What Did This Ancient Sage WARN Us About? Are You Making the SAME Mistake? by Swami Mukundanand
*Must learn about these 4 happiness chemicals produced in our bodies* https://youtu.be/SUrivVeneRE Main points: 1 there are four chemicals identified with happiness, these are called the DOSE chemicals, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphin - let us understand and these will give us an idea of the varieties of Happiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=6 2 so let's start off with endorphin, endorphine basically means morphine which is a pain killer that is given to mask pain, so for example if you are having a terrible pain somewhere the doctor will inject morphine to mask it - in exercise (or injuries), the pain signals are masks by the Endorphin, also those who exercise regularly, experience withdrawal symptoms if they skip exercise one day due to endorphin missing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=34 3 the second chemical is oxytocin, oxytocin is the social bonding Chemical, in social interactions it gets secreted making you feel good about it, that is why man is a social animal because the oxytocin is making you so, making you enjoy interpersonal interactions, for example when a mother hugs her little baby there's such a flow of oxytocin making her feel so good about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=146 4 now the third one Dopamine this is the deluding Chemical, earlier people thought it is responsible for happiness, in fact if somebody's brain is not secreting dopamine that becomes the primary cause for depression, the dopamine creates the Desires, only problem is dopamine gives an anticipation of happiness but never a Fulfillment, so we human beings we create desires because of dopamine It promises, dopamine does two things it gives you a promise, if you get that object of your senses the ice cream cake and you can bring your tongue in touch with it and enjoy the taste, oh it is so much of happiness and if you don't get the ice cream cake then you are in Tension, so dopamine also creates tension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=194 5 all this marketing environment, the social media etc, it is just kicking the dopamine in the head, pressurizing you to take it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=303 6 there is the story of Saubhari Rishi, who was fooled by dopamine, a false promise of seeing happiness in the world - the blunder was realized by Rishi after thousands of years - listen to the happening - after this realization, Rishi warned all humankind not to be fooled this way by dopamine chemical but we still continue to be fooled by this illusion of maya which is temporary & we do not turn to God who is our eternal friend & father https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=338 7 Dopamine fools us to make all the wrong decisions whether it comes to eating the healthy food versus that you know chocolate chip ice cream, whether it comes to exercising or becoming a couch potato and watching Netflix etc., it's all this dopamine that is responsible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=570 8 the fourth one is Serotonin, it is the chemical that gives you good feeling, while dopamine thrills but doesn't fulfill, Serotonin calms the Neurons, makes you feel good about yourself, Serotonin could be produced in a few ways, one of them is laughter, brain doesn't care whether you fake the laughter or not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=593 9 intuitively we all realize we need to be better, there's a program God has written in our soul, which informs us that I have still not become as I need to become, I have yet not done what I need to do, I am yet not feeling as I need to feel, our soul is pushing us forward, you need to improve yourself, when we strive to improve, we feel good about ourselves that leads to the secretion of Serotonin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrivVeneRE&t=705 Transcript D.O.S.E Chemicals 0:00 how does our brain cooperate in our 0:04 experience of 0:06 happiness that there are four chemicals 0:10 identified with 0:13 happiness these are called the DOSE 0:17 chemicals 0:19 dopamine 0:21 oxytocin serotonin