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Silence - Melathonin and Meditation
by Maria Ferreira da Silva
in 14 Dec 2016
 (...previous) Physical and psychic wear thus produces depressive states. It is therefore through spiritual aspiration and elevated thought that the brain develops and there is an increase in intelligence, happiness and pleasure.
Physical tiredness also hinders the organisation of the neurons since it forces the brain to concern itself with other areas, namely, those governing the motor and nervous functions. Nevertheless, if one feels mentally tired, ingesting a sweet substance can help to restore mental well-being. People who have low glucose levels or low blood pressure can do this by eating a little salt. However, sugar should not be consumed to excess because this can raise energy levels too high, leading to movement, which tires the body, thus rendering such consumption useless: sugar-saturation can lead to the absence of a stimulus to the brain.
If one has a balanced diet, with the necessary proteins, vitamins and minerals, the organism will be able to transform and supply the brain with the essential elements and energy it needs. Lighter foods, or, in Indian terminology, the satvics, one of the three guṇas or qualities of matter, are more rapidly and easily transformed into sugar than heavier foods, the tamasics, as the latter are opposed to the former and contain toxins that destroy the purer vital chemical elements.
Meditation and a balanced diet are essential for spiritual evolution or the spiritual path that leads to happiness, to the encounter of God. They are principal means for resolving the problem of unhappiness, which Man faces.
There are cells in the brain that only start working when spiritual aspiration and communion with God are established. They are and have always been part of the brain, yet inactive, awaiting stimulation through such aspiration, faith, devotion, will, divine knowledge and true belief in God. From the moment we seize the opportunity to provide an impulse to these cells and awake them from their passive state, a new world of psychic and mental activity, which was previously inhibited and occult, is opened up, and it gradually leads to a new and broader outlook on life and the spirit, enlarging the consciousness and leading to enhanced intelligence.
Meditation stills the mind and the feelings, silencing… It puts an end to words and action, sublimating feelings and absorbing the being in itself, enveloping it in silence, the essential state for the perception of the Soul. This “immersion” of the being in peace can then lead to beatitude, towards the limitless and infinite Light in the vastness of the Universe. The horizon of Comprehension stretches out in the distance and the Spirit “floats” within the Cosmic Ocean of the free and the unconditional; the mind is static, and does not interfere, placing no limits on the unified experience of the Absolute.
Silence derives from this happiness that exists within all beings, through the manifestation of the Spirit. The capacity and opportunity for happiness arises when the yearning for happiness in the outer world ceases and one internally begins to establish one’s own physical and psychic well-being. Stillness is the guiding force and silence assumes a state in which planes of the Divine will can be reached; we are not only witness to the revelation of God’s will, but we also begin to understand that Knowledge of God is true happiness.
The practise of Meditation leads to this Happiness. Meditation is a transforming exercise, the path of transparency that affects the whole being. It is the key to the mystery of death and rebirth, on which all spiritual life is based, which gives rise to a gradual and peaceful renunciation of openly giving up anything. It is a process of annihilation of the profane being and the assumption of primacy by the Spiritual Self.
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