Summary of the Book "The Universe Beyond".

Introduction.

We are all too familiar with the entrenched lines of creationists and evolutionists. Stated below for the first time is the Islamic view on this argument which you will find different from both the above stated viewpoints.

In the pages of glorious Holy Quran, we read:

"Moreover (tumma) God turned to heaven when it was smoke and said to it and to the earth: come willingly or unwillingly! They said: we come in willing obedience." --------41 (11)

We infer from this that the entire creation has come into being by the "free act of creation" explained below.

The creation creates itself for the love of the Creator under its own conscious enlightenment by "Free Act Of Creation" and the Creator uses His free will and selects from what creation has created an ideal that is closest to His ideal (will) and bestows upon it higher consciousness. To whom He bestows this consciousness is now ready for further creative activity and the cycle continues.

Following this cycle we have achieved this Self-conscious State starting from the moment of Big Bang in stages. The nucleus mass of the universe was a living substance and its creation was nothing but its inherent "feeling" of its separation from its source.

Free Act of Creation.

Creation, whether divine or human has to pass through various stages before its completion. During each of its creative stage, the state of in-discipline and lawlessness, which prevails in the beginning, continues to turn into discipline and harmony as the creative stage progresses towards completion. The question arises why the creation has to pass from chaos to discipline and disorder to order. To understand the significance of this, one has to study the relation between the Creator and the creation. Creation, is not the act of duplicating some thing, which already exists.

The foremost and basic urge behind creation is to seek the love (ideal) as desired and willed by the Creator through free choice. The creative activity is; therefore, a free act of the creation- Creator will not accept any compulsion. Free act; can only be exercised if we have more than one choice before us to choose from. In other words, many avenues of attraction are always open before the creation to choose the one for reaching his ideal. The urge of creation is also reflected in itself, as it is conscious or aware of its Creator. Thus the creation creates for the love of the Creator, according to the level of its consciousness and exercises free choice in selecting the values determined by its love or desire.

Now, if the Creator is not free to seek His ideal that would imply that the Creator has no will or desire of His own, and hence any activity which is devoid of will and desire can never be called creative activity. The Creator also manifests His love in different angles and forms and then whichever is nearest to His love from what the creation has produced by "free act of creation", He selects that for His further creative activity and bestows upon it higher consciousness, and so the cycle continues.

For instance, if we look at the creation process at cosmic stage, we observe that it had developed its values under the principle of attraction and repulsion. Attraction and repulsion show free will. Although attraction is a constructive force yet during the creative activity of life its repulsive tendency indicates its free choice at the material stage of life. At the creative stage of animal, the instincts of flight and concealment and the instinct of pugnacity may be called the instincts of repulsion. As against these, there are those instincts and innate tendencies that cause the animal to attract or get attracted by objects that are favourable to it. Among these, are the parental, the gregarious and sex instincts etc. These instincts may be called the instincts of attraction. Attraction and repulsion are the fundamental characteristics of consciousness for its activity. At the Human Stage, man becomes conscious of himself and through that he then no longer remains captive of instincts, as is the case with lower life of animals and vegetables, therefore, his love takes the form of an ideal. The impulse of attraction and repulsion is likewise replaced by the impulse of love and hatred. Love and hatred reveal the attribute of freedom of the Human Self. He loves those values, which could satisfy his love for the ideal and hates those which may keep him astray from reaching his ideal. Thus all the morals observed by man are split up into do's and don'ts. All his creative activities are guided by his love of the ideal. The activities, which lead him towards his ideal, are moral values and the ones, which lead him astray, are immoral.

