If we look at the
world's civilizations broadly, then a division is clearly visible. On one hand,
there is a system in the countries like US and most of Western countries, where
everything is tested on the basis of logic and science and very much importance
is given to the person's actions and its consequences. On the other hand, there
are civilization of India and other Eastern countries, where the system is
based on belief, keeping faith and spiritual vision which gives greater
importance to the concepts and feelings.
Often question is
raised as to which one out of these two systems is better. Due to this
comparison, often spirituality is considered as working against the logic and
belief system working against the science.
Like the division of
civilizations, our personality is also divided. On the one hand, our physical
body, which gives karma based results, on the other hand there is spirit or
soul which is an intangible entity.
At the core of this
division is the human mind still a mystery to solve. According to the Nobel
Prize Winner 'Split Brain Theory' our
brain is made of two hemispheres with ‘corpus callosum’ connecting these two. These two parts of mind, though
mirror images of each other physically, work differently.
Where the left part, the analytical mind,
performs calculations based on logic and words, the right part, the intuitive
mind, works creatively or holistically based on picture and sound inputs.
Each part of the brain
tends to work together in the decision making process.The overall intelligence gathered by these two halves is the combined
information of the mind.
On the same logic, we should understand that
logical and intuitional approaches does not work against
each other but does a team work together as
complimentary parts of same process.
Yog(a)
teaches us the art of watching the two forces of our mind in a non attached
manner. The vision of a yogi is complete and unbiased. He enjoys events of
his/her life as watching an interesting movie .On the contrary, the common man
often keeps trapped in the vortex of life's ups and downs due to keeping a one
sided or biased view.