(Excerpts from book:
MIND POWER (1980) CH 1 TO 6, Author - Swami
Vijnananand (S.V.), Manashakti publication)
1. PREAMBLE.
Those readers who are not sure about the existence of
mind, independent of matter and those who resist the idea of life after death,
may refer to the books “What Mind Means' and 'Know your death” written by S.V. (The earlier Blogs on 'What Mind Means' may also be seen). While the book (MIND POWER) deals with many
diverse basic subjects of interest, one of the main purposes is to promote
understanding about the role of multi-minds in the multi-cellular organism. With
this understanding the reader will be able to find answers to the questions
about his own mind power, which is of prime concern to him for the success and
happiness in the life. The proposition of multi minds is not easy to digest.
Even Swami Vijnananand (S.V.) also experienced this initially. Truth, when one
understands at its turning point, at each Phase, remains stranger than fiction.
1.1
Life.
Answer to the question- ‘what is life’ still eludes us at
all levels of biological organizations from nucleoprotein to level represented
by virus to the level of human organism we face the impossibility of drawing a
rigid boundary between life and life less. Instead of using immutable
(unchangeable) qualitative category, we have a series of gradations
imperceptibly (that cannot be perceived) approaching a certain boundary that
cannot be truly fixed. Hence a possibility of giving a faultless answers to
a question ‘what is life ‘still eludes us.
We have not found definite evidence of bio-matter
equivalence. This cannot be understood by only physical, materialistic study/approach.
1.2
Free will – Acrobats of mind.
Whether the first free will is to be attributed to
electron, nucleus or something else are the alternatives available. As it may
be the fact that it is only a ‘reflect effect’ observed at the level of
electron but concealing in a portion of nucleus or Para- nucleus state. The
free will at any stage of the hierarchy is the acrobats of the mind.
1.3
Reference to the evidence of mind.
S.V. has defined mind as ‘non-matter’, or a thing
which transcends the velocity of light. He has elaborately discussed this ‘non-matter’
in terms of scientific terms in his other books. On the theory of velocity of
light the above books substantiate negative proof that’ non-matter ‘does exist.
For this we designate the term ‘mind’ for common understanding. (Please refer Blogs on "What Mind Means")
1.4
Virus proceeds as well as terminally
too they generate.
Virus is taken to be at the border line between life
and lifeless. That means they should be the starting entity in the history of
the life of the organism. But there is a controversy. Viruses multiply (grow
many fold) only in living medium. That means the controversy spells whether
virus is a first product of bio world or it is a last product? How can the
first virus shoot off when life, in which it could multiply was not available?
From pulse to mind
a) S.V. elsewhere has demonstrated that the pulse
variation of a human being can reasonably (believably) indicate the forecast of
the probable development in the future. The pulse rate is linked with the brain
through the cerebral cortex. Thus the mind (emotions) acts on body (i.e. pulse)
through cerebral cortex. Thus this can be considered as a vocal dialogue
between mind and matter (body).
b) S.V. in his
books (Equation of happiness and Cure without Medicine) has shown that laws of
action and reaction are also applicable to the mind .
When matter and mind enter into conversation through the language of emotions,
the question springs up “at what stage emotions enter the living organism?” At
this juncture, the very question of onset of life comes in, which is the link
between matter and non-matter (mind).
c) Origin of life: Once it was thought that origin of
the cell was beginning of life. But the inquiry demands further step back.
d) In this book we are tracing back the origin of life
down to mind.
1.7 Later viruses for reciprocal revenge.
a) If initial virus was a reality they should be assumed to be
non-parasite, since there was no life to prey upon. Perhaps they may be
benevolent as early progress needed it.
b) Inequalities: With so called progress (original benevolence was replaced
by) tendencies such as possessiveness, selfishness, aggression and ego might
have cropped up, and so also cycle of revenge.
c) Evolution: An animal kingdom progressed through higher ladders of
cellular structure, multi cellular, complex organisms gained supremacy at the
cost of those who lagged behind in the race. In turn those who suffered chose
to exert their share of revenge, reducing them to micro world. (Bacteria,
viruses etc.). In multi cellular organism, play of virus cell-minds mooted,
their weaker cells were subjected to domination.
d) The statements in this book may be accepted or rejected with reasons.
Denial of our bold hypothesis creates complications, so-called
paradoxes,contradictions,leaps, unknown turned riddle some. This is because, the
logical sequence, which is the outcome of radical thinking are being refused in
the name of science by some dogmatists.
2. SCIENCE IS OUR HIGHEST CLUE.
Though there is growing evidence about existence of non-matter provable
in terms of science (Please refer to earlier BLOG), the utility of science shall never
end. If this (the hypothesis by S.V.) is understood in proper perspective, the
unnecessary tussle between science and reality will be over.
3. INFERENCES FROM OLD AND NEW
PHYSICS
(a) Why this discussion?
If one wants to understand, foresee to prevent and cure human ills, a
blue print is required to be drawn. Approach for such a blue print becomes
difficult unless we remove the kernels (outer covers) of matter i.e. unless we
reach to the mind (non-matter) level of the human being. Laws of matter should
have served adequately to meet all challenges of human life if mind reflected
only material characteristics and would not have created the enigma (puzzles,
riddles) in the behavior. Instead laws of matter have come in for troubles.
Causality is often confronted (challenged).Inadequacy of inferences from ‘laws
of matter’ are crying for solution. Right from medicine to philosophy there is
a crop of new questions notwithstanding old answers.
We don’t feel that laws of matter have lost their utility. We consider
that the reason is: Laws of matter account for only a reflex result of non-material
existence behind scene. Our findings ascertain that inferences from old and new
physics can be reconciled.
