________________
THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION.
THE end of a stage of evolution is 1 usually marked by a powerful recrude
scence of all that has to go out of the evolution. It is a principle of Nature that in order to get rid of any powerful tendency or deep-seated association in humanity, whether in the mass or in the individual, it has first to be exhausted by bhoga or enjoyment, afterwards to be dominated and weakened by nigraha or control and, final. ly, when it is weak to be got rid of by sanyama, rejection or self-dissociation. The difference between nigraha and sanyama is that in the first process there is a violent struggle to put down, coerce and, if possible, crush the tendency, the reality
58
