Rocks were turned into mountains and the valleys, and the cool gas [water] filled them. This created the oceans and the seas. And evolution of form begins with the oceans.
This dictation continued for about ten days, until Friday, 1 June 1934, when Baba had to stop due to preparations for his forthcoming trip to Europe. Baba also at this time dictated a complete scenario, from which he wished a film to be produced. The film was to be called How It Happened . It was to show evolution from the beginning to the human state and then to include the earlier scenario Baba had dictated, A Touch of Maya, which traced the lives of three characters through five representative lifetimes up to Realization.1
To guide the screenwriters of the film, Baba had dictated:
In the beginning, either show an ocean of dazzling light without any shore, or a deep, deep darkness which gradually vanishes into hollow emptiness. From this darkness, or dazzling light, comes a point of projection — a tiny point of light appears. From this point come Akash (Full Space) and Pran (Primal Energy); these two come together with a clash.
Illustrating how Space and Energy come together in a clash, Baba drew some sketches, then continued:
From this whirling chaos, the subtle sphere comes into existence; then the primal elements of fire, water, air and earth, nebulae and millions of heavenly bodies. Show billions of huge, enormous, immense, hot, rotating bodies of mass spinning tremendously fast — millions of suns and planets. Then our solar system and our Earth is formed, bubbling over with very, very hot gases and liquids.
The Earth is to be shown forming a crust as it cools, with uneven rocks, gaps in the middle, gas liquefying and all the liquids evolving into oceans. From the ocean, evolution begins with algae and seaweed. Show the different forms for evolution: from electrons, minerals, algae, to the vegetable kingdom and the formation of the major species — seaweed, mushrooms, grass, neem trees, spinach; then fish, birds, animals, the missing link. The story of the three characters in five lifetimes then begins.
On another occasion, Baba described the purpose of the film he intended to be made:
The film will actually demonstrate the purpose of creation, evolution, reincarnation, illumination, Realization — the whole process of inner and outer progression up to the point of the fulfillment of all life, which is the union with God.
Footnotes
- 1.See Appendix A for Baba's scenario.