Alok da, reading Sri Aurobindo’s poem on the tiger and the deer made me a bit perplexed for a long time. I was checking the predator-prey populations and all the predator animals with grandiose strength like tigers 🐱are shrinking while the prey population like deers 🦒 are in millions,the supposed reasons are apparently cos of High energy demands of predators wrt to their body weight and strength,less reproductive rates and being vulnerable to ecological/climate changes and requiring a larger territory for themselves to survive while the prey population like deers have low energy demands cos they are herbivores, adaptive to ecological changes cos they are mobile, flexible creatures and the ability to change their habitat and can do more with less like birds etc.. Isn’t this an opposite of survival of the fittest? Deers are of-course gentle,beautiful creatures but all the poets and humanity at large was also fascinated by the grandiose of predator animals and they are shrinking.does this mean that it’s the meek that shall actually inherit the earth? Sri Aurobindo writes that Titans fall by their own weight in the human cycle,does this apply here and What are the deeper implications of this phenomenon to Sri Aurobindo’s vision and supramental evolution?
November 24, 2024
Absolutely so. Survival of the fittest is a surface reading of a deeper process going on behind and through the play of outer forms. It
