Electronic equipment like computer or a TV may look
magical if we don’t understand the principles of how they work. Our mind also
may look magical if we don’t understand how it works. In this article I will
try to explain how mind works and the functions of our brain. This would be the
basics for us to understand how meditation works.
What is a mind?
Our body consists of over 50 trillion cells. Out of these
cells there are 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells. There are over
500 species of bacteria living just in our gut! Basically it’s a big zoo. Each
of these cells has its own brain, digestive system and so on.
Our mind is the collective consciousness of every single
cell in our body. It is intangible.
In contrast to this, our brain is tangible. It collects
the signals from all our cells and executes the collective decision.
Similar to this, the mind of humans are the collective consciousness
of all humans. The mind of the earth is the collective consciousness of all
living being. In a later posting, I will discuss fractals to explain how these patterns
are being repeated in smaller and bigger scales all over our universe.
Parts of our mind
There are 3 parts to our mind:
External
mind:
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This
is associated with thinking and problem solving skills. It can focus only one
task at a time. Even if we try to multi-task, it will be sharing the time to
focus between multiple tasks and it is not very efficient it doing it.
This
is also called “conscious mind”.
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Inner
mind:
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This
is associated with automatic nervous system. It regulates our heart beat,
breathing and blood flow on autopilot without needing our conscious thought.
This can process multiple tasks at the same time.
This
is also called “subconscious mind”.
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Super-Conscious mind:
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This
is external to our human body thru which all living beings are connected.
This has immense intelligent. Thru meditation we will be accessing the
super-conscious mind to get things done.
It is
also called “Universal Mind” and “God”.
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This is similar to any computer system such as personal
computers, smart phones, gaming systems and other devices connected to the
internet.
In a computer you can do one task at a time with the
signals from your keyboard and mouse. Currently I am focusing on Microsoft Word
to write this blog. This is like our External Mind.
Our computer has a hard-drive. We have many programs
stored in it. While we are focusing on one task, it can execute multiple programs
stored in our hard drive such as audio player, virus scanner and so on. This is like our
If your computer is connected to the internet, you will
have access to immense amount of information, videos, audios other programs and
so on. This is like our super-conscious mind.
We are all connected thru the super-conscious mind even
if don’t realize it. We are constantly receiving information from
super-conscious mind. But for us to send messages to the super-conscious mind
there is a small catch.
Our external mind is not directly connected to the
super-conscious mind. So if you just ask for a million dollars, you are not
going to get it, regardless of which temple you go to or how loud you ask. The
connection to our super-conscious mind is in our subconscious mind (inner
mind).
So to send a message to super-conscious mind you need to
send the message to subconscious mind in a way that it will accept it. If the
message is accepted, it will be considered as you “believe in it”. If you
believe that you need to get something to benefit the universe, that message
will be send to super-conscious mind for it to be executed with all resources
it has. In Christianity this is called faith.
In meditation, you will learn to focus and send clear
messages to the super-conscious mind for you to be able to achieve your goals.
This is how meditation works.
கும்பிடும் வரை கடவுள் .
ReplyDeleteதிருட்டுப் போனால் சிலை.
கடவுள் காணாமல் போய் விட்டார் என்று சொல்ல முடியாதில்லை
நட்டகல்லைத் தெய்வமென்று நாலுபுஷ்பந் சாத்தியே
சுற்றிவந்து முணமுணென்று சொல்லு மந்திரம் ஏதடா
நட்டகல்லும் பேசுமோ நாதனுள்ளிருக்கையில்
சுட்டசட்டி சட்டுவம் கறிச்சுவை அறியுமோ
ஓசையுள்ள கல்லை நீ உடைத்திரண்டாய் செய்துமே
வாசலிற் பதித்தகல்லை மழுங்கவே மிதிக்கின்றீர்
பூசனைக்கு வைத்த கல்லில் பூவும் நீரும் சாத்துகிறீர்
ஈசனுக்குகந்த கல்லெந்தக் கல்லு சொல்லுமே
அன்பே சிவம்.
அன்புதான் கடவுள்.
If the GOD is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, then why does suffering exist at all? Suffering is a challenge to be accepted; it is an adventure. Suffering is not a disease to be destroyed. Without suffering there will be no evolution of consciousness.
ReplyDeleteImagination and projection and hallucination and illusion — they are all parts of the mind. Mind is the world — and going beyond the mind is the beginning of God.
People are fast asleep. Somebody is asleep as a Catholic, and somebody is asleep as a Hindu. That doesn’t matter — sleep is sleep.If a Catholic, a Hindu and a Muslim get too drunk, will there be any distinction, differentiation between their drunkenness The Catholic will behave as foolishly as the Hindu; and the Hindu will behave as stupidly as the Muslim. Once they are drunk, they are drunk. And people are asleep. It makes no difference what kind of theology you have used as a pillow for your sleep. Whether the pillow is blue or pink or white or red does not matter. Once you fall asleep, you fall asleep; the pillow becomes immaterial. Whether you are sleeping on the New Testament, on the Bhagavad Gita, on the Qur’an does not make any difference; you are using a pillow. Somebody is using the New Testament as the pillow, somebody else is using the Qur’an as the pillow. And you are snoring over your scriptures. And Jesus and Krishna and Allah remain strangers
Theology begins with a belief, with faith. And philosophy begins with doubt, logic, reason. Philosophy is thinking; theology is believing without thinking. No religion allows thinking, so no religion has a philosophy: they all have theologies.
Christianity does not have any philosophy, it has a theology. It says “believe” — believe in the savior, believe in Jesus Christ, believe that he is the only begotten son of God, believe in God, believe in the trinity. But it is always “believe,” and believing makes a man a hypocrite, because deep down you know that belief cannot become a truth. Deep down you know that this is only a belief; you have not experienced it. There is no base for it, it is baseless: a single doubt and the whole edifice will be shattered on the ground.
Now, a Christian believes that Jesus is born of a virgin mother. Can you think about it? If you think, doubt will be needed. You can only believe, and in believing… you know perfectly well that it is unnatural, it cannot happen.
Christianity says that Jesus was resurrected after his death. You have to believe it because there is no proof, no evidence. In the contemporary literature of Jesus Christ’s life, even the name of Jesus is not mentioned. Do you think a phenomenon like a man getting crucified, getting resurrected, would go unnoticed? that a man who brings dead people to life would not be reported anywhere? that a man who walks on water…?
Do you think this man would have been crucified? He would have been hailed as the messiah by the Jews themselves, because what more do you want? — none of your other prophets have done anything of this kind. But there is not even a mention that there was such a person as Jesus Christ. And he did not have a big following.
If you think, you cannot believe in these things. If you think about God, you cannot believe. So Christianity has no philosophy. No religion can afford to be philosophical; it can only remain theological.
All the organized religions care basically depriving humanity of religion because they are misdirecting you. They are always directing you outwards — their God is far away in the sky. And when you pray, folding your hands towards the sky, you don’t realize that there is nobody to hear you.
In fact, the one who is praying, the one who is alive in you, the one who is breathing in you, is the God.
You have just to discover it.
GOD is LOVE. Hinduism says LOVE is SHIVA. LOVE is the experiential discovery of that deepest dimension of ourselves and of reality itself that the Siddhārtha Gautama BUDDHA called the “Unborn,” the “Uncreated,” and the “Deathless.” LOVE is the source both of inner and external peace. LOVE is fundamental to the continued survival of humankind.
ReplyDeleteYou can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
- Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha
Love and Shiva are two, the ignorant say
Love alone is Shiva, they know not
Love is Shiva, when realized
Love alone remains, as Shiva, for ever.
— Thirumanthiram, 270