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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga740
if you wish, but, to those who know it, it is a Will—an active, living Will,
in full operation and power, pressing forward toward the manifestation of
objective life.
The Creative Will seems to be filled with a strong Desire to manifest.
It longs to express itself, and to give birth to forms of activity. Desire lies
under and in all forms of its manifestations. The ever present Desire of the
Creative Will causes lower forms to be succeeded by higher forms—and is
the moving cause of evolution—it is the Evolutionary Urge itself, which ever
cries to its manifestations, “Move on; move upward.”
In the Hindu classic, the “Mahabharata,” Brahma created the most beautiful
female being ever known, and called her Tillotama. He presented her in
turn to all the gods, in order to witness their wonder and admiration. Siva’s
desire to behold her was so great that it developed in him four faces, in
succession, as she made the tour of the assembly; and Indra’s longing was so
intense that his body became all eyes. In this myth may be seen exemplified
the effect of Desire and Will in the forms of life, function and shape—all
following Desire and Need, as in the case of the long neck of the giraffe
which enables him to reach for the high branches of the trees in his native
land; and in the long neck and high legs of the fisher birds, the crane, stork,
ibis, etc.
The Creative Will finds within itself a desire to create suns, and they
are formed. It desired planets to revolve around the suns, and they were
thrown off in obedience to the law. It desired plant life, and plant life
appeared, working from higher to lower form. Then came animal life, from
nomad to man. Some of the animal forms yielded to the desire to fly, and
wings appeared gradually, and we called it bird-life. Some felt a desire to
burrow in the ground, and lo! came the moles, gophers, etc. It wanted a
thinking creature, and Man with his wonderful brain was evolved. Evolution
is more than a mere survival of the fittest; natural selection, etc. Although it
uses these laws as tools and instruments, still back of them is that insistent
urge—that ever-impelling desire—that ever-active Creative Will. Lamark