The Individual Nature : 3.

3.
Even the urge for self-reproduction may be explained in terms of the urge for self-preservation.

It is really the will-to-live of the individual of the species to be manifested in the physical universe that asserts in what is termed the self-reproductive urge.

The parent becomes the medium of the self-manifestation of a new individual, which is the intention of the physical nature.

The lower nature of any 'specific' individual has no control over this instinct, because it is the intention of the 'general' nature or the species which exceeds the natural powers of the former.

The will-to-reproduce is only the will-to-live of the would-be member of this physical universe.

The fulfilment of this will-to-live is not really the good or the delight of any individual, but is only an execution of the orders of the lower diversified nature, the fulfilment of the purpose of the species as a whole, which is wider than any individual in comprehensiveness.

The will of the race or the species supersedes all individual wills and subjects these latter to its own purposive rule.

 Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ...