PRE-CONCEPTION CARE.

Healthy Seed Breeds a Healthy Crop

A child must get training/guidance not only for success in academic examination, but also for sound health and in shaping modest and responsible behavior/character. This will pave the way for success in the future, happy life.

“घटाघटाचे रूप आगळेI प्रत्येकाचे दैव वेगळेI

(“Every person is unique. Everybody has different fate”)
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As every person has different personality, every person’s destiny is also different. But it can be changed suitably by training the mind to think and act correctly.

We are deliberating about what is the possible share of efforts by others in making child’s future favorable. And the prime initial role is that of parents, mother and father, who are in the proximity of the child not only since its existence, but even for the concept of would be existence.

Healthy seeds are necessary for excellent harvest. The same principle applies for super procreation. It demands seed to be pure, strong and healthy. The long journey that decides what kind of human being the child is going to develop into, begins at the moment when a mother conceives. But pre-conception care is also necessary for proper conception.

Let us review the latest research on need of pre-conception efforts.

Ref:  Daily Science News: Research from research organization.

1. Preventing child obesity in the next generation must start before conception. Date: October 13, 2016 Source: University of Southampton

Summary: The key to preventing obesity in future generations is to make their parents healthier before they conceive, leading health researchers suggest.

2. Mothers who binge drink before they become pregnant may be more likely to have children with high blood sugar and other changes in glucose function that increase their risk of developing diabetes as adults, according to a new study. Date: April 3, 2017. Source: The Endocrine Society.

3. Work to improve children's health should start before mother becomes pregnant. Date: October 20, 2014. Source: University of Southampton

Summary: The key to making future generations healthier could lie before the mother becomes pregnant, researchers believe. In a new article, they say that a greater understanding is needed of the role of maternal nutrition in preconception and its impact on the child.

4. Fathers drinking: Also responsible for fetal disorders? Date: February 14, 2014 Source: Taylor & Francis

Summary: Maternal exposure to alcohol in-utero is a known risk and cause of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). FAS children suffer significant problems such as retarded intellect, stunted growth and nervous system abnormalities, social problems and isolation. Until now, fathers have not had a causal link to such disabilities. Ground breaking new research has been revealed which shows dads may have more accountability.

5. Epigenetics: Mother's nutrition -- before pregnancy -- may alter function of her children's genes. Date: September 20, 2012. Source: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Summary: A pregnant mom's diet affects her child's health. Now, new research in mice suggests that what mom ate before pregnancy is also important.

6. Parents' preconception exposure to environmental stressors can disrupt early development. Article spotlights latest science showing transgenerational health impact of environmental stressors. Date: August 4, 2015. Source: The Endocrine Society

Summary: Even before a child is conceived, the parents' exposure to environmental stressors can alter the way genes are expressed and ultimately harm the child's health when those genes are passed down to the next generation, according to a new article.

7. Fathers' age, lifestyle associated with birth defects

Date: May 15, 2016. Source: Georgetown University Medical Center

Summary: A growing body of research is revealing associations between birth defects and a father's age, alcohol use and environmental factors, say researchers. They say these defects result from epigenetic alterations that can potentially affect multiple generations.

8. Parenting begins before conception. September 3, 2016

New research shows that your health and lifestyle-factors around the time of conception can have a significant impact on both your chances of achieving a healthy pregnancy as well as the long term health of your child.  In fact it may be even more important than your genetics.

What are epigenetics? Epigenetics are the tiny DNA changes that alter their structure and function. Our DNA is not as ‘set in stone’ as you may think. Just because you have a history of heart disease, does not mean you will automatically pass this on to your child. In fact, during the crucial preconception period, you have the chance to actually improve your genes!

Our genes are sensitive to the environment to which they are exposed. This means that genes can change the way they are expressed depending on their environmental conditions. These changes are known as epigenetic changes.

Factors such as

• antioxidant status
• availability of macro and micronutrients
• stress
• alcohol
• smoking

can have a positive or negative influence over these epigenetic chances. We have long known that these changes occur in utero, however research now shows that you can start influencing the health of your future child before you even conceive. Healthy diet and lifestyle factors combined with availability of important nutrients can influence the environment in which your egg and sperm grow and develop, encouraging positive epigenetic changes. Both the egg and sperm have around a 90 day developmental cycle, where they progress from immature follicle into the mature egg and sperm ready for potential fertilization. It is during these critical 90 days that you can positively influence your DNA which is set to become your future child.

The motto of ‘being the best Mum starts well before birth’.  Now research is showing that the nourishment you provide before you even conceive, may be more important than ever.

"Manashakti" offers guidance.

Foreseeing the need of pre-conception training, Manashakti has already started the guidance to the needy couples through a full day workshop. Let us see the concept in some details.

Conceiving with Resolution

Process of conceiving begins at a moment when ovum, i.e. female egg fuse with gametes, i.e. male sperm. It is believed that three to four months prior to this moment is the important period for pre conception care. Because during this period process of egg and sperm production continues in body of mother and father. This means the preparation to deliver good child should begin around 12-13 months before birth of a child. 

Here we are mainly discussing the mind’s role in such efforts. Husband and wife should resolve to deliver a baby before this. That is to say; the birth should be by the desire or resolution of parents and not incidental or by accident.

YOUR DESTINY IS YOUR CREATION.

During sexual intercourse, healthy male releases about 500 million sperms into vagina of a woman. But only single sperm can unite with an egg of a woman. How this choice is made is an unsolved question. The moment of meeting of a sperm and an egg is the first moment of existence of a future child. This moment is very important for the human being who is going to take birth and live long life. It is the first experience of child to be borne. Efforts to ensure worthiness of human egg and sperm are necessary including physical and psychological state of mother and father and total environment. Therefore it is beneficial to consciously put in efforts in preparation of this moment. 

Eugenics – The Science of Creation: Eugenics means the science of good creation. It is the science of creating good generation, good people. The process of human birth (creation) depends on many components. Worldwide efforts were taken and are being taken to make it better. We find a deep reflection in Indian culture about super procreation, i.e. creation of better people. We also find some mantras in Vedas about this. Indian culture suggests 16 sanskars for a person which are rituals performed pre-birth stage to post death stage. These sanskars teach us about the obligation in our life. Out of these 16 sanskars three sanskars are performed before birth of child.

·  Garbhadhan: knowledge of the efforts to be taken by mother and father to produce good child

·  Punsavan: protection of fetus and welcoming the spirit.

· Simantronayan: (craving of pregnant woman, डोहाळे): purifying environment, taking care of mother.

Following is the book written by Gajanan Kelkar of Manashakti which is good reference on the subject. (http://www.manashakti.org/books/super-procreation)

Marriage and Compatibility

For successful conception, many things prior-to; should also be successful. Among those things primarily important are choice of your partner for marriage. Choosing correct partner and marrying him or her is one of the 16 sanskars. Marriage is considered as a life-time relationship in Indian / vaidik culture; continued with a number of responsibilities only for self and family but also for elders and society in general. (Some cultures consider marriage as a contract). In classical Indian culture, marriage is considered necessary for Gruhasthaashram (गृहस्थाश्रम). Gruhasthashram is considered as the base of three other ashrams (i.e. Brahmacharya ब्रह्मचर्य, Vanprastha वानप्रस्थ and Sanyas सन्यास). We see happiness of an individual and happiness of society combined here. Sexual relationship is not the only purpose of marriage. To live responsible and better married life, what should a husband and wife do, what they should avoid, etc. comes under this sanskar (विवाह संस्कार). In Eugenics or super procreation, choice of a partner and compatibility are very important for birth of a child. Two people must have compatible nature to live happily ever after.

Manashakti Research Center provide guidance for pre-marriage compatibility and post-marriage compatibility. Very rarely the “couples are made for each other”. In pre marriage stage if couple properly understands the character or personal traits of the partner, it will be useful to know what efforts, adjustments, both need do to enhance compatibility. These efforts will eventually result in happy married life. After marriage, during initial days when husband and wife experience each other more closely, with intimacy, then more understanding, faith and love for each other should emerge. Having complete awareness about this is important while choosing partners for marriage. The birth of a child after marriage (not pre-marriage) is desirable and assumed in this discussion. This assumption has become more important and relevant in today’s era of evolving social values.

Thus if compatible married couple conceive with resolution, the possibility of favorable child is utmost, as there would be better chances of proper physical and psychological environment at the time of conception. In this context, a day seminar of Manashakti Research Center on Super procreation is very useful for newly married couples. (http://www.manashakti.org/content/newly-wed-and-pre-pregnancy)

Newly Wed and Pre-Pregnancy

Marriage is one of the turning points in life; and the future life is to proceed on two wheels of the cart. To have a smooth run, there should be harmony between the two wheels. Taking a right direction at this turning point is the first step towards a happy home. A happy home wins half the battle of life! To that end, Manashakti has following activities, literature and products.

                                           

Suprajanan Workshop (for couple)(Language-Marathi)

Machine Test

Energy Quanta Test.

Post-Marriage Adjustment Test

Suprajanan Test.

Nature and Nurture – Both Are Important

Genes of parents play important role in development of brain and overall personality of the child. Now it is also proven that environment in which conception happens is also equally important. Genes are part of nature, but environment is a part of nurture. The feeling of being wanted by parents is very conducive to the child since prenatal stage. Conceiving child and bringing up with love is very beneficial. If physical or psychological condition of a mother is tense or depressed during this stage, this can adversely affect child for life. Responsibility of care of woman during this period mainly rests with her husband and her family. But it is also important that the woman herself be aware and take active initiative in these efforts.

Happiness / Satisfaction / Positive Attitude

Memory means remembering things. Where does this memory begin? Memory means storing what we experience and learn. During this process we change ourselves according to our experience. A fetus cannot have experience of an infant. Likewise a child cannot have experience of an adult. Even though experiences of a person change, the moments of his earlier existence remain intact in later stage. All the experiences from the moment of conception are stored in our cells as a permanent memory. Our today’s personality is an overall result of it. If prospective parents understand this process, they will be able to create positive memories of happiness and satisfaction in child.  Young children are suffering from psychosomatic disorders based on tension and depression. These disorders resulting in destructive and self-destructive nature are linked with the experiences in initial life. Modern science has proven this. Negligence, horrific incidents, bad behavior in this stage, weakens the child physically and psychologically. This creates deficiency in them. Their academic progress gets slow. Child needs love, faith and care from prenatal stage till they are grown up. This is responsibility of parents and teachers as well. When good quality seed is sown, the plant will grow to reach the sky. The prenatal care of the child really starts from pre-conception stage. Pre-natal care is the topic of our next article.

Vijay R. Joshi.

DISEASE - CURE (Cure Your Self - 9)

Practical Guidance to Patient 

(Excerpts from book “Cure Yourself”, author Swami Vijnananand, S.V.)

In the last article, we probed into what a patient is obliged to theoretically conceive in his quest for new medicine.

It is time that for practical guidance of the patient a crude plan may be chalked out.

Partially cure-mystery has been solved. We have previously raised the veil for certain and laid bare the root cause of disease. The ailment is personal revelation of action-reaction phenomenon between individual mind and matter - that is body. In the tussle, 'emotion' toils as a courier, both ways.

Earlier volumes have spoken of the first jerk marshaled from the mind's end. Inevitably, it is for the mind to impede action through emotions. In other words, mind must comprehend that there is no go but to neutralize or to inactivate the emotions. At this turn too, the situation is not fully under control. Assuming one is able to effectively arrest the onslaught of recurring emotions, by no means curbing the effects of the past precipitants remains within one's own reach. For disentanglement of this situation, a procedure by which emotions may be slowly neutralized is imperatively to be traced.

A minute study of the correlation between emotions and body will be an advance in the rightful direction.

Emotions are approximately six: Sex, anger, greed, ego, enmity, and affection. Some experts are inclined to add fear to the list, though to my mind fear a subsidiary emotion. Anyway, the number of primary emotions does not exceed seven without any dispute.

Emotions are ventilated only through sense-organs of the body. So the natural approach to the solution is to counter act the cravings of these sense-organs, in each individuality. As an indication that we are proceeding on the right lines, it is significant to note that to match with the number of emotions, expressions of sense-organs also command approximately the same number of selective alternatives. For instance, eyes can distinguish primarily six to seven colors; tongue has six tastes; smell, touch and sound, follow the same suit.

For the assistance of the readers, below are reproduced reflections of each sense-organ.

1.  Eye: Human vision distinguishes seven colors of which two are more or less shades. Numerous theories exist that go to explain color vision. Without going to technical particulars let us take seven distinctions for our purpose to be: White and black as apparent classifications and additionally five colors from 'Trichromatic' theory of color vision: Red, yellow, green, blue and violet.

