The state of शं, concept of "I"

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Dear friends,

The RgVeda talks about a state of शं, a state of silence when the object

stays in harmony with the universe without an interaction.  The breathing as

an activity operates but there is no desired exercise.  I have interpreted this

as the state of वस्तु in the neurological model that I am developing.  The वस्तु

exists, it is cognized with its properties, but there is no interaction because 

there is no "I".  The model asserts that the fundamental cosmological state

of the brain has no "I" in it, since "I" is not a perceived object.   The concept

of "I" comes through an imagination faculty in the brain when the latter 

constructs "I" as an imaginary  वस्तु .  Since "I" is imaginary its features are arbitrary, local and unnatural.  It is customized to the individual.  

The शं universe operates through a built-in optimization which would appear

unchanging नित्य in our local timescale. The शं state has activities of production and decay that are necessary to maintain the state.  We stretch the view that

the शं state manifests as प्रज्ञा state in our brain, a state that gives us the objective view in any given situation.  The rules of  शं in the universe are imprinted as rules of righteousness which are natural and non-local.  There

is always a local action that is prompted to maintain the शं state of the universe.

In the linguistic sense, this would be called स्वधर्म. प्रज्ञा is purely neurological, it does not have a label, it does not have an "I".

I have explained some of this in the lecture video I circulated. There are new

nuances and so I wrote this note.  It is a delight to note that the vedic seers did try to conceive a self-contained universe, though I have not found their analysis yet.  I will be grateful to receive any leads.  

Best regards,

Bijoy Misra