Prabhupada, SB 8.11.9, purport: …In this material world, everything happens under the influence of time. Consequently, for a learned person who sees how things are taking place, there is no question of being sorry or happy because of the waves of material nature. After all, since we are being carried away by these waves, what is the meaning of being jubilant or morose? One who is fully conversant with the laws of nature is never jubilant or morose because of nature’s activities. In Bhagavad-gita (2.14), Krishna advises that one be tolerant: tams titiksasva bharata. Following this advice of Krishna’s, one should not be morose or unhappy because of circumstantial changes. This is the symptom of a devotee. A devotee carries out his duty in Krishna consciousness and is never unhappy in awkward circumstances. He has full faith that in such circumstances, Krishna protects His devotee. Therefore a devotee never deviates from his prescribed duty of devotional service. The material qualities of jubilation and moroseness are present even in the demigods, who are very highly situated in the upper planetary system. Therefore, when one is undisturbed by the so-called favorable and unfavorable circumstances of this material world, he should be understood to be brahma-bhuta, or self-realized. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (18.54), brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati: “One who is transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful.” When one is undisturbed by material circumstances, he should be understood to be on the transcendental stage, above the reactions of the three modes of material nature.
ScienceNews: “Gene That Changes the Brain’s Response to Stress Identified”
ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2010) — Stress can literally warp your brain, reshaping some brain structures that help cope with life’s pressures. In the short term, the stress response can be helpful — i.e., fight or flight — but over time it leads to a wear and tear that can cause disease in both the brain and other parts of the body.
Digging deeper into what underlies these potentially harmful changes, new research has identified a key protein involved in remodeling the brain under stress. Experiments have found that the brains of mice with an inadequate amount of this protein, called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), look similar to those of normal mice that have been under stress for long periods.
The experiments homed in on the gene for a protein that, among other things, enhances the adaptability of neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region that plays a key role in mood, cognition and memory. When normal mice are exposed to chronic stress (simulated by confinement in a wire mesh restraint), there is a significant retraction in the projections, or dendrites, of some of the neurons in the hippocampus, which shrinks in overall volume as well. The new experiments, reported recently in Hippocampus, looked at mice that had only one instead of the usual two copies of the gene that produces BDNF. The researchers, from Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medical College, found that these mice had brains resembling those of normal mice after extended stress. In other words, stress did not have any effect on the experimental mice.
“The findings suggest that BDNF is one of the proteins that play a role in mediating the brain’s plasticity,” says Bruce S. McEwen, head of Rockefeller’s Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.
If researchers can find a way to deplete or supplement BDNF in adult mice, they may be able to answer the question of when in development, or even in adult life, it has the greatest impact. “What we’re seeing is that there may be a developmental window for BDNF’s role, or also that there may be a floor and a ceiling for the right amount of the protein that helps enable adaptive plasticity,” McEwen says.
The new work adds to the understanding of BDNF’s interaction with hormones in the brain. McEwen’s lab recently discovered that a variant of the BDNF gene is a likely contender for a role in premenstrual disorders, changing mice’s performance on certain memory tasks according to their stage of the estrous cycle.
I would feel a little less reticent about all this DNAmemory/brain plasticity/ + mindcontrol/skynet stuff, if I had any confidence in the persons using the information, acquired through funding we all contributed to, one way or another. Many of these high level academics and military types seem a little shy on the spiritual development side of things, including love and empathy for others.
The military and the elites benefit most from all such medical and phsyiological psychology research these days. They are racing to create perfect mind control of the breeding stock, us the slaves, in order to be like Gods. This is a splinter of A. Hitler’s so-called Aryan human breeding programs, only now broken down into tiny segments at a time, to be applied later, perhaps after they have totally seized power, or perhaps sooner as a way to acheive their goals. You can be sure that any applications with any REAL potential will be controlled by the NWO and other elitist industrial corporate vampires.
Did you know that back in so-called medieval days the serfs only gave typically 1/8 or less of their income as tax to the lord of the castle. Nowadays, modern countries’citizens pay up to 80 per cent !!
And much of that tax money is used to further subjugate and keep ignorant the sheeples. They mostly need to create better weapons to keep ahead of the competition, to dominate, to enslave, to control; like Hiranyakasipus. It is totlly a case of maya apahrta jnana; their knowledge is stolen by illusion.
If we can ride this coming crest of awakening, as even we the devotes awaken to the realities of the modern circumstaces, and join others who have already broken down the walls of the temples, at least in their hearts, we can have a good influence upon the whole world situation.
The whole world is a temple of Krsna. The walls exist only in our minds. We are meant to go out from those walls, to help the whole world by serving. All are devotees, some we can reach more readily, but all can hear and be benefitted. It is a fact that their karma is reduced simpy by hearing the Holy Names even if they wish their ears were otherwise plugged at the time! Never will we lose or dilute our devotion, but rather we can try to spread emancipating Krsna knowledge as the Holy Names, and Prabhupada’s books, to everyone copiously and purely. That will benefit them, and that will please the spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada. HK Pamho.
jay prabhupadanugaji pamho agtscbsp this is interesting regarding sp about the brahma bhuta stage as he say first we need to know how everything is working in the different natures then we can become dhira srila prabhupada use to say in his classes that everything is perfect this is philosophy then why things are not perfect to our eyes? because we are not in the brahma bhuta stage and the devotional service to guru aND gauranga start when we get the brahma bhuta level anyway is not difficulty to understand that everything must go in this duhkhalayam asasvatam world i don’t know how maNY MAYA FORMS OF BODY I GOT BEFORE AND HOW MANY OTHERS i will get until i let sri krsna to steal my heart in becoming a court yard for his pastimes all of us was waiting for the maha vadanyaya avatara because thousands of lives already gone by punas carvita carvitanam without get any real taste for life now gauranga mahaprabhu is given us the best chance to go baCK HOME IN JUST ONE LIFE by make us realise sthita dhuli sadrsam vicintaya that’s what we are very small atoms sometime manifest and sometimes not until we dream on gandharva puram if we understand that what we are doing is been already done in millions of lives then there is not anxiety to leave this body at the time of death the anxiety come when people forget sri krsna vande jagat guru the science can’t do nothing there are some examples of fake devotees who misbehaved by harm others devotees and they got some form of pains in the body but no doctors could help them and they couln’t not understand from where these pains come from why because nobody can size sri asamaurdhuvamji the perfect scientist everyone can take rest in the param brahma param dhama but we have to get rid of jnana karma to get the pure bhakti and become undisturbed by the duality of this world and the only medicine is enechi ausadhi maya nasibaro lagi hari nama maha mantra lao tumi magi the so called scientist can’t understand what is going on until they take this medicine otherwise they will be all the time disturbed by the dualities of this world and when the time to leave their bodies come they will suffer a lot because they haven’t take the right medicine i got proof that everything is moving by sri krsna so many times i see also good devotees to leave the bodies and they say that they never feel so good you see this is another proof that we are moving in krsna like bhismadeva he was not feel any pains in his painful condition in kuruksetra because he realise that sri krsna is not just moving everything but he is everything otherwise bhismadevaji senapati couldn’t surrender to sri krsna without that connection and acbsp also gave us this surrender connection the maha bhagavatam devotee don’t see exactly the real form of everything but whatever he see to move he see the supreme lord and that’s enough to get the right vision beyond nature and medicines jay prabhuji agtys your servant seva das