2.  Skin (Touch): Approximately seven kinds of cutaneous reception are distinguished: Hot, cold, vibratory, itching, soft, pressing and pain, the last being considered as an exceptional reception. For Recipropathy, it is an accumulated reception.

3.  Tongue (Taste): 'Test book of Physiology' mentions four tastes (sour, salty, bitter, and sweet) as major besides thermal, tactile and pain stimulation. But it would not be wrong to divide taste sensations, for our purposes, into seven major groups: Sour, Salty, bitter, sweet, Alum-like, pungent and metallic.

4.  Ear (Sound): The classification in ear-reception proves a hard job. Indian music is based on seven major tunes and so might other schools of music be on appropriate foundation. Instead of distinction in terms of musical notes one can rely on measure of intensity of various sounds on scale of decibels. For instance, you can easily communicate the order in which you dislike the following: faint whisper at a distance of 1.5 m., ticking of a watch, quite conversation, busy street, shout, fortissimo of a big orchestra and, lastly, thunder. Each respectively produces following intensity of sound in decibels: 10, 20,40,70,80,100,120.

Incidentally, high sound may evoke a sensation which is similar to pain. Beyond a certain limit the sound is not audible to human ear at all. Yet within the range of audibility lie personal likes and dislikes and we can distinguish and divide the range as per individual convenience.

5.  Nose (Olfaction): Here again we come across seven classifications. Below is the data characterizing the acuity of olfaction in man: Ethylic ether, chloroform, ethyl acetate, pyridine, butyric acid, propyl mercaptan and artificial musk.

As in other cases, the acuity of olfaction with regard to same odoriferous substance greatly varies in different people. It also varies to a surprising proportion in same person, as the conditions change.

Despite all diversities, one curious thing is established. As emotions can be grouped into six or seven, so do selective properties of each sense-organ range up to seven. Innumerable shades inter-located in between these seven main characters of emotion give birth to vast multitude of individualists. Nevertheless hailing this 'individuality' as guide, we should not be prevented from linking up emotions with relative capacities of the sense-organs.

Evidently, the immediate step is to interrogate the patient to fill up the following table:

Gradation of dislike :	1	2	3	4	5	6
An emotion you caress
Smell you do not like
Sound-range you abhor
Color you dislike
Taste you detest
Touch you shun
General habitual aversions if any …..

What remains is exceedingly unambiguous. The indisposed, fully persuaded and convinced of the code laid down in 'Cure without Medicine' Chapter Thirteen, may quickly put his finger on a starting point suitable to him. Over and above, hints in the appendix may assist the patient in the preliminary transition.

Take a hypothetical case of a patient whose table records his first-rate dislikes of smell, sound, color, taste, touch to be respectively musk, shout, violet, bitter and cold. The sufferer should pick up representative articles of these dislikes as curative agents.

Recently an invalid called on me with the same maximum range of dislikes. I suggested to him, to use musk agarbatti and soap, advised a walk near railway shunting station, handed over an emblem of violet color to keep on his writing table, gave bitter herbal powders for oral intake and recommended a cold bath. It was also hinted that a soothing alleviation shall be his reward, the moment he begins to 'enjoy' the course suggested. To my astonishment he laboriously attempted the feat till on the twentieth day, and to his surprise, he was cured of his agony ten hours later.

More Questions Answered

Readers and patients who intelligently believe in our premise persistently raise questions, though following the code of conduct, insinuated. A few typical posers are reproduced.

Question 1: Is Nature Cruel?

You propose a peaceful, just, true, life. How will it fit in the unjust and cruel Nature? Does not Nature manifest cruelty?

You perhaps mean Nature you are able to conceive or interpret. Many a time, such interpretation is too subjective to be true. When you blame a lion for slaying your goat and stamp its nature with cruelty, it is a subjective, one-sided aspect. Do you mean professing that the lion should live on grass? Strangely, when human constitution allows intake of vegetable, the man eats goats and blames the lion, even acknowledging that lions by nature cannot feed themselves on grass. And are not vegetables alive and tenacious of living? As a famous physician says, "Like every other form of life on this earth, man must eat life and must in turn be eaten by it." Dr. Karl Menninger has elaborately illustrated in "Man against Himself" how we sow seeds of strokes we receive. Accidents too are no exception to this phenomenon, though apparently you imagine it improbable. Accidents and cruelty are conceptions of ours. The conceptions exist since the link - causative factors - is lost sight of.

