Hayagriva dasa: Although Huxley defended Darwin’s theory of evolution, he differed in his belief in the survival of those who are “ethically the best.” In Evolution and Ethics, he writes: “Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest… but of those who are ethically the best.”
Srila Prabhupada: The cosmic process cannot be checked. It continues functioning in different modes: goodness, passion, and ignorance. In the mode of goodness, there is advancement, but ultimately the individual has to transcend the mode of goodness to come to the platform of the all-good, the platform of pure goodness. In the material world, whatever process we accept for advancement is conditioned by goodness, passion, and ignorance. It is very difficult in the material world to keep a process pure; therefore the soul must come to the platform of goodness and then transcend it. The platform of pure goodness is called bhakti, and on that platform our transactions are only with God. It is only when we come to that platform that we can survive. Otherwise, no one survives, because everyone has to continue transmigrating from one body to another. Tatha dehantara– praptir (Bg. 2.13). However, when we come to the platform of pure goodness, we can understand God and transcend repeated birth and death.
janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ‘rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” (Bg. 4.9) Apart from this, there is no meaning to survival. Survival means that the soul remains pure in its original position and does not transmigrate. Survival is only in the spiritual world, where there is no change.
(Dialectic Spiritualism – Evolutionary Naturalism – “Thomas Henry Huxley” – By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
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