When the mind is filled with different thoughts at the same time,it can't act intelligently.But,when the same mind is without any thoughts,it can be at rest. Only that mind can act and think intelligently.
To make ur mind like that,u have to do meditation or yoga sadhana.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Silent Guru-Dakshinamurthy
Medha Dakshinamurthy is depicted as a guru who teaches without speaking a word.He sits in jnaana mudra in silence and knowledge comes automatically. Thisseems to point at the intuition within us, which taps to the universal sourceof knowledge! This intuition that contributes to unstructured learning is "theformless entity of the right brain" and it gives us knowledge thru silence.Medha Dakshinamurthy is stationed in our right brain as the formless entitycalled intuition and teaches us everything.
Medha means intelligence. What is the seat of intelligence? Normally we considerthe brain as the seat of intelligence. Dakshinaamurthy is dakshina+amurthy.Amurthy means a formless entity. So "Medha Dakshinaamurthy" may be roughlytranslated as "the formless entity in the right brain". What is it?If we study the basics of yoga and modern neuroscience, this can become clearer.The right half of the brain controls the left part of the nervous system and theleft half of the brain controls the right part of the nervous system. There is across over in the medulla.
Though Lord Medha Dakshinamurthy's name is associatedwith the right side (dakshina), he is depicted as sitting with his left (vaama)leg up.Modern science says that structured logic is performed by the left half of thebrain and inutition and unstructured logic is performed in the right half ofbrain.
That may be why left-handed cricket batsmen tend to look morefree-flowing, intuitive and elegant (e.g. David Gower, WV Raman, Brian Lara,Sourav Ganguly etc). The nervous reflexes associated with left part of the body(and hence the right brain) are used by them more pre-dominently and hence thereflexes are more intuitive.
Medha means intelligence. What is the seat of intelligence? Normally we considerthe brain as the seat of intelligence. Dakshinaamurthy is dakshina+amurthy.Amurthy means a formless entity. So "Medha Dakshinaamurthy" may be roughlytranslated as "the formless entity in the right brain". What is it?If we study the basics of yoga and modern neuroscience, this can become clearer.The right half of the brain controls the left part of the nervous system and theleft half of the brain controls the right part of the nervous system. There is across over in the medulla.
Though Lord Medha Dakshinamurthy's name is associatedwith the right side (dakshina), he is depicted as sitting with his left (vaama)leg up.Modern science says that structured logic is performed by the left half of thebrain and inutition and unstructured logic is performed in the right half ofbrain.
That may be why left-handed cricket batsmen tend to look morefree-flowing, intuitive and elegant (e.g. David Gower, WV Raman, Brian Lara,Sourav Ganguly etc). The nervous reflexes associated with left part of the body(and hence the right brain) are used by them more pre-dominently and hence thereflexes are more intuitive.
Silent Speech!
In the silence of the Guru, questions disappear. Do you know the story of Dakshina Murthi?
Many sages did a lot of meditation. They had a lot of questions and they came to Dakshina Murthi. The Guru was young, the disciple old, they came and sat next to Dakshina Murti. The Guru did not say a word and all the questions vanished. The Guru is always young in spirit. The disciple is always old because he is bogged down by the past. That is the story of Dakshina Murti!
Many sages did a lot of meditation. They had a lot of questions and they came to Dakshina Murthi. The Guru was young, the disciple old, they came and sat next to Dakshina Murti. The Guru did not say a word and all the questions vanished. The Guru is always young in spirit. The disciple is always old because he is bogged down by the past. That is the story of Dakshina Murti!
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