Here is a description of entry of Life in material objects, of the Upanishadic prāņamaya puruşa, or prāņaśariranetā. Evolution is a double process, first of things progressing from below upward, for example, Matter preparing itself to receive Life to start with, and then Life-in-Matter moving forward and awaiting the arrival of Mind in it; in that appropriate readiness are the descents of the higher powers, they lifting up the evolution to the superior grades. In the crude beginnings of Matter there was no manifestation of Life, and of course no manifestation of Mind, or yet higher powers. In that dumbness the souls locked in Matter yearned for Life to release them from its hold. They cried to Life to invade the senseless mould and in brute form awake divinity. Life obliged. She the great-winged Angel poured her splendour and her sweetness and her bliss—hoping to fill the world with joy. In Matter’s womb she cast the Immortal’s fire. But alas! While she was on her way, and before her gifts could reach the imprisoned souls, a dark ambiguous Presence questioned all. Life faced Death. She was forced to obey the Inconscient’s Law. Her power was not sufficiently strong to meet such a situation, an unexpected challenge. Life’s immortality got so much veiled that she seemed to be simply an episode, a small occurrence in the land of eternal death, a myth that must for ever cease. To a large extent the same was repeated when arrived Mind, the lower creation appropriating it for itself. It is only the descent of Supermind that can victoriously handle the thousand contingencies that can arise from below, the working of the Inconscience at the base of this evolutionary movement. What is necessary is to appreciate that evolution is not a single-stranded process running from one end to the other, is not mono-logical, but is a complex web made of the dark and the luminous occult running into each other, something which a materialist scientist cannot grasp.

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