfolding the universal Truth within our minds. And everyone of us is at a different stage in this evolution. The earthworm is at a different level than what I am and further the sage is at a much higher level than me. My friend Kalyani always says that everybody's starting point is different as far as their spiritual endeavours go. And this difference I think is because we all are at different stages in this process of evolution. And it encompasses several generations or if I may say several lifetimes for an individual.
As Swami Vivekananda says, the difference between me and a worm is only in degree, not in kind. And that difference is in our levels of consciousness.
Hari Om.
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