What is the science behind snake-charming mantras controlling snakes?

From Sri Chaitanya Chandra Pr:

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Question for Sri Chaitanya. How do snake charming mantras work mysteriously? What is the science behind them? Answer. The first point is that there is something mysterious that does work with snakes, and that does charm them.
We know that there are snake charmers whose profession is to make snakes dance. And they use a specific device which produces a particular music, and we can tangibly observe snakes to dance by that. Now, as far as the… So, in science there are two aspects.
There is the observation of the evidence, and there is the theory or hypothesis that is supposed to explain that observation or evidence. Now, as far as the theory behind this ability of sound to control snakes is concerned, scientific opinion is divided. Some scientists feel that the snakes don’t have their audio capacity, their hearing capacity sufficiently developed to be able to hear the sound of the snake charmer’s instrument.
So, they tend to feel that it is the way the snake charmer moves the head and his instrument that causes the snake to become charmed. Now, of course, this evidence is debated because there are different snake charmers who move their heads and instruments in different ways, and still snakes get charmed. So, what is common among various snake charmers is not the movement of their head and their instrument, but the sound they are producing.
So, here, overall, science seems to be in a state of befuddlement, not understanding how exactly snakes get charmed by sound. But, in general, the purpose of theory in science is to explain facts and not to explain away facts. So, modern matter-bound science does seem to be struggling to explain how snakes get charmed even by the music of the snake charmer, leave alone explaining how certain mantras might charm snakes.
So, on one side, we find that science doesn’t have an adequate explanation. There are many phenomena like this in which the materialist approach of science does seem to be inadequate. Another example is of the capacity of animals like dogs to sense the oncoming of an earthquake.
Time and time again, observers and researchers have found that dogs become a little… their behavior basically changes just before an earthquake occurs and they seem to sense that some impending doom is coming and their behavior changes markedly. And this has been observed so consistently that many scientists are considering developing a earthquake detection system based on observation of the domestic animal’s behavior and noting of any drastic and dramatic change in their behavior. So again, how the dogs with their primitive brains, primitive as compared to the human brains, are able to detect the coming of an earthquake which the best human brains with their best seismographic devices are not able to detect is a mystery.
So, gross matter bound science finds it difficult to deal with the mystery, but the Vedic science is quite adept at explaining it because it recognizes the existence as an independent ontological reality of the mind element. So the mind can act on matter in ways that modern, gross matter bound science cannot explain. So the mantras which are chanted during snake charming act not just through the medium of gross sound vibration which falls on the underdeveloped audio organ of the ear, whatever that may be, which science seems to be difficult to find right now, but they also act on the subtle level of the mind.
So, that sound affects the mind is well known both through common experience as well as through scientific observation. Even worldly music can drastically change the state of mind of a person. With rock music filling the mind with passion and gentle, soothing traditional music bringing the mind to calmness.
So, the sound of the mantras that the snake charmers chant act through the subtle mind element according to laws that are not yet comprehended by modern gross matter bound science. That’s how they control the snakes. So essentially modern materialistic science is successful, remarkably successful in manipulating one part of reality, that is the gross material part.
But it is practically groping in the dark when it comes to the other parts of reality, that is the subtle matter and also the spirit. So, the snake charming mantras work in the realm of subtle matter and that’s why they are difficult to comprehend using gross material science. But the Vedic science which includes a subtle material element helps us understand it with reasonable clarity.
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