A Neuroscientist Explores the “Sanskrit Effect”
MRI scans show that memorizing ancient mantras increases the size of brain regions associated with cognitive function
From Scientific American Magazine……….
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-neuroscientist-explores-the-sanskrit-effect/
Madhavananda Dasanudas ACBSP 1970 : In 1972, Srila Prabhupada took us all by train from Calcutta to Hyderabad.
He was pleased that four of his sannyasis had caused a stir in South India by preaching cooperatively and boldly.
The preaching had reached the newspaper, and the article was sent to Srila Prabhupada in Calcutta.
Excitedly, his secretary Shyamasundara announced that he had decided we should all leave for Hyderabad immediately.
Upon reaching the city, after stops in Vishakapatnam and Madras, the vaishnava Badruka Family brought before Srila Prabhupada a 5 year old boy, who stood and proceeded to recite the entire Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita from memory word-for-word.
Srila Prabhupada did not interrupt the boy at all, but his eyes went wide and head tilted slightly as he looked at us and without speaking said;
“Just see!”.
Often he said by learning and reciting the Sanskrit verses from Bhagavat Shastra, the verses and realizations they may engender carries into the next life.
He also often encouraged disciples to challenge our sampradaya’s ontology by taking the side of opposing viewpoints.
One day, while a disciple was successfully arguing strongly for the soundness of Darwinism, everyone laughed as Srila Prabhupada ended the argument by saying;
“Your ancestors may have come from apes, but mine came from poets.”
In the above magazine article, even the publishers and readers may not believe in a next life, but the point is made that
“the brains of the pandits were dramatically larger than those of controls,..”
All Glories To Srila Prabhupada, who reaffirmed for us, and greatly expanded our understanding of, The Non-Dual Truth, long before it became provable, or fashionable. http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/1/1
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