Is chanting with beads more blissful because the fingers are connected with certain brain parts?

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thank you does chanting on beads confer additional bliss because the fingers are connected to the hypothalamus and other areas of the brain which promote spiritual bliss answer not exactly there is in today’s neuroscience the attempt to reduce consciousness in particular consciousness in general and spirituality in particular down to materialistic terms, down to the firing of neuronal signal, neuronal cells so now this is a misdirected attempt because the neuronal firings do not produce any consciousness or anything relevant to consciousness also actually they are just biochemicals and all that happens when the neurons are fired or when a particular part of the brain is activated is that certain states of certain chemicals change that’s all this has got nothing to do with any emotions at all so bio neuroscientists often get the things wrong in terms of mistaking the effect to be the cause actually when we feel spiritual when we feel spiritual bliss then every experience the soul has as long as the soul has a material body that soul will have some connection with something material, with something physical because actually the soul’s consciousness is currently rooted through the body and the mind so that’s why what originally happens is we feel happiness and then that happiness is expressed through certain physical medium and that is say a particular area of the brain just as when we are happy we smile so smile is a result of happiness and it is not a cause of happiness sometimes when a person is feeling glum just putting on a smile on the face might make a person feel little better but that artificially putting on the smile on the face is not the same as actual happiness and the smile that naturally grows when one is actually happy so similarly when when one chants and remembers Krishna it is the soul which connects with Krishna and that connection of the soul with Krishna brings happiness now when there is happiness then that happiness is expressed through certain activities through certain parts of the body also because everything as long as we are in the body will have some physical expression so there is an area in the brain which some scientists call as the God spot which is activated when people think about spiritual things so when Christians think about Jesus or Buddhists think about Buddha or Muslims think about Mohammed or Allah at that time this part of the brain is activated now this doesn’t mean that the activation of that part of the brain causes spiritual joy or spiritual peace, no the contemplation on the divine reality brings about the soul’s connection with Krishna or God or any of his manifestations or representations and that produces a sense of peace and joy and that is expressed physically through certain areas of the brain now coming to the specifics of chanting when we chant at that time we are focusing on concentrating on Krishna manifesting as the holy name now when we use beads the beads help increase our focus on Krishna the beads help increase our inner concentration on Krishna because normally our consciousness is directed through the various senses so the more the senses are involved in the process of meditation the more likely is our concentration so what produces absorption and satisfaction is the connection with Krishna and chanting enhances the connection and chanting with beads with our fingers touching the beads helps enhance that connection so that’s how chanting with beads is recommended now to say that chanting because that touching the fingers to the beads increases the bliss because the fingers are connected with certain area of the brain can actually be one of the offenses to the holy name one of the offenses is to give a mundane interpretation of the holy name and mundane interpretation means that we think we reduce the spiritual down to the material so chanting is a spiritual activity and certain material factors contribute so that we can participate in that spiritual activity more but the material activities that material actions that we do they don’t produce the spiritual bliss so therefore we have to be clear that why we use beads during chanting is because it helps us concentrate more now it is not because just a reductionistic physical level of explanation that certain part of the brain is activated because it is connected with the fingers that is a part of the execution of the process of concentration it is not a part of the cause of the process when we are concentrating more on Krishna then naturally certain parts of the brain are activated as the God’s potter said and that is what is the physical expression or neuro chemical neuro chemical manifestation of what is happening deeper at the level of the soul the connection between the soul and Krishna that is brought about through chanting Thank you Question from Ashish Kumar