Stages Of Creation

I) Universe Its Origin

The scientific view that the universe did not exist as such from eternity, rather it was born and developed has further been strengthened by the Big Bang Theory. The layman tends to picture the Big Bang in terms of a very dense lump of matter located in an infinite void, suddenly exploding. Einstein, however, has shown that both "space and time" (space-time) and "matter" were inseparable. The Big Bang, therefore, created not just the matter but space-time as well. There was nothing, not even empty space, "outside" for the Big Bang to explode into. Besides the above scientific outlook of the universe, these discoveries provide us comprehensive discipline with which we can formulate the development process of the universe. The discoveries that in contrast to the present creative stage of Mankind, where creative activity is still in progress, the processes of the nature must have had a history not only of coexistence in space but also of succession in time reveal that the universe has developed in stages. On succession of each higher stage, the values so earned in the preceding stage became immutable. Since in contrast to the history of mankind, all the preceding stages have become immutable, establishes that the human being lives at the top of all the creative stages we call them universe. The man lives at the top of all creation is further strengthened by the fact that when we look into the universe and analyse the laws prevailing in it independently of any reference to nature, we find that the laws of mathematics formulated by us, "a product of our own minds", do not only come completely in accord with the laws prevailing in the universe but it reveals that these laws are its ultimate nature. Man thus stands conqueror of all the preceding orders of the universe, which simply continue to maintain their values to serve as a basis for the top leading creative stage of Man. Since in the process of development of the universe what real has emerged at the top creative stage of Man, is the attainment of Self-consciousness – highest kind of awareness which has made the man conscious of himself, we can infer from it that all the creative stages of the universe (both inorganic and organic) preceding the present Self-conscious Stage of Man have the characteristics of consciousness also. Thus all the development stages right from particle to the present creative stage of Man are living and conscious relative to the conscious level of the stage. It further reveals that the development of universe in successive stages implies development of consciousness in steps or stages.

These discoveries support that inorganic matter is not dead. As blood runs through the veins of a living organism so a current of life runs through all matter although it may appear to us as dead. It is alive because it has properties on account of which it acts and behaves. It responds to outside situations and stimuli as the animal or the human being does. Its activity follows definite laws, which are studied by the physicists and the chemists. The activity of the animal and of man also proceeds in accordance with definite principles, which are studied by the behaviourists and the psychologists. Matter is life from another point of view as "there could have been no organic life without matter and its laws". The laws of matter seem to have been designed in order to make possible the development of higher stages of life on Earth. Matter is primitive life and the laws governing it have fixed tendencies developed by it just as instincts have developed by the animal.

 II. The Earth –Higher And Different Kind Of Rational Order outside the Cosmos.

About 4.5 thousand million years ago, the Earth took its start from a gaseous state which seems to have contained a unique combination of matter. From its gaseous state to the state of its solidification, it struggled hard to dig, develop and harmonise properties of various kinds of elements in a unified order. It was indeed a great task as it involved infinite series of action and reactions in the form of attraction and repulsion caused by infinite situations through which the elements had to discipline their behaviour under the unitary order of Earth. Attraction and repulsion of molecules of one element with the molecules of the other elements under definite conditions shows that each molecule knew precisely where to attract and where to repel. The unified response of these substances shows as if the Earth lives and functions like a physical brain in itself.

The manifold forms of behaviour which go on changing under the common expression of motion on the Earth such as conversion of heat into electricity; into magnetism; heat and electricity into chemical decomposition and chemical combinations developing heat and electricity etc which apparently seem occurring through the simple play of attraction and repulsion under the same medium of motion cannot be regarded as mechanical or dead nor can these be taken as separate values independent of the overall unit lived in the form of Earth. We can understand the unit function of the Earth on the analogy of a living organism, which uses chemical energy to build chemical compounds and mechanical energy to move about. Even an electric current may be detected in it. This is similar to the manifold forms of behaviour, which go on changing under the unified order of the Planet Earth under the same expression of motion. It establishes that Planet Earth is a living Planet. Like an egg it has developed a shell of atmosphere around it and within this closed system it has harnessed infinite forms of substances acting in a unified order.

