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TULSI-PRAJNA have no understanding. Understanding comes into being from the now, the present, which is always timeless.
Moment of knowing is a cerebral movement. When observer goes to abeyance, understanding is born. Human being seems to be born with the faculty of self-awareness and understanding. That understanding which is not knowing has a perceptive sensitivity. Intelligence leads to self-awareness, to perception, to understanding, and to action. Spirituality awakens the intelligence.
Spirituallity aims at self-actualization of the hidden human potential. It leads to a quantum jump from intellect to intelligence, from knowledge to understanding, and this results in psychic growth from successive consciousness to simultaneous consciousness. This involves a major paradigm shift to complementarity in place of competition, convergence in place of conflict, holism in place of hedonism.
We are gradually learning to admit that creative problem solving is possible when we deal in whole systems. And whole systems include everything--my family, my community, my state, my nation are all parts of a larger whole. The fate of the whole of planet earth, at least, stands or falls, matures or decays together. "Pluck a flower and move a star", "displace an atom and shake the universe", "the action of a single electron affects and is affected by the action of the entire universe, and in this matrix all past, present and future collapse”, are powerful new metaphors for our world and our day. Spirituality : An Evolationary Impulse of Life
At the biological evolution, the unit of life is a cell, the self-duplicating molecule. At the psychosocial evolution, the unit of life is experience ; the object is the experiencer, and the relation between the subject and the object is experiencing. An experience is the product of experienced, the experiencer and the experiencing. There is interface interaction via photon transfer between the
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