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sciences and technology, inner peace and happiness have deluded humankind. It is hoped that the divine radiant vision of Dadaji exhorting that we have to be antarmukhi instead of remaining bahirmukhi will give spiritual awakening for the whole universe as it transcends all differences and distinctions, barriers and barricades.
INTRODUCTION
To undergo experiences is a feature common to all living beings, the cetana tattva. But human being is the most evolved species in the cosmic process. Human life is a prized possession, a valuable asset. P.P. Shri Kanudadaji calls it as 'wish-fulfilling gem' (or 'a philosopher's stone'). Nature has endowed human being with the unique capacity of undergoing experiences (both empirical and trans-empirical) and to reflect upon them systematically by heightening, widening and deepening them. Reflective awareness is a unique privilege of a human being. It is his prerogative to retain them, to ratiocinate about them, to discriminate among them and to articulate all these in clear, distinct and logical terms. A human being who possesses reflective awareness can exercise rational ability to regulate experiences by manipulating innate endowments and natural surroundings, after examining the veracity, utility and significance of his experiences. Human cognitive and reflective potentiality is tremendous and unfathomable. It is wondrous and variegated and as stated earlier it admits of expansion, regulation and systematization. It would be sheer wastage of human potentiality if such a task is not undertaken. Human life has a meaning, significance and purpose as human alone is capable of samyak dars 'na and samyak jnana leading to moksa. (Aptavani, I, p. 110; also Vol. II p.377). P.P. Shri Kanudadaji has very perceptively stated that "Human life is a precious asset, and it can be truly regarded so only if this asset is used properly, appropriately and conscientiously, otherwise it is not worth even two pennies." (Holistic Science of Human Life and Nature, P.14.) This is what should be meant by samyak dars 'ana, samyak jnana and samyak caritra, the three jewels (triratnas) which a human being has to adorn.
Dars'ana and jnana stem from experience, are embedded in experience and get culminated in experience. They are rooted in experience and are tied down to experience. A real is apprehended in experience and there is no other way or means to have an access to it. Human being right from childhood first experiences and reflects on the world outside. This is natural also as senses and mind (antahkarana) are outgoing in their functioning. (Parancikhanivyatrnat svayambhu stasmat paranpasyati nantaratma, Katha Upanisad, 11.1.1) The outer world is wide and varied and is enticing as well. Even the mental world which is mistaken as inner is in fact outer only to the Self. After realizing the futility and evanescent character of the outer world sometimes human being turns really inward and realizes the Inner Self (Eko vasi sarvabhutantaratma, Ibid, II.2.12). But this realization is not very common and only a few are fortunate to have this. Thereafter consciousness transcends the empirical and realizes the Supreme Purusa, the Paramatma (Purusanna param kincit, sa kastha sa para gatih, Ibid, 1.3.11). Thus, human being firstly looks outside at the world of multiple diversities. Then he looks within and searches for the inner self. Thereafter his impelling belief leads his consciousness to soar high to the
