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drosophila which in the hands of Thomas Morgan paved the way for modern experimental developmental genetics, the humble mouse to man. Indeed there is a lot of genetic commonness between mice, the monkeys and men. There is great degree of similarity or even near identicality in most respects across the animal kingdom inclusive of man at the level of instincts particularly in respect of hunger, thirst, sleep and sex. We may say that the body design in the functional sense is quite the same in nature in so far as the life process comprising birth, growth, multiplication, decay and death is concerned.
However man is the acme of creation with well developed linguistic, emotional, social, reasoning and computational skills which have set him apart from the rest of creation to an extent that he appears to be a special descent with a unique role to play in nature.
It is also to be noted that man’s physical evolution is complete and in fact the evolutionary process in this sense has almost stopped some twenty five thousand years ago according to anthropologists and social scientists. Man has evolved slowly but surely from his primitive tribal stage to his current modern status possessing the skills mentioned above which have enabled him to develop mutually beneficent community living manifesting what we term as culture or civilization and this feature has made the communication and subsequent exponential growth of knowledge possible across generations. Cultural transmission is more efficient and efficacious in speeding up evolution compared to the transmission mechanism through the rather dull mechanistic genetic mutation by orders of magnitude. The stage is now set for the growth and transformation of consciousness through the transmitted superfine divine consciousness of Pranahuti which, in the hands of a capable master can bring about the desired transformation for the committed aspirant in a fraction of a lifetime, thus sparing him the struggle and labour extending over many lifetimes. This is the new spiritual era which has dawned with the advent of the Great Master Revered. Lalaji Maharaj.
Man and his unique potential
With his advanced mental capabilities man can lift himself out of the present, fix up goals to be attained in the future, arrive at the proper methods to achieve them and thus evolve much more rapidly than the animals. Man exhibits free will, can conceive of his various desires and intentions, analyze them with reference to the goal, exercise discrimination as to what is conducive to the achievement of the goal and what is not. He can practice control, postpone gratification, can develop aspiration for the attainment of superior goals placed far above those merely directed towards the satisfaction of primitive urges. He can evolve from the state of pashu or animal, to a nara, a manava, a rishi or mantra drishta-seer of mantras and push on further to live