Our [Indian] theory of evolution and of Akasha and Prana is exactly what your [Western] modern philosophies have.
Your belief in evolution is among our Yogis and in the Sankhya philosophy.
For instance, Patanjali speaks of one species being changed into another by the infilling of nature --"जात्यन्तरपरिणाम: प्रकृत्यापूरात्"; only he differs from you in the explanation.
His explanation of this evolution is spiritual. He says that just as when a farmer wants to water his field from the canals that pass near, he has only to lift up his gate --"निमित्तमप्रयोजकं प्रकृतीनां वरणभेदस्तु तत: क्षेत्रिकवत्"-- so each man is the Infinite already, only these bars and bolts and different circumstances shut him in;
but as soon as they are removed, he rushes out and expresses himself.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
Your belief in evolution is among our Yogis and in the Sankhya philosophy.
For instance, Patanjali speaks of one species being changed into another by the infilling of nature --"जात्यन्तरपरिणाम: प्रकृत्यापूरात्"; only he differs from you in the explanation.
His explanation of this evolution is spiritual. He says that just as when a farmer wants to water his field from the canals that pass near, he has only to lift up his gate --"निमित्तमप्रयोजकं प्रकृतीनां वरणभेदस्तु तत: क्षेत्रिकवत्"-- so each man is the Infinite already, only these bars and bolts and different circumstances shut him in;
but as soon as they are removed, he rushes out and expresses himself.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
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