The behaviour of these substances can be reduced to mathematical equations. It explains that all forms of physical and chemical motions, which strictly act under law, are nothing but played consciousness. Behaviour, however fixed or stereotyped, is a characteristic of life. The fact that the Planet earth has a response as well as urge to strictly preserve its substances under its overall unit discipline shows that the Earth lives like an organism.

III. The Vegetables: Creative Stage (Semi–Conscious Life)

Concurrently on completion of physical laws in the form of Earth, organic life took its start in an insignificant vegetable cell of algae. It was a momentous event in the history of creation as against the independent unified order of Planet Earth, life at Vegetable Stage appeared as independent system of its own which started at a conscious level that superseded the rational order of the "living Earth". In other words, the conscious level of vegetable life as compared to the "living" Earth was not only higher in degree but also different in kind too.

The vegetable life recast the behaviour of matter processed at the physical Earth in the form of various species of vegetables under higher rational (conscious) plan of the Vegetable Stage. If we take the physical laws as the elementary measurements with which the Planet Earth fashioned itself and developed its atmosphere, we could see these measurements recast with greater intelligence at the higher Vegetable Stage in the form of beautiful flowers, their delightful colours, sizes and shapes of plants, proportion of tender branches and their leaves as well as in the kinds of fruits and their juices. All these artistic manifestations are based on complete mathematical equations in so harmonious proportions that they decorated the Earth like the paradise.

IV. The Animals: Creative Stage of Senses (Perceptual Life)

At this stage life started in an insignificant organism of amoeba and then making its way through uncountable species of animals, it reached its completion at the start of the Human Stage of creation. The animal life started with insignificant sensory perceptions. Appearance of senses at the Animal Stage was a great event in the history of rational orders as it brought the life nearer to the cognition of its Creator. The great task for animal life was to complete its sensory values in perfect proportions and in the light of its higher conscious awakening, give new meaning to the life that existed in the earlier stages. Higher life stage always tries to understand the tendencies and behaviour of life fixed in the preceding stages at its own conscious level. If the Vegetable life had achieved its conscious values in mathematical proportions relative to the behaviour (laws) of physical Earth, the Animal life developed new conscious measures in the form of senses of smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing. Each species of animal determined the external world according to the development of its sensory perceptions. Some species were low in developing the senses in their true proportions and the others were abnormal. The great task for animal life was, however, is to complete its sensations in perfect proportions on a universal scale, which could serve as a rational basis for the higher creative stages.

It is very important to note that it was due to the higher conscious enlightenment of animal with which it differentiated the characteristics of various objects, such as darkness and light, remoteness and vicinity, coldness and heat, solidity and liquidity etc. In other words, the new conscious values developed by Animal stage were not known to the preceding stages. The Animal as a higher creative stage relevant to its higher conscious enlightenment determined these. The Animal detected only those properties, which were useful and necessary for onward march of life stages. The Animal ultimately perfected its sense perceptions in one of its leading species which appeared immediately before the emergence of Human Stage and which served as the physical organism for Man. Even the physical organism of Man, which is a perfect animal species, and in whom the sense perceptions achieved universal standard, could not detect light in its various lengths. The human sense of smell is not as strong as found in some other animal species. The reason for this is that the values of sense perceptions have been fixed by nature under its overall purpose to be achieved. Therefore, the sense perceptions fixed in Human Organisms can perceive only those values, which are essential and useful for life on its onward march.

V. Man – The Creative Stage of Self-Conscious or "Self"

The Human Self appeared as a non-material Self-conscious entity simultaneously on accomplishment of sense perceptions by the Animal stage in one of its perfect animal species, which served as the physical organism of the Human Self or Soul. Creation of Self and its inherent awareness of itself as a self-conscious entity was a tremendous leap over all the creative stages we call it the universe. Up to the Animal stage, life or consciousness was not aware of its own "Self" as a distinct individuality and as such the animal world existed as determined by its sense perceptions.

