[ramakrishna] Science and spirituality 2

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I believe that all the prerequisites of a more 'evolved' mind are already

there. No new part of the brain (the hardware) needs to be developed.

We only need to debug the mind (the software) so it is no longer

running on its own, but is running under the concious control of the I.

 

Remember that all the impressions of the earlier lives are still there

in the mind. The effect of these impressions is what enforces the Law

of Karma. Meditation cleans up these impressions by making the I

become aware of them. This is "debugging the software."

 

Thus, the "evolution" that I envision is in the direction of more effective

meditation techniques, and not an evolution in terms of genes.

 

Vinaire

 

 

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Dr C S Shah

Ramakrishna

Friday, March 03, 2000 9:38 PM

[ramakrishna] Science and spirituality 2

Dr C S Shah <drcssha Science and spirituality contd... 2We fail to see the better evolved human beings, simply because we arebound by our sense perception to see progress from materialistic pointof view only. The confusion is created due to our inability tounderstand or predict the course of evolutionary progress. We fail toperceive that simplicity, denial of sense enjoyment, renunciation anddiscrimination are necessary preconditions to transcend the humanlimitations of selfish genetic structure and to reach that state ofevolution where Reality -Consciousness- is expressed in its finer andfull glory. The man then becomes multi-centric instead of egocentric.The universal consciousness tends to manifest through the higherevolved central nervous system.Throughout the history, persons manifesting such qualities of higherevolved human beings -we may call them God-Man species -are born on thisearth. Jesus Christ, Lord Buddha, Krishna, Guru Nanak, and in recentpast Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, and many others all over theworld, are a few examples of such species. Many more are forgotten inthe flow of time.The question is why should we bother? Let the nature take its own courseof evolving this 'better human being'; such was and is the case ofevolution of other species. No monkey or ape has made any consciousattempt to become a man; it was an accident or nature's play at themost. This may be partially true.However, now, the natural evolution has created a brain structure whereintelligence has reached the stage by which human being can control andguide the course of his own evolution. There is a possibility that suchevolution may bring about changes in the brain structure by adding oneor more lobes to the brain, or developing new connections within thecerebral cortex.Stretching our argument to its logical conclusion, we can postulate thatthe brain can develop new centers and connections to control all thelower centers of lust, hunger, sensory perception, special senses,autonomic nervous system including control of heart and respiratoryfunctions, etc. Due to this control every activity of body and mind istemporarily suspended to arrive at a stage where limiting adjutants areno more active, and the consciousness is perceived as it reallyis -Universal, Unbound and Free. This is what we call as reaching thestate of nirvikalpa samadhi and reaching the domain of 'Thousand PetalLotus'-'Sahasrara' in Tantra terminology. This new center may be capableof expressing the consciousness of universal love and solidarity.dr c s s