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Perception of Body
standards and values for his progress.
It is said that even gods (inhabitants of heaven) desire to become human beings for spiritual progress. Man alone has reasoning mind. He has capacity for conceptual thinking and achieving higher level of consciousness and thereby transcend the perceptual knowledge.
Normal range of human knowledge is very limited. In this age of technology and sub-atomic physics, it may appear that human race has made vast progress in the field of science and knowledge. However, the fact is that our achievement to date is only a small fraction of what we are capable of. Instruments of our perception are limited to our sense-organs and the mind. Beyond the boundaries of perceptual knowledge, there lies the immense field of parapsychological experience. Man has the capacity to develop parapsychological abilities. He can then have direct knowledge of his own self, of the structure of matter, interaction of matter with conscious self and innumerable other Truths about which, with his limited apparatus, he can only speculate and surmise.
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