LOGICAL EXPLATION FOR VATA

            Ancient Indian Sciences such as Ayurveda and Thantravidya considered living body as a machine (Yanthra) run (thanthra) by Vata or Pranas (moving and movement-creating energies). Ultimate source of these energies was considered to be supreme soul (Paramathman), Athmam (Purusha) or Brahma (ever expanding cosmic entity).  As the first step of creation Avyaktha (undifferentiated, primordial entity) was manifested from the above said primary source.

            According to Caraka-one of the greatest authorities of Ayurveda Life (Jiva) and other creations were evolved from Avyaktha. Akasha (space) was created from Avyaktha in the beginning. Vayu or air was created from Akasha……………………………………………

            Akasha or space is not vacuum but filled with all kinds of electromagnetic waves – the fact which modern science also admits. Ayurveda considers Akash (and also vayu) as the source of Vata dosa, the most important constituent of ‘life’ (others being Pittha dosa and Kapha dosa which are material constituents of living body). Vata is considered to be the leading factor in the living body which is responsible for the movements inside the living body and of the motor organs. (Vata literally denotes movement)

            Caraka and other Masters had described about five important sections of Vata, viz prana, apana, udana, samana and vyana. Susrutha – one among these Masters had described in details the functions of these sections.

1)      Prana facilitate the functioning of heart (pulsation of heart), digestion and also absorption of nutrients from the food.

2)      Apana is the energy responsible for ejaculation, urination etc

3)      Udama is the driving force behind inhalation exhalation etc.

4)      Samana facilitate division of rasa (the juice primarily absorbed from food and water after digestion) into blood, semen, bone marrow muscle, bone, skin etc.

5)      Vyana is the factor behind all motor functions in and of the whole living body.

Bhela on e of the most ancient authorities on ayurveda considered the disturbance of vata (and also other two dosas) as the causative factor of mental diseases.

            According to Ashtanga Hrudaya (a famous text on Ayurveda) mind and sensory organs also are activated by Vata energy

            Caraka described that Athman (soul) receives Akasha (electro magnetic waves) as the first step of creation of life. We can safely assume that living bodies always absorb Electomagnetic waves reaching from sun, stars, cosmos and planets, (reflections), through the lower part of spinal cord or mooladhara (root chakra). From this part these energies radiate in to spinal cord, brain and other nervous systems facilitating the functions of mind, heart, sensory organs, motor organs and other subsystems.

            According to Susrutha the sensation of pain is perceived with the help of this vital energy. He was also aware of the correlation among Vata, climatic conditions and circadian rhythm. Variations in the ability of living body to absorb these energies in different climates, and also the variations in the availability of these energies in the atmosphere at morning evening etc are the cause of this phenomenon.

            In Ashtanga Hrudaya there are descriptions of state of mind being regulated by Vata. Wake fullness, dream, sleep, moods of mind etc are decided by the full or partial presence of these optical waves in the brain.

            We can conclude that Vata or Pranas are the electromagnetic pulsations spread through out the nervous systems and its peripheries of living body, sustaining it and facilitating all of its functions.

VITAL RADIATIONS ‘ROLE IN CIRCADIAN AND OTHER BIO RHYTHMS’

 

                All living beings, including plants have their own rhythms which are influenced by the rhythms of emissions of ionizing radiation from sun, stars etc directly or indirectly. These influences act not only through sensory organs but through internal structures of the organism also.

                Most important of the biorhythms is circadian rhythm, which is of 24 hours duration. According to modern physiology, the suprachiasmatic nucleus of hypothalamus acts as a clock and creates his rhythm. Frequencies, wave lengths and intensity of the vital radiations (reaching that part of brain) from sun etc is the regulating factor behind circadian rhythm. Blood pressure is reduced at night and increased at daytime because of the variations in the ionizing radiations available at Sinu Atrial Node, reaching through nerves, brain, spinal cord and filum terminale.

