Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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When people relax in their houses there is a change in the pattern of brain activity. This has been shown by the BEAM. But when a man gets angry, then you can see the colors on the electrical activity map of the brain show the peak of hyperactivity. This is the reason why all the emotions, anger, envy, jealousy, passion and love, are considered to be a sin in yoga. All these emotions produce stress at the emotional level which disturb the normal pattern of the brain. This irregularity percolates through the brain, through the central nervous system, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems.
When there is an imbalance in the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, there is also a change in the endocrine system and hormonal secretions. This hormone which has been produced by irregular behavior or tense situations percolates slowly into the cell which is the structural and functional unit of our body. Cells are the creating and working entities of our body. When there is a change in the emotions, when a person experiences anger, then this feeling reaches the secretory glands through the brain. The hormones that are secreted from these secretory glands reach the cells which are very subtle, and they change the physiology of our body, they change our feelings, our habits and our attitudes.
Apart from this, I have also seen in my research that when the mind is excited, it not only disturbs our physiology, it percolates deeply into the more subtle level of DNA. DNA is the blueprint of life which governs all the physiological and other activities regarded as the template of life. The DNA present in the subtle cells governs the various activities in our own life. Under stress, the blueprint implanted within us by creation, this masterplan, also gets disturbed by the hormones secreted as a result of stress.
When the DNA activity, the life's blueprint, starts getting disturbed, we must ask ourselves, what is the solution? What is the technique that can relax our brain, because during tension and stress, the brain activity is in a highly aggravated and hypertensive state. Some people consume alcohol to get relaxed. But this is not the solution. I have photographed a drunkard's brain and a man who was dreaming before falling asleep. I took the map of a drunkard who was tipsy and of another man who was dreaming an especially hard dream of horror. The picture is very similar. It shows that alcohol never relaxes. It is a wrong notion that alcohol relaxes.
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