Just like for anyone else, for a spiritualist too, the brain matters …but the heart rules.

This is primarily because, for a normal average gentle human, the soul lies in the Anahata chakra region. Whether we like it or not - We are more a soulful person than being a bodily person (governed by brain).

What are the main functions of the brain? Please remember for a spiritualist, it is also the functions of the major chakras in this zone.

• Memory Management

• Enabling Thinking

• Signalling

• Connections

• Closer to Sahasrathalam

What are the main functions of the heart? Please remember for a spiritualist, it is also the functions of the major chakras in this zone.

• Pumping Blood and Circulation

• Providing rhythm

• Maintaining Blood Pressure

• Blood pumped by heart - ensures Oxygen/Nutrient delivery and removal of metabolic waste

• Closer to Anahatham (seat of the soul for an average gentle human being)

In an outside to inside manner, the brain works like a filter. It helps you to process the signal from the noise using the Karmendriyas and Gnanendriyas. It also stuffs memory (as long-term and short term) as appropriate. We referred to this as the “Cache memory” or temporary memory – valid only for this birth!

In an inside to outside manner, the brain works like a control. It helps to process the impressions coming from the soul itself and the memories coming from the “Cache memory” and help translate into appropriate actions via the Karmendriyas and Gnanendriyas - including verbal and non-verbal actions.

In an outside to inside manner, not all of the inputs to the brain are received from the soul and not all the outputs of the brain are sent to the soul. Yet some compelling and strong inputs are received by the brain from the soul and some “heart-felt” compelling and strong outputs of brain (along with other acting organs) are sent to the soul. Some of the cycles of thoughts/actions ends within the brain like for example the autonomous actions like the driving of a car- it is simply not a soulful experience!

So, do you want to be a great orator?

Feel at heart what you want to speak, before you speak.

Do you want to be a great writer?

Feel at heart what you want to write, before you write. If you do this, writer’s block will be a thing of the past.

Do you want to be a great lawyer?

Match the values of the case to your adopted value systems and for a high-probability win, pursue the case only if the value system match agrees.

The same is true for any profession – sports, teaching, singing, acting etc.,

Passion is something that is felt at the heart. Performance is something engineered at the brain and implemented in the body. Focussing only on performance and ignoring passion will lead to sub-optimal results.

There is a term in my native language – “நியாயத்தை நெஞ்சில் உணர்” (transliteration - "Nyayathai nenjil unar") which means “Feel Justice at Heart”. This is supposed to be a fundamental tenet of the Nithyasuris too. If your adopted value systems are super good and if you feel justice at heart supported by a blessed divine intuition, no matter what the contortions are, no matter what the distortions are, no matter what the theatrics are – you will arrive at the right conclusion. For this to happen, on our part we need to be in the act of acquiring knowledge religiously as a polymath - as much as possible, and be in pursuit of excellence.

Hari Om!

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