Sādhaka Pitta

Question 1

What are the primary sites of sādhaka pitta?

Answer 1

Grey matter of the brain, heart

Question 2

What are the primary functions of sādhaka pitta?

Answer 2

Conscious thinking and emotions

Comprehension

Question 3

Where is sādhaka pitta present, and corresponds to what on the physical level of each of these structures?

Answer 3

In the grey matter of the brain, certain neurotransmitters

In the heart as part of the cardiac plexus or the heart chakra

Question 4

What psychological attributes is sādhaka pitta responsible for?

Answer 4

Knowledge
Understanding
Comprehension 
Appreciation
Absorption 
Recognition 
Identification 
Evaluation

Question 5

Sādhaka pitta transforms sensation into ____?

Answer 5

Feelings and emotions

Question 6

How is sādhaka pitta related to the ego?

What is the Sanskrit word for ego?

What beneficial emotion is the ego related to?

Answer 6

Sādhaka pitta creates the feeling “I am” that is the ego

Ahamkāra is the word for ego

Self esteem is called ego, ahamkāra

Question 7

Which subtype of each dosha is important in brain function?

Answer 7

Prāna vāyu, sādhaka pitta, tarpaka kapha

Question 8

What is sādhaka pitta’s function in the sensitive film of white matter that covers the brain?

What is this film of white matter called in Āyurveda?

Answer 8

Sādhaka pitta is the “ink” that is used to record every visual, olfactory, and tactile experience

This film is tarpaka kapha

Question 9

Describe the process of sādhaka pitta transforming sound into feeling

Answer 9

Sādhaka pitta transforms sound into nerve impulse.
The nerve impulse is carried to the center of hearing where it is transformed, digested into meaning.

Meaning is feeling

Feeling is called ESP (extra sensory perception)

Question 10

Where is past memory and experience stored?

How does sādhaka pitta recall memory?

Answer 10

Past memory is stored in the DNA/RNA molecules

In the process of recognition, sādhaka pitta penetrates the memory and chooses a particular file from the vast hologram of DNA/RNA molecules. This is a function of buddhi, the intellect

Question 11

What is memory?

What are the two kinds of knowledge?

Answer 11

Experience recorded in the brain cells becomes memory

Knowledge from memory (information)
Knowledge from direct perception (insight)
Insight comes from direct perception without the interference of information, this is an important function of sādhaka pitta

Question 12

What is the governing element of sādhaka pitta?

Answer 12

Ether

Question 13

What is the Sanskrit word for mind?

What is the Sanskrit word for memory?

Answer 13

Manas

Smruti

Question 14

Sādhaka pitta is the bridge between ___ and ___ of truth

Answer 14

Actuality, reality

Healthy sādhaka pitta is necessary to have a clear relationship with Truth

Question 15

The pitta present in the nervous system that is responsible for ___changes sādhaka pitta

Answer 15

Neuro-chemical changes

Question 16

The grey matter of the brain regulates the ___ of of neurons, this is sādhaka pitta

Answer 16

Temperature

Question 17

Sādhaka pitta helps transform molecules of food, water, and air into a biological cellular component called ___?

Answer 17

Cytoplasm

Question 18

Sādhaka pitta takes the content of cytoplasm and transforms it into ___ by subtle cellular metabolic activity?

Answer 18

Awareness

Question 19

Unprocessed cytoplasmic content becomes ___ and is stored where in a crystallized form?

Answer 19

Emotion

Unprocessed thought, feeling, and emotion is stored in the connective tissue

Question 20

Sādhaka pitta is present in what part of the heart?

Answer 20

Cardiac plexus (heart chakra)

Question 21

Sādhaka pitta in the heart metabolizes and processes ___ & ___?

Answer 21

Feeling and emotion

Question 22

All manifestations of love are due to ___ in the ___.

Answer 22

Sādhaka pitta

Heart