There's a crisis of attention among the young today. One big reason, of course, is the digital media. Ganeshwar says modern neuroscience has isolated certain groups of neurons which become active when you're focusing. When it happens, for whatever reason, as he says, yathavaya to austerity, multiple reasons, the mind gets distracted. That very fact of distraction, there's a separate set of neurons which get activated. So interesting to note, whatever is mentioned in these ancient texts, it corresponds to actual neuronal activity,. distinct groups of neurons being activated.

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