The Origin of Life

   As regards the origin of life on the earth, it is not yet clear whether there has been a gradual or a simultaneous creation of all the multifarious forms of creatures ranging from insects and germs to giant whales,elephants and the human species. Who created these is another mystery. However, there are hundreds of scriptures that unmistakably state how living beings are created. Even science vouchsafe these statements indirectly or directly. All living beings are just compounds of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon and a few other simple blocks that created the earth as well as the Stars including the Sun! The cells and tissues that are mere chemical bonds of energy create all forrms of living beings. Initially, everything is 'fire' (agnim). The Rk Veda mantra is agnimeelay purohitam, yajnyasya devam ritvijam hotaram ratna dhatamam | This suffices to say that Energy is at the base of all that exists. In a way, it is nothing but hydro carbons and carbohydrates!  

    The first image from a distant of the biological life forms that emerged in a jar devoid of living substances altogether. We know that the basic spiral of DNA has all of the basic aspects of Fibonacci or golden mean. That’s everywhere in nature, in the shapes of Nautilus shells, plants and even our own bodies. This suggests that the Phi Ratio is the fundamental characteristic of the wave, and that DNA is emerging from the Phi-Field of creation that is flowing through all of space and time.

Nervous system: The role of protein in forming a protective cover to the cell containing gene and chromosome without which they would fall apart is an important stage in evolution. As the organism or jiva gets aged this protective cover also becomes weak and unable to reproduce, thereby causing decay and death. There are also stages when the organisms had to adapt to changing environment and resources available such as Sulphur and iron by mutation. This mutation has led to higher organisms, such as hominids. The giant apes mutated to begin a new lineage, roughly about 4 million years ago!. The early four stages to humans are marked by macaques, orang-utans, gorilla, chimpanzee (4 to 5 m. y) and other higher mammals, primates, developed in the course of evolution due to mutation. The last specie spread rapidly everywhere as the Homo erectus, Homo Neanderthalensis and the Homo sapiens and coexisted. It is now human history and, the earliest fossil remains of this are dated 130 000 years.

The Vedic statements in this regard is very clear. It states, “There are in his body nerves (nadis) called hita, which are fine as a hair divided into a thousand parts and are filled with white, blue, brown, green and red fluids. They are the seat of the subtle body, which is the storehouse of impressions. Now, when he feels as if he were being killed or overpowered, or being chased by an elephant, or falling into a pit, in short, when he fancies at that time, thorough ignorance, whatever frightful thing he has experienced in the waking state, that is the dream state. So also, when he thinks he is a god, as it were, or a king, as it were, or thinks: This universe is myself and I am all that is his highest state. That indeed is his form-free from desires, free from evils, free from fear. As a man fully embraced by his beloved wife knows nothing that is without, nothing that is within, so does this infinite being (the self), when fully embraced by the Supreme Self, know nothing that is without, nothing that is within. That indeed is his form, in which all his desires are fulfilled, in which all desires become the self and which is free from desires and devoid of grief. In this state a father is no more a father, a mother is no more a mother, the worlds are no more the worlds, the gods are no more the gods, the Vedas are no more the Vedas. In this state a thief is no more a thief, the killer of a noble brahmin is no more a killer, a chandala is no more a chandala, a paulkasa is no more a paulkasa, a monk is no more a monk, an ascetic is no more an ascetic. This form of his is untouched by good deeds and untouched by evil deeds, for he is then beyond all the woes of his heart. [Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV, III-Investigation of the Three States, 20-22]