VEDANTA AND SCIENCE - THE HUMAN FORM AND DEVELOPMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (PART FIFTEENTH). By Andrea Boni.
(The Fourteenth Party can be found HERE )
The Pursuit of Happiness. The Sutra of I.1.12 Vedantasutra is one of the most important of the entire work. It states that the most profound and true, the ontological, the living being is ananda, or pure bliss.
Sutra I.1.12
Anandamayo'bhyasat
Anadamayah - complete bliss, Abhyasat - because of the repetition.
[What it is con la parola] anandamaya [ovvero felicità, beatitudine, è il -Brahman, la Verità Assoluta] a causa del ripetuto uso [della parola Brahman in connessione ad essa] – 12.
Commentario Scientifico. La felicità è uno stato di benessere da molti mai sperimentato in maniera cosciente e consapevole se non attraverso qualche stato d’animo passeggero, una sorta di afflato; ma la vera felicità non è temporanea, è altresì uno stato permanente di beatitudine. Cosa impedisce l'ottenimento di un siffatto stato? Il sopraggiungere e l'imperversare dei condizionamenti nel campo mentale. La felicità è come una costante che vive in noi, just like life. Badarayana in its twelfth sutra says Anandamayo'bhyasat. The Brahman, and thus the self, and Ananda, pure happiness. Happiness is therefore the very nature of every being, is not something to be sought outside and who knows where. We do not have to be taken of Areia is going to a Caribbean island! Happiness is within us but often do not perceive it because we are busy in another sense. For example, in a forest at night we can hear the squeak of an animal to tens of meters away. In a forest of days we hear a cicada a hundred yards away, but in a nightclub or in the traffic of a city street, we do not hear the noise of the cicada even if we hold it in your hand. So is not a question of whether or not there is happiness, Badarayana tells us that happiness is always and forever as our immortality (sat). Our eternity exists but we do not perceive it. Most people do not perceive their own immortality, and consequently does not perceive their own happiness. We must not do anything special to become happy, just need to deconstruct the conditioning of the mind. This is the main teaching of yoga.
Happiness is an ontological and inalienable right, we can only lose because of our false perception. None of us can give happiness as it presents itself as overwhelming need of our intrinsic nature, just like love. We can not deny love, and in fact we all more or less distorted pursue this goal, sometimes in a way that complicates relations in which we are involved, but we certainly can not give up pursuing such a large achievement. If love is not there, our life becomes the search for love in some form, if there is no happiness becomes the pursuit of happiness, but the case of overwhelming need. So, immortality, happiness, wisdom, are uncontrollable, are needs that we can not do without. Imagine the air, maybe some people think they can do without? Obviously not, so be as you can not do without air in the same way one can not help but love. In the absence of happiness, people are content with a substitute material, what is commonly called pleasure, which, however, is characterized by being short-lived, and then, as this ultimately brings more suffering. In that regard Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita (V.22) states: "The intelligent person is taken away from sources of suffering [the ephemeral pleasure], determined by the contact of the senses with the matter. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, so the wise man welcomes it. " Parmenides of Elea, a great pre-Socratic philosopher said: "What can not be, what is not can not be." Happiness "is", and has the characteristic of its own independence from the external environment, so it is a lasting, eternal, that fully satisfies the deepest part of our personality, the self. When happiness depends on external, or when it is reduced or damped by external causes, then it is not true happiness. Today there is in fact a misconception of the term. It trades for being what is temporary and therefore does not belong to the category of true happiness. From a scientific point of view could be defined as a ratio, say that love is happiness as eros is at leisure. Of course, this statement in full, 2010, in a society where freedom of expression and activity (including sexual) seems to be the highest achievement, it is quite strong, but is fully contextualised and justified in the context of Hindu-Vedic philosophy. Certainly there is nothing wrong with eros, if there was trouble, eros! The erogenous zones are in the body and have their function. For example, animals also have a mapping erotica in the body: the cows feel pleasure when they are nursing their calves, if not prove it would pull kick, feels pleasure when mother bear nursing the puppies, if they did not feel like scratching, and kicking them or tore them to pieces. The pleasure in the sexual act is therefore justified because it guarantees the continuation of the species. There is nothing wrong if we recognize that we still have the body of waste instinctive, it is important that we do not become slaves of those tools that are available to mere survival and in fact, as these should be used to make a path of knowledge and empowerment in order to rediscover our true nature. But true happiness is not mere survival, not is a mere continuation of the species, is a quantum leap to a higher level. If we are on track, and then in an evolutionary perspective, it's good enough to achieve a simple result, one step, two steps to the top of emancipation, we know that there is long way to go and the constraints must be deconstructed with patience and tolerance, but it is important to walk the path of perfection and go in the right direction. There is an interesting to the Bhagavad Gita: "This knowledge is the king of all the sciences, the most secret of secrets. It 's the purest knowledge, and because it allows to achieve with direct perception of one's true identity, is the perfection of religion. This cnoscenza is eternal and is applied with joy "(Bhagavad Gita IX.2). In this verse Krishna says that happiness is not located across the finish line, but it is good that can be acquired along the way, and as you approach the orbit energy of happiness, you can feel its warmth, we can see its glow, hear his music and his scent and that is already happiness. 'Raja raja vidya guhyam' says Krishna, this is the king of knowledge, among the things to be known, is the queen of knowledge, the king of knowledge, and as the journey continues and is accomplished in this approach, happiness begins to appear. Like when you go toward the rising sun feel more light and heat, so if we place ourselves in the right direction in terms of evolution, through adherence to high ethical and moral principles, through the exploitation of others, and loving our neighbor, then immediately feel to get in connection with the universal harmony which underlies all creation, and find the right line, the right frequency. Vibrating in the same manner of cosmic harmony, being part of that nature, then rediscover our own true happiness and everlasting.
VENICE - religiosity, understood as an attitude to religion or spirituality slows the progression of dementia. These are the findings from a study by two researchers at the geriatric clinic of 'University of Padua, directed by Professor Enzo Manzato and published in the journal Current Alzheimer Research. 
