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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
this phenomenon has developed its own problems and in most of them it is irrationality that runs the roost. In the old story as well as in the stories that are being created by these new masters and Babas we find the elements of magical and mystical notions of the traditions coming back with a vengeance and these unhealthy alternatives are not likely to survive long.
The currently popular story of the evolutionary universe among the rational thinkers is based on the discoveries largely in the last three centuries in the realms of geology and paleontology, indicating that there was a time sequence in the very formation of the earth and of all life forms upon the earth. The earth was not the eternal, fixed, abiding reality that it had been thought to be. It suddenly dawned upon us that earlier life forms were of a simpler nature than later life forms and that the later forms were derived from the earlier forms. The complex of life manifestation had not existed from the beginning by some external divine creative act setting all things in their place. The Earth in all its parts, especially in its
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