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experience and the experienced.
Sage Ashtavakra says to Janaka "The cause of your bondage is that you have created another observer" i.e. mind. And hence scientific analysis and the laws derived therefrom cannot go beyond the totality. They cannot approach the whole for the psychological whole cannot be arrived at by putting the mechanical parts together.
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The tempo of life is now so fast that all that the mind experiences lie scattered in bits in one's conciousness. They try to join each other and merge into the whole but they fail because the whole has no place in mental excercise.
Experts tell us that only one tenth of the human brain of the humanity is in use. Man thus does not need physically larger brain to comprehend the whole and to deal with the fast moving world. Human brain has 10 billion nerve cells. The question is how to activate the brain in full. May be, nature will through evolutionery processes do this job. But nature works too slowly to help man come out of his present crises. Hence the need to increase brain potential by harmonizing the functioning of the two counterparts of the brain i.e. the old animal ancestry brain and the new human brain (cortex).
The new brain (cortext) is till in its infancy and hence gets overpowered by the old brain. In Mahabharat, Duryodhana says," even though I know what is right and yet am unable to practice it; even though I know what is evil, am unable to refrain from it." Why? because the animal brain supercedes the human brain.
...there seems to be an intellectually impassable gap between the evolution of life and that of Man as such. Man is still an animal by his very structure, and has enherited a large number of instincts from his ancestors. Some of them are still necessary to protect the species. Nevertheless he has also brought into the world from an unknown source, other instincts and
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