and 0:25 endorphin let us understand and these 0:29 will give us an idea of the varieties of 0:34 Happiness so let's start off with 0:39 endorphins endorphine basically means 0:44 endorphine morphine is a pain killer 0:47 that is given to mask 0:51 pain so for example if you are having a 0:54 terrible pain somewhere the doctor will 0:56 inject morphine to mask it! 1:00 an endorphine means 1:02 internally produced 1:05 morphine its function is to mask the 1:08 pain you experience in physical 1:13 exercise so when you engage in physical 1:16 exercise the muscles they convey 1:19 pain signals, the body tissues etc the 1:22 bodily parts the joints they all convey 1:25 pain signals but the Endorphin masks it 1:30 and that's why people continue to 1:32 exercise in fact they enjoy the 1:36 exercise there's a thing called the 1:38 runners 1:40 high 1:42 Runners they get the Endorphin kick it 1:46 makes them feel 1:48 euphoric because of this happiness 1:51 chemical that is getting secreted that 1:54 is leading to the runner's 1:58 high and 2:00 the day they are not able to run or 2:02 exercise they experience withdrawal 2:06 symptoms those who are regular in their 2:09 Exercise, if one day that get missed out 2:12 they feel really bad about it incomplete 2:16 why they did not get the Endorphin kick 2:18 on that day so it's a withdrawal symptom 2:20 like a drug addict this is the chemical 2:24 called 2:26 endorphin and the second chemical is oxytocin 2:33 oxytocin is the social bonding 2:38 chemical in social 2:41 interactions it gets secreted making you 2:45 feel good about it that is why man is a 2:49 social animal because the oxytocin 2:53 is making you so making you 2:56 enjoy interpersonal interactions 3:00 when a mother hugs her little baby 3:03 there's such a flow of oxytocin making 3:07 her feel so good about Dopamine 3:10 it there oxytocin the social bonding 3:14 chemical now the third one Dopamine 3:17 this is the deluding 3:21 chemical earlier on people thought it is 3:25 responsible for happiness in fact if 3:28 somebody's brain is not secreting 3:32 dopamine that becomes the primary cause 3:34 for depression the dopamine creates the 3:38 desires only problem is dopamine gives 3:43 an anticipation of 3:46 happiness but never a 3:50 fulfillment so we human beings we create 3:54 desires because of dopamine 3:58 It promises, dopamine does two things it 4:02 gives you a promise if you get that 4:05 object of your senses the ice cream cake 4:10 and you can bring your tongue in touch 4:13 with it and enjoy the taste oh be so 4:16 much of happiness and if you don't get 4:19 the ice cream cake then you are in 4:23 tension so dopamine creates tension 4:27 unless I get the object of my desire 4:29 I'll suffer a result worse than death 4:33 and if I get it there will be so much of 4:36 happiness the problem is when you get Tension 4:39 the object the desire goes for a 4:43 moment and then again it 4:46 arises so again you have this tension I 4:49 need to get rid of this tension this 4:52 desire is giving me so much of anxiety 4:55 and if I can get that object then I'll 4:57 get my happiness so just going from one 5:00 desire to the next to the next to the 5:03 next and all this marketing environment 5:08 the social media etc it is giving just 5:12 kicking the dopamine in the head until 5:16 people realize oh my God I want this 5:18 stimulation and the next and the next 5:20 and the next and the 5:23 next so now people don't have the 5:25 patience to look at one reel in 5:28 Instagram for more than three 5:32 seconds but this is all the 5:35 dopamine it fools 5:38 us there is the story of Saubhari 5:41 Rishi, Saubhari Rishi was such a great 5:45 sage he used 5:48 to immerse himself in the river yamuna 5:51 and engage in 5:53 samadhi and then one day he saw two fish 5:57 mating and he thought oh my God there 6:00 must be happiness there so he went out 6:04 of his 6:05 samadhi and he said I need to marry he 6:08 went to ayodhya the king of ayodhya was 6:13 Mandhata he entered the palace and Mandhata saw 6:16 this Great Sage welcome 6:20 Maharaj you are blessing us with the 6:23 dust of your feet so Saubhari rishi said 6:27 Rajan give me the hand of one of your 6:30 daughters in 6:32 Marriage, Mandhata