Krishna: The answer is “NO”!
Science’s rules are unyielding. They will not be bent in any way for anybody or anything! (1)
Science and its universal rules don't work like people want them to. And these rules will not be bent in any way for anybody or anything. Even if you do the rituals perfectly and practice priest-prescribed procedures. Your unrealistic wishes of bending Scientific rules with magical powers will never come true! Science will surrender to only science. Nothing else! (1)
A heart beats only if it has the right conditions and sustainable bio-chemical reactions and electric pulses. A doctor's duty is just to see that these correct conditions are maintained. He will do everything that his knowledge in this regard tells him to do. But if things don't fit exactly into the rules of Science, the heart must stop working. Nothing can change it. Nothing you do outside can make it work! (1)
Similarly a living body that has all the wrong working conditions cannot sustain for long. It has to cease to exist unless intervention takes place following scientific rules. Medical practitioners and their scientific training will have the role to do it in the way it should be done. Still if things don't fall in exact places, a body following biological rules, will stick to its predetermined course. Realize this and stay calm. (1)
When several factors decide outcomes, they follow the interplay of scientific rules and routes and exactly fit into the reaction realities. You have to register this in your mind to come out of the misery you are in. Watch it coolly and try to understand it. How a person survives a health condition or a catastrophe or a bad situation depends on the sum total outcomes of scientific factors occurring simultaneously. Other outside things have no effect whatsoever on it. Any connections you make between rituals/superstitions and the outcomes depend on your perceptions and experiences. A positive outcome either to you or others makes you stick with them. A negative result will make you attack them. But the net result doesn't depend on anything that is not related to it! And these unrelated factors are your beliefs, rituals, superstitions and myths. (1)
However, some people need external emotional support to stay calm. These individuals get Psychological boost because chanting acts as an anchor that calms the nervous system and interrupts negative thought loops.
The rhythmic, repetitive nature of the 40 Awadhi verses functions like a mantra or form of active meditation. It centers wandering thoughts, boosts mental clarity, and replaces feelings of helplessness with a surge of inner power.
Daily discipline in reciting the hymn fosters routine, emotional stability, and a deep sense of internal agency, helping individuals feel more capable of confronting life's challenges.
You just get a psychological boost by chanting Hanuman Chalisa but not a cure.
Footnotes:
- Science's rules are unyielding, they will not be bent in any way for anybody or anything!
Q: Why do elders ask us not to keep mirrors in a bedroom facing beds?
Krishna:
May be because they are worried about of the optical and neurological phenomenon known as the "strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion"
In 2010, Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo published a study with the intriguing title Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion.
He asked 66 volunteers to sit approximately 40 centimeters (16 inches) from a mirror in a dimly lit room and look at their own faces for one minute.
Around two-thirds reported significant distortions of their faces. More than a quarter described seeing an unfamiliar person, while others reported fantastical beings, animals or the faces of relatives—sometimes deceased. Some changes began after less than a minute.
The participants were simply looking at themselves. So why would something as familiar as our own face suddenly become strange?
The explanation partly lies in the 1804 work done by Swiss physician Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler, who described a curious phenomenon. When we fix our gaze on one point, objects elsewhere in our visual field can gradually fade from awareness.
This is now known as the Troxler effect, or Troxler fading. This effect happens partly because sensory neurons, which detect and transmit information about what we see, adapt to relatively constant stimulation. Our visual system is particularly interested in change: movement, shifting contrast and anything that might require our attention. Normally, we hardly notice this process. Even when we believe we're staring steadily, our eyes make tiny movements that continually refresh visual information. But prolonged fixation can allow relatively stable features, particularly those away from the center of our gaze, to become less distinct.
Now imagine applying this to your face. When you stare at your own eyes in a mirror, the surrounding features remain relatively stationary. The contours of your cheeks, the edges of your nose and the outline of your mouth provide a fairly constant pattern of information.
But in dim light, those features are already harder to distinguish—so the Troxler effect alone cannot explain why someone might see an entirely different face. For that, we need to consider how the brain recognizes faces.
The Troxler Effect: When you stare fixedly at a single point in low illumination, your brain stops processing unchanging, static visual details. Peripheral and subtle facial features begin to fade or blur.
Reconstructed imagery: Because the visual information coming from your eyes becomes weak and unreliable in dim light, your brain's facial-recognition network (such as the fusiform face area) tries to fill in the missing blanks.
Warped apparitions: As the brain misinterprets minor fluctuations in shading and edges, your reflection can dramatically distort. In studies, participants reported seeing monstrous faces, animals, strangers, or even the faces of relatives (sometimes deceased) within less than a minute of staring.
Human beings are extraordinarily sensitive to faces. We can recognize familiar people from surprisingly little visual information and detect subtle changes in expression. This ability involves a network of brain regions, including the fusiform face area, which responds particularly strongly to faces. Rather than analyzing every feature independently, our visual system processes the relationships between them—including the distance between the eyes, the position of the nose and the arrangement of facial features. When you look into a mirror, your brain isn't simply recording what is in front of you. It interprets visual information using previous experience and expectations—and there's perhaps no face you know better than your own. But under dim lighting, the information arriving from your eyes becomes less reliable. Shadows obscure features, contrast diminishes and the relationships between parts of the face become harder to resolve.
The brain must continue interpreting this increasingly ambiguous information. Sometimes the result is a distorted version of your own face. Sometimes it resembles another person altogether. The mechanisms behind these illusions are still under investigation. But what makes the experience disturbing is that the reflection remains recognizably human while no longer appearing to belong to you.
Some feel these distorted faces as ghosts!
I am not afraid of such things because I know about this. I have two mirrors facing my bed and each night I look into them in dim light.
That doesn't have any effect on me .
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