Page 13 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

The problem of man may be posed in two ways. It may be considered by some that they should realise the fullest dimensions and possibilities of the manifestation and integration. This -creative advance- is to them adventurous and pleasure - granting and heroic. The whole process is leading up to external manifestation of an infinite inwardness in the Primal Ground or Primeval Motion (Ksobh). But this creative advance and pleasure consequent on that may turn out dialectically into pain and bondage and misery and an unending prison-house of boredom if the connection with the Centre or Life Force is somehow attenuated or snapped or forgotten. When thought becomes a thing and nothing more than this it is the end of all peace. This may be play of doom not the play of liberation. Though it appears as a pessimistic play or tragic drama of lila, it is true.
Pleasure that culminates in its opposite, and an adventure that becomes its opposite viz. cowardice and fear cannot obviously be the goal of man. The opposite tendency is to seek the origin and return to it because all the outward movements have become exhausted, in their results. Having come down to the level of veriest matter and sense and found that all these lead to bondage and suffering, one returns to the original self-nature-giving up attachment to the sensory and motor worlds and ego-centricisms. This is the path of renunciation.
According to the exponents of Divine Evolutionism, divine evolution or the evolution by the Divine Force is not a movement to the centre, from which it has started but a movement away from the centre whose infinity is sought to be exhibited in terms of multiplicity in terms of space-time. In fact it is asserted that this outward going dynamism is really continuous with the Centre which supports the multiplicity and grossness and once this is restored or kept up constantly it will be a play of ecstasy and acceptance rather than the rejection of the manifestation or creation. Rejection of manifestation is neither necessary nor inevitable for the realisation of the Divine freedom, which is freedom realised and experienced in terms of manifestation and multiplicity. But the grossening process in the last terms of the downward or descending process leaves evolution in the grip of materiality and immutability. So much so even this theory would have to provide for the Yoga which entails the rejoining or linking up of the lowest and lowliest with the Central Original Force of the Divine, so that these