The relationship between devotional sangeetham of Swami Tyagaya, brain-mind dynamics and God spot

  • Purushothaman Anantham Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract

The rationale is that Saint Tyagaya’s devotional Sangeetham creates brain activity to contemplate on God and therefore God becomes neurologically real. This form of spiritual development and contemplative singing exercise could strengthen neurological circuits and manipulate a devotee’s emotion to produce love, empathy, compassion, benevolence and tolerance. The research   is a validation of the psychometric assessment extending from Swami Tyagaya, devotional Sangeetham, God, neuro-psychology and spirituality. The methodology shows the development of a questionnaire survey with a grand total of Eighty two questions to measure five different types of subjects. The Questionnaire addresses the society’s knowledge, belief, devotion, attitudes   and educational progress over the five subjects. The compilation of questionnaire was distributed to the Indian community in Malaysia. Four hundred and ten volunteers responded to tell their experiential views of Sangeetham, Swami Tyagaya, brain, devotion, God and spirituality. The Questionnaire data were analyzed using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The result showed that there are strong positive correlation between Sangeetham, devotional reliance, God, brain Swami Tyagaya and spiritualism. These   results conclusively indicate that Swami Tyagaya’s devotional Sangeetham   strongly influences the spiritual experience of the Indian devotees in Malaysia. 

Keywords: Swami Tyagaya, Neuropsychology, God, Brain, Devotional music

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Anantham, P. (2019). The relationship between devotional sangeetham of Swami Tyagaya, brain-mind dynamics and God spot. Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 3(4), 431-440. https://doi.org/10.33306/mjssh/33
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