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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
of the ball and the influence of gravitational forces in the falling of the ball and the corresponding instructions issued by the brain to the cause the precise cupping of the hand muscles is a mind boggling complex act achieved effortlessly.
Similarly some visual phenomenon and some auditory sensations, odors, and the awareness of body in space and time and other environmental influences together with our imaginations and past memories, which keep intruding into our consciousness, appear like a unified experience and not like disjointed fragmentary sequences of events.
Who and what is achieving that unity of experience is big mystery and so far intellect is unable to bridge the gap... Some neuroscientists and psychologists have threw up their hands in trying to solve this mystery and have come to the conclusion that human intellect now or in future is ill equipped to pierce this mystery. They said can you visualize a pet dog sitting in a sofa and reading a paper and trying to comprehend its content and our intellect is like that dog ill equipped to know about the subjective phenomenon. Where as in the fields of physics and chemistry most of the problems are well understood because they are dealing mostly with matter and here intellect made tremendous progress so much so man feels he can control nature. Success in the understanding of material forces makes him feel that he can understand about divinity or God using his intellect.
As is shown above when it comes to the question of life and happiness intellect faces insurmountable obstacles in its understanding, because it is ill equipped.
Besides intellect is hugely influenced by the culture into which you are born, influenced by religion and its interpretations, influenced by the language and its
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