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bliss is not growing the society is not evolving. In fact, what people generally understand by evolution and progress is sheer nonsense.
A more and more complicated technology does not mean evolution. It is so superficial. You can have more gadgets, you can have big machines, better aeroplanes, better trains, better houses, but you are the same person. You can reach the moon or even the stars one day, but what you are doing on the earth you will do on the moon. If you have been smoking cigarettes here you will smoke them there. If you have been playing cards here you will play cards there. If you have been drinking beer here you will carry beer to the moon. What else will you do there?
If man remains the same, there is no evolution. Then we go on living in a false kind of evolution, a substitute evolution which gives the fallacious appearance that man is evolving. But for centuries man has not evolved. Only a few individuals here and there have evolved. You can come across a Buddha or a Jesus or a Zarathustra or a Lao Tzu, a Francis, a Kabir, a Bahauddin; there are very few people. Those who have really tasted the nectar of bliss are evolved human beings.
Evolution has happened only to a few people. Just getting down from the trees and instead of walking on fours, walking on two, does not make you an evolved animal. It just makes you erect, vertical, that's all. If you look inside man's mind, he is still a monkey. One need not go very far, one can simply close one's eyes and see the mind and you will find all kinds of monkeyish things going on. So what evolution has happened? What nonsense is Darwin talking about?
The only difference is that monkeys have a few things more that man has lost; the monkeys have tails, and beautiful tails, very alive! Monkeys must be laughing at human beings, "What kind of monkeys are they? What happened to their tails?"
And man has become weaker. You cannot fight bare-handed with a monkey -- impossible. Even a Mohammed Ali will be defeated! No tactics of boxing will help; a monkey is enough to kill any man!
And one can feel jealous; monkeys jumping from one tree to another tree... just see their
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