Friday Musings contd ............
Outlook reminder flashed - "Chintane club chill out". Vidya hurried to finish her timesheet entryto head towards cafetaria. She was eagerly waiting whole week after getting a taste theprevious Friday. As she entered cafe, she felt comfortable seeing most of the chintane membersin the coffee queue.Uddhav said "folks i have exciting plan this weekend - iam on to explore a old Lord Kurma templeon the outskirts of Mysore, its really a much needed break i need from the hectic week i had"Madhav said " I would like to join too, have you done backgorund research of the diety and theshtala purana, I enjoy sight seeing backed up by prior research"Uddhav said " Ya man!, I will send across the blog site"
Vidya, being a new entrant to the club questioned "Team i have some fundadmental questions on this spiritual stuff and correlation to science etc""is being spiritual scientific, logical andsupported by reason?"Syama said "Vidya thanks for the question, This question leads us to continue where we stoppedlast week - Law of marginal utility and profile of the senses"Madhav said "Lets try to delve into what is fundamentally pleasure? what are the avenues thatwe seek pleasure?""Basically any kind of pleasure on the material plane is derived by the interaction of senseobject with the sense - for example the pleasure sensation of eating this samosa is basicallythe sensation generated by interaction with taste buds""Sensual pleasure has its foundation in itch caused by the friction between a sense objectand the sense" "Nature of itch is that the hankering increases with each additional itch - the hankeringfor the quantity of the sense object increases which is socially called Greed"Uddhav added "Hence in the Gurukula system, the primary training given was how to toleratethis itch. This itch also has a substantial influence on the mind"
Vidya asked "How are thoughts in the mind generated? many times even without trigger thereare streams of thoughts pass in and out of the mind as though from a external source?"Syama replied "We need to understand the science of matter - matter is a combination of 3dimensions technically called 'sattva' 'rajas' 'tamas'""Everything inluding thoughts can be classified into these 3 categories""These can be compared to 3 energy fields" "Thoughts are generated by the influence ofthese 3 energy fields on the mind" "Techniques to empower our self to proactively fill the mindwith thoughts belonging to the spiritual realm is called Yoga"
Madhav added "The necessity of spirituality comes from this nature of the senses. The bottom line is senses can never be fully satisfied, infact the hankering and greed increases leading to alltypes of negative feelings like jealousy, anger etc... Spirituality is search for happiness beyond the gratification of senses - it starts by sense regulation which gives the seeker feeling of peacewhich makes him pursue further towards happiness and ecstacy techniques"
Vidya "Thanks folks I think its time to leave for the weekend. I need to understand further ontechniques of thought control, what is spiritual happiness etc? I also want to understand time. Thanksteam see u next week"
Vidya, being a new entrant to the club questioned "Team i have some fundadmental questions on this spiritual stuff and correlation to science etc""is being spiritual scientific, logical andsupported by reason?"Syama said "Vidya thanks for the question, This question leads us to continue where we stoppedlast week - Law of marginal utility and profile of the senses"Madhav said "Lets try to delve into what is fundamentally pleasure? what are the avenues thatwe seek pleasure?""Basically any kind of pleasure on the material plane is derived by the interaction of senseobject with the sense - for example the pleasure sensation of eating this samosa is basicallythe sensation generated by interaction with taste buds""Sensual pleasure has its foundation in itch caused by the friction between a sense objectand the sense" "Nature of itch is that the hankering increases with each additional itch - the hankeringfor the quantity of the sense object increases which is socially called Greed"Uddhav added "Hence in the Gurukula system, the primary training given was how to toleratethis itch. This itch also has a substantial influence on the mind"
Vidya asked "How are thoughts in the mind generated? many times even without trigger thereare streams of thoughts pass in and out of the mind as though from a external source?"Syama replied "We need to understand the science of matter - matter is a combination of 3dimensions technically called 'sattva' 'rajas' 'tamas'""Everything inluding thoughts can be classified into these 3 categories""These can be compared to 3 energy fields" "Thoughts are generated by the influence ofthese 3 energy fields on the mind" "Techniques to empower our self to proactively fill the mindwith thoughts belonging to the spiritual realm is called Yoga"
Madhav added "The necessity of spirituality comes from this nature of the senses. The bottom line is senses can never be fully satisfied, infact the hankering and greed increases leading to alltypes of negative feelings like jealousy, anger etc... Spirituality is search for happiness beyond the gratification of senses - it starts by sense regulation which gives the seeker feeling of peacewhich makes him pursue further towards happiness and ecstacy techniques"
Vidya "Thanks folks I think its time to leave for the weekend. I need to understand further ontechniques of thought control, what is spiritual happiness etc? I also want to understand time. Thanksteam see u next week"
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