Our Earthly Existence

Sri Aurobindo portrays an immense portrait that permits us to find ourselves in these developments and establish the goal of the universe. All while giving indications of how we as humans can appreciate and recognize other life-forms and the planet herself. It’s embedded in his writings of how to set out guidelines for accomplishing a connection, a bond with nature. And it’s understood that there are environmental ethics to uphold and new concepts to establish so that man may align his will and knowledge with her energies so that she may help him with her fruits and favor his violences so that he may accomplish his goals, satisfy the spirit within him, and transcend her on his way to becoming truly human.
      Our earthly existence is apparent, the provisions of this world have been situated to embrace what we as humans need to survive. From a plentiful source of fresh water, the correct atmospheric pressure and temperature, to an abundant supply of oxygen that not only we as humans need but many other life-forms need as well. Aurobindo depicts this quite visibly.
      “The lines of the physical energy creating forms, deploying the forces of the material universe are the first apparent conditions of our birth and create the practical basis and the original mold of our earthly existence.” (Aurobindo, pg.118)

      The sun shines and the rain falls on both the just and unjust. Nature can not grasp morality; she doesn’t distinguish between good and evil, she is a machine that has no explicit intention, no hesitation of conscience in the elements of the world. If a man is thrown into the ocean, it does not ask whether he is moral or unmoral, just as a fire has no respect for the items it may burn.
      “If the destruction wrought by a volcano, the typhoon or the earthquake is a punishment for the sins of the community or individually of the sins in a past life in each man there that suffers or perishes, at least the natural forces know it not and care nothing...