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Has human evolution served any real purpose? || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Acharya Prashant
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Prakriti
Evolution
Truth
Self-realization
Time
Technology
Spirituality
Nature
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that while Nature, or Prakriti, is inherently purposeful, its evolution does not necessarily bring one closer to the Truth or the center of existence. He uses the analogy of a person moving on the periphery of a circle to illustrate that increasing speed through technology and evolution is merely navigating the circumference more rapidly without moving toward the center. Whether one is a crawling insect from billions of years ago or a modern human in a jet plane, the distance from the center remains the same. Evolution provides mastery over the surroundings and the inessential, but it does not equate to self-realization or reaching the Truth.