Motivation

Dr Suvarna Nalapat http://drsuvarnanalapattrust.org

What motivates humans?

How best a human being can communicate?

A motivational hierarchy
1.Physiological needs(viscerogenic)-even

animals need this. 2.Safety needs 3.Love and belonging 4.Self esteem Self actualisation only very few highly evolved human beings have this and for this , another human (Guru) become a stimulation

Self actualisation-Hierarchical top

The understanding of our full potential and

how we can achieve that. selfesteem is different from this. Eg. A musician-his self actualisation is in rendering all the basic raagaas and thereby arousing the full potential of the bioenergy in him./her.A rare event for any musician to achieve.But if achieved , he has attained selfactualisation. Ananda-bliss as motivation for all Meemaamsa ( research /activity)

Adisankara
The best motivation is the Bliss

(ANANDA) experience one gets out of an activity. Advaitha experience as greatest Bliss Compare with Einstein

Einstein:
.Religious feeling is the strongest and the

noblest motive for scientific research. Religious feeling does not mean the power of punishment from a superior power. Nor is it the moral , ethical feeling leading to social impulses like serving humanity or a community.

Advaitha of Einstein
It is the cosmic religious feeling which

occurs , according to Einstein , in individuals with exceptional endowments who want to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

Language acqusition
Speech-Brocas area Genetic predisposition biological

inheritance of man Sequence in speech developmentcry,coo,babbling,word recognition,word combinations,vocabulary. Information processing,verbal communication

Nonverbal
Gestures,postures,sounds,gait, Close friends, lovers communicate at great

distances without physical proximity symbols

Reference
Introduction to psychology .Norman

.L.Munn etal.Oxford &IBH publishing co. Educational psychology .Skinner. Sudhasindhu : 12 Upanishads .Dr suvarna Nalapat .D C Books Kottayam 2003

Misunderstanding in communication
Idea the speaker wants to convey Not perfectly encoded by the transmitter

(messenger) Distorted by outside interference Receiver do not receive the signal accurately The receiver decode it according to his past experience and frame of reference(influence of personal bias) so that he misses the conveyed meaning.

The best
Communicate directly,not through

messengers or third persons. Guru/disciple(best example for ieal human relationship) Bhagavan/bhaktha Husband/wife lovers