All the mystics of the past were pointing to the same thing, but they did not have the language of neuroscience. From the Upanishads to Jesus, from Buddha to the Chinese philosophers, and right through to Krishnamurti, they were all describing one process: the movement of the brain-mind. They spoke of truth and illusion, noise and silence, self and no-self — but always in symbolic language, without referencing the underlying mechanisms of the brain.
Once you see this, the search begins to end. You realise that all their insights are simply descriptions of what happens in you: how the mind moves from thought into silence, how awareness deepens when the noisy frontline activity subsides, and how neuroscience today is finally showing why this shift occurs. The ancients intuited what we can now observe directly — that the brain can enter a timeless state when the activity of the thinking mind dissolves.
Take Satyam — the Absolute Truth, the eternal reality beyond illusion. When is truth ever experienced? Only in the silent mind. Truth is the timeless field that appears when the brain is no longer generating the noise of thought. And you are both of these movements: the noisy, fragmented mind and the silent, timeless one. When you rest in that silence, you experience Sundaram — the beauty and harmony that radiate from truth itself.
Seeing this clearly is what the old texts called Shiva. Shiva is not a deity outside you; Shiva is the silent mind, the presence of pure consciousness when thought ends. Shivam is the auspicious quality that emerges in that inner stillness. When you enter that depth of silence, you have stepped into the same reality all the masters were pointing to — and the spiritual search ends here.
Only if you want to go further into the hidden spaces of the mind would you explore Tukdam — the deep Sunyata that emerges at the boundary of death, where the mind enters emptiness for days before the body finally shuts down. Past meditation, past silence, Sunyata is the true Shiva-state, and Tukdam is its last expression in the living body. After death, that merging happens completely, but without a body there is no knowing of it — only pure being.
This is the end of spiritual exploration. Now you understand what the great masters were really describing: the movements of your own brain and mind, from thought to silence, from self to no-self, from time into the timeless. Nothing more remains to be found. The rest is simply to live — with this understanding at the centre of your being. This is your full potential in understanding the Brain and mind. What else is there — just make the life you want with this understanding in mind. You will acquire some powers within the brain-mind-body — use it wisely. Enjoy life — it will be good while it lasted, as the body dies and you return to the creator-source.
