What is Prakriti’s deepest desire? || Acharya Prashant, on ‘The Prophet’ by Khalil Gibran (2018)

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

~ Khalil Gibran

Question: Pranaam Acharya Ji. Can you please explain what is meant by ‘life’s longing for itself’?

Acharya Prashant Ji: We talked of prakriti (nature)? Why is prakriti doing what it has been, since the beginning of time?

Darwin told you how evolution proceeds. So one divides into many by way of procreation, and these many are all slightly different from each other. Being slightly different from each other, they differ from each other in terms of their potential for survival.

The one amongst these who has the greatest potential for survival then gets selected by evolution. He survives and the others get eliminated. So his genes get carried forward. So those genes that were not suitable for survival get eliminated. And again this one, that gets carried forward multiplies, and the same cycle repeats.