                Strokes in heart and brain occur mostly in early morning at about 4 A.M. At this time the powerful radiations from sun start reaching the atmosphere and the sudden stimulation of heart or brain lead to collapse because also of material causes existing there. Asthma also aggravate at this time because the entering of powerful radiations causes upwards movement of phlegm in the lungs.

                Most of the deaths, after complicated surgeries are reported at midnight. At this time the availability of ionizing radiations is very low in the atmosphere.

                From the days of new moon to full moon and then to new moon, a rhythm in physiological and psychological state (health or ill health) is observed in different persons. This phenomenon is due to the variations of ionizing radiations reaching to C.N.S. from moon (through reflection). Psychic diseases such as schizophrenia aggravates according to the growth of moon. Depression and lack of vitality reduces as the moon grows. Some diseases progress when these ionizing radiations are increased in the atmosphere as these radiations enter the C.N.S forecefully and increase ionization and electrical pulses that are unbearable to the brains, which have defects of various nature. Serious studies have to be undertaken in these fields. The quantity of drugs for epilepsy, Psychosis, depression, schizophrenia, Hepertension etc should be regulated according to circadian, lunar and other rhythms.

THE ROLE OF RADIATIONS IN THE CREATION AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE.

According to modern views it is believed that life was created or synthesized in the sea by conversion of nitrogen to protein and protozoa. It can be safely assumed that solar/stellar/cosmic radiations have played a crucial role in this process, similar to photosynthesis taking place in the leaves of plants. There are hypotheses about the role of lightning in the creation of life (conversion of nitrogen in to protozoa) Lightning itself is the result of ionization taking place in atmosphere because of ionizing radiations reaching there from sun, stars etc.

"Now we know there is no vital spark... And then the most recent thing the D.N.A - that is no vital spirit, it is a molecule. As Watson said there are only molecules, everything else is sociology" Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Prof, of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of the Centre for Brain and cognition - University of California (The Frontline April 7,2006)

This is an utterly wrong assumption based on mechanical materialist philosophy.

(The root of illogical and unscientific opinion of Dr. James Watson that some human races are intellectually inferior; can be detected in this observation).

Research workers think that membranes of cells are constituted by molecules which float in water and these molecules have 'prior knowledge' about how to combine. They also think that the network of neurons in the brain of a child also develops in the same method (Research at Leeds-University Northern England). It is nothing but the vital radiations that guide this process by lining up the neurons around the channels of radiations of varying characteristics.

The guiding force behind the evolution of life also was these radiations. Genes were undergone mutation as the effect of the nature of radiations existing at each places, periods and ages. The frequencies, wavelengths and intensities of the solar/ stellar/ cosmic radiations reaching the earth had decided the pattern and direction of the evolution of every kind of life forms in this earth.

Alterations of expression level in 167 different genes of bacteria (salmonella) kept in outer space (Atlantis space voyage) were found in a study conducted by Ms. Cheryl Nickerson etal of Arizona State University. (The Hindu 27/09/2007). One of the main reasons for this phenomenon shall be the differential levels (in the intensity, frequencies and wavelengths) of natural radiations in the outer space, compared to the same in the ground where the control batch of bacteria was kept.

Conscious evolution of mankind is possible if we utilize the refined paths of meditation, and regulation of vital radiations (pranayama). Ancient Gurus were aware of this possibility. They had described this process as inter species evolution. (Jathyanthara parinama - in yoga suthra of Pathanjali)

In this age of modern science enquiries should be directed for utilizing natural radiations through regulation of vital energy (pranayama) to eliminate genes if any, which contribute in the development of negative qualities such as criminality, greed, cruelty etc. Positive qualities such as truth, mercy, nonviolence, altruism etc should be strengthened. This is the only path for the survival of the human kind and life in this earth. (The other path is towards *mutual destruction foolishly designed by persons having craze for wealth and power working in every spheres of life namely-politics, business, industry, finance, technology, military, terrorism).