Jaganmohanlal Pandita Sadhuwad Granth

Author(s): Sudarshanlal Jain
Publisher: Jaganmohanlal Shastri Sadhuwad Samiti Jabalpur

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प० जगमोहनलाल शास्त्री साधुवाद ग्रन्थ
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that every mental and emotional event is linked to hormones and neurohormones produced by the specialised nerves, hypothalamus and the endocrines. A whole new nervous system based on chemical substances is being mapped out in laboratories all over the world. Systematic meditation prescribing concentration on psychic centres, i.e. concentrated perception of endocrine glands and certain controlling of the brain, gives the average person a safe means of controlling his moods and altering behaviour too. It could teach practical methods of treating emotional disorders and drug addictions. For a lasting change of attitude and behaviour, one must transmute the synthesization of the hormones. Same is the case for a permanent control of one's moods and altering one's way of life-transmutation of hormonal synthesization. Perception of psychic centres is a safe, practical, easy-to-learn. technique for obtaining these results.
Today eminent doctors, specialists and general practitioners alike, have realised that meditation is a powerful tool, both for healing and maintaining good health. Irrefutable scientific proofs now available show that meditation and consciously achieved total relaxation can cure and prevent any number of diseases which are caused by tension and stress. Scientific investigations have provided evidence that regular practice of meditation positively influences the control mechanism which is ultimately responsible for the homeostasis in the body. It produces a more balanced equilibrium between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic components of the autonomic nervous system. The benefits of meditational practice are (measurable and can be obtained by anybody who cares to learn the technique and practise it regularly.
Improvement of physical health and cure (and prevention) of serious illnesses without injurious drugs, though valuable contribution, is not the only or even the chief objective of meditation. It is, in reality, the apparatus for controlling one's irrational instincts of anger, aggression, cruelty, vindictiveness and fear. It is a tool for awakening and developing one's conscious reasoning and thereby modifying one's attitude and behaviour to be truly worthy of a human being. It is a "process of remedying inner discord" as aptly stated by Willaim James. The main objective of meditation is, thus, not to acquire physical goodness but to acquire total psychical goodness by eradicating all evil from one's thoughts, speech and action.
We now know that the irrational instincts and impulses emanate from the endocrines, and not from the brain. They not only generate feelings but also demand appropriate action to satisfy the need. All the impelling forces are produced by the endocrine secretions called hormones. Hormones have profound influence upon the mental states and tendencies, behavioural patterns as well as emotions of an individual. Frequent emotional stresses result in psychological distortions and irrational behaviour. It follows from this that for rational development of various personality factors, it is necessary to transmute the synthesization of the chemical messengers-hormones and neuro-hormones. It has been established by the use of the bio-feedback and other scientific measuring equipments that meditation has the power to alter the electrical activity of the nervous system as well as transmute the synthesization of the chemical messengers. The endocrines are the associates of the