SWAMI B.R. SRIDHAR

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SWAMI B.R. SRIDHAR

SUBJECTIVE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

PREFACE

Evolution is generally thought of as something objective. But objective evolutions is a misperception of reality. Evolution is actually based on consciousness, which is subjective. Subjective evolution, however, seems to be objective evolution to the ignorant.

In ignorance we think of ourselves as subjects, although in reality the Lord is the subject and we are his objects. We think of ourselves as proprietors although we are his property.

It is said that all things happen by the will of the Vaisnavas, the devotees of the Lord. A Vaisnava is like a faithful employee who speaks the will of the employer; he has no will of his own : the will of the pure Vaisnava is nothing but the will of God. In ignorance, however, we try to make the Lora our servant, but this is like using a salagrama sila to crack nuts. The Lord is an object. He is the seer, the doer, and the knower-the Supreme Subject- but we foolishly think of ourselves as such.

The concept of subjective evolution is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.14.22)
Tasmad idam jagad asesam asat-svarupam svapnabham
Asta-dhisanam puru-duhkha-duhkham dukhabodham
“By an illusion created by the Lord the universe appears to be real, although it is not, just as miseries we suffer in a dream are only imaginary”.

Unintelligent people take the subject as an object, it is ignorance to confuse the eye with the seer or the brain with the knower. This is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.3.31)
Yatha nabhasi meghaugho
Renur va prthivo’nile
Evam drastari drsyatvam
Aropitam abuddhibhih

“ The unintelligent equate the sky with the clouds, the air with the dust particles floating in it, and think that the sky is cloudy or that the air is dirty.”

Consciousness is not a product of the world; the world is a product of consciousness . This world is a perverted reflection of the spiritual world. In the material world, the world of exploitation , as Darwin says, it is a question of survival of the fittest. We must exploit to survive jivo jivasya jivanam. But in the spiritual world, the land of dedication, every one is a serving unit. There we will find a happy life through dedication.

In that super subjective realm, Sri Krsna is eternally engaged in his divine play with his most intimate servitors. And as our consciousness evolves through dedication, we will our highest prospect there, where we have a part to play in the pastimes of the Sweet Absolute.

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Fossilism,
Hypnotism
& The Cosmos

This chapter is an excerpt from a conversation between Srila Sridhara Maharaja and neurophysiologist Dr. Daniel Murphey and physical organic chemist Dr. Thoudam Singh.

Dr. Singh: When scientists speak of evolution they mean that life has evolved from mater. I have heard you speak of evolution with quite a different concept. You say that everything is evolving from consciousness .

Sridhara Maharaja : Yes, consciousness comes first and then mater. The basis of all things material is consciousness, which is spiritual. Consciousness can contact consciousness directly. When consciousness comes into stage of matter, material conception, we experience a kind of vague consciousness ; first there is hazy consciousness and then material consciousness. But everything has its spiritual side. And as eternal souls, our direct connection is really only with the conscious aspect of existence. For example, the earth is conceived of as a woman. According to the Vedas, the presiding deity of the Earth is a woman. And the sun is conceived of as a devata, a male god.

The soul, coming into material consciousness, must come through some hazy reflection of consciousness, cidabhasa. Only then can the soul experience material consciousness. Before pure consciousness evolves to material consciousness, it will pass through a hazy stage of consciousness or cidabhasa. So in the background of every material think, there is a spiritual conception. This cannot but be true.

Dr.Singh: What is cidabhasa ?

Sridhara Maharaja: Something like mind. Suppose consciousness comes to feel mater. When consciousness is coming to the material world to know the material world, it has to first pass through material consciousness, and then it can feel what is matter. According to Darwin’s theory, matter gradually produces consciousness, but before producing consciousness it must produce some hazy consciousness, then mind, and then the soul. But in reality, it is just the opposite. So subjective evolution parallels objective or material evolution. But in the evolution of consciousness, the superbsubject is first, then the individual soul or jiva-subject is next. Then, from the subjective consciousness of the jivas, matter is produced. But consciousnes must penetrate haze consciousness to perceive the matter.

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