However, on attaining Self-consciousness, the inward mental processes of the Human Self, in the non-material form of thought radiation’s, overshadowed the limited approach of animal sense perceptions by pervading the whole universe. Attaining of Self-consciousness by the Human Self implied that it has become aware of itself relative to a certain entity other than itself. It revealed that the Human Self has appeared as the greatest art of the creator bestowed with all such attributes, which the Creator wanted to accomplish as His Ideal. Being the highest form of creation perfected by the Creator as His Ideal, the Human Self found inherent reflection of its Creator in it. It is by virtue of this inherent spiritual feeling of the Creator in the Self, which made it conscious of its Creator as the sole aim and ideal of its existence and induced natural love to seek Him. Since the Self came to know of itself as an entity due to appearance of direct spiritual feeling of its Creator, the Self could develop and find real peace and satisfaction by loving and seeking its Creator only. Self as an accomplished art superseded all the material forms of art which being in the process of making could have no direct vision or feeling of its Creator. In those creative stages, the creation was alive of its Creator relative to the attributes bestowed on them by the Creator and loved its Creator indirectly by loving and attracting its own attributes, which in a way reflected the attributes of the Creator, through their complementary division from within. The procreative process through which the creation loved its attributes in their complementary division in the form of opposite attraction (sex) is in fact the spiritual way of loving the Creator.

Lower Stages Can Never Give Birth To Higher Stages.

The reason of our failure to understand the universe as a creation is that we think the lower stages are responsible for raising the universe. (A misleading concept). There is always a purpose behind creation and if we do see the purpose working in the creation we could be sure of the Creator of the universe. Just as each soul or life lives in a unit, similarly the purpose lives in a unit. Identical to the surface of the earth which cannot be expressed as from where it starts and where it ends, the purpose also has no beginning or end. It is the purpose, which starts and not the lower stages as such which determine the purpose. The lower stages, independent of the purpose, can lead nowhere. If these stages appear to have proceeded towards the purpose, it proves that the purpose itself is working in these stages. Being ignorant of the above fact, when we see the various creative stages rising to higher conscious values we take it that these creative stages are themselves determining their values. This misunderstanding leads the materialists to believe that it is only the matter, which is real and eternal and has "evolved" into higher stages of life. Regarding the appearance of life, the materialists think that a current of consciousness had permeated matter. Other believe that life appeared as a result of sheer accident by the mixture of certain substances and that it continued to evolve under the principle of natural selection and survival of the fittest; life is nothing but an evolutionary form of matter and it has no purpose accept to eat, drink, live and die.

We cannot analyse the creation of universe by isolating any of its creative stage from the purpose of the Creator. Just as we cannot divide the individuality of a person into two, similarly we cannot fix the values of each creative stage separately from the overall values of the purpose to be achieved during the respective stage. Purpose, like the individuality of the being always lives as a unit. All the creative stages, therefore, in spite of the different and divergent values, when thus come near to the purpose, they seem to merge into a single order. In other words, the beginning and the end both live in the purpose and ultimately it is the whole purpose by which we can understand the creative stages of the universe. Although it seems that in the creation of the universe each new creative stage is evolving out of the preceding stage yet in fact when we study the creation of the universe we are convinced that certain overall purpose is realising itself step by step during all these stages. Let us, therefore, keep in mind, that when we say that on completion of the preceding stage, the higher conscious values of life emerge, we mean that these new values are not determined by the lower conscious stages, but these values appear from above, that is, these follow from the Purpose. These values do not evolve rather these descend from the Purpose, which always lives with the Creator in unit.

The creation of the universe in various stages vis-à-vis the purpose behind creation may perhaps be explained by quoting a simple example of the construction of a building.

Let us suppose that our purpose is to construct a building. At the outset we will dig the foundation and then build it to the desired level. On completion of the foundation, the next stage will be the construction of walls on the foundation. Now for the construction of this new higher stage we cannot say that the foundation had itself known the purpose of this second phase of construction and, therefore, it is the foundation that has evolved the construction of walls. Similarly, in respect of the second phase of walls, we cannot say that the purpose for construction of the second phase of walls was the preceding stage of foundation. In fact, it is the overall purpose, which is the construction of the building that has brought about this second phase of construction. As the building continues to rise up step by step, the purpose continues to unfold itself. With the completion of the building the purpose stands completely unfolded and realised in the form of the building.

