When we meditate, the brain slows down, not a big thing about it.
No, you do not need the instrument to measure that your brain has slowed down.
Slowing down does not mean that your intelligence is going down.
No, not that way.
We are becoming calmer and calmer.
Scientific research and spiritual research, I think, they should
go hand in hand, actually.
But there is a limit also.
Spiritual experiences can be expressed and monitored upto a certain
extent in the scientific world.
It has a limit.
Having crossed that limit, we cannot use any instrumentation, in order
to measure the spiritual variations, or spiritual spectrum, so to say.
In the scientific world, you know there are many gadgets, they are now using,
to monitor the change in consciousness.
When we meditate, the brain slows down, nothing big thing about it.
No, you do not need the instrument to measure that your brain has slowed down.
Slowing down does not mean that your intelligence is going down.
No, not that way.
You are becoming calmer and calmer.
You are able to now move away from this neural network firing to a
different dimension altogether.
We transcend the thinking process.
Now, how are we going to measure this transcendence of the mind,
when the mind is ‘inactive kind of’?
But mind you, I tell you, the mind is super active.
During the samadhi state the Universe is not big enough, when this
consciousness expands during the samadhi.
How are we going to measure that infinity in a small gadget?
I can only pray.
We can all pray together and say hopefully one day scientists may be successful.
God bless them with that, so that others may have more confidence in spirituality.
If that serves the purpose, wonderful.
But I did find something very exciting.
For example, certain states in samadhi, upto a certain extent, which our
shastras call it as Turiya state.
Turiya state means the fourth level of consciousness.
We have this waking consciousness, where we are interacting with each other.
Then as we are trying to go into a ‘sleep mode’, we pass through
various states like ‘REM’ or dream state, and then deep sleep state.
So those three states are known to us.
Fourth is this Turiya state.
Now what is the difference between deep sleep state and Turiya state,
the fourth level of consciousness, which is samadhi in another word?
In sleep state, when we are in a deep sleep state, a delta wave appears,
meaning the wave frequency is about three to five hertz per second.
Similar thing also happens when a person is in samadhi.
When a the person is in samadhi, he will also experience this wave pattern, we will
be able to witness that on the instrument.
Only difference is, in a deep sleep state, you are not aware at all.
In samadhi, when this delta wave appears, you are fully aware.
You are entering into a cosmic consciousness, universal consciousness,
where you not only know about what is happening here, around us, but
at a certain level of Consciousness, you can also feel what is happening
around the world, the Universe.
And there is still another level of consciousness, we call it
Turiyateet, which means going beyond this fourth level of consciousness.
Now, the fourth level of consciousness is when we close our eyes, and with the help
of Pranahuti, when we touch the deepest level of consciousness, that is Turiya.
But when through practice, we are able to experience this Turiya like state,
even with open eyes, during our working hours, or while you are cooking, or
you are eating, or part-taking with various activities, and still you
are able to maintain that level of consciousness, my apprehension, is
only this much: that there are not many things that we can measure.
Are we able to measure the speed and position of electrons?
We are not.
Now, people laugh when we talk of this ‘wave thing’ and ‘particle
thing’ and all those things.
We are not able to detect all those things.
We do not even know for sure what is the nature of this electron.
Is it a particle or is it a wave?
So, we keep on struggling with limited things, little things like electrons,
protons, neutrons and who knows what the actual particles are also.
Those are just imagery.
All these things are imagery.
If we are limited with such limited aspects of atoms, can we imagine the
limitless, which is smaller than the smallest and bigger than the biggest,
as our Upanishads speak about?
So there are limitations.
But with advancement, especially in the neural, neurophysiological sciences,
neurology, I think we are able to see, we are able to witness, beautiful
effects of this by just closing our eyes and meditating with love.
And I specifically use this word, ‘meditating with love,’
we call it as bhakti, right?
meditating with so much of bhakti in our heart for the Lord.
Because you meditate without bhakti and meditate with bhakti, that
also makes a world of difference.