Learn to forget some old habits  , develop new habits , and change the ways your neurons fire.

The neuroscientist Micheal Egnore , who is also a practising brain  surgeon , writes on the topics of free will and free won’t , you may be familiar with free will but…. free wont ?

But extraordinary as it might sound , this kind of thinking and discussion parallels some of  the talks that Krishna had with Arjuna in  the Bhagavad Gita . That due to bad habits or previous connections , in previous lives  , we are forced to act by the material energies in certain ways , almost beyond our control .  But Krishna says , by education,  association and practice,  we can learn to practice ”  free won’t ” means , my body and mind are attracting  me to do something  , but , but I won’t listen . Because there is going to be an outcome of these actions  that ultimately will not be in my best interests . The founder of ISKCON Srila Prabhupada said in his writings  ,” The devotee is very expert at ignoring his mind.”

By such practice of controlling mind and senses,  it is medically proved , says Michael Egnore,  that the neurons begin firing differently , brain patterns change ,  the secretion of brain chemistry behaves differently , thus addiction and craving subside . It has been detected that a person’s brain is working to attract the  person to  particular experiences,  but a   resistance occurs , thus overcoming previous tendencies that a material body and mind by former karmic positions would be expected to adopt .The whole of the principles of a yogic system are centred on this phenomenon . In Vedic  understanding ,  two things are at play , God helps those that help themselves.

Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur, a famous and prolific writer of Vedic philosophical matters, tells we , as spiritually minded persons,  have two bodies , the influences of the former life , and the influences of this life .

If  we could see the atomic influences along with ethereal planes , we would see clouds of influences ready to move our psychological movements and senses in particular ways , things the astrologers can pick up in astrological readings . So the current body along with its associated energies , is one body , and a  newly forming spiritual body , depending on how much we form it , the process  referred to as  ‘Sadhana practice and Ragganuga practice in the Vedas is at work. Namely , the  forming of a mentally conceived spiritual form , our original pure spiritual  senses  and mind are developed .

Thus, the phrase “the science of self realisation ” has many connotations .

http://www.thevedicspectator.com

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