Question 2: Use of Medicine, Prayers etc.

Recipropathy too prescribes some prayers, substitutes, some form of medicine too, and allows operations. Then what is the difference between other schools and this one?

The prescription is suggested in different form and perspective. A determined, intelligent patient prefers to attend our full seminar and eschew formalities. For others, a check-up whether causality allows them a cure by coincidence is worth trying. Ultimately all have to peremptorily perceive laws by which a real lasting cure is effected. Moreover, after attending the seminar, accepting all our premises, rarely though, even a firm-minded patient needs some breathing time. He wants time to change himself. During the transition period, thoroughly grasping that other way out does not exist, he adapts himself to external disciplines enumerated in our tenets, in addition to limiting himself to theoretical acceptance.

Question 3: Value of Research

Is there no use of research in medicine according to you?

My opinion loses its significance when the questioner like you harbors a partial, though negligible, faith in medicine. I therefore quote Dr. Carrol, one of the greatest medical authority of this century. He emphasizes, "Disease is a personal event. There are as many different diseases as patients." Earlier he has said, "Moreover, the number of their possible combinations is infinite. No task is more difficult than to analyze constitution of a given individual. The complexity of mental personality being extreme, and the psychological tests insufficient, it is impossible to classify individuals accurately. They can, however, be divided into categories according to their intellectual, affective, moral, aesthetic, and religious characteristics, to the combinations of these characteristics, and to their relations with the various types of physiological activities. There are also some obvious relations between psychological and morphological types. The physical aspect of an individual is an indication of the constitution of these tissues, humors, and mind. Between the more definite types there are many intermediate ones. The possible classifications are almost innumerable. They are, consequently, of little value."

Question 4: Laws of Motion and Medicine

In "Cure without Medicine" you have disproved modern medicine on the basis of laws of motion. But does the medicine imply motion?

Whatever result medicine produces is born out of its action, whereas action decidedly implies motion. In any text book of pharmacology - say by Prof. Dilling - exhaustive details of 'actions' brought about by the drugs may be referred to. This action of medicine is mentioned also in Dr. Hahnemann's 'Organon'.

Question 5: Action, Disease and Money - Debt

Why should we presume that allopathic medicine becomes part of our body? Can we hypothesize that the medicine is thrown out along with stools, urine and other such agencies?

The proposition is elaborately discussed in 'Cure without Medicine', Chapter Nine, Point Seven. True action due to medicine accelerates molecular motion in the metabolism and some unhealthy waste is thrown out of body, but this is only a partial process you are describing. For whatever is worth, I reproduce a simile. Say I owe 2000 chips to Mr. A. To pay it off, I draw another 5000 from Mr. B and square up accounts with Mr. A. I can well boast that I am 'cured' of Mr. A.  Visualize for yourself whether I am genuinely freed from my obligation, affliction, adversity and distress.

Question 6: Food as Medicine

Food also 'acts' on our body as do medicine. Why should it be not termed as medicine?

Forgive me for repeating my rejoinder to a similar question. Undoubtedly there is much that is subjective in the concept of medicine: When someone does not consume butter as a food, butter becomes a medicine. When iodine is applied to a finger that is hurt, iodine is a medicine. Apply the same medicine to a normal finger and it ceases to be a medicine. By itself a solution can have no medical properties definable as a medicine; the use thereof alone determines whether it is medicine or not.

Question 7: Equal and opposite, a contradiction

In 'Cure without Medicine' you assailed homeopaths, protesting that ice cannot be eliminated by another piece of ice. Now you say my dislike is my medicine. Is it not a contradiction?

