Unlike biological evolution, which has been evolving without our conscious participation, spiritual evolution can happen more rapidly, if undertaken consciously; but it requires willing participation.
Thousands of years before, the Darwin’s theory of evolution shaped up and created ripples in mankind, the Srimad Bhagbat Gita had clearly and equivocally elucidated “Ishwarah Sarva Bhutanam Hrida Dese ArjunaTishtati.BhramayanSarvabhutaniYantarudhanimayaya” ( The Supreme Lord rests in every one’s heart, o Arjun and directing the wanderings of all living entities who are carried in a particular type of machine (body) made of same material energy”.
The Gita further defines life to be composed of Panch Bhut( Bhumi , Aap , Anal , Kham , Vayu ) besides three cosmic energy sources like mind , intelligence and ego.
In the material form, the earliest forms of life were aquatic. Later, they turned amphibious and then terrestrial. Gradually, half-man – half-animal type human beings were ruled by impulses and emotions.
Later, they grew stable. Thereafter, they captured the art to convert the urges and emotions into sweetness and ecstasy. In this way, the ten stages were absorbed intro religious culture as the ten Avatars or manifestations of life. The Das Avtar of the Supreme Lord viz; Mastya, Kurma , Varah, Narasimha , Vamana , Parashuram , Rama , Balaram and Kalki precisely manifested the cosmic element in each stage of evolution.
Thus biological evolution has been a spontaneous , unconscious process with changing bodies , but the cosmic manifestation in each evolved body is the ‘ Leela’ of the supreme soul , the God particle. It is neither realized , nor experienced without deep conscious participation in the cosmic process.
Despite the same ‘Cosmic Leela’ going unstopped in each body, humanity is divided over greed, geography, pride and politics. Divisive forces are overpowering the cosmic constructive process of uniting the humanity as imbibed in Indian culture ‘Vasudheiva Kutumbakam.’
Unless this cosmic oneness in humanity is experienced consciously by each human being, irrespective of race, religion , possessions and geography , humanity , the highest form of life, will be endangering itself to plunge in to self-inflicted destruction.
Therefore, right now, there is nothing more important in the world than raising human consciousness. Down the centuries, mystics have explored fragments of human consciousness. But no one has explored every possible doorway to human consciousness. Working upon our consciousness, we could use each and every point in our body as a path way to freedom. Self-knowing offered a path for everyone irrespective of caste, creed and religion – cultural social, moral and ethical contexts.
Spirituality is a science, not a faith, which occurred before the religion came to practice. Historically, the primary divinity worshiped in the Indian subcontinent was ‘Rudra’ or ‘Shiva’. Such an image embodies life and death. Whatever you call divine, can never be logically understood. It can be experienced. In the process of transformation, in later stage human beings will be fully conscious, extraordinarily capable and explorers of the deepest mysteries of the universe.
And in this conscious spiritual journey of humanity, each living body will be experiencing the God particle and realize that each of them is the one and the same. This self actualization is the state of Shiva, the prime mover of life in the planet(s).
(The writer, a teacher in Kendriya Vidyalaya-1, Bhubaneswar, has been inspired by Bhagabat Gita and Adiyogi by Sadguruji)