CHANGE
There are certain universal mantras from which no one can veer
away humanity’s preference they are change and the constantly changing context
created by that change along with its many concomitant characters like
comforts, convenience, benefits, utility, profit, happiness, pleasure etc.
The most important wisdom is to make the necessary adjustments
to emerging changes and contexts
Time and change have become inevitable part of our life because
through them, either as measuring tools or as describing our observations, we
grasp or try to express and explain the inevitable metamorphosis of life.
The only reality is life unfolding itself constantly through
various manifestations of metamorphosis.
All the rest are ambiences of life [as Jaggi Vasudevji says because there are dimensions of life beyond the
logically definable parameters] or accretions that we choose to
understand life.
First great biologist Darwin, I would prefer to call him the
father of evolutionary biological science-who incidentally advocated the theory
of natural selection, because he laid the first blue print for such a
specialized study [some of them may be wrong or all of them could be disputed
and radically changed], and he had the honesty and humility to declare, “Variation
proposes and selection disposes.”
Evolution goes
about its jobs unmindful of whatever we do or do not do, that decides and determines
everything including our birth and death as biochemical organisms which are
bound decay or die or reorganize or reborn or recreate into something else
eventually.
While innards
and inherent qualities are inevitable and beyond our choice, at least, our
utilization of strengths /reactions to shortcomings can be sane and more
sensible, that is what must be the attempt of any subject be it philosophy,
spiritual science or pure science.
Again talking
about evolution, a very interesting and vast subject by its very meaning
indicates the innards of all species with inevitable strengths as well as short
comings, rather embedded contradictions.
The best we can do with all our brains
and technological advancements available at our disposal to minimize/compensate
for our weaknesses like starting from using basic tools to using spectacles to
implanting stunts and pace makers for heart problems to name a few.
As Guy Murchie
declares, “Evolution itself is an open ended and indeterminate process”… “Given
the remarkable progress in our understanding of biochemistry, molecular
biology, and evolution as a whole … we have failed to develop concepts, ideas,
even a language that could capture the dance of this life”
Here is a list of very worthy
articles available fortunately free on the
net http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/ [ incidentally I have all his works along with all
the works of other evolutionary biologist like Richard Dawkins and the great Guy
Murchie’s ‘ the Seven Mysteries of Life ‘ and I wish for a more comprehensive
understanding one must also read Kathleen Taylor’s ‘The Brain Supremacy’ Walter
Gratzer’s ‘Giant molecules’, Frank Close’s ‘The Infinity Puzzle’ and most
importantly Tirumoolar’s Tirumanthiram, Vilayanur S. RAMACHANDRAN and for a more
sane philosophical and rational non religious outlook also read Neale
Donald Walsch, JK, Osho, Bertrand Russell etc
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