Discussion enumerating this issue appears in point '4B' of Chapter 11 in the present work. Indeed, the problem demands a comprehensive analysis at the philosophical level. Nevertheless, from one angle the inquiry can be adequately put to scrutiny at this stage. In 'Cure without Medicine' we were checking whether each school remains consistently logical to its own preaching or not. Moreover, when Recipropathy prescribes 'ice' as an interim medicine it is not based on principle of similarity but specifically for the reason that 'ice' serves as a measure of 'equal and opposite' of the initiating cause. Ice serves as your cure, it being your 'dislike', equal and opposite of your 'like' which conceals its understandable description. The crux of the issue can be scanned from yet another point having discriminative bearing. In practice, a homeopath recommends not the actual ice, but its empirical potency. Consequently, discomfort that the slice of ice evokes due to patients dislike for it, is absent. The patient stands clear away from discerning the origin of his smarts, gripes, sores, cramps, stitches and pangs. On account of this, results in homeopathy are random and temporary. In case the medicine is inevitable, its intake must synchronize with true understanding about cause and cure of disease. An unvarnished truth and insight into factual situation brings about a world of difference in the psychology of the patient. It reduces overall evil effects.

Question 8: Awe of Science

Recipropathy respects science, but science itself is changing. Instead, why should a religion that sticks up to constant truth not be taught?

An adherent of science is not sorry that it is constantly changing. The change is initiated by better knowledge, which is highly adored human prerogative. In contrast, immutability and constancy in religion rests on faith. Not that faith has no place, but diversity of religion is a factor that renders the solution to construct a universal faith-platform, improbable. None objects - individually you - to rely on religions. Every religion endorses 'Truth'. True religion and true science should synchronize at one point, since ultimate truth is indivisibly one. Recipropathy suggests you to be normal, detached. I wholeheartedly greet that respect for science is on the ascent but have no awe for that too. In the words of Madam Curie, "While it is proper that we should honor great achievements and appreciate the romance of science, it is unfortunate, and indeed damaging to science, when we forget that scientists are in fact human beings. If we can think of them in life-size and as normal biological specimens, and not as disembodied brains, we can see their achievements in their real perspective; awe-struck reverence of the Scientific Mind is as irrational and, indeed, as superstitious, as the awesome fear that the pagan Dyaks have of Jabu, the Spirit of the Mountain."

Question 9: Can 'Mind' change tissues?

Can our mind build or change tissues in body? Can an antibody be created without antigen? I think it is improbable and so with all its defects why should medicine be not accepted?

In issue No.118 (published some time in November 1959) of 'Soviet Union' under the heading 'Injection against Burn', following news piece is chronicled on page 52, "At the sixth international Blood Transfusion Conference held in the United States Nikolai Fyodorov, a Soviet scientist, astonished experts with his report on burn therapy. The pathological condition of people suffering from serious burns is so critical that medicine is often powerless to help them. Experiments conducted by Soviet doctors have shown that in such cases alien proteins with poisonous properties are formed in the blood and tissues, and that the organism reacts against this by producing antibodies.

One day a young man was brought to the Moscow Institute of Blood Transfusion with three quarters of his body affected by burns incurred in a fire. Hope for his recovery was nil. Instead of an ordinary blood transfusion, however, the patient was given an injection of blood taken from a man who had recently recovered from burn injuries. The result was an immediate improvement in the patient's condition. In hundreds of subsequent cases this kind of injection has had same splendid effect. The woman in the photograph had 50 per cent of her body covered with third and fourth degree burns. Now she is quite well." The report speaks for itself.

Question 10: Should we take medicine?

You do not object medicine being consumed occasionally, is it not? How do you distinguish whether your patient is using medicine as per your principle?

Your inquiry gives rise to a number of supplementary questions. It meets an all-embracing reply, in 'Cure without Medicine', Chapter 11, Chapter 12 of this work and in answer to Question Two above. On an overall understanding being reached, one may need medicine in the transition period. Then it is not the same devastating medicine in the usual sense. Admittedly, laws of motion are not repealed, but after true understanding the gravity is mitigated. Whether a patient is taking medicine under a pretext of 'Transition period' is not an issue into which I can probe. If at all, the patient outwits himself, I remain unconcerned.

Question 11: What is Recipropathy?

What is Recipropathy? What does the name imply?

The name is coined to keep away from words having obtained fore judged connotations. It is based on the observation that we earn just reciprocally for all our actions, without exception.

(To be continued)


Vijay R. Joshi

DISEASE - CURE (Cure Your Self - 2)

Inequality of Man 

(Excerpts from book “Cure Yourself”, author Swami Vijnananand, S.V.)

