{"id":8864,"date":"2010-09-18T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8864"},"modified":"2010-09-18T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T10:39:56","slug":"the-dark-times-of-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8864","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Times Of The Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By Damana Krishna Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that looking through the light of modern science related to sports and neurobiology refering to the tendency of the body to keep everything in status quo. This is just partial point of few without taking in consideration the function of inteligence, soul and ultimately the supersoul. The body is a very complicated mechanism which an network for interchange of informations of central nerve system with the different parts of the body. All this informations are finally there due to our karma etc. So we have to make effort to change this pattern and rise above our present conditioning. And this has to be done even with the body. The body is using different hormons and their receptors for this exchange of informations and to activate different processes. Whenever we are facing some new situation or stressful situation the body is trying to deal with this. We could say this situation disturbs the biorythm of the body. Therefore it takes time for the body to deal with this situation. It has to make new receptors for some new hormons we need. Or it needs to addapt to the new schedule. Therefore it is very difficult to permamently change ones lifestyle as the body wants to keep us in the previous status quo. We say that one is conditioned to ignorance, passion or goodness. The hormons and brain are only the reflection on the gross material level. For example we deside to wake up 3 am instead of 7 am. Or we will go for sankirtana marathon and walk lot of distance instead of siting in the room. The body has to addapt to this situation. We will feel the dark time of the body by not having enthusiasm, no energy, etc. Every part of the body will pain. But this is only due to the unability of the body to deal with it at this time. It switched of lots of activity to be able to build up new needed receptors, etc. It is said that what doesnt kill you it will make you more strong. Maybe you will listen to the spiritual music and if you are not used it will make you tired. But if you are used for spiritual music your brain is not used to heavy adrenaline rock music and this will also make tired. We as devotees have to be very careful not to use the brain ability to addapt to environments not conductive to spiritual life. Its no problem to fast on ekadasi as the body can addapt to this, its no problem to chant all day. But we have to fight against the enemy inside us which want to keep us lazy and not do much progress. You will not see many people fighting with mind and do something great in sports so you will also not see many people fighting for spiritual things against the urge of the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Damana Krishna Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that looking through the light of modern science related to sports and neurobiology refering to the tendency of the body to keep everything in status quo. This is just partial point of few without taking in consideration the function of inteligence, soul and ultimately the supersoul <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}