Theory and Review in Psychology

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Human Physiology: Expression of Ved and the Vedic Literature

By Nadar, T.
Theory and Review
1997

The universal source of all orderliness has within itself
all the diverse laws of Nature governing life at every
level of the manifest universe. The entire animate and
inanimate creation is based on these laws and their
sequential unfoldment.  

One of the main questions in psychology concerns the
relationship of the mind and the body. There are a large
number of ideas about how they are connected. Nadar is
one of the foremost proponents of the idea that both the
mind and the body arise from a deeper set of universal
laws or principles that govern the universe. According to
Nadar these laws were set out in ancient times in the
Vedic records of India.  

The laws of nature described in the Vedas are the
subjective laws of nature that structure our mind and
psyche. Seers of the ancient Vedic tradition probing deep
within their consciousness discovered these laws in much
the same way as Newton or Einstein, when they discovered
the laws of universal gravitation or special relativity,
enjoyed a vivid experience of sudden understanding or a
kind of deep "insight" into these laws. The seers
experience was not on the level of thinking, or
theoretical conjecture, or imagination, but on the level
of direct experience, which is more vivid, distinct,
clear and orderly than sensory experience. What the seers
did was to allow their mind to settle to its silent
state, and watch as their awareness became active. The
seers described clearly the sequential process by which
thoughts arise in the conscious mind. They then wrote
these descriptions down in the Vedic hymns  

Modern scientists generally avoid discussions of
subjective means of gaining knowledge because they
consider them to be unreliable. However, all human
knowledge is subjective because it exists inside our
minds. Somewhere deep inside us are mental structures
that govern reliable knowledge. By turning awareness
inward through meditation techniques the ancients
discovered a method to allow the excitations of the mind
to settle down so they could see the silent structures of
the mind. Once the excitations of thought settles, the
seers could watch the first excitations of the mind begin
to arise, and it was by probing these fine excitations
that they mapped out the structures of the mind.  

The next key point in the logic is that the laws of
nature that structure human awareness are the same laws
that structure the brain, and that structure the
universe. This key point is usually accepted by modern
science, but Nadar takes it a step further. Nadar bases
this book on the understanding that the fundamental laws
of nature are the expressions of the Vedic literature. If
this is the case then it should be possible to show the
relationship between these laws and the structure of
something in the universe. Nadar undertakes this
assignments, and connects the Vedic literature to the
structure of the human brain and nervous system. He
begins by showing how the laws of nature sequentially
unfold from the deepest levels in the unified field of
natural law, the source of physical creation according to
physicists. He then shows the parallel structure of the
Vedic literature, and begins to connect the two
structures.

Since the human mind and the human brain are so closely
connected, it is logical to look for structural parallels
between laws of nature that are proposed to describe
subjective conscious experience and the structures of the
physiology. This is exactly what Dr. Tony Nadar did. His
book systematically outlines the relationship between the
subjective laws of nature described in the Vedic hymns,
and the objective laws of nature found in the structure
of the human nervous system.  

When the Vedic seers settled their minds into pure
consciousness, the first wave of activity was a
transformation of silent consciousness into a three-fold
structure of knower, known and process of knowing. Nadar
shows how this three fold structure is mirrored through
the rest of Vedic literature, and corresponds to a three
fold grouping structure in the physiology.

Nadar's book is valuable for anyone who is interested in
a systematic attempt to connect mental structures and the
brain. His works both indicates how the mental universe
can be organized, and simultaneously indicates how this
may relate to structures in the brain. His book is very
important for anyone who is developing mind-body theories
to read and consider.

References
  Nadar, T.. (1993) Human Physiology: Expressions of
Veda and the Vedic Literature

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