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Philosophical Writings
"The function of life is to live. The basic incentive of organic becoming is the struggle for survival. It goes on throughout the long process of biological evolution, until in man it becomes the conscious urge for freedorn---the supreme human value. The beginning of man's endless struggle for freedom lies in the animal struggle for survival. Everything that man has done, every one of his acts, cultural progress, scientific achievements, artistic creation—everything has been motivated by that one urge. Man is finite, while the Universe is infinite, and his environment, in the last analysis, is the whole Universe. Consequently, his struggle for freedom is eternal; he can never conquer the Universe. Therefore, the urge for-freedom is the only eternal thing in the human world. This urge enables man to acquire knowledge; he conquers his environment by knowmg." From “New Orientation" - 1946
By : Sri M.N. Roy
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