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Vol. -23, Issue 4, October - December, 2011, 45-50
ARHAT VACANA Kundakunda Jānapītha, Indore
Mind Reading through Mind
Mapping in Jainism Samani Chaitya Pragya*
ABSTRACT Mysteries of mind are never completely revealed. To read others mind is one of the toughest jobs. The present study is dedicated to reveal methods and techniques that can be help us to read other's mind. It amalgamates modern technological techniques with that of spiritual advancement that can lead to the identification and analysis of mental processes and also condtions that occurs in others mental world. It concludes that manah paryāya is state of spiritual develoment through which one can scan the maps of other mental substances (mindomes) and can easily read them through inference.
Reading a mind seems to be really mysterious. One can only infer about others state of mind. To read or infer the state of mind of a being, objective mapping of mind required that can give a structure for the subjective analysis. This means reading others mind on more mechanical and unbiased grounds. It is not an impossible task for spiritually advanced soul.
Of course modern mechanical development has also brought in light such valuable tests as MRI (Magnetic Resource Imaging), in which a sophisticated software system called Computerized Tomography converts radio signals in three dimentional, PET (Positron Emission Topography) and Electro encephalo graphy (EEG) have been quite successful in mapping and to figure out the mental states of a being. Such a kind of figuring-out is possible through advanced picture of any part of the body, functional MRI, PET, Yet spirituality holds its own importance.
Reading others mind is possible even through advanced spiritual development. Jain epistemology discusses about five kinds of cognition, out of which the fourth is a state of spiritual development, by which one directly reads maps of other's mind. These maps which a mind reader cognizes are material in nature. Thus it is possible for a cognizer to figure out, analyze those figures and infer the exact state of mind of a thinker. In order to dive into the deeper concepts of mind reading and mind mapping, we will have to get to know about mind and thought process from the Jaina point of view.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Jainology and Comparitive Religion and Philosophy, Jain Vishva Bharati, Ladnun-341306 Rajasthan