          Medical scientists from the days of Hippocrates advocate controlled experiments. Criticizing the psychoanalysts, Dr. J. Ehrenwald, M.D., says, "If it means the setting up of a series of repeatable experiments whose outcome can be predicted; controlled psychoanalysis so far has fallen short of its objective". The experiments in medical science are unquestionably open to the cannonade of the same kind. The principle of self-contradiction of the learned doctor springs from the pre-supposition that equality is the code word of Nature and experiments are repeatable.

          A careful scrutiny reveals that it is far from facts. Animal experiments hardly give us a green signal to make our observations applicable to the whole human race.

Our imagination is stretched to a hazardous degree in first testing certain chemicals on rabbits and pigs and rats. Later, the hazard assumes unpardonable proportion when the same chemical is administered to men and women. The ingenuity of some wise brains to put all humanity at par is not supported by facts, howsoever adorable the objective is, in the domain of sociology. 

1.   Living in the latter part of twentieth century, concept of time space continuum envelops our mental frame. It is ridiculous to imagine existence of any two objects, exactly congruent. Science does not permit such feasibility nor does Nature lack capacity to reproduce innumerable variety.

George Gamov says, "If we consider the gene as one giant molecule built from a million atoms, the number of possibilities for arranging various atomic groups in different places within the molecule become immensely large". The estimated variety of such distribution is approximately 62,330,000,000,000, according to Gamov and on completion of the calculation he is pleased to add a comment, "Thus we can see the number of different combinations that can be obtained by redistribution of different 'pendants' among various 'suspension-places' in long organic molecules is certainly large enough to account not only for all the varieties of known living forms but also for the most fantastic non-existent forms of animals and plants which can be created by our imagination".

2.   Theodosius Dobzhansky, professor of Columbia University and the famous Russian researcher in genetics, supports this with equally emphatic arithmetic. Concluding a long argument he observes, "The number 21000 is easy to write but is utterly beyond comprehension. Compared with it, the total number of electrons and protons estimated by physicists to exist in the universe is negligibly small! It means that except in the case of identical twins no two persons now living, dead, or to live in the future are at all likely to carry the same complement of genes. Dogs, mice and flies are as individual and unrepeatable as men are. The mechanism of sexual reproduction, of which the recombination of genes is a part, creates ever new genetic constitutions on a prodigious (huge) scale".

3.   Our talk of equal organisms is rested on a shaky similarity and support.

A Russian biologist narrates his experience in "Land of Bloom", a Moscow publication. On page 314, we read, "In Michurin's orchard I saw two mountainous ash trees. An ordinary one, and one grown by Michurin. The one bred by Michurin did not seem to be in any way different from the ordinary one. When, however, you taste the fruit of the ordinary one, it is sour, but the fruit of the Michurin tree is quite eatable. An enormous difference, a practical difference". Chromosomes cannot tell you anything about it, adds Lysenko.

4.   All the surgeons are apprised of the cases, where the persons manifest abnormal mental aptitude for committing suicide and yet on post-mortem table the brains look quite normal, under the microscope.

5.   Dr. Arnold Hutschnekar, M.D., reflects, "Before we are misled into dividing the human race arbitrarily into two categories, however, let us keep in mind that man with his complexities does not lend himself to simple classification. Each of us has his differences, from every other. To press any of us into a preconceived, rigid, scheme, however logical, is an affront to our uniqueness".

6.   Dr. Barnett admits, "Man, like most animal and plant species, reproduces sexually; his genes are consequently, as we have seen, recombined in new groups at each fertilization, and, apart from uniovular twins, each individual is genetically unique. We know that there is no good evidence for innate psychological differences between races. Despite this, there is certainly much genetically variation within each human group. The subject of innate inequality has become peculiarly confused with the political question of equality of opportunity. Despite the magnificent prose and the admirable intentions of the American Declaration of Independence, it is not true that all men are created equal".

7.   Still more practical examples, in more concrete form, can be obtained in the study of cases handled by Dr. Breakstone. He treated Siamese twins to find that even when the two organisms were joined bodily, the infection was not necessarily common. Evidently, when a medical researcher gives a chemical compound to a group of hundred human guinea-pigs, it is not necessarily a corollary that the effect produced on another group of hundred people, will be a carbon copy. For, the results in the first group themselves have a doubtful value, being recorded without properly ascertaining correlated causation.