The important point is that although the second phase of construction of walls on the foundation is determined by the overall purpose and not by the second phase as it is, yet the walls have to follow the pattern of the foundation exactly in accordance with the layout plan already completely. If the second phase does not follow the layout of foundation, it would amount to negation of the purpose. Similarly, on completion of the walls, when the third phase of laying the roof will start, that too will be laid as determined by the values of the purpose, yet the laying of the roof will not strictly observe the pattern of the walls but it will, in a way, also be observing the limitations as imposed by the first stage of the building, that is, the very layout of the foundation. Now if we take away the mason who is constructing the building and instead watch the building rising step by step, we will have the impression that each preceding stage is rising to a higher stage on its own as if these stages already knew their purpose.

On the analogy of the above example, we can study the various phases of the creation of the universe. Digging up the elements, which are said to be the elementary construction blocks of the universe, completed the first phase of the universe. Aligning the infinite properties of these elements into a complete physical system completed the second phase; we call them the physical laws of the Earth. In this connection the most important thing which needs our attention is that just as each higher phase of construction fully observes and respects the limitations as laid in the preceding constructive phase of the building, similarly in the case of the creation of the universe, each higher creative stage which appears simultaneously on completion of the preceding stage fully observes and respects the values so fixed in the stage and without overthrowing them builds higher and new values as an independent creative stage over it.

Now again if we take the example of the building, we shall note that during the construction of each stage it seems that everything is in disarray. We see heaps of bricks and stones scattered at one place and at another place ditches are dug and the earth is piled along. And still at another place wood, cement and other construction materials are piled up loosely. All this shows that there is no order or discipline and that lawlessness prevails everywhere. But let us not forget that even in this state of lawlessness, the purpose continues to work and whatever the stage of construction it may be, purpose flows in each action. Accordingly, as the building continues to rise up step by step, we can see that lawlessness is replaced by order, in-discipline by discipline, and wear and tear by solid construction. Thus on completion of one phase, the second phase starts and passes through similar state of its construction and, then at the completion of the second phase, the third phase starts and so on. Now if someone takes the material and its constructive process as merely the activity of blind forces, and then as a result, when the construction appears in the shape of a beautiful building, he may consider it a mere chance or a "mechanics", he is mistaken because the lower stages are not even aware of existence of higher conscious order above it and so ignorance can never give birth to something of higher order.

Despite Its Creation In Successive Stages, The Universe Behaves As A Unit Whole.

What we call universe in fact consists of built up rational orders raised one upon the other in one direction. These orders being laid in a series of higher and different kinds of conscious enlightenment and cannot be reversed. However, since the whole creation is raised under one unit purpose, each higher stage, which appears over the preceding stage remains qualitatively and spiritually, attached with them. The beauty and charm manifested in all the preceding stages, we call it nature, attracts each higher creative stage. At the Self-conscious Stage of Man, we admire and appreciate the great vastness of the Cosmos housing large celestial bodies floating in the form of huge galaxies showing pomp and strength as well as the charm and beauty manifested on earth in the form of fascinating valleys and hills, mighty rivers and seas, trees and gardens, birds and colourful flowers etc. Because qualitatively and spiritually all these attributes are inherent in us. Emotions expressed in the form of lyric poetry reveal spiritual attachment of the Self with the nature living beneath it.

Provision of Guidance for the Creation.

