How to calculate Brahma Muhurta?
Brahma means knowledge and muhurta means time period. Brahma Muhurta is the time
period perfect to perceive knowledge.
Muhurta is a time period of 48 minutes. It is ancient way of measuring time.
Brahmamuhurta starts 2 muhurtas before sunrise and lasts for 1 muhurta period.
For example, if sunrise is at 5.30 A.M., then it starts 48+48 = 96 minutes before 5.30 A.M.
That is, it starts at 3.54 A.M. and lasts till 4:42 A.M.
Time of sunrise keeps changing within the range of 5.40–7 A.M, so does brahmamuhurta's
starting time ranges from 4.04–5.24 A.M.
Research benefits of waking up in Brahma Muhurta
According to the International Journal of Yoga and Allied Sciences, during the pre-dawn
period, there is the availability of nascent oxygen in the atmosphere. This nascent oxygen
easily mixes with hemoglobin forming oxyhemoglobin, which has the following benefits:
Boosts the immune system
Increases energy level
Helps maintain the balance of blood pH
Relieves pain, soreness, and cramps
Enhances the absorption of minerals and vitamins
What is Hiranyagarbha?
Interesting to see how Vedas explained complex Science theories in layman's terms.
Probably you won't know what's big bang theory if you are not a Science student. It's
a theory given by Western Scientists for the origination of the Universe.
Note: This will not be asked in final Quiz. It's just good to know information.
We will explain significance of Hiranyagarbha Sukta, Purush Sukta & Bhagya Sukta
in detail later courses.
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How are Indian Scriptures classified?
He is a simple tree graph on how the ancient Indian scriptures are classified.
The tradition of Vedic Chanting..
A documentary by UNESCO.
In this video, see at 3.08 how the Vedic Chanting sounds are recorded . Very very
rhythmic and in order.
As of now we were just focusing on the routine as we were not habitual to this
routine, building discipline and routine is must.
Now slowly you should start focusing on the rhythm (can listen to the mantras from
app and try chanting same way - don't worry it won't happen overnight, but practice
will help).
As we mentioned earlier, that there are ~8 types of Vedic Chanting that we have
covered in this course.
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The division of Vedic Literature
This table gives a comprehensive overview of how the vedic literature are divided.
Difference between Jata Patha and Mala Patha
Many of you reached out to us with questions on difference between Jata Patha and Mala
Patha. Here is a bit of additional information that clarifies.
Mala Patha means Garland style. This is because at first 2 padas (Krama) are chanted and
then the reverse (Called Vyutkrama) is chanted .
Mala Patha has 2 subtypes called Krama Mala Patha and Pada Mala Patha.
The example style that we have provided in this class is the Pada Mala Patha. So first 2 padas
(Krama) is chanted , then reverse ( Vyutkrama) is chanted and then the first 2 is chanted
(Sankrama) again and finally finishing it with Veshtana ( Vyutkrama Pada iti Vyutkrama
Pada) .
The formation of Pada Mala Patha resembles the Jata Patha but without Sandhi (joining)
between Krama - Vyutkrama and Vyutkrama - Sankrama. Jata Patha does not have this last
Veshtana portion and thus Mala Patha is different from Jata Patha
Scientific research on Vedas
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to our Vedas content or posts. There will be NO questions asked from this section in final
quiz.
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Scientific study on Gayatri Mantra
Scientific Study on Gayatri Mantra - Gayatri Mantra Chanting and its Effect on Attention,
Memory, Anxiety and Mental State in Young Athletes: A Prospective Study.
by - Shambo Samrat Samajdar, Shatavisa Mukherjee, Anushka Ghosh, Shashank
Joshi ,Santanu Kumar Tripathi from
1. Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, School of Tropical Medicine,
Kolkata, India.
2. Senior Consultant – Joshi Clinic, Lilavati Hospital, and Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
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Science behind Gayatri and Mahamrityunjay Mantra
In this video by MedTalks, Dr. K K Aggarwal, Padma Shri Awardee, Editor-in-chief,
IJCP Publications will talk about the Benefit of Chanting Behind "Mahamrityunjaya
Mantra" or "Gayatri Mantra". He will explain the science behind these mantras. In
times of difficulties, we need to look out for options and think differently and your
mind will give you multiple options.
