{"id":6365,"date":"2013-07-10T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2017-08-27T16:55:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T11:25:05","slug":"the-role-of-will-cognition-in-individual-transformation-a-perspective-based-on-indian-vedantic-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/the-role-of-will-cognition-in-individual-transformation-a-perspective-based-on-indian-vedantic-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we effectively fuse our will and cognition towards a single goal? \u2013 A perspective based on Indian Vedantic Thought <\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cognition is a wide word that means many things.<\/p>\n

In traditional Indian thought, cognition is of three kinds:
\n– one associated with reason\/ mentation \/ etc. (Manas<\/em>);
\n– two, associated with insight\/ perception (Buddhi<\/em>); and
\n– three, associated with change in consciousness (Chitta<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Cognition associated with Manas<\/em>\u00a0is the realm of traditional education and transfer of information\/ analysis\/ reasoning algorithm, etc.<\/p>\n

Cognition associated with Buddhi<\/em> is insight – that is itself transformative of behavior\/ action, i.e. one cannot have genuine insight and not feel the desire or pressure to change.<\/p>\n

When cognition at the perception \/ insight level gets \u201caccepted\u201d wholly by a person at the will\/ being level, there is an immediate <\/em>wholesale transformation in that person. This constitutes ‘change in consciousness’ or Chitta<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, this fusion of will and cognition called cognition-will by us (or Dhriti<\/em> in Indian thought) is entirely in the zone of individual ego\/ role and goal management.<\/p>\n

Any external circumstances could be optimal or sub-optimal, but change will always come from within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cognition is a wide word that means many things. In traditional Indian thought-cognition is of three kinds \u2013 one associated with reason \/ mentation \/ etc. (Manas); two, associated with insight \/ perception (Buddhi); and three, associated with change in consciousness (Chitta)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9334,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/9334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}