BEYOND TEMPORARY EXPERIENCE

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12

cross-references: Ba'ba' in Fiesch (as "Psycho-Spirituality")

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12, 1st edition, version 
	(spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most 
	up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

	Last night I said that human expressions are trifarious in character; physical, psychic and spiritual.  And human approaches are four in number; physical, physico-psychic, psychic and psycho-spiritual.

	The woes and anxieties, the pleasure or composure that a man or an animal enjoys in the physical stratum are extremely limited; that is, the waves of woes and anxieties, or pleasure, function within a short sphere, and that's why they are purely of a temporary nature.  The person and the space are also extremely limited.

	In the case of humans, and also in the case of a few developed animals, animals like dogs or monkeys, there are physico-psychic pleasures and physico-psychic pains also.  The jurisdictions of those pleasures or those pains are limited, but their jurisdictions are bigger than in the first case, that is, bigger than the jurisdictions of purely physical pleasure and pain.  In the case of animals, most animals have their pleasures and pains only in the physical stratum, and they come or are created as an inborn instinct.

	But in the case of developed animals and humans, not only are things inborn, but some things are imposed; and not only are somethings imposed, but some things are developed by themselves.  In developed animals and in humans, there are both genius and technical skill.  You know genius is an inborn faculty.  And what is technical skill?  Technical skill is an ordinary faculty developed to an extraordinary degree of efficiency.  This can be done by developed creatures and humans,  Tamed dogs, tamed monkeys, may do many a thing, because, although animals, they're developed animals.  You will find it only in humans.

	Now when a man gets the chance to enjoy the physico-psychic pleasures, he doesn't find any interest in physical pleasure, because physical pleasure is not only crude in quality, but also of very temporary nature.  It lasts for a short span.  On the psychic level, man is the dominating living being.  He does something new, he wants to do something new, to get more psychic pleasures, and he invents so many things and engages himself in psychic pursuits.  These things cannot be done by animals or even by other developed creatures, and here lies the speciality of human beings.

	But I won't say that it is the speciality of human beings, because in pyschic spheres, the pleasure you get is nothing but a sort of positive projection of your mind; it creates nothing concrete, nothing lasting, and whenever this sort of positive projection takes place, there comes a negative projection just to bring back the mind to normalcy.  That is, the psychic pleasure that you get is counteracted or neutralised by negative projection.  Plus and minus make it zero.  So, I have said, there cannot be any development or any progress in physical or psychic spheres.

	Now in the case of the psycho-spiritual approach, what happens?  The human approach towards the spiritual Nucleus means fighting against the limitations of time, space and person.  So, it is the best determination of human beings, and here lies the difference between man and animal - even the developed animals cannot do it.

	Now in the course of this psycho-spiritual advancement, when the particular aspirant crosses the fine lime of demarcation between relativity and the Absolute, he goes beyond the touch of all mundane bondage, and that is the final destination, and that is the Desideratum, of all human beings.  And this approach of humans is called Bha'gavata Dharma.  It is the proper Dharma, it is the actual Dharma.  All other ideas are based on isms and dogmas.  They can function within the scope of three relativities - the temporal, personal and spatial factors.  The man who is intelligent should, from his very childhood, move along the path of psycho-spirituality.  The sooner a man starts and moves along this path of psychic spirituality, the better it is.  He is the blessed one.

20 May 1979 morning, Timmern, West Germany