had 50 daughters he caught his 6:38 head oh my 6:40 God now whichever daughter I’ll marry to 6:43 this old emaciated (weak) Rishi her life will be 6:48 ruined so Mandhata played a trick he said oh 6:53 so be it let's do it like this I'll 6:58 bring them all in front of you 7:01 whichever selects you, you do varana of 7:04 that daughter I'll give her hand to you 7:08 man's trick was that nobody will select 7:11 This rishi 7:13 but Saubhari understood the trick so he did 7:18 a counter trick he said all right rajan 7:21 not today 7:23 tomorrow in one day by his 7:26 yogic prowess and the power of His 7:30 austerities he made himself extremely 7:34 handsome what to talk of Mr Universe Mr 7:36 world and he came there, Mandhata brought the 7:40 50 daughters all of them 7:42 selected Saubhari, father this is the one I was 7:45 looking for this marriage is made in 7:48 heaven so Mandhata had to give all his 7:52 daughters he had given his word now his 7:55 worry is compounded how will he stay 7:57 with 50 of them so the story is in the 8:02 Srimad Bhagavatam, Saubhari rishi’s yogic abilities did not end 8:07 there he created 50 bodies for himself 8:12 and he manifested 50 palaces so that he 8:16 stayed in each palace with each 8:19 queen but the plot 8:22 thickens now, from each queen he had 10 8:27 children and those 10 children had 8:30 further 10 8:32 children ,now the Bhagavatam says thousands of 8:35 years went 8:37 by and one day Saubhari started doing some 8:43 contemplation self analysis, atma nirikshan 8:47 and he said where was I, I used to sit 8:53 in the river yamuna in 8:56 samadhi and this dopamine mean really fooled 8:59 me 9:00 there is going to be happiness there I 9:03 chased it and chased it and chased it 9:07 never found any 9:09 fulfillment so he conveyed a message to 9:13 human beings he said oh humankind 9:18 look what happened to me what ability 9:22 do you have to enjoy the world I tried 9:26 with yog bal but found no satiation 9:30 Dopamine fools us to make all the wrong 9:34 decisions whether it comes to eating the 9:37 healthy food versus that you know 9:40 chocolate chip ice cream whether it 9:43 comes to 9:44 exercising or becoming a couch potato 9:47 and watching Netflix etc it's all this 9:50 dopamine that is 9:53 responsible now the fourth 9:57 one this is 10:02 Serotonin is the chemical that gives you 10:07 good 10:08 feeling while dopamine thrills but 10:12 doesn't fulfill Serotonin calms the 10:16 neurons makes you feel good about 10:20 yourself Serotonin could be produced in a 10:24 few ways one of them is 10:26 laughter when you laugh the brain secretes 10:30 Serotonin you feel 10:33 good, that is why in any yogic 10:38 regimen laughter is an essential part 10:42 but the interesting thing is for the 10:44 production of Serotonin if you can't make it 10:47 you can fake 10:48 it means the brain doesn't care whether 10:52 you fake the laughter you actually did 10:54 it the laughter will make you feel good 10:56 let's try it out you will laugh with all 10:59 our might lifting our hands along with me so you got everybody is feeling good 11:27 right so Serotonin in the brain makes you 11:30 feel good it's also good for your health Serotonin 11:34 serotonin gets secreted when you feel 11:38 good about 11:41 yourself how do you feel good 11:45 intuitively we all 11:47 realize we need to be 11:50 better there's a program God has written 11:54 in our soul which informs us I have 11:57 still not become as I need to 12:01 become I have yet not done what I need 12:05 to 12:07 do I am yet not feeling as I need to 12:11 feel our soul is pushing us forward you 12:15 need to improve 12:18 yourself when we strive to 12:22 improve we feel good about 12:24 ourselves that leads to the secretion of 12:28 Serotonin 12:31 it's not 12:33 even how good you are but the Delta (small increment / progress) that 12:38 you are trying for you are here you're 12:40 trying to get there you here you're 12:42 trying to get there because it's an 12:45 incremental growth so as long as you're 12:48 trying your best the serotonin will get 12:51 secreted Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): What Did This Ancient Sage WARN Us About Are You Making the SAME Mistake #swamimukundananda.mp4
