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What
is mind? No matter! Even as scientists all over the world are making concerted efforts to understand the human mind and the human consciousness, a plethora of provocative questions still remain unanswered. As someone said, if we could satisfactorily explain the workings of our minds, our brains would be so simple and underdeveloped that we wouldn't be able to understand anything! This is a definite limitation of the conventional sciences. And here's where people take recourse to spirituality, imagination and the occult. Vedic
Science Has the Answers! Even after treading for long in the realm of science, Prof Sharma feels that science fails to understand consciousness as an independent entity. He says, "Science cannot integrate a non-physical entity, like consciousness, into its conceptual framework, and views human personality as a non-conscious physical system." What
is Consciousness? Quoting the Upanishads (Shvetashwar, 6/19), he says that consciousness itself is non-differentiable, inactive, placid, indescribable and non associative: "Nirajanam Nishkriam Shantam Nirvadyam Niranjanam" But again, consciousness manifests itself in the form of knowledge. Sharma's
Formula
which he defines as Ego, soul, Atman or Karan Sharir. However, the field of the non-physical entity of consciousness can be expanded to infinity, so as to cognize the total infinite set of concepts of knowledge G, i.e.,
which he variously defines as God, Parmathma or Brahma. Yoga
& Meditation Bridging
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