Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature

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from: Theory and Review in Psychology (an Electronic Journal)

 

Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature

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by Nader, T., PhD., M.D.

 

Contents: The universal source of all orderliness has within itself all the

diverse laws of Nature governing life at every level of the manifest universe.

The entire animate and inanimate creation is based on these laws and their

sequential unfoldment.

 

One of the main questions in psychology concerns the relationship of the mind

and the body. There are a large number of ideas about how they are connected.

Nader is one of the foremost proponents of the idea that both the mind and the

body arise from a deeper set of universal laws or principles that govern the

universe. According to Nader these laws were set out in ancient times in the

Vedic records of India.

The laws of nature described in the Vedas are the subjective laws of nature that

structure our mind and psyche. Seers of the ancient Vedic tradition probing deep

within their consciousness discovered these laws in much the same way as Newton

or Einstein, when they discovered the laws of universal gravitation or special

relativity, enjoyed a vivid experience of sudden understanding or a kind of deep

"insight" into these laws. The seers experience was not on the level of

thinking, or theoretical conjecture, or imagination, but on the level of direct

experience, which is more vivid, distinct, clear and orderly than sensory

experience. What the seers did was to allow their mind to settle to its silent

state, and watch as their awareness became active. The seers described clearly

the sequential process by which thoughts arise in the conscious mind. They then

wrote these descriptions down in the Vedic hymns.

 

Modern scientists generally avoid discussions of subjective means of gaining

knowledge because they consider them to be unreliable. However, all human

knowledge is subjective because it exists inside our minds. Somewhere deep

inside us are mental structures that govern reliable knowledge. By turning

awareness inward through meditation techniques the ancients discovered a method

to allow the excitations of the mind to settle down so they could see the silent

structures of the mind. Once the excitations of thought settles, the seers could

watch the first excitations of the mind begin to arise, and it was by probing

these fine excitations that they mapped out the structures of the mind.

 

The next key point in the logic is that the laws of nature that structure human

awareness are the same laws that structure the brain, and that structure the

universe. This key point is usually accepted by modern science, but Nader takes

it a step further. Nader bases this book on the understanding that the

fundamental laws of nature are the expressions of the Vedic literature. If this

is the case then it should be possible to show the relationship between these

laws and the structure of something in the universe. Nader undertakes this

assignments, and connects the Vedic literature to the structure of the human

brain and nervous system. He begins by showing how the laws of nature

sequentially unfold from the deepest levels in the unified field of natural law,

the source of physical creation according to physicists. He then shows the

parallel structure of the Vedic literature, and begins to connect the two

structures.

 

Since the human mind and the human brain are so closely connected, it is logical

to look for structural parallels between laws of nature that are proposed to

describe subjective conscious experience and the structures of the physiology.

This is exactly what Dr. Tony Nader did. His book systematically outlines the

relationship between the subjective laws of nature described in the Vedic hymns,

and the objective laws of nature found in the structure of the human nervous

system.

 

When the Vedic seers settled their minds into pure consciousness, the first wave

of activity was a transformation of silent consciousness into a three-fold

structure of knower, known and process of knowing. Nader shows how this three

fold structure is mirrored through the rest of Vedic literature, and corresponds

to a three fold grouping structure in the physiology.

 

Nader's book is valuable for anyone who is interested in a systematic attempt to

connect mental structures and the brain. His works both indicates how the mental

universe can be organized, and simultaneously indicates how this may relate to

structures in the brain. His book is very important for anyone who is developing

mind-body theories to read and consider.

 

References: Nader, T.. (1993) Human Physiology: Expressions of Veda and the

Vedic Literature

www.gemstate.net/susan/indexHP.htm

1997 Theory and Review

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(Dr. Nader Raam made his discovery under the inspiration and guidance of H.H.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose Transcendental Meditation gained world-wide

recognition for its scientific verification by more than 600 research studies of

the benefits in the field of physiological, psychological, and sociological

health, conducted in over 200 scientific institutions all over the world and

published in over 100 scientific journals.)

 

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