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Neuro Linguistic Programming.

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Though it is still not clear, who is the owner of the various rights whether the Registered, Legal, patented or the copy-write, the neuro linguistic programming is very important in understanding the collective behavior of the mankind.

The network of the nerves in the body is of two types : The locomotive nerves and those which transmit / distribute the information from / to the brain, and manage, co-ordinate, and command the various activities in the body, or the sensory nerves.

This is akin to praNa (प्राण) in the Yoga and in Upanishad (उपनिषद्). The same could be seen how the three major nerves are named idA (इडा)  pingalA (पिङ्गला) and suShumnA (सुषुम्ना). The three major / cardinal nerves together maintain 'life' in any organism.

Again, there are two path-ways connecting the two lobes in the brain. The feelings, the  sentiments and the emotion, are conveyed to and from the brain to the body through one, and the discriminatory reasoning, logic and the intellect through the another.

The feeling, the sentiment, and the emotion are essentially a conscious phenomenon, but the other bodily activities of the nerves, like walking, hearing, voluntary or involuntary, are mostly the un-conscious. They enter the consciousness only when there functioning is somehow disturbed. Pain is often the one of the indicators. It is how 'consciousness' is the interface, a medium through which the (idea of) the 'self' knows, experiences, feels, grasps and understands various perceptions. In this way 'consciousness' functions in two different ways. The world and the physical body - an organism; works by means of the same energy, but the 'consciousness' as in, and as is assumed as the 'self' or the 'oneself' interact with one-another.

The humans have invented, developed and use many a languages that are formed and depend upon the two types of perceptions as mentioned above.

There is purely emotional kind of feelings on the one hand, and of logic and reasoning on the another. A language is a combination of both.

Some 50 years ago, I tried to learn the Urdu. After so many years I found a proper way to it. It is through an app.

I can now see how a language transforms, modifies, alters and constitutes perception and Conversely how the perception interacts with the 'consciousness'.

The language could be either kind of an old,  a primitive one like the prakrit, or the one very well designed, kind of 'engineered' one, -like the Sanskrit.

Panini Who only documented the structure of Sanskrit knew this phenomenon perfectly well. He associated 'Phonetics' in relating the language and the sense. He did not invent a language, he rather discovered the one that is timelessly ever so present as Veda.

Thereby He knew The importance of 'word' in terms of the sense. Word as sound, and the word as the voice. The sound could be as  the material-result of a physical activity, or a voice uttered by a sentient living being. The later becomes a mantra. A mantra is imbued with Intelligence and purpose. All and every spoken word is therefore kind of a mantra, but the purpose determines the result.

So a mantra too is kind of a Neuro Linguistic programming. And I am not saying about the Sanskrit or the Veda only.

The etymology of the words sound, voice and word itself too are very interesting :

Word : is 'wort' in German, is cognate of Sanskrit root-verb verb √'वर्त्' meaning to behave, function, work. 

Sound : in Sanskrit is -- 'स्वन्' 'स्वं' 'स्वर' and is 'sound' is cognate of this (स्वन्), that is again evident.

Voice : in Sanskrit is from the root-verb 'वच्' whuch takes the form 'वक्' as in 'vocal'.

Again after so many years when I thought of learning Urdu, I faced the same problem that I had experienced so long ago. I deeply felt that the way a script is written L to R as in the Indo-European languages, and R to L as in the Semitic languages like the Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Phoenician, has a great impact in designing, formulating, reforming and even altering our 'consciousness'. That was how I had to stop studying Urdu. Now I have overcome that problem and in the way, I learned something more, -quite new too.

The Sanskrit Grammar of Panini begins with the phonetics and speech and in fact it is the very foundation of Ashtadhyayi (अष्टाध्यायी) / Grammar. 

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