Quotes from initial sobering written lecture:

“Species and environment are the two factors which we have to think of in terms of the hereafter, as to what will be after these bodies are confiscated by material nature.

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Is this the kind of life you look forward to?Well if you are, that is okay. But then you are not a yogi.Yoga has to do with figuring out the pleasure hinge. Pleasure is the driver, the motivator of the each of the entities. According to the particular species of body used in an environment, that is how one behaves.If you could figure the type of pleasure they get in the heavenly worlds or in the spiritual environment and if you could condition yourself to that, then you have it made in the hereafter.”

Suryananda’s comments/ replies:

“In figuring out pleasures”, the yogi needs consider the fact that pleasure is the motivator, and then that the pleasure principle is based on the two-fold factors of the species within some environment. 

In addition, pleasure in turn is fueled by the desire impetus. One desires to pursue with or without ardent interest, and results in obtaining some pleasure as a trade-off, it is a transactional equation.

Another farther foundation in the psyche is the satisfaction element the living entity derives from their activities, these may or may not have directly detectable pleasure taste as they can be very subtle.

But the satisfaction energy feature of the psyche is the determinant engine behind many preoccupations even if not directly perceived. It is beyond the motivations of pleasure acquisition and pain avoidance, it is like the resultant churned concentration of these semi-subtle elements.

What material or subtle raw materials provide pleasure from the interplay of different sensorial interactions of the species, and their environment are all engaged in the procurement and securing of satisfaction (or contentment) energy. 

Aside from non-participative, or reaching-out tendencies after pleasure, the yogi can consider the psychic content of his or her grade of satisfaction energy. The nature of that satisfaction energy is considerable in assessing a matching environment notable in the here and then the hereafter.