Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 32
The Creation of the Universe 31 We should also bear in mind that everything in the universe is constantly changing; if the change is for the better, then we call it progress or evolution. Most often, what makes a thing better than the earlier state is the reorganisation of components that adds to its quality and beauty. In short, disorder is ugliness and order is beauty. This exactly is the nature of evolution that we observe on earth. The quality of life is gradually becoming more complex. The higher the step in the tree of evolution, the more organised its constituents. Looking at it from this perspective, we can briefly describe evolution as a journey from disorderliness to orderliness, from a loosely organised state to an ever-increasing complexity. This indeed is the dividing line between life and death. Although this is a complex scientific subject, a poet of the Urdu language, B. Narayan Chakbast, has brought it within our grasp by expressing it simply and beautifully in the following words: which translates as: 'What is life but the end product of organised elements and what is death other than the disorganisation of the same again?' When matter goes through a chain of chemical reactions, newer and more complex molecular