Dr. KK Aggarwal
Recipient of Padma Shri, Vishwa Hindi Samman, National Science Communication
Award and Dr B C Roy National Award, Dr Aggarwal is a physician, cardiologist,
spiritual writer and motivational speaker. He is the Past President of the Indian
Medical Association and President of Heart Care Foundation of India. He is also the
Editor in Chief of the IJCP Group, Medtalks and eMediNexus.
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Study on the effects of Mahamrityunjay mantra
Study on the effects of Mahamrityunjay mantra on patients in Ram Manohar Lohia
hospital, Delhi, India News from NAVBHARAT TIMES A unique line of treatment is
underway at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where patients with serious head
injuries are made to listen to vedic Mahamrityunjay mantra and study its effects on
them. The chanting of the ancient Vedic mantra, from Rig Ved, is believed to ward
off untimely death. People for long have been chanting Mahamrityunjay mantra for
the recovery of their terminally-ill loved ones. Now, a study is being conducted at the
RML hospital to know more about the effects of Mahamrityunjay mantra on the
patients. During the study, people with head injury are made to listen to the
Mahamrityunjay mantra. The study has shown good results and the final report will
be ready in a month or two. Head of the neurosurgery department, doctor Ajay
Chaudhary and his team are conducting the study, which is being funded by the
Indian Council of Medical Research. According to Dr Ajay, the study took three years
and now is in its last phase. Forty people with head injuries were divided in two
groups of twenty each and they were all treated according to the protocol. However,
one group was made to listen to Mahamrityunjay mantra. The group was made to
listen the vedic mantra in an organised manner. For this, Sanskrit Vidhyapeeth also
lent its supporting hand. A detailed analysis will be done after completion of the
study and it will be published in the medical journal.
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Impact of signal energy on Vedic chanting
Impact of signal energy on Vedic chanting: Research on effect of mantras on brain.
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Sanskrit sloka chanting and mindfulness
Background: Mindfulness can simply be defined as “moment-by-moment awareness”
or as “a state of
psychological freedom that occurs when attention remains quiet and limber, without
attachment to any
particular point of view”. Through past studies it was noted that chanting Sanskrit
Shlokas has an energizing
effect. It has been well established through various research findings that meditation
increases mindfulness.
But the relationship between Sanskrit Shloka chanting and mindfulness has not been
explored. The purpose
of this study was to investigate whether chanting of Sanskrit shlokas has an effect on
mindfulness scores.
Methodology: Men and women in the age range of 45-55 years, were taken as
samples and two groups were
formed. The experimental group consisted of 15 participants who chant Sanskrit
shlokas every day for about
25 minutes at the same time in the morning. The control group consisted of 15
participants who do not
engage in chanting or meditation. To measure mindfulness, the Kentucky Inventory
for Mindfulness Skills
(KIMS) was administered.
Results: The mean scores of mindfulness on the KIMS questionnaire for the Sanskrit
Shloka Chanting group
was 137.93, with a Standard Deviation of 11.56. The mean scores of mindfulness on
the KIMS questionnaire
for the Non-Chanting group was 124.93 with a Standard Deviation of 5.47. An
independent t test on the
mean mindfulness (KIMS) scores found that the scores for Sanskrit Shloka Chanting
group were
significantly higher than the mean scores of the Non-Chanting group.
Conclusion: The findings suggest that mindfulness scores on the KIMS were
significantly higher for the
Sanskrit Shloka Chanting group as compared to the Non- Chanting group.
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What is Sanskrit effect?
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Science of Yagya by Dr. John Hagelin
Science of Yagya by Dr. John Hagelin
Global Transformation through recitation.
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ObservationsObservationsA Neuroscientist Explores the "Sanskrit Effect"MRI scans show that memorizing
ancient mantras increases the size of brain regions associated with cognitive function By James Hartzell on
January 2, 2018A Neuroscientist Explores the "Sanskrit Effect"Manjuvajramandala with 43 deities, from
Tibet. Credit: Google Cultural Institute WikimediaA hundred dhoti-clad young men sat cross-legged on the
floor in facing rows, chatting amongst themselves. At a sign from their teacher the hall went quiet. Then they
began the recitation. Without pause or error, entirely from memory, one side of the room intoned one line of
the text, then the other side of the room answered with the next line. Bass and baritone voices filled the hall
with sonorous prosody, every word distinctly heard, their right arms moving together to mark pitch and
accent. The effect was hypnotic, ancient sound reverberating through the room, saturating brain and body.
