So you can see the infinite complexity of coming up with an answer, but there are certain patterns that we can identify. So for example, there is a trend of matter floating in space to congeal into molecular structures that look spherical. We'll call those things planets. And for things to happen on those planets that cause atoms and molecules to make a jump into being living things, and for living things to progress into being highly conscious living things that can sit around having conversations like the ones we're having now about the nature of the universe. We live in a universe that apparently is bio-friendly. But beyond bio-friendly, it is bio-friendly with reference to becoming conscious of itself. It appears that our universe wants to create nervous systems through which universe can see and comment upon universe. This is the Vedic worldview. What is it that's going to cause repertoire of function? Repertoire means how many things you can do. What's your capability base? What is your repertoire means? How many things can you do? What is it you're capable of? What can you think of? What can you be aware of? What is the periphery, the event horizon of your awareness? And how much complexity can you envelop in that awareness, whatever its periphery may be, and have it all integrated and functioning with reference to meeting the need of the time. And so there's a movement, there's a trend, there's a pattern of movement from less complex and less sophisticated to more complex and more sophisticated in the direction of elegance. And this is a relative term, so yesterday's elegance would be relatively crude compared with tomorrow's elegance. Ever-increasing capability of all-inclusive awareness and all capability. This is the direction things are moving in. And so then, to what extent are you an active participant wherever you happen to be, in whatever situation you are, under whatever circumstances you find yourself, at whatever elevation you happen to be, on whichever planet you find yourself? To what extent you in this moment in the mainstream of this progressive change this evolutionary flow or to what extent are you over on the sides of the river of evolution banging up against the rocks are you in the mainstream or you marginal? If you stay marginal for very long, then you lose your relevance to the overall trend. The overall trend of the laws of nature is one towards ever-increasing sophistication, capability, interactivity, and that kind of relevance. If you lose your relevance to the phenomenon of evolution, then you don't get to exist. That's when we can say this Darwinistic concept of the survival of the fittest comes into play. This is what's been seen in biological evolutionary models, adaptation stability is one thing. Too much stability without adaptation is fatal. And so when the impact of a massive meteor in the Yucatan Peninsula in what we call Mexico today caused a mass extinction event on the earth. And we say, well, the dinosaurs disappeared, or did they? Most paleontological ornithologists, people who study dinosaurs segueing into birds, ornithology is bird study, agree that the dinosaurs that did survive are the ones who maintained a certain degree of integrity of the look of a dinosaur, but became warm-blooded, feathered animals known as birds. So the next time you look at a bird and you think it might look like a velociraptor that you saw in the Jurassic Park movies. You're right. They're like feathered little dinosaurs that are flapping about and who progressed through certain kinds of dinosaurs that had adapted and grown the ability to have little feather-like projections on their otherwise leathery wings. are the Archaeopteryx. And matrixing through those kinds of dinosaurs, eventually there was successful adaptation to the new environments. And now the beautiful little birdies that are out there drinking in my bird bath right now, or the great big crows and ravens that swoop over them from time to time and make squawking noises. We're basically living in a world of dinosaurs that can fly around now. Evolution. So what is it that allows not just survivability, but evolution? The law of nature is no form, feature, or phenomenon has an intrinsic right simply to survive. Survival is a product. Survival is a product. Survival is not the thing. The thing is progress. Progress is the basis on which you get to survive. You get to survive if you evolve. You get to survive if you evolve. And so what is it that allows you to evolve? What is it that allows you to be progressive? The engagement in progressive change. It is a talent of being able spontaneously to cognize the patterns of cascades of cause and effect that are going on right now in your environment, right now where you are. Right now, wherever you are, you might be sitting on a little boat in Tahiti listening to me in this podcast. Or you might be in a skyscraper in Wall Street. Or you might be scratching your head sitting on a beach in Byron Bay in New South Wales. Or you might be in Patagonia. Not the shop, but the actual geographic place on the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego in South America. what is it which doing which action you engage in what is it that will be in tune with the need of the time right where you are what is that don't look for a book it's not going to be in a book your human consciousness has the capacity to attune itself to the need of the moment and to spontaneously come up with those impulses of creative intelligence that will allow you to be stable and adaptable simultaneously. to move spontaneously in the direction of evolution, making you highly relevant to the theme of progressive change. And when you make yourself highly relevant to the theme of progressive change, how do you know? Well, you suffer less or not at all. Suffer not at all. How do you get to that state of spontaneous right action, where your ability to compute without having to engage in great intellectual pros and cons arguments, how do you get to that state spontaneously your mind computes only those thoughts which, when acted upon, will be in attunement with the actual need of the time and the geographic settings at the elevation and the place that you are in the social setting, the level of humidity that happens to be there, etc., etc., etc.