When we study the discoveries made by the natural sciences in all the three major fields of development of universe, the Physics, the Biology and the Psychology, we find that whenever in a particular creative stage, development retarded or went astray, nature brought forward new Laws in the Physical stages, Model Species at vegetable and Animal Stages and Prophets and Messengers at the Psychological Stage of man through the medium scientists call it the "Emergent Evolution" or "Emergent creation". For example, if we study the laws of matter as established on the Planet earth, we find that these laws have been designed consciously or unconsciously, in order to make possible the appearance and the development of life on Earth in the form and manner in which it did, because we find that exceptions to the general laws whenever they were of a vital importance have not been ignored. It is a general principle, for example, that all fluids contracts when cooled but water expands when cooled below 4° C with the result that ice is lighter than water and floats on its surface. But for this apparently insignificant fact, which is a departure from a general rule, organic life on earth would have been impossible, as all the oceans and lakes on this planet would have frozen from top to bottom. Such examples which can be multiplied reveal that creative processes remain active from within every stage and wherever so desired, the Nature remains too ready to lay direction and bring forward laws and values as suited for receiving higher creative orders determined by the Nature under overall purpose of creation. At the Vegetable and Animal Stages, we find laying of direction and creation of new laws and values in the form of different model species. At these stages whenever life slumbered or went astray Nature had bought new vegetable and animal species as model guides by creating sudden variations in them at each respective creative stage. The aim of the creation of species at the Animal stage was to accomplish perfect sense perceptions which the stage after passing through millions of different species ultimately perfected in the species which served as a physical organism of Man. Thus each species was a step towards attaining perfection of sense perceptions.

At the Psychological or Self-conscious Stage of man, Human Self came to know itself as distinct from all other creations. If nature has endowed life with a great urge for seeking the truth, there must already be existing a foolproof arrangement under which the Conscious mind may freely and perfectly choose and recommend the right ideal to the Unconscious. The humanity has not been left in this score on its own mercy. The Creator has laid an equally parallel rational institution for providing external guidance to man relative to its conscious development. We know this institution as the institution of Prophet-hood. We can never overlook the need for such an institution - the need that is inherent in every Soul. The recorded history of mankind witness that highly conscious men have appeared from time to time through what the evolutionist call it " emergent evolution" as perfect models to give right interpretation of the urge of the Unconscious as well as the laws under which the Conscious mind may freely deliberate on the external world for determining right values and ideal for satisfaction of the urge of Unconscious. Even the guidance through prophets in due regard to the free will of Man was never thrust upon as a compulsion. It was left open to every individual either to accept it or to reject it.

Sex Instinct Is Carved Out Of Love and Beauty.

If we look back at the creative process of universe, we will find that sex instinct is also spiritual in nature as it has been carved out of the spiritual love of the Creator. Prior to the creative stage of human being, life existed at the material level of consciousness; it was not mature or capable of having direct cognition of its Creator. However, at whatever stage life may be, it must have consciously or unconsciously spiritual love for its Creator. At inorganic and organic stages, life satisfied this love by dividing itself into two complementary units of attraction from within. We call it polarity at inorganic stages and sex at organic stages. We should know that life is the art of the Creator and, therefore, insofar as it was not yet directly aware of its Creator, its love for itself from within through dividing its conscious attributes in two sex attraction, in fact, amounted to loving the attributes of the Creator. It is evident from the fact that it is aesthetic appreciation and love of beauty of its "own kind" which is ultimately replaced by the inferior kind of pleasure derived from the sexual act. This can be seen in the behaviour of birds and insects who are at first attracted by the beauty of colour, song, or plumage of their opposite sex. This indicates that sex instinct has been carved out of spiritual love. Had it not been carved out of spiritual love, life would not have procreated itself at all. After passing through the various creative stages, when life embarked upon the Self-conscious stage of Man, it found direct spiritual feeling of its Creator in its Self or Soul and began to seek its Creator in the form of ideals from within. In other words, at the material stages, life having no direct feeling of the Creator, was satisfying its love through complementary division of its attributes in opposite sex, but at Human Self-conscious Stage, Human Soul being not material, it does not satisfy its passion of love for the Creator by dividing it in opposite sex in the physical forms. The Human Soul, which lives as a dynamic non-material entity, seeks its Creator direct from within in the form of ideals. Human Soul thus lives in complementary division as the ideal and object of the ideal, as the seeker and the sought, as the lover and the beloved. When it seeks its ideal, it in fact seeks and loves its Creator in the form of ideal. Likewise, the ideal, which potentially lives as a complementary unit equally, bestows its love to the object lover - the complementary unit from within the Soul, which seeks it.

