Eternity Game:Evolution

The Eternity Game

The Great Meditations

“A step, and all is sky and God.”    (Collected Poems, p.542)</ref>

Here we come to the last series of cards in the Eternity Game, and we have to remember that they can be approached by the mind of man even less than the other powers of our play. Only a deep meditation leading to an inner becoming can liberate us from the clutches of a superficial mechanical thought process and its rational logic. We have to get rid of our heaviness if we want to climb those last summits of being with their beauty and powers. Wonder will become intimacy before all the secrets can dissolve in their paradox and all movements come to rest in the eternal play of a god-child.

“There is the mystic realm whence leaps the power

Whose fire burns in the eyes of seer and sage”      (Savitri, p.627)

EVOLUTION

The knowledge that behind evolution stands a great spiritual force has always been, at least in a hidden way, the possession of the great thinkers of mankind as it has been the optimistic hope of life itself. In the coming age it will be the great foundation of spiritual life. Once we penetrate the inner meaning of an evolving universe it becomes clear that to make evolution possible there must be a preceding or simultaneous

involution

of the evolving principle. Thus life was involved in matter itself before it could evolve out of it; mind was involved in life at the beginning before it evolved with the higher mammals and man; and the supramental truth-awareness was secretly at work behind the very first endeavours of mind.

Thus evolution unfolds itself in a slow

self-revelation

of that which involves. This evolutionary self-knowledge can take place only if we profit from the daily

experience life gives us. As there is no visible end to evolution or to conscious becoming, so there is no end to the possibilities of our growing instrumentation, and with it our power to transform ourselves and our environment.