Guest guest Posted September 3, 2001 Report Share Posted September 3, 2001 Greetings , Can any one shed some light on what Swamy Vivekananda said about theory of evolution. I remember reading SV disagreed with Darwin's theory of evolution. But somehow now I am unable to find out where he said that. Basically I want to know what makes a person Spiritual, is it just his past karmas or evolution, culture, society play any role. sarvam vasudevamayam jagath Prashanth Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Messenger http://im. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2001 Report Share Posted September 3, 2001 Namaste, This URL from Advaita Ashrma, Calcutta, gives selections from Swamiji's Complete Works, on the topic of Evolution: http://www.vivekananda.org/macrocosm/macro4.html Regards, sunder Ramakrishna, Prashanth Godrehal <gprasha> wrote: > > Greetings , > > Can any one shed some light on what Swamy Vivekananda > said about theory of evolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2001 Report Share Posted September 6, 2001 Greetings, Thank you all for explaing the Swamiji's view about Evolution. It certainly cleared some of my doubts. But is the Darwin's evolution can be extended to Spiritual Evolution. In the human race we can see some people are more spiritual than the others. Can we say these spiritual people are more evolved than the rest of people or is it that these people have become spiritual because of there past Karmas. Is there any way we can equate theory of evolution and concept of Karma. If we see the caste system of Vedic time, we can certainly make out that it was based on spiritual evolution. The Brahmana caste was more evolved in thinking about God compared to Kshtriyas or Shudhras. This is important because, if we stick to evolution than we can say a man has to be evolved over many births to even think about God, and when he is evolved he doesn't need any external forces to make him spiritual. He will be God seeking always and he will realise whatever the the outside circumastances are. This was the case with Prahlada, Budhdha. And if he is not evolved what ever external forces are tried he will not seek God as in the case of Duryodhana. Even in present world we can see, there are lots of people who don't even want to think about God and it will be a futile attempt to make them spiritual. We can see some fundamentalist groups think by imposing some rules they can make people spiritual. Is it ever possible? Isn't God has to come from within and when it comes like that no one can stop that person from realising the truth. Any inputs are welcome Sarvam Vasudevamayam jagath Prashanth > > Message: 4 > Mon, 3 Sep 2001 22:09:52 -0400 > Swami Yogeshananda > <yogeshananda > Re: Digest Number 892 > > Replying to Prashanth, in Digest # 892: > Swamiji's discussions of evolution are scattered > throughout his Complete > Works. Perhaps someone has collected them into one > place; if so, I don't > know it. He looks at evolution from the Vedantic > perspective on the > Samkhya cosmology, and this is not what Western > scientist have in mind when > they speak of evolution (Darwinian and > post-Darwinian). So it is difficult > to come up with an exact comparison. Moreover, > Western === message truncated === Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Messenger http://im. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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