The Krishna Cancer: Neurotheology Series
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“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.”
Abhijit Naskar, a globally acclaimed author comes to the investigation of a divine character of the Eastern religious philosophy—Krishna. With the tools of modern Neuroscience, he enables us to look into the imaginary Krishna character, created by an ancient Indian man, and discover its biological impact on human life. In his peerlessly lucid explanatory ways, Naskar takes us inside the protoplasmic realm of the human brain and reveals to us the implications of belief upon a mythical character in the path of global progress.
In “The Krishna Cancer” a twenty-first century humanitarian thinker calls upon the conscientious humans of the thinking society to rise higher than all the mystical figures of human history and build a world where the greatest power will be the power of will, reasoning and love, born in the human mind and put to practice in the service of humanity.
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The Krishna Cancer - Abhijit Naskar
THE KRISHNA CANCER
Abhijit Naskar, a famous Neuroscientist and an untiring advocate of global harmony and peace, became a beloved best-selling author all over the world with his very first book The Art of Neuroscience in Everything
, that heralded the advent of a rejuvenating scientific philosophy. With various of his pioneering ventures into the Neuropsychology of religious sentiments, he has hugely contributed to humanity’s attempt of breaking down the citadels of religious conflicts, for which he is popularly hailed as a humanitarian who incessantly works towards taking the human civilization in the path of sweet general harmony.
THE
KRISHNA CANCER
ABHIJIT NASKAR
The Krishna Cancer
Copyright © 2017 Abhijit Naskar
This is a work of non-fiction
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.
Neuro Cookies Edition, 2017
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For all genuine humans with conscience
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Vedas & Mahabharata
CHAPTER 3 Bhagavad Gita
CHAPTER 4 The Krishna Consciousness
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
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There has been some dilemma in my mind, on the matter of writing this book. The first reason for such dilemma was, whether the humanly perceived entity known as Krishna, deserves the attention of scientific investigation or not. However, eventually I found myself immersed in the idea that a great number of people till this day and age, deem this imaginary figure created in ancient India, as an actual living manifestation of the Supreme Divinity, so much so, that even the great teacher Siddhartha Gautama has been incorporated into the Hindu orthodox belief as the last of his latest incarnations - all in the pursuit of maintaining a divine fundamental authority over the society. And that’s where the entire matter of Krishna requires scientific insight, not to authorize his power of divine superiority, but to ensure that this fictitious figure does not become an obstacle in the progress of thinking humanity.
For people in distress, divine figures, imaginary or otherwise, do indeed provide mental aid – a steady flow of solace – but when such figures hinder the development of the species, it becomes the highest responsibility of the rational members of that species to invoke a change in the sociological perception about their true advantages and disadvantages.
Obscurity often compels the weak-minded beings to take comfort in their socio-culturally hailed divine figures, without engaging in any sort of rational analysis of the true potential and existential reality of such figures. And in such a situation, repudiation of their faith upon an entity, be it real or imaginary, only strengthens that faith and makes it more invincible in their mind. No tool of scientific reasoning can penetrate such a shield of invincible belief, unless their living conditions are improved first. First you must empower them to lift themselves from obscurity, then with each step towards mental development, their primordial dependence on divine figures would slowly start to fade away. But keep in mind, this is a painstakingly long process that requires infinite patience.
Hence, in the beginning, an approach of revealing to them the true identity of their revered figures of religion, would only make them more irrational and grab onto their mental imagery of the idol – moreover, it would make them hail you as downright atheist, but mark you, atheism is not the way, humanism is. So, stay as far as possible from the man-made labels that tend to define a person with a set of rigid doctrines, instead of recognizing the innate humane virtues.
In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise. In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.
Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa. Individuals like Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama - the Buddha, Nanak made attempts, outside their orthodox circle of religious beliefs, to teach humanity the language of love and compassion, while Krishna, on the other hand, despite being an imaginary creation of man, gloriously advocates primordial evils of polygamy and violence - in the name of divine duty. He may some good to offer humanity, like all literary characters do, but not everything that he says is good for the species.
If anyone, then it’s Vyasa who should be recognized as a thinker – the man who supposedly created Krishna. His compositions should be revisited and analyzed by unbiased rational minds of modern humans, as important literary material with its own pros and cons, rather than being worshipped by humanity as divine, irrefutable, factual story about the Lord Almighty and his take on just war and code of conduct.
CHAPTER 2 Vedas & Mahabharata
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Who was Krishna – a man or a god? In the general human population, especially the Hindu population, Krishna is basically hailed as a human incarnation of the Lord Almighty – he is hailed as the Supreme God. However, in some philosophies he is hailed as a Consciousness – known as the Krishna Consciousness. Now, one might wonder, which one of these two apparently pompous perceptions is true and which one is false?
As far as the percipient mind is concerned, both perceptions are genuinely true, especially the first one that depicts Krishna as a highly divine being. However, in reality, he was apparently the brain-child of the man known as Vyasa, just like Prince Myshkin was the brain-child of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. There is really no difference between these two characters in terms of their existential reality - both are products of human creativity and imagination.
Vyasa is one of the central figures in the Hindu traditions, similar in significance to that of the twelve apostles of Christ. He is also referred to as Krishna Dvaipayana
, because of his dark complexion of skin and his birth on an island (Dvaipayana means born of an island
). Notice that the term Krishna means dark-complexioned, which was the skin complexion of Vyasa, as well as his creation who was called Krishna. A rational mind would easily perceive the correlation between the creator and the creation, and deduce that Vyasa created Krishna in his own image. And since in those days, Vyasa himself was deemed by his ignorant society as a glorious immortal part of Lord Vishnu, he illustrated the figure of Krishna as a glorious incarnation of Lord Vishnu – the most perfect incarnation. Thus, a man created an imaginary character and gave him ultimate