Learning, sharing, evolving

There is a set of learning levels described in What Did You Ask At School Today, Book 2 [1]:

1. Remembering what is taught exactly as it is taught.

2. Remembering it later (at least a year, or even a lifetime, later)

3. Being able to apply the learning/understanding to new problems

4. Being able to teach it to others (so they also reach this level - a recursive ranking)

Humans are all about experiencing, learning and understanding from their experiences, and sharing their understanding with others:

pratyakṣa, anumāna, āgama

But if you can share your understanding to the level that not just your understanding, but your very experience is evoked in another, that is true āgama. [2]

Doing it optimally, for a significant portion of the human species, such that the experience of one human then spreads effortlessly across the entire species, is the grand problem of spiritual evolution.

(Removing crud - mala, vikṣepa, āvaraṇa - from the internal and external senses of that significant portion of humanity, for an exact evocation of their experiences, is an antecedent grand problem!)

NOTES

[1] Mukunda, Kamala V. 2019. What Did You Ask At School Today: A Handbook Of Child Learning Book 2. HarperCollins Publishers India

[2] And that is the only distinguishing mark of a true teacher. A true spiritual teacher does this for her inward experience.