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Fearless movement in Six cycles
A discovery of Darwin is considered very important. He had said : man has been evolved from monkey. Man is but the improved form of monkey. According to Darwin, monkey is the ancestor of man. Contrary to this, the Indian thinkers say that man takes the next birth as a monkey as a consequence of the evil deeds he does in life. Please understand this philosophy.
Darwin discovered that man is born from monkey, whereas the Indian philosophers have said that monkey is born from man. It is man who according to his deeds is born as worm-insect, monkey, donkey in subsequent lives. If your deeds of this life are good then you get heaven, and if you have done evil deeds, then you land in hell, become bird, beast, animal. Darwin is correct in his place and Indian thinkers are correct in their places.
I shall strive to take steps more than Darwin did. In my opinion neither Darwin por Indian philosophers could say what they wanted to, properly. Neither monkey is born from man, nor man is born from monkey. Man himself is nothing but a monkey. By seeing external size, form and appearance no much difference can be found between animal and man. Plato has stated too : "Man is a two-legged animal without feathers. Man is after all an animal. Some are four-legged and some two-legged.”.
It is not necessary that if you do evil in this life, then you will be miserable in the next life. As the consequences of good or bad deeds man becomes happy or miserable in this very life. If a man searches bimself, he would know whether he is a man or a monkey ? Man or God ? It is a different thing to be a monkey after death. I feel that man is a monkey even right now.
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