Think With Your Heart

I am very much sure that each of you have heard the above phrase some or the other time. It’s one of those widely used phrases by all religious and spiritual guys. It’s one of those powerful lines by which you can make most people yield to what you want them to believe.

Very recently I was wondering what the phrase “Think/Listen” with your heart actually means. Does it mean that we have to think with our heart rather than our brain? Can we also think from our heart ? Why that the nature molded you to think with two organs than one?

Being of the non-believer persuasion, I usually think and accept the facts with proofs.

It made me to investigate further on the power house of all beings "The heart". And my study pointed me out that heart functionality limits only to the pumping of the blood and nothing more. It’s very clear from the study that heart does not have the functionality of thinking or making decisions that part is only left only with the brain.

But there are few case studies which points out that there exist few neurons around heart as in brain which they claim to have the individual thinking capability because of which we experience discomfort and heaviness in the heart when we are emotional. But when clearly observed we can know that these neurons exists for different functionality than thinking and the discomfort is because of secretion of certain hormones when we are emotional which affects the functionality of heart.

I somehow strongly believe that emotions are the root cause of all sufferings. Basically we need to understand human body at the root and may be that what they meant by saying "man has no way to go than inwards".

As for my understanding goes, feelings are the response of our body to fear, anxiety or pleasure. Feelings are nothing but physical reactions. Emotion is the response in our mind to those physical events. Emotion is how we interpret those physical feelings based on the conditioning of our mind.

When I feel fear, certain chemicals are released by my brain. These increase the blood flow in my body, which makes me sweat and increase my heart rate. I may feel stressed and certain muscle groups may start to tighten. All of these are preparing me to run from that which I fear.

When I experience pleasure I feel light and almost ready to float away. My heart rate slows compared to when I am afraid. I feel no muscular stress and my muscles are felt relaxed and this is the state that we all feel to be in all the time.

I personally feel that being aware of one's feelings requires understanding of the nature of our body and mind functioning. It requires that you become aware of your physical reactions, the feelings in your body.

There exists nothing spiritual, religious or anything for that matter, all that is there is physical and it cannot be denied by anyone.

Slightly Off Track ...

Every thing is fair and easy when you are on track but once off the track even a small job is a mighty task. When your voice is at your best everything you sing is like a cake walk and dance but when you off the beat and lost in your mind then its uphill task to get back on track.

I was in the same state for last few weeks lost in my own worlds with my own projects and how ever hard i try to put down something on my blog was always in vain. I realized how easy the words flow when you on blogging track but its really tough to even write a word when you are off the track. But i am glad i am now back on track.

"All explorations in history is off the track , its evident that its impossible to invent anything with a destined journey" - Ravi.

Death Defined

The below are words of my Grand father T.D. Chandran

As life after eighty is like a candle in the wind, it is my posthumous desire that this pamphlet is distributed to those who attend my obsequies, or funeral.

According to Gandhiji, "Birth and Death are the obverse and reverse of the same coin. They are different aspects of the same thing. But out of ignorance we welcome the one and shrink from the other. Death is the master who would take us by the hand and lead us to god. But we resist. He would take us to heaven, but we cling to hell".

Death is only a bigger way to going abroad. It is the end of our journey to an unknown port. Death comes like a thief in the night. We know not the hour nor the day.

It is an natural to die as to be born. Time is an endless ladder of humanity, and wherever on stops it is death. We cannot run away from death, as nothing can save us when the appointed time comes.

Death is not departure, it is arrival, as the sun sets in the west only to rise again in the east with renewed splendor. We should should submit to pain because it is inevitable, to bereavement because it is irresparable, and to death because it is our destiny.

Death affects neither the dead nor living, for life is an eternal current which instantly fills every void. Death has an undying reputation of relieving pain. It is life that is painful. Death is painful to the near ones around us and not to the dying. The grief at a loved one's death is self-pity. The pain has its root in pleasure. We suffer when that which gives us joy is taken away from us.

For that which is born, death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Death is more universal than life, for everyone dies, but not everyone lives for ever. Constant remembrance of death keeps one's mind clean and calm.

In the democracy of the dead all are equal. There is neither rank nor position, nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Our body is a well-set clock which keeps good time; but if it is unduly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour. Uncertainty of death keeps the world alive. If human beings could time death, they would not bother about living and kicking.

When you were born, you cried and others laughed, but when you die see that you laugh and others cry.

Arr. 17-8-1910 T.D. Chandran

Dep. 17-4-1993 Yadavagiri, Mysore.