After 20 minutes they halted, in unison. It was just a demonstration. The full recitation of one of India´s most
ancient Sanskrit texts, the Shukla Yajurveda, takes six hours.I spent many years studying and translating
Sanskrit, and became fascinated by its apparent impact on mind and memory. In India's ancient learning
methods textual memorization is standard: traditional scholars, or pandits, master many different types of
Sanskrit poetry and prose texts; and the tradition holds that exactly memorizing and reciting the ancient
words and phrases, known as mantras, enhances both memory and thinking.I had also noticed that the more
Sanskrit I studied and translated, the better my verbal memory seemed to become. Fellow students and
teachers often remarked on my ability to exactly repeat lecturers’ own sentences when asking them questions
in class. Other translators of Sanskrit told me of similar cognitive shifts. So I was curious: was there actually
a language-specific “Sanskrit effect” as claimed by the tradition?ADVERTISEMENTWhen I entered the
cognitive neuroscience doctoral program at the University of Trento (Italy) in 2011, I had the opportunity to
start investigating this question. India's Vedic Sanskrit pandits train for years to orally memorize and exactly
recite 3,000-year old oral texts ranging from 40,000 to over 100,000 words. We wanted to find out how such
intense verbal memory training affects the physical structure of their brains. Through the India-Trento
Partnership for Advanced Research (ITPAR), we recruited professional Vedic pandits from several
government-sponsored schools in the Delhi region; then we used structural magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) at India’s National Brain Research Center to scan the brains of pandits and controls matched for age,
gender, handedness, eye-dominance and multilingualism.What we discovered from the structural MRI
scanning was remarkable. Numerous regions in the brains of the pandits were dramatically larger than those
of controls, with over 10 percent more grey matter across both cerebral hemispheres, and substantial
increases in cortical thickness. Although the exact cellular underpinnings of gray matter and cortical thickness
measures are still under investigation, increases in these metrics consistently correlate with enhanced
cognitive function.Most interestingly for verbal memory was that the pandits' right hippocampus—a region of
the brain that plays a vital role in both short and long-term memory—had more gray matter than controls
across nearly 75 percent of this subcortical structure. Our brains have two hippocampi, one on the left and one
on the right, and without them we cannot record any new information. Many memory functions are shared
by the two hippocampi. The right is, however, more specialized for patterns, whether sound, spatial or visual,
so the large gray matter increases we found in the pandits’ right hippocampus made sense: accurate
recitation requires highly precise sound pattern encoding and reproduction. The pandits also showed
substantially thickening of right temporal cortex regions that are associated with speech prosody and voice
identity.Our study was a first foray into imaging the brains of professionally trained Sanskrit pandits in
India. Although this initial research, focused on intergroup comparison of brain structure, could not directly
address the Sanskrit effect question (that requires detailed functional studies with cross-language
memorization comparisons, for which we are currently seeking funding), we found something specific about
intensive verbal memory training. Does the pandits’ substantial increase in the gray matter of critical verbal
memory organs mean they are less prone to devastating memory pathologies such as Alzheimer's? We don't
know yet, though anecdotal reports from India's Ayurvedic doctors suggest this may be the case. If so, this
raises the possibility that verbal memory “exercising‘ or training might help elderly people at risk of mild
cognitive impairment retard or, even more radically, prevent its onset.If so, the training might need to be
exact. One day I was filming four senior pandit teachers demonstrating the different recitation speeds.
Partway into one session all four suddenly stopped. “What’s wrong?‘ I asked. “One of us made a slight error,"
came the response. "I don’t mind," I said. "Yes, but we do," and they restarted the entire recitation from the
beginning. ADVERTISEMENTAuthor's note: Senior personnel responsible for this project were not involved in
the conception or writing of the blog text; it was not presented to them for approval; any opinions or
conclusions expressed in the blog are Dr. Hartzell's alone.This post was written by a graduate of the online
course Share Your Science: Blogging for Magazines, Newspapers and More, offered by Scientific American
and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, with sponsorship from the
Kavli Foundation.The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific
American.Rights & PermissionsABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)James Hartzell is a postdoctoral researcher at the
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, in Spain; a Guest Researcher at the Center for Mind/Brain
Sciences at University of Trento, in Italy, and a Consultant for the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia
University, in New York.
