On a daily basis, our mind is capable of surfacing challenging questions like, What's the purpose of my life? Why was I born? Is it just a chance with no purpose? After turning endless wheels and perhaps reading the wisdom passed on from centuries, we come back to the fact that we really don't know.
What we know is, survival on earth is a constant and continuous struggle for all living creatures. The evolution of the species resulted in the Human being, the most evolved being in the animal kingdom. Because of the highly developed cerebral part of the brain humans posses distinctly superior mental qualities. The human brain can be divided into three parts.The inner most part or the reptilian which has the vital jobs of life preservation.The part surrounding it, the Limbic system - is the seat of emotions was developed later. Finally above It the Cerebral part, which is responsible for all those qualities which separate Humans from the rest. This developed when the physical body lost the skills for survival and it's defense system proved to be inadequate. Clever methods were needed. So the cerebral part became more developed more as the physical body got weaker and weaker. The human life style became more withdrawn from Nature, creativity, thinking, contemplation, recording the thoughts, discussing them with other Humans with better developed communication skills, separated humans from the rest of the creatures. As the imaginary faculty created many thoughts, the stress response resulted in increased harm to the body by producing unnecessary hormones.
The fundamental thought is, the thought about the physical body or body awareness "I am this body" referred to as the Ego by the psychologists.This faculty drives the body according to the output of the faculty called Intellect. The intellect (intelligently) analyses the thoughts cropping up and recommends the ego to drive the body accordingly. For safety, the ego is given the power to analyze the recommendation further,and make it's own decision and drive the body accordingly. The ego's decision is final.
For convenience, the body, is classified into three parts. Gross body (the physical body which we see)- The Astral body (which is also called Subtle body), and the Causal body. The Astral body is made up of the abstract entities, mind intellect, and ego. The Causal body, the subtlest part is the unconscious layer. Though felt as unconscious, because we are not able to know what is happening there, it is the most alert part keeping vigilant watch over the safety of the body even when we sleep, The causal body maintains the continuity of the I-ness i.e. the continuity of the Identity. If this is lost, we lose our sense of identity resulting in a serious mental problem. All the seeds of our inherited tendencies are buried in the causal body and when they are activated, thoughts arise in the mind according to the tendency activated. There are millions of these tendencies, and infinite number of thoughts could arise. The fear of the separation of life energy from the body called death- is the most powerful fear there. Long time memory seed are buried here,and thoughts from them arise, from time to time causing stress. In wakeful state all the three bodies are active, in dream state Astral and Causal bodies are active and in deep sleep only the Causal body is active. This discussion will be useful later.
Now we come to the amazing thing called "LIFE" on earth. Under favorable conditions,from inorganic substances, thanks to the unique property of Carbon to combine with itself, to form long chain organic molecules-i.e. Bio molecules. This made it possible to form a single cell-bacterium, that could divide itself and form two cells (DNA molecule was formed).Thus life came on Earth. From there a long journey in time resulted Human existence. The genes determine the essential nature of the individual (inherited qualities), whose impression are stored as seeds in the Causal body. As one grows up more impressions are added to the Causal body. All these impressions are projected as various thoughts. These cause different emotions. If one can prevent addition of negative emotion causing impressions impressions we can reduce stress in the future.
This point the way to our efforts to remove Stress generating impressions in the Causal body, so that no such thoughts could arise. How can we achieve that? The Causal body is at the unconscious level, how can we get there? Deep meditation calms the conscious mind and a thought free interval can be found, and during this interval,deeper level thought can pop up. If a stress generating thought pops up,using the Intellect faculty, give autosuggestion that thought seed should be annihilated. Repeated suggestions will remove that seed.
There are other methods which we discuss later. There is a convenient way,the three-fold classification of Stress. Gross body (Physical body) related, Astral body related(mind related) and the third, Natural calamities like earthquake, etc. We have no control over the third type Stress. Only we plan ahead and choose the residence and job, in such a place where there are no such activities. This is necessary only if one is too much obsessed with that kind of thoughts. The other two we can deal with by employing many standard techniques.
Let's take a look at some special applications of the methods of Yoga, Tantra, and Mantra that can help deal with stress causing situations. Mantra, Yantra and Tantra deal with such problems, pertaining to the Gross and the Astral bodies (Physical and mental). Mantra: In many religions Mantras (this is a Sanskrit word) are used for Stresses pertaining to the Physical body-illness, as well as mental illness. Given the nature of the illness, the expert selects the appropriate Mantra remedy,and qualified persons are employed to Chant the Mantra,with an appeal to God, to cure the illness.There could be some rituals to follow.The expert will decide.The correct choice, and proper execution of the Chanting are very crucial for the cure. Yantras are designs of special types,with special power. Experts alone can choose the correct Yantra, then after a ritualistic procedure, it is worn by the patient in the neck or arm. Cure is assured. For all these to yield result faith in them by the patient is very necessary. Tartaric methods involve special effort from the patient, and must be done under the direct supervision of the expert. This is not suitable for most persons,so we need not discuss them further.
