Validity and Scope of Evolution || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Evolution was very very right and evolution was a very commendable teacher till the time

00:09you were living in the jungle.

00:13Because everything that evolution has taught you has helped you survive the jungle.

00:19Evolution has been a great friend.

00:21The only problem is you have moved ahead too fast.

00:27You have moved ahead of evolution just too fast.

00:34Just too fast and you have come too far.

00:36And evolution is moving its own snail pace.

00:40Are you getting it?

00:44Don't you see how far you have come?

00:50Compare yourself to a chimpanzee.

00:55Now you are a man and a chimpanzee is a chimpanzee.

00:58But your basic instincts are still that of the chimpanzee.

01:02Now how will there be a fit?

01:06You are reading Krishnamurti.

01:08The chimpanzee is chewing at those juicy leaves.

01:12But if your basic instincts are just like those of the chimpanzee, then you will be

01:17thinking of chewing the paper while reading Krishnamurti.

01:23Because all that the chimpanzee is evolutionary trained to do is chew.

01:30So even when you are reading Krishnamurti, you will want to chew the paper.

01:34Have you not seen that happen with kids 3 or 4 years old when they start going to school?

01:39Some of them chew their books.

01:42Because that's what young chimps are supposed to do, chew, chew throughout the day.

01:52So unfortunately for you, you have moved ahead, you have shot ahead of evolution with a great

01:59speed.

02:00Evolution is now standing there.

02:02But you are not prepared to give up the lessons that evolution taught you.

02:07Most of that which human beings do today is still driven by man's evolutionary instincts.

02:15Sex, greed, fear, attachment.

02:20All of these are evolutionary traits.

02:22If you can see how you and the monkey are exactly the same as far as sex, fear, lust

02:29and attachment are concerned, you will probably not want to show down the monkey.

02:43The monkey is at least right in its place.

02:46Monkey needs all those things to survive.

02:49The monkey needs attachment.

02:53The monkey needs fear and therefore all that is alright if the monkey exhibits it.

03:01But you do not need all those things and you are still carrying them.

03:05So you are the real monkey.

03:09Are you getting it?

03:13The monkey needs to be afraid of the night.

03:17So if the monkey is afraid of the night, it is good for him.

03:21Man does not need to be afraid of the night.

03:23But man is still afraid of the night.

03:25Because the monkey within the man exists and is too slow to go away.

03:34You know how slow he is?

03:37Evolution causes changes at a very feeble pace.

03:43It takes millions of years.

03:45Are you prepared to wait millions of years?

03:50And millions of years will be needed only if your progress is stopped in its tracks

03:59where it is today.

04:06The difference between your intellectual position and your evolutionary position is increasing

04:13day by day.

04:19So technology is giving you great stuff but you are responding to it in a chimpanzee way.

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