Matter And Motion (Behaviour) Changed At Each Stage.

When we study the developmental stages which are differentiable subject to higher and different kind of conscious enlightenment, we find that the forms of bodies and their motions fixed in the space-time field of a certain creative stage continued to relax and dissipates at each higher stage relevant to appearance of conscious enlightenment which overshadowed and outlived the values fixed in the preceding stages. From simple motion of celestial bodies fixed in the space-time field of Cosmos to the chemical behaviour of substances fixed under the space-time field of Planet earth and then from chemical behaviour to the inward behaviour witnessed at the Vegetable and Animal Stages we find that relative to each higher conscious stage, the physical forms and motion (behaviour) along with space-time field continued to change and shrink from external physical processes to inward or mental processes at each higher conscious stage. At his Self-conscious Stage, Human Self has completely shed the mass and has come out of the physical space-time barriers. It is established by the fact that man can relate the events of the past as well as step out of the present to determine the occasion falling in the future. Human Self lives in its mental states - the states in which the Self lives changeless in changes as an eternal entity. Man lives in fact in the domain of "dahar" - the domain of eternal time.

The Historical Significance Of Adam.

"The creation of Adam is not his physical body but his attaining of the mental state of Self-consciousness, from there on, man exists in a non-material state, call it soul, in his mind and that where all new values will be earned."

The significance of Adam being that he was the first human being to cross the barrier of Self-consciousness. However, in time all similar species achieved Self-consciousness in a universal way. We are informed that Adam had two sons and so we can safely assume that there must be people around for them to marry and the question of them marrying their sisters as put forward by some groups is preposterous - lying is a sin today as it was yesterday and so is incest, the law of the Creator never changes.

It is because of soul that we developed a language because it retains every image it sees; records every word it hears; and every thought that you might have had remains preserved from within. In short it is a microchip within us. Self-consciousness (soul) being an attribute of the Creator will not die; it already exists beyond the barrier of time and space. The most important point to be noted is that in all the creative stages preceding the Self-conscious Stage of Man, the conscious values were preserved and passed on by each species in kind and not in "Person" or "Self". It is because at those stages life was not aware of itself. Hence it could preserve its values only in kind by passing the same through organism to organism. For example, at the Vegetable Stage, the individual distinction of a mango tree is in its kind or species and not in its "Person". The reason is that whether it may be a mango tree or a wheat plant, the life in plants is never aware of itself and hence it can live under the values as preserved in seed by each species in the form of chemical laid in series, we call it "DNA". Similar is the case with the creative stage of animal life. The animal stage is also a material state and it preserved the values of its species in kind. It may be a horse or a lamb; each preserved its values as a kind. As compared to the values preserved in kind at these stages, the values preserved at the human stage are "Personal" as implied in the words "Conscious Self". If we take away the "Conscious Self" no conscious values pertaining to the self or person can exists or survive. It is obligatory, therefore, that the conscious values earned by each Self must remain "Personal" with the individual or "Conscious Self". Our discussion has shown that:

1.      The Human Self lives independently in its mental "body" or mental state because of the non-material values of the Self;

2.      The "Personal" values of the Self cannot be transferred from Self to Self like the organic life of plants and animals as each Human Self lives as a unique Self-conscious Entity; and

3.      The Human Self cannot die, as nature must protect each Self as its precious gain for onward creation.

Hence at the Human Stage, these are only the physical forms and values, which are transferred from germ to germ and which under the physical laws, remain subject to death and disintegration. But the Human Self, which lives in a separate non-material state, cannot simply die as it is against the fundamental principle of the creative process according to which life can never come down from the level it has achieved nor can it lose its conscious values. Life must protect those hard earned values in its minutest detail, as otherwise the process of creation cannot proceed.