We stop this article here and in the next we'll see a few examples that illustrate these points further.
What we know is, survival on earth is a constant and continuous struggle for all living creatures. The evolution of the species resulted in the Human being, the most evolved being in the animal kingdom. Because of the highly developed cerebral part of the brain humans posses distinctly superior mental qualities. The human brain can be divided into three parts.The inner most part or the reptilian which has the vital jobs of life preservation.The part surrounding it, the Limbic system - is the seat of emotions was developed later. Finally above It the Cerebral part, which is responsible for all those qualities which separate Humans from the rest. This developed when the physical body lost the skills for survival and it's defense system proved to be inadequate. Clever methods were needed. So the cerebral part became more developed more as the physical body got weaker and weaker. The human life style became more withdrawn from Nature, creativity, thinking, contemplation, recording the thoughts, discussing them with other Humans with better developed communication skills, separated humans from the rest of the creatures. As the imaginary faculty created many thoughts, the stress response resulted in increased harm to the body by producing unnecessary hormones.
The fundamental thought is, the thought about the physical body or body awareness "I am this body" referred to as the Ego by the psychologists.This faculty drives the body according to the output of the faculty called Intellect. The intellect (intelligently) analyses the thoughts cropping up and recommends the ego to drive the body accordingly. For safety, the ego is given the power to analyze the recommendation further,and make it's own decision and drive the body accordingly. The ego's decision is final.
For convenience, the body, is classified into three parts. Gross body (the physical body which we see)- The Astral body (which is also called Subtle body), and the Causal body. The Astral body is made up of the abstract entities, mind intellect, and ego. The Causal body, the subtlest part is the unconscious layer. Though felt as unconscious, because we are not able to know what is happening there, it is the most alert part keeping vigilant watch over the safety of the body even when we sleep, The causal body maintains the continuity of the I-ness i.e. the continuity of the Identity. If this is lost, we lose our sense of identity resulting in a serious mental problem. All the seeds of our inherited tendencies are buried in the causal body and when they are activated, thoughts arise in the mind according to the tendency activated. There are millions of these tendencies, and infinite number of thoughts could arise. The fear of the separation of life energy from the body called death- is the most powerful fear there. Long time memory seed are buried here,and thoughts from them arise, from time to time causing stress. In wakeful state all the three bodies are active, in dream state Astral and Causal bodies are active and in deep sleep only the Causal body is active. This discussion will be useful later.
Now we come to the amazing thing called "LIFE" on earth. Under favorable conditions,from inorganic substances, thanks to the unique property of Carbon to combine with itself, to form long chain organic molecules-i.e. Bio molecules. This made it possible to form a single cell-bacterium, that could divide itself and form two cells (DNA molecule was formed).Thus life came on Earth. From there a long journey in time resulted Human existence. The genes determine the essential nature of the individual (inherited qualities), whose impression are stored as seeds in the Causal body. As one grows up more impressions are added to the Causal body. All these impressions are projected as various thoughts. These cause different emotions. If one can prevent addition of negative emotion causing impressions impressions we can reduce stress in the future.
This point the way to our efforts to remove Stress generating impressions in the Causal body, so that no such thoughts could arise. How can we achieve that? The Causal body is at the unconscious level, how can we get there? Deep meditation calms the conscious mind and a thought free interval can be found, and during this interval,deeper level thought can pop up. If a stress generating thought pops up,using the Intellect faculty, give autosuggestion that thought seed should be annihilated. Repeated suggestions will remove that seed.
There are other methods which we discuss later. There is a convenient way,the three-fold classification of Stress. Gross body (Physical body) related, Astral body related(mind related) and the third, Natural calamities like earthquake, etc. We have no control over the third type Stress. Only we plan ahead and choose the residence and job, in such a place where there are no such activities. This is necessary only if one is too much obsessed with that kind of thoughts. The other two we can deal with by employing many standard techniques.
Let's take a look at some special applications of the methods of Yoga, Tantra, and Mantra that can help deal with stress causing situations. Mantra, Yantra and Tantra deal with such problems, pertaining to the Gross and the Astral bodies (Physical and mental). Mantra: In many religions Mantras (this is a Sanskrit word) are used for Stresses pertaining to the Physical body-illness, as well as mental illness. Given the nature of the illness, the expert selects the appropriate Mantra remedy,and qualified persons are employed to Chant the Mantra,with an appeal to God, to cure the illness.There could be some rituals to follow.The expert will decide.The correct choice, and proper execution of the Chanting are very crucial for the cure. Yantras are designs of special types,with special power. Experts alone can choose the correct Yantra, then after a ritualistic procedure, it is worn by the patient in the neck or arm. Cure is assured. For all these to yield result faith in them by the patient is very necessary. Tartaric methods involve special effort from the patient, and must be done under the direct supervision of the expert. This is not suitable for most persons,so we need not discuss them further.
We stop this article here and in the next we'll see a few examples that illustrate these points further.
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