Adam

Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden … must certainly rank as a bard's prize inspiration … in the way that it began the story of man and God. It was undoubtedly … the work of the natural forces of life … and represents what nature understood about man's needs on the road to understanding. But my concerns in this narrative are about another Adam … Adam Smith ( 1723 - 1790 ) … the father of modern economics. The resemblance is quite striking.

 

I graduated with an Economics degree … and found economics a great introduction to the world. It dealt with Government administration … banking … trade … business units … consumers and employment generation. It totaled up everything under … the National Income accounts … to give an indication of a nation's health. The fair nature of its thesis … defined the content of social organization … and is a great impetus to the democratic ideal.

 

It defined man. Economic theory … claims that man is constituted of desires … and these desires are unlimited. It goes on to say that … man seeks to satisfy these wants … and to fulfill his longings in life. But to my mind … Economic theory … left out a large part of the disposition of the man … with regards life. Obviously economics makes up a large part of the experience … but there had to be more. It was a great theory … and I simply sought to get the right balance about its tenets.

 

So I looked up Adam Smith … and came to find that … he served as a lecturer … on philosophy. His book … on The Theory of Moral Sentiments … outlined the nature and condition of man … both as an individual and social being. In that he must have relied on the classics … Greek and Roman to guide him. But Adam Smith went further than that. He transformed the mere view of man's nature … into a thesis about the organization of a nation's economy … and the way that man may learn a skill through employment … and generate income.

 

Adam in Eden … had taken to the way Eve responded to knowledge … and in the quintessential way in which a woman likes to organize her affairs … produced the basis of planning and implementation of our actions in life. It advanced the hunter-gatherer to that of farmer … who had to find seeds … till the ground … match with weather conditions … prevent pests … and to add fertilizer. In the mind of the man … it would have represented an improvement in the quality of life … that represented good … as against the uncertainty ridden life of the hunter-gatherer.

 

And there we have it. The difference of the mind of man … that's founded on the light of the stars … and the mind of the man … who is conscious of his living experience. We learn from our experiences … and by the engagement of mind … man brings himself to improve upon it. Why would God object? Because the elements of the Jivan … as contained in the sperm … would undergo change … on account of new innovation and addition to its past design.

 

And the past Jivan … that produced Adam and Eve … was sourced in nature from the mind of man in the past. The Biblical account … may have relied on the advent of the Caucasian … by the mind of the past … perhaps the pithecantropus … that responded to grace and beauty. Hence its curious that the bard … who wrote about Adam and Eve … didn't refer to the natural initiative … that the Caucasians brought to organization and order. Instead it referred to an infringement of existing laws.

 

I'm thinking the influence … was brought by the past mind of the man … who engaged a Caucasian bard … fallen on hard times … to repent … and to understand the hardships faced by him. For the mind of the past … relates to the Jivan as his child … coming in that way to view mankind as his children. Where the new generation seeks to change its view of themselves in a material way … it would alter … the original design of the Jivan. This causes a strange anxiety in our experiences … as we are the product of the past. It must necessarily raise the man in the new generation … to eradicate his thoughts of the past … and to prove the worth of the new Jivan at this time.

 

Siva … in the Indic text … had a similar issue with his father-in-law … the progenitor of man. Their relationship broke … and in the subsequent fight between father … and son-in-law … Siva was reported to have brought his father-in-law into submission. The issue revolved around knowledge … man's advancement of mind and his ability to understand his will … in relation to the universe. For the progenitor … it meant his invalidity as a parent … or God … and to face the possibility of extinction.

 

Every new age … produces a new Jivan … materially different from the previous. For the man … in the role of progenitor … it provides for a way to diminish his role … heal him of the invalidity experience … and to advance him .. in line with the aspirations of the new Jiva for another age. Its the way … we have always undertaken the practice … but at this time … we are coming to understand it better … and to identify our role in the process.

 

The garden of Eden is certainly a fantastic experience … when a child is growing up in it … under the guide of thought of someone else. But when he falls from the experience … he learns to identify with his will to life … and thereby … makes for a greater advancement of his own possibilities for survival. It is that which we feel sometimes … just behind the facade of our rages … and it does respond to our counsel and understanding. But it almost feels like getting past the wrath of God.

 

In the Indic story of little Krishna … the bards provided one man's account of the way he … left the garden of Brindavanam. The child played with the personalities in his father's Jivan … and killed them. In retaliation … his father Nanda ( It is I ) … as creator God Brahma … took away the friends and the world of the child. The child responded by … re-creating the world and his friends … and then continued his play … uninterrupted. The report says … it shocked the creator God … for it appeared that man was coming to be his own creator.

Today ... the common man comes to view such experiences ... beyond the ' crazy ' years of booze and excesses. Its our way of dealing with these issues ... that are of a size greater than the normal world we have known. But I don't think man has quit trying. The man today represents the true possibility of getting way above anything achieved before. It is going to surprise everyone ... including the man himself.