Evolution

  We have some luminaries in spiritual attainment and, to name a few, Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Shivananda and Swami Krishnananda, amongst the monks; and, there are stalwarts in science and philosophy such as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Osho and Sri Aurobindo and Jiddu Krishnamurti. Amongst theses, the last cited Thinker JK has no parallel, in the sense that he advocated the state of now and here in the present devoid of all memories and logs of deadwood of castes, creeds, customs, traditions, religions, faiths and, even thinking about yesterday! Nobody understood him! Well, there are Saints and sadhus and Sages of yester-years and great Rishis of Pre-historic and Puranic days. Finally, we have the Great Sri Krishna Dwaipayana vyasa deva and Badrinarayana. 

   Now the question is what are these names and their intellectual or spiritual attainments? Vedanta asks us to give up all names, forms and functions to see the 'truth'! So also, Pancharatra tells us that all jiva are just jnyan, jnyan rashi; in other words, we may treat all these human forms, their intellectual or spiritual attainments as just a faculty of the University, the Universe- inner world or outer world.  Similarly, now, what i am writing here is just an intuitional write-up about the nature of this universe and the function of the mind, intellect, ego in the light of consciousness. Consciousness is everything; prajnanam Brahma | Everything happens in the background of consciousness! Each one lives and exhibits a certain level of understanding (from pre-primary to University Postgraduate. and Research), level of consciousness attained (from muladhara to sahasrara). Let us remember the fact that childhood and old age do not matter here and what one attains at a certain age and stage in life is all important. May it be, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Galileo, or Newton, none was famous during their child-hood days! This is much different in the case of Vedic Rishis like Vishwamitra and the sages of Upanishads. Most of these teachers were living in family in Gurukula (practicing Veda in Brahmana), or left their family life and settled in seclusion in Forests (practising Veda- Aranyaka).

   The case of Veda Vyasa who wrote the eighteen epics and classified Veda or Badarinarayana who wrote Brahmasutra is worse than the cases cited above. It seems to us, these authors never existed and in fact, it is not possible to produce such works by a single person! Then who wrote all these! The answer to this question is already given in the above. It is the intellectual height, the level of consciousness attained and the intuitional knowledge that has found expression- beyond all limitations of time, place and causality. It is the highest one can attain during one's life time, God willing! Such persons, in all probability, have reached a state of samadhi, transcendental meditative mode and have lived an extraordinarily divine state of existence and we call them living Gods, God-head?

   So, who writes what? Kalidasa is a gift of Kali Ma. Shakespeare is an intellectual giant who created characters even  the Creator Brahma did not think of! right now, a person who gets into trance, produces a work of art becomes immortal!

 All these, said and done, do not matter in any way anything unless a person attains to Brahmn. Brahmn cannot be attained without taking to yoga- karma sanyasa, at that. Only a person who withdraws his/her senses and mind from all mundane worldly existence and focuses attention, in dharana on brahmn, attains to the supreme. One has to become a sthitaprajnya first. This level of existence is possible here and now! Faith is important. No faith, no life; samshayatma vinashyati.

  Thus, even while reading a scripture, we are under an illusion- so and so is a great author, so and so is an attained person, etc. Actually, nothing exists in reality and whatever exists is our own Self, the pure consciousness in the background of which everything comes to be known.
  This is evolution, and the jiva undergoes this process irrespective of its time and life. It is a long, long journey; it is at the end of the journey some attained soul stands shining in the glory of the Lord, like Sri Rama or S Krishna, or the Buddha. In fact, one living now and here only has to strive for this level of attainment and, no other God will ever descend from heavens to save the humanity!  To attain to this divinity is the aim of evolution and prakruti also helps the jiva. Sri-vidya is all about this. Shree Hari Narayana (Aditya, Surya) and Devi Lakshmi, Bhu-Devi, Shree, (Rk Veda Mandala X suktas) gives birth to jiva, provides food, shelter, and protects it and, also, helps it to attain to Brahman. Mahalakshmi is thus called bhukti mukti pradayani. Chanting Devi's name, one can attain everything! Mantra is a very powerful tool in attaining spiritual power. 
 Om Sri MahalakShmyai namah| The maha mantra for Lakshmi is: Om, Om, Om.. . . . Shreem, hreem svaha || Om, aim, hreem, shreem, kleem hsou | Aim, ka ye I la hreem | kleem ha sa ka la hreem | hsou sa ka la hreem || 'Shreem' is a single syllable mahamantra to be obtained from an attained Guru.