The most interesting experiments were conducted in Britain, revealing that not only have different examiners given widely different marks to the same paper, but the same examiner has given different marks when presented with the same paper on different occasions. For instance, in English, the difference was that between failure and distinction.

8.   One more outstanding case. Ritchie Colder, Chairman of the British Association of Science Writers, experiment conducted on "healthy persons under the same circumstances" as the experiment was conducted in a jail on 53 convicts who were to face death. They "volunteered" themselves to cancer experiments. It was noted that the reactions were not universal at all.

In Nature, inequality reigns supreme. Banking on the reactions evidenced on a group in a particular manner, it is preposterous to prognosticate or lay down the course adoptable by the rest of the universe. In theory it is contradictory, in practice it is unconvincing.

An Analysis of Experiments in Hospitals, Jails, etc.

          My (Swami Vijnananand) own experiments also lend support to the concept of universal inequality. After obtaining due permission from private hospitals and from Government, I collected considerable information. Additionally, I myself conducted some experiments. These were carried out in jails, mental hospitals, general hospitals and at other places.  The following charts/tables are available in chapter-3 of the book 'Cure Yourself”, written by Swami Vijnananand, (S. V.).

 Emotion Measurement Chart.

 Pain Measurement Chart.

 Death Convict Emotion Chart.

 Peak Emotion: Comparative Table.

 Approximate Table of Electric Potential from Brain.

 Beggar T.B. Analysis.

These findings support the following conclusions:

1.   Every individual is uniquely endowed with emotional combination peculiar to him. Therefore it is not imperative at all to carry on research in this direction, since our premise is not based on mass-scale standardization, channelization or grouping of human race. We may, if we so desire, resort to classification, always remaining in doubt of its certainty.

2.   When the pulse-rate does not show variation despite variation in a particular emotion, it may only mean that the degree of variation is not measurable by any available apparatus.

3.   The strength of emotional set-up of an individual varies in variety and proportion. In fact, the permutation-combinations arising from countless grades in emotion create all the individuality. The varying grades account for inequalities that exist in the universe.

4.   Death Convict Emotion Chart indicates that even after it has been pronounced that death has occurred by any standard available, the process of life goes on for some time. When to us and to the world the person is dead, when the individual is considered unconscious, certain life processes do continue forcing us to accept that "inward" consciousness continues-or that, while outward consciousness has ceased to function, consciousness has been directed inward. In this strict sense, the moment of genuine death should be located a little while after the supposed physical death because, at any rate for some moments after it, there must continue to exist some life beyond human measurements. Indeed, Sir Arthur Keith arrives at an identical conclusion while writing on the nature of death. This constitutes the real explanation of a type of news we sometimes read in newspapers of a man's 'revival' after his certified death. The experiments conducted in Negovky's laboratory prove that under protective inhibition of the vulnerable cortex, cells can survive the adversities of defunct blood circulation for about five minutes if not more. Experiments in Russia of patients regaining life after virtual death only reflect our delusion about real moment of death.

5.   Peak Emotion Comparative Table indicates that pulse variation can reach a point of limit when under a stress of emotion. The same maximum point can be reached by another person entirely under the spell of different emotion.

6.   EEG Table "E" throws light on the findings as to how the pulse-rate differs in case of movements in brain. The table reveals how apparently inactive state may mean motion in the sense, physics should take its cognizance.

For obvious reasons in every case reported, due care is taken not to disclose the identity of persons or patients concerned. The list of reasons is long and every cultured researcher subscribes to their validity: Government rules, decency, the will of the patients concerned, and so on. In the first chart the method of evoking an emotion is not specially mentioned, as that is not much relevant. One can fall back on multifarious methods. All cases herein reported are entirely based on first hand or authentic information. In fact, very often the doctors in charge and in whose presence I conducted the experiments have affixed their signatures. In some cases the medical authorities actually assisted me where complicated apparatus or operation was involved.

I should point out further that these charts and tables form only part of the huge material collected by me over a decade. This material includes the measure charts indicating human behavior, in naval and air services, in administrative posts, in mines; they include members of the business hierarchy, philosophers and a number which fall under various classifications learned and non-learned. It is far from necessary for the present purpose to reproduce each and every variety of information. Our conclusions, suffice it to say, are thoroughly corroborated by the information here presented as a cross-section of our research findings.

(To be continued)

Vijay R. Joshi.