vedabhASya - Vedic Studies

Understanding animal signs was an ancient science. In those days people lived in very close quarters with animals, both domesticated and wild. Hence they had opportunity to understand the animal signs clearly and related it to understanding the environment better. For eg. when does dragonfly fly a lot..? when there's a lot of moisture in air and about to rain. So simple. When lizards make sound, they do either to avoid fighting or for courtship. In either case they are asking for their acceptance. So when people say something and lizard makes sound, people mis-interpret it as acceptance. lizards make sound asking for acceptance. We also had various beliefs in the past based on our environment at that time. You are not supposed to hit on top of the head (it means you are unprotected and face death). You are not supposed to wave off with your right hand (lakshmi will leave you), but you can do so with left hand or left foot (poverty leaves you). You are not supposed to hit your chest...

There's an asana called savasana or yoga nidra which anyone can do. A trainer, by using verbal cues, repetition, imagery etc heightens the concentration and focus of participants. This relaxes them and makes them amenable to suggestions  from the trainer.  This is how hynposis also works. An alternative to this technique is used in rural india today. In a dark room lit with few lamps,  with pictures in brilliant red (long wavelength) colors and with certain sounds, priests shift individuals into a high concentration and focus state and make the person before them to do what they want.  Many swamijis/gurujis help their disciples arrive at the same concentration and focus (leading to mind relaxation) by combination of their voice, music, room settings, chants, decor etc etc.. The above techniques were used for long times as a cure to psychotic disorders by relaxing the patients (like how hypnosis is used today as an augmented clinical therapy). In many cases of depress...

saMkhya (based on the saMkhya kArika of Iswara krishna) design pattern has 24 elements excluding the purusha. Basically it's a design pattern for evolution in matter and consciousness domain. The design pattern is "A detached observer drives the evolution of the evolute". Observer is purusa. evolute is prakrti.  For eg we define a parameter called 'energy' which is abstract, but which is known through its effects such as mass, heat, motion etc. we attribute one cause called 'energy' to all these effects, because they are transformable between each other. We say they express the same 'energy'.  The abstract energy is the 'puruSa' the observer.  All the matter and biological forms are the prakrti, the evolute. Same way we define a parameter called 'consciousness' which is abstract, but which is known through its effects such as signaling, growth, death etc,  We attribute one cause called 'consciousness' to all these effects, b...