Meditation and ability to withstand extreme stress

According to a newspaper report:

“Investigators are finding Pragnya Singh Thakur alias Sadhvi Purnachetanand Giri, arrested by Maharashtran Police for her alleged involvement in the Malegaon blast case, a tough nut to crack. And they are blaming her expertise in meditation. The report further says that powered by her meditation training, the 36 year old priestess knows how to control her mind and body mechanism.

A polygraph or a lie detector measures and records several physiological responses like blood pressure, pulse, respiration and skin condutivity when a person is subjected to a series of questions. It measures phisiological changes caused by the sympathetic nervous system during questioning. These are different when people lie.

But in the case of this yogini, since she has been practicing the meditation methods for years and can control her responses making it really tough to believe if the answers even under the polygraph can be believed.”

I have read extensively on Mediation by various experts and none had made this point. Further, I have been doing meditation for a long time. It gives peace of mind and at times one can experience bliss. Meditation calms the worrying mind. Problems confronting one appear to be not that serious after meditation. Meditation provides antidote against negative emotions, such as, anger, envy, anxiety, fear, etc., But I find it difficult to accept the theory of police.

But if we accept what the Police say, then there are immense possibilities. Parents in the case of their off-springs, wives in the case of their hubbies and close friends in the case of close friends, can without any effort detect when a lie is said. Now those who read the above report, and if they believe in what has been said, are going to join meditation courses. What about politicians, spies, lazy office staff, etc., Many of them would at least try their hand in learning meditation. Some of these species are adept in it without any learning of meditation. Yet there may be those who are worried at their inability to speak a lie with a straight face. For all those the above report would give some hope. It is a known fact that wives can, by just looking at the husband even before the husband opens his mouth, know in advance whether the husband is going lie, not to speak of finding out the same after the husband has spoken. Same is not the case of husbands so far as lies said by wives. Husbands are not the only group. Children are always surprised when the mothers find out when they lie. Hence if they read this report they are going to join covertly some meditation course. Of course, lawyers need no such course, because they are adept in lying without being found out.

And think of the explosive demand for our expertise in meditation in the world markets. Crooks abound everywhere. Not only present day crooks but those who want to opt out for that profession would like to have a special course in meditation which can beat a lie detector.

Lie we do and we have no qualm about doing it. What we don’t like is the person lied to finding out the truth by looking straight at us so that our eyes or our facial expression or our whole demeanour give away whether what we said is the whole truth.

In the matter of lying, the general conviction is that so long as the lie is white one ( and not black or red one ) there is not much harm in indulging in it.

I am sure that some of the readers of my write ups are way ahead of me in the art of lying undetected. I would like to hear from those veterans. I would like to assure them that not only their names would remain secret until my death but more than that I would be ever lastingly grateful to them for making my life a wee bit better.

I have studied the subject of lying in depth. There are lies and lies. White ones, black ones, yellow ones, etc., I will share my expertise with all of you at no fee at some time in the future.



Nominated members of Rajya Sabha

N.K. Singh, who was former Cabinet Secretary, and Rangarajan, former Governor of RBI and currently Chairman of PM’s Advisory Coucil for Economic Affairs are the personse who have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha in the recent times. And look at the names of some ( names of all those nomninated are not given ) of the eminenet personalities nominated to Rajya Sabha in the past, as below:

Vyjayantimala Bali, Dr. Raja Ramanna, Mrinal Sen, Shabana Azmi, Kuldip Nayyar, Lata Mangeshkar, Fali S. Nariman, Cho. S. Ramaswamy, Bimal Jalan, Dara Singh, Hema Malini, Dr. Chandan Mitra, Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Shobhana Bhartia, Shyam Benegal

Constitution makers made this provision so that Rajya Sabha would have the benefit of the views of eminent personalities in different disciplines. But with the passage of time, it has become largely one of giving favours to individuals by the senior politicians. With the slow degeneration of values this was bound to happen. They are not the heavy weights in politics who get sufficient time to express their views on any subject. These nominated MPs are not gate crashers like some of the politicians who, ignoring the command of Chairman of the House would go on speaking expressing their views. Hence these nominated MPs speak only rarely, which is largely ignored by other MPs. What they say, not being sensational, is largely ignored by the fourth estate also.

But my focus on this brief write up is why these people at all want to get into Rajya Sabha. Yes, some are nominated by the State without their asking or seeking. But in the case of some, if not many, nomination is the outcome of extensive lobbying. What attracts these people to become members of Rajya Sabha. Over a period of time MPs have been devalued. Most of the people nominated have excelled in different disciplines and they are revered by many people in the country. That is not the case with MPs these days. They can do a lot of service to the country by contributing to the area of their discipline. Then what attracts them to be MPs. Salary and perks. Considering that most of those nominated are well off, this cannot be an attraction. To help them lobbying with the Government for their disciplines. They can do this without being an MP.

The issue foxes me.