Life and Death
Life has evolved using forms - from a single cell organism to a complex human being. The point of life is to organize into more complex forms so the form can experience self-consciousness and through this form Life can shape its own evolution. This is why Sri Aurobindo calls evolution the Yoga of Nature. But, why would Nature do this? What is compelling this evolutionary behavior? When we gain muscles or wealth, we experience the joy of exercising this new found capacity. Similarly Nature is compelled to evolve for greater Joy/Ananda. Joy/Ananda is latent in Matter and a non-physical attribute. Matter we know from physics is concentrated energy. Sri Aurobindo says that Spirit/Intention/God is involved/forgotten/lost in Matter. The goal of evolution is to reveal the hidden Intention.
The bacterium, plant or animal have been helpful in arriving at a human form, which is capable of being self-aware and hence powerful enough to reshape its own environment to suite its needs. These needs are currently for sustenance and self-preservation. This human form although physically capable is emotionally and mentally limited in its capacity. Civilization has been shaping the emotional and mental evolution with external trials and tribulations forcing the organism to expand in consciousness and grow. Evolution is at a point where the highest faculty accessible to most humans is reason, even if most humans refuse to leverage this faculty and are governed by their emotions and physical facilities. Today Nature (through human society) rewards the human who cherishes rationality over physical strength as this is the gateway to higher faculties. In the future rationality as we know it will be transcended by higher forms of mind-faculties like Intuition. Integration of technology/AI into our lives is a crude step in which Nature is accelerating Man's access to higher realms of knowing reality.
If the form is incapable of growth and does not align with Nature's goals, that form is torn down. The form is no longer useful in fulfilling the objectives of Nature. Each form has an intention - shaped not only by the intention for the species, but also an intention to express a line of evolutionary branch that needs to be explored and utilized for any future developments. This branch is continued in exploration by the offspring or relatives of the form. If the exploration stops, the branch is torn down or is recycled to enable other branches in the evolutionary tree. The form is dead, but the intention is carried on and Nature's quest continues. This intention is the soul within the form. The form dies, but the soul lives on and is reborn or assimilated into a larger intention.
Most of this process is invisible to Man, especially if he lives in the surface of his being, where he is oblivious to Nature's deeper intentions. He identifies with his form and doesn't know his true intentions. The ego asserts itself revolting the soul's destiny. When we become aware of our true destiny, we can identify with our inner intention to consciously accelerate our own evolution and enable Nature's rapid evolution. This is infact Nature's intention in creating the human form. Man is Nature's leader who propels Her more rapidly in the evolutionary ladder. Man's progress is guided by Nature.
Death is the dissolution of the imperfect form (physical, emotional and mental organization) and is necessary for evolution. If the form is fully identified and honors its inner intention and expands in scope and power to honor Nature's intention, it becomes capable of fully expressing Nature's intention. This is the point when Death becomes unnecessary and Man can become God. Until then, Death is Nature's mechanism to free the intention/soul imprisoned in an imperfect form and find a new form that can carry forth the soul/intention.
posted by Aspiration @ 9:28 AM
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