(b) Science is still the Rational Hope of a man.
Science is to be accepted for more than one reason.
1. Science judicially declares its limitations whenever so demanded by the
occasion.
2. We are speaking about supra-physical character of matter. Many such
proofs for the above are non-obtainable without using systematic steps of
science.
3. Science by all means is open minded. What is necessary is to expand
its frontiers to accommodate the incoming truth without any subjective
reservation.(prejudiced view)
4. The need of practical life. (Leaving the discussion at higher level, in
common life, science remains indispensable.)
5. Open minded differences are allowed in science.
6. There are a number of biologists who are of the opinion that it is not
possible to give an account of how the amoeba came in to existence, its
structure and his behavior as a living cell without going outside the laws of
physics and chemistry. There are other biologists who have a fixed belief that
such an account of living things will one day be given. However we have not got anywhere near being able to give an account
of living things which is based completely on the laws of physics and
chemistry.
4. BLUE PRINT OF ENQUIRY.
In order to understand life, (body + mind or matter + non-matter)
objectively we need to consider four alternatives, which emerge as follows:-
4.1. Multi cellular animals and every connected cell
is matter.
In this case the laws of matter unquestionably rule.
4.2. None of them is matter, while manifested matter
(clearly seen) matter is a conceptual reality. Here the laws of matter will be at
work at the “manifested conceptual material level,” while the analysis of mind
will be on different level. (As done in this book)
4.3. Every cell has matter but the multi cellular
animal has no matter. This is redundant
as in this case the individual animal does not exist at all.
4.4. Cell has no mind but the multi cellular animal
has a mind.
4.5. The enquiry of cell (cell mind) opens new vistas
of understanding. Man has to learn adjustment with his own self, (i.e. own
cells). This will bring peace within, curtail a list of over aspiration (about
wealth, fame etc.) and ameliorate (improve) relationship with the people with
whom he lives. Indeed the further life shall be the waiting award.
5. ORGANISING
MIND TO CELL MIND.
We trail the way to the breath taking mind or the
organized mind or to the so called individual mind and try to establish its
relationship with the cell empire.
Hypothesis: - Organized mind, when it gets formed.
5.1 The animal’s existence in this world starts with
the conception of male (father) and female (mother). Thus the organized mind,
which we hypothesize, steps up through the cell twin provided by father and
mother.
We then conceive various other steps.
Organized mind sets in for its selfish motives,
(Desire to take birth).
Weaker, half willing, dormant cell shells (shell- the
outward appearance of a person’s character) are over powered for selfish ends
on both sides (i.e. from father and mother’s sides). i.e. The material part of
the cells from father and mother is used by the ‘to be born child’s mind’ to
get the bodily existence in the mother’s body.
5.2 Duplication.
Duplication of similar selfishly motivated cells from
conception till birth takes place in the womb.
5.3 Defective growth.
When the “ organized mind “ fails to collect sufficient or proper
(quality of) cell minds, the outcome is the birth of an imbalanced personality
at physical level, psychic level or at both the levels.
5.4 Paradox of “life”
Life begins. That is living together of paradoxical
interests (of the cell minds and organized mind). The process of moving in a
specified direction continues secretly and quickly.
5.5 Multi-layeredness of mind.
Inherent in this theory multi-layer ness of life
(minds) is obvious. That is what we see internally, externally materially and
immaterially. (How and When is explained in this book and other books of S.V.)
5.6 Way out: Know. Adjust. Be justly equanimous, (Cool tempered).
6. HYPOTHETICAL
THEORY NEEDS PROOF.
For those hypothetical necessary conditions
(postulates) to be reasonably proved at the theoretical level, we need evidence
on the following points
.
6.1 Mind is independent of matter.(Link to What Mind
Means)
6.2 “organized mind “exists in an individual.
6.3 Overlapped mind and multi-layer ness.
6.4 Paradoxical “living “together.
6.5 Our interpretation of views.
6.6 Our interpretation of relief.
The detailed description and evidence about the above
requirements is given in further chapters of the book MIND POWER.
Summary:
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The book attempts to explain in
details the origin of life on the earth. DESIRE is the function of MIND. Only
matter can’t desire. When ‘matter’ joined the ‘mind’, the desire of ‘existence’
of mind got fulfilled and the ‘LIFE’ originated on the earth.
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Though the ‘CELL’ was the first life
on the earth, the logical pre-forms of life would be the COASERVATE and VIRUS.
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Once a single cell life came in to
being, the desire to exist and exist with comfort led to the formation of
multi-cell lives. The same desire continues in the process of further evolution
till the advanced species of human evolved.
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Mind enters into conversation with
the body through ‘emotions’. Then the next question is at what stage emotions
entered into living organism? Here one reaches to the origin of life on earth
which is the first link between the mind (non-matter) and the body (matter).
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This logical hypothesis be accepted
or rejected with valid reasons. The dogmatic approach of rejecting would result
in creating complications in terms of so many paradoxes, unknowns and
riddle-some aspects which are prevailing in the field of science.
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The blue print to foresee and
prevent the human ills cannot be drawn unless we reach the non-matter level of
human being i.e. mind. We just can’t restrict to the materialistic approach.
The laws of Physics and Chemistry are not adequate to understand the science of
life.
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Book MIND POWER tries to trace the
journey of life from matter to the first cell and then from multi-cells to the
evolution up to the advent of human being emphasizing the role played by the
‘desire’ which is the exclusive property of the ‘mind’.
(Note: This is an attempt to
make reader friendly interpretation of the book “MIND POWER” based on my
perception. Inquisitive readers are requested to refer to the original book to
cross check their understanding.)
Vijay R. Joshi.
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