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Re: WHAT ARE THOUGHTS...
In article <4kh0o2$e6q@babbage.ece.uc.edu> jupi@cs.tut.fi (Vehkalahti Jussi) writes:
dchakrav@netserv.unmc.edu (Dhruba Chakravarti) writes:
>Specifically, what you have described as impossible has been proven to be
>very possible by many. Thoughts, I am told, will not be created by you
>but will come to you.
Yes, certainly. You need no brain after you really
believe that. What do you think the brain is used for?
Let's consider the thought process in terms of Samakhya philosophy.
You become conscious of a particular topic, the mind thus deliberates
on that topic using existing knowledge, and arrives at some seemingly
new realization thus changing the context of the mind having caused it
to evolve. The first part is focus, for some reason you become
conscious of something or some idea. That has traditionally been
ascribed in Hinduism, with several schools challenging the cause, to
the existence of a supreme consciousness. Thus you have consciousness
illuminating some realm of your mind which then becomes your focus.
Thus the Samkhya says that learning to discriminate between the
illumined and the unillumined, the manifest and the unmanifest one can
attain to the Brahman. And then only will the Gayatri mantra make
sense to you which is a prayer to God for this illumination.
