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Scientific Temperament Assisted Meditation [STAM]

Sporadic thoughts: (1) Meditation is to prepare a state of mind with a specific kind of approach to life. In most meditation methods, you have to have a Guru, a Master or a Teacher. That makes you depend psychologically on an external persona, a father/mother figure. The STAM attempts at making you a self-dependant self-respectfull person with a positive outlook and make the approach to life and beyond (!) external rather than internal. Scientific temperament guides you through your predicaments, doubts, guilt feelings, decision making process and allows you to look at the world with equanimity. For this you need not have any knowledge of science or technology. It is being practical in your approach, reduce your problems to bare minimum and then tackle the main issues with a balanced approach. It is also being a good person fit to live in a society in an amicable fashion.

Society has tremendous influence and control over an individual. The indoctrination starts right at birth. The father/ mother are the prime representatives of that ensemble called society. There is scientifically conducted research, [New Scientist report], indicating babies at early period in life, a few weeks, start responding even to the way they are held (facing or not facing the holder, a soft or a hard touch) or the way one communicates to them, including any audio-visual signals they receive. The parents naturally have had their own conditioning done by their respective parents and the society.

The response society gets from an individual is not a simple summation of the inputs he has been given. There in fact lies the crux of ever present tussle between the Self and the Society.

(2) Thinking about all the persistant clamour on meditation and adhyatma, I started rationalizing it. Aren't these one and same as science and all it is supposed to be, only in very very vague words. Take Kundalini as an example. Its chakras are almost same as glands or physical organs, which make us feel happy and contented. The difference lies in the undeveloped ideas about our body system in the dark ages. Even the seat of emotions or intelligence was not known in those days. In Urdu, a language known for its literature, liver is supposed to be a seat of emotions, that is why 'Jigary Dost' is a phrase for a bosom friend. My poor head!

Best rationalization I have discovered is that 'Paramatma' in Adhyatma is actually Mathematics and its rules. i live because of these rules and when I die these rules will no longer be in charge of my body but the molecules and everything will dissociate and they will obey the laws that bind the nature. Nature, that itself runs on mathematics, ask Einstein. It is . This should solve all your poblems regarding Universe.