www.tm.org How the small brain experiences infinity - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1. Dr. Bevan Morris: Maharishi has said that total functioning of the brain is only possible through the experience of the infinite unboundedness of Transcendental Consciousness. But the human brain is a small physical structure. How is it possible for a finite brain to experience infinity?
2. All experiences can be understood on two levels: experience of silence, different degrees of silence, and experience of different degrees of dynamism. When one sees through the eyes, some part of the brain is active. In the brain that sees, there are two values, something silent, and dynamic part of sight: See dynamism; see silence.
3. In each experience value there are two experiences but they take place one after the other. When these two opposite qualities, silence and dynamism, in their very fine states, are experienced together, then that part of the brain which sees silence and that part of the brain which sees dynamism, function together, and produce total brain function.
4. Dynamism is vigilant so that the silence may not swallow it. Silence is vigilant so that dynamism doesn't swallow it. When the silence is in its least state, then dynamism in its least state, they are most alert. This is almost infinite silence, almost infinite dynamism.
5. This is how the small brain experiences almost infinity, and that is pure consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness.
6. The brain doesn't have to be big in order to experience infinity. It experiences almost, almost nil value of silence with almost nil value of positivity. This is called samadhi. Intellect is in absolute balance of silence and dynamism.
7. Another angle will be that infinite silence is made of infinite points of silence. Infinite dynamism is made of infinite number of points of dynamism. So, point of silence and point of dynamism. This experience makes the consciousness fully awake in terms of silence and dynamism both together.
8. Now in this wakefulness, two opposite values are fully awake. In that our intelligence is a field of all possibility.
9. There is a theory in the Vedic literature, that all Natural Law is based on fear. When they are both on the point level, point of dynamism, point of silence, they are on their highest level of their alertness that one may not devour the other. And this is what makes them together as consciousness.
10. I want to make my attention, my consciousness, so fully awake that nothing is impossible for me, either in the field of silence or in the field of dynamism.
11. Those who do not practice Transcendental Meditation remain deprived of this field of all possibilities in their consciousness and that is why they make mistakes. So we say unfold your cosmic potential.
12. Everyone should be cosmically awake: Know thyself.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is widely regarded as one of the foremost scientists in the field of consciousness.
28 сен 2024
