Ahimsa the Science of Peace

Author(s): Surendra Bothra
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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THE THOUGHT
It has been a popular belief that the human brain is about a dozen times as large as that of any monkey, which itself is the largest in the animal kingdom. Its size has been considered a factor responsible for its superiority. The human brain is certainly large as compared with that of many animals but not the largest. The size is not what imparts it the unique intelligence. It is the much greater complexity that makes it far superior to any other brain in the entire animal kingdom. In fact it is the most intricate and powerful of all works of nature known to date.
The unique thing is that most of this additional size and complication is devoted to memory, association, and speech. As far as the medium of observation is concerned, man is almost exactly same as the monkey. He essentially smells, hears, tastes, touches, and sees very much as a monkey does; only his reactions are vastly different.
Man is different from animals basically on two counts: the versatility in communication due to highly developed vocal organs, and the ability to think and conceive what is not physically evident. The human brain is not just a pulsat