All the spatial stages preceding Self-conscious Stage were in fact the preparatory stages of the Self-conscious Stage of Man. Since the conscious values created prior to the creative stage of Self-consciousness were in elementary stages and were meant to prepare the ground for the appearance of Self-conscious Man, they were living in an unconscious state or the material state of life - the state in which bodies played "consciousness" under the stimulus of attraction and repulsion caused by external processes. In this state life being not aware of itself continued to develop and transfer the values through the process of procreation. On reaching the Human Stage, life became directly aware of its Creator and with the cognition of its source it came to its own. All human activities were now triggered under the inherent urge of seeking and loving its Creator.

Like a single organism each stage lives as a unit and has a particular goal to reach. Since the values to be achieved at a certain stage are unlimited and divergent and cannot be achieved in a single unit body or organism, therefore, uncountable numbers of "Self's" are created. It is natural, therefore, that each Self after having lived its maximum time of physical life must make way for the next Self. At Human Stage, each Self has a natural urge to discover more and more of the ultimate reality and impart whatever knowledge it may have gained to other fellow human beings so that mankind may succeed reaching its common goal in a united way. As a matter of fact each Conscious Self remains incomplete without the other complementary and supplementary " Self's". This attachment is so strong that it always remains the urge of every soul to win the approval and appreciation of the other human beings for such actions or deeds, which are admired by the humanity. It is the dominating urge of each Self to live unitedly with fellow human beings. This urge is found at all the creative stages of life subject to the conscious level of the stage. It is the Conscious Self, which is the real living value at the Human Stage and whose development is the sole purpose of the present creative stage. If we believe that each Self is mortal, in that case the whole creative process will prove useless exercise because nothing would survive at the close of the Self-conscious Stage of Man. This amount negation of one's own Self as well as the negation of the creative process.

Development of Self.

There is a significant difference between the way the physical body develops and the manner the Human Self develops. The body grows by receiving substances from outside and incorporating them, that is, by taking in. The Self grows stronger by sharing its knowledge, wisdom and possessions with others. Its happiness lies in helping others. It is cramped when it keeps its riches to itself. Generosity of any kind enriches it and niggardliness impoverishes it. Therefore, if we want real happiness and spiritual bliss in this world and get out of all kinds of depression, we must give out and refrain from taking in.

Soul Continues To Live With Whatever Worldly Life It Had After Leaving The Physical Body. (Death)

The human physical organism exists as an independent unit whole as does the other animal species. The Human Self or Soul, which appeared simultaneously on fixation of the physical values of the body, that is, its form, instincts and perceptual brain also, lives as an independent unit whole. The physical organism preserves its values in minutest detail in the form of germ cell. The germ cell when its values in minutest detail in the form of germ cell. The germ cell when planted in the womb continues to reproduce the organism asexually (spiritually) through complementary division of cells. Similarly the Human Self which comes as a clean state continue to preserve all the values and events from within and when the Self-conscious Stage as a whole reaches completion and enters a higher tier of life, every Human Soul would construct its universe under the higher enlightenment vis-à-vis the values earned by it during its worldly life. If a germ cell under the physical laws can act as a physical mind to reproduce values in minutest detail, we can be sure that Human Self or Soul which has inherent reflection of the Creator would not simply reproduce but in fact instantly bring forth events and values it lived and watch them as if played on the screen. It could be imagined on the analogy of dreams watched by the physical body. The Self would equally realise wearing its physical body (usually known as astral body) and taste of pains and pleasures it lived in the worldly life.

Last but not the least, in whatever society man may live, whatever culture he belongs to, the creative process of the Creator leaves no excuses for him that he has been deprived of the spiritual light, provided he cared to understand.