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As you know regarding the innate longings, the mental longings, of each and every microcosm – each microcosm wants three things: first, it wants unbarred expansion, that is, expansion without any bar or hindrance; secondly, it wants to enjoy the divine flow – the supra-celestial flow; and thirdly, it wants to do something that may be relished and may create immense psychic pabula of a perennial order.
In the initial stage, in the first phase, of the march towards positivity from the supreme negativity – from the nadir of negativity towards the zenith [of positivity] – that seed of longing remains in dormant form. It sprouts slowly and takes the form of a big plant. This is the human being. And that is why I say that living beings and particularly human beings are more psychic than physical. The psychic existence of a human being is more important than and predominates over the physical structure. Actually, in the case of human beings, the physical structure is completely guided by psychic pabula and psychic longings. Unlike in other creatures, in human beings the mind has the dominant role.
If the object of ideation, the object of meditation, has no boundary, what will happen? The unit mind will be converted into the Infinite Mind, that is, the microcosm will be transmuted into the Macrocosm. That is the utility value of meditation. The unit creates a longing for Parama Puruśa, [the entity who] will satisfy all hungers, will quench all thirsts.…(1)
The simplest way to get cured of all psychic ailments is to use guru mantra(2) while performing every action, every mundane duty.
Subjectivated self – action – objectivated self. These are the three entities wherever something is done. Wherever there is any functional or actional expression, there must be these three entities.
Footnotes
(1) The ellipsis was in the original magazine publication of this discourse, perhaps indicating omitted material. (There may also have been more at the end of the actual discourse than appeared in the magazine.) –Eds.
(2) “Important” mantra, learned as a lesson of Ananda Marga meditation. –Eds.