Sunday, December 21, 2008

On evolution and the Creator




*He is the Maker and the world he made,
He is the vision and he is the seer;
He is himself the actor and the act,
He is himself the knower and the known,
He is himself the dreamer and the dream.
...Savitri 61

*Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
...Thoughts and Aphorisms -30

*The animal is a living laboratory in which Nature has, it is said, worked out man. Man himself may well be a thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god.
...Life Divine, P-3
Sri Aurobindo wrote to a disciple—
*You speak as if the evolution were the sole creation; The creation or manifestation is very vast and contains many planes and worlds that existed before the evolution, all different in character and with kinds of beings.
...Letters on Yoga, P-385