Considering the Vedas

In consideration and reconciliation of the two thoughts stated by Maharishi in the Preface of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on on the Bhagavad-Gita; A New Translation and Commentary Chapters 1-6. When Maharishi states that”Vedic wisdom is by its very nature independent of time and can therefore never be lost.”  and also states that, “…the gulf between the teaching and the understanding grows wider with time,” is reconciled by the understanding that life is both subjective and objective.

The Vedas are a light house of wisdom which point to the greater unmanifest reality out of which all things flow. This reality being subjective in nature, teachers have the charge of sharing this knowledge in a way  that the pupil or disciple many understand. The student only has the ability to  perceive information on their level of consciousness and the true nature of consciousness remains obscure to the unenlightened mind. This obvious misfortune correlates with the students and their inability to integrate and disseminate information and the existence of reality being both manifest and unmanifest is forgotten. Man has essentially replaced the journey of enlightenment for the spontaneous after effects of living a life that projects itself from the greater reality. This is why the  rewards of enlightenment are seemingly unattainable.

Consciousness is pure unbounded thought, subjective in nature and is independent of time. Yet in the objective world when mans perception of life is focused outward and he becomes enthralled with with the world of things, he looses sight of himself and forgets the manifest source of all wisdom. Man must then begin the process of remembering and become the knower who understands himself apart from the field of action which is an illusion of the objective realm. The gulf between man and truth, teaching and understanding grows wider with time because  of the invisible nature of existence. Being has been lost from view because it is hidden in the unmanifest and  a man who basis his truth on the perception of what is seen will be unable to experience this unbounded Source of all existance without the help of the TM Technique.

The Science of Kissing

When you really think about it, kissing is an odd human behavior. You know, all the rubbing of our faces all over each other. So there must be a good reason why we do it, right? From motherly comforts to testing the genetic compatibility of your “mate” . . . the science of kissing is pretty awesome.

Check out “The Science of Kissing” by Sheril Kirshenbaum: http://amzn.to/Nuy0TE

Sheril’s book has an extensive bibliography if you’d like to look more closely at any of these studies, but here’s a couple that mentioned in the video:

Study of facial features and attractiveness (“men prefer fuller, redder lips”): http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/6…

For more awesome science, check out: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com