Darwin's "Survival of the fittest" theory & Hindu Vedanta

If the above Darwinian theory is applied to only the corporeal body, what happens to the soul, if there is one?

Hindu philosophy gives a shocking answer.

The goal of human life is release from the cycle of life & death as postulated by Sankara "Punarapi jananam, punarapi maranam...." (पुनरपि जननं, पुनरपि मरणं) So the soul, in its perfection, should not don a body again, that is in Darwinian terms, should not be corporeal again. Only those "fittest" (still not having achieved spiritual perfection) do "survive" (the unending cycle of birth & death). 

So the Hindu Vedanta also signifies the "anta" of the corporeal body as such.

A variant of this idea was also present in the Roman Catholic monastic order. Instead of struggling to corporeally survive, the highest goal of both monks & nuns was "martyrdom."

In a lighter vein, listeners to a talk by a monk of the Ramakrishna Order were shocked to hear him declare the goal of human life is "Birth Control"! What he meant was, the spiritual aspirant should lead such a life that there is no next (corporeal) birth for him!