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Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the importance of regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique: |
Chhand
is one of the structuring dynamics of Rk Veda. It highlights the MEASURING and QUANTIFYING qualities involved in structuring Rk Veda. With reference to consciousness, Chhand comprises the specific sets of laws of Nature that are engaged in promoting the quality of Devata--the process of |
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Transcendental
Meditation is a MUST for everyone who wants to be self-sufficient in every way--that means anyone who wants to bring his level of intelligence to that level of total intelligence of Nature from where infinite order and evolution of everything is spontaneously sustained, and from where his thoughts and actions will spontaneously be in the evolutionary direction. -Introduction to Maharishi Vedic University, p. 353 ©2001 Maharishi Vedic Library •contact us• |
observation, the dynamism of observing in the witnessing quality of Rishi --within the Samhita level of consciousness, providing a structure to the eternally silent, self-referral, self-sufficient, fully awake state of consciousness, which is intimately personal to everyone. (complete table of qualities) |
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the physiology, Chhanda is found within the feedback loops of the hypothalamic- pituitary axis and sensory-motor systems. These are the resetting mechanisms that maintain proper balance within the range of transformation anticipated or ordained by the body. In a way, these maintain the proper rhythm, or metre. They therefore play the role of a transforming, a predominantly Devata quality, even though they have an inherent covering and uncovering quality, associated with the name Chhand. -His Majesty Prof. Tony Nader-Ram in Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature, pp. 94-95 |
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