Is the holy name scientific ethical or relational?
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so is the holy name scientific ethical or relational the holy name is spiritual first of all so it is a spiritual sound which invokes the presence of the supreme now it can act at all these levels at a scientific level there have been studies that have been done which demonstrate that the same constructive changes in the brain that happen and say people who are mentally disturbed if certain medication is given to them I won’t use the technical terms over here when people are very mentally disturbed and they are given some medicine by which their brain calms down a similar calming of the brain brain function happens when people chant the mantra Hare Krishna mantra so in that sense the holy name is spiritual the effect of it one aspect of the effect of it can be scientifically quantified scientifically demonstrated there are many more effects to it which are not scientifically demonstrated but it has scientific aspects to it in terms of the consequence it has on our human consciousness as far as ethical yes the ethical muscles that we have they become strengthened by our chanting of the holy names because the holy name connects us with the supreme being god who is all pure and that contact with the all pure purifies us so the impure desires that are there within us they become weaker and the pure side within us that becomes stronger so our moral fabric will become stronger by the chanting of the holy names and as far as relationships are concerned there is we all have horizontal relationship with others in this world and we have a vertical relationship with god now if we are to some extent we get our sense of emotional security and self worth from our relationship with god no matter what happens Krishna loves me Krishna will take care of things then we don’t become emotionally over dependent on others one of the major reasons for relationship problems in today’s world is that because we have a joint family, we have nuclear family so people are often emotionally over dependent on others for their own self worth if somebody neglects me then I start feeling that I am negligible if somebody rejects me then I start feeling that I am unworthy and that causes psychological damage it can cause but when we are sheltered when our sense of security and self worth comes from our vertical relationship with Krishna and that vertical relationship is developed through chanting of the holy names then the emotional over dependence on others decreases and then our relationships can also become stabler we can become stronger in that sense although it is transcendental it has positive effects scientifically, ethically and emotionally