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SUMMARY Dr. Swami Shankardevananda Saraswati
It is very difficult to conduct research on yogis, to find people that you can take into a laboratory and experiment on. Dr. Ghosh was in the fortunate position of being at the Yoga Biomedical Trust in Cambridge with Robin Monro and several other researchers to conduct this wonderful research. It is important that yoga now becomes practical. We know about the higher philosophy; we know about kundalini. But it is this type of research that is making yoga accessible to doctors, researchers and scientists so that they can understand that yoga is not just a religion or a mystical philosophy; that it is a practical science which has the capacity to influence the very heart of the cells of your body, to influence the DNA in the genes. It can make your brain change color from red to blue! Instead of having a red brain you can have a blue brain, and the bluer it is the more relaxed you are. The blueness is a map that is developed by a special machine. This machine is placed on the skull, and as you go into the different states of consciousness, it measures what is happening in your brain. Then it goes through a very complex process and this wonderful picture of the inside of your head emerges and we see the changes.
Gradually there is a decrease of tension, excessive activity, thinking and emotion. You can relax and find this is tific representation of shanti. When we say Om Shanti, this is what it looks like in your brain. As your brain becomes more relaxed your heart becomes relaxed. Your blood pressure decreases, your sleep improves. There is not one part of your life that will not improve by this state of relaxation. So we are indebted to Dr. Ghosh and to all the scientists who have spent time trying to assemble this information and to make it available to us. That is why Paramahamsaji, in his wisdom, has given great importance to this research, to the scientific aspect of yoga. It is science that we listen to; it is science that we understand because of our upbringing, our education and because of the direction in which we are going.
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