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Shiksha

Shiksha is one of the structuring dynamics of Rk Veda. It highlights the quality of EXPRESSION involved in structuring Rk Veda. With reference to consciousness, Shiksha comprises the specific sets of laws of Nature that are engaged in promoting the quality of Rishi — the observer, the witnessing quality — within the Samhita level of consciousness, providing a structure to the eternally silent, self-referral, self-sufficient, fully awake state of consciousness, which is intimately personal to everyone.(complete table of qualities)

In the physiology, Shiksha is represented by the structures which compute and express the internal aspects of the physiology, such as its biochemical constituents, temperature, pressure, etc. (the expressions of the autonomic nervous system).

These expressions are channeled via the autonomic ganglia. These are 36 on each side of the spinal cord, corresponding to the 36 books of  Shiksha.

Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature — Prof. Tony Nader-Ram in Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature,
pp. 80-81
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Shamana ShikshaVyali ShikshaSvaravyanjana ShikshaVyasa ShikshaCharayaniya ShikshaAtreya ShikshaVasishtha ShikshaPaniniya ShikshaLakshmikanta ShikshaParashari ShikshaPadyatmika Keshavi ShikshaShaishiriya ShikshaKatyayani ShikshaVarnaratnapradipika ShikshaMadhyandina ShikishaMandavya ShikshaVasishthi ShikshaYagyavalkya ShikshaMallasharma ShikshaAmoghanandini ShikshaAvasananirnaya ShikshaSiddhanta ShikshaApishali ShikshaSarvasammata ShikshaAranya ShikshaShambhu ShikshaKalanirnaya ShikshaBharadvaja ShikshaKauhaliya ShikshaPari ShikshaShodashashloki ShikshaManduki ShikshaNaradiya ShikshaGautami ShikshaLomashi ShikshaKaundinya ShikshaPadachandrikaAranya Shiksha 76KBSarvasamatta Shiksha 74KBApishali Shiksha 56KBSiddhanta Shiksha 60KBAvasananirnaya Shiksha 51KBAmoghanandini Shiksha 74KBMallasharma Shiksha 57KBYagyavalkya Shiksha 104KBVasishti Shiksha 60KBMandavya Shiksha 53KBMadhyandina Shiksha 49KBVarnaratnapradipika Shiksha 98KBKatyayana Shiksha 30KBSvarabhaktilakshanaparishishta Shiksha 50KBPadyatmika Keshavi Shiksha 42KBParashari Shiksha 80KBLakshmikanta Shiksha 20KBPaniniya Shiksha 55KBVasishta Shiksha 32KBAtreya Shiksha 24KBCharayaniya Shiksha 134KBVyasa Shiksha 108KBShaishiriya Shiksha 89KBSvaravyanjana Shiksha 44KBVyalli Siksha 49KBShamana Shiksha 50KBShambhu Shiksha 49KBKalanirnaya Shiksha 37KBBharadvaja Shiksha 86KBKauhaliya Shiksha 60KBPari Shiksha 86KBShodashashloki Shiksha 40KBManduki Shiksha 86KBNaradiya Shiksha 103KBGautami Shiksha 54KBLomashi Shiksha 58KB

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi


Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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regular practice of the
Transcendental Meditation technique:

Through Transcendental Meditation the awareness of the individual gains self-referral consciousness; it identifies with  the self-referral state of consciousness, Samhita level of consciousness, the field of pure intelligence — infinite Creative Intelligence — and through the self-referral dynamics of self-referral consciousness, the diversified state of the awareness of the individual realizes the concentrated power of Natural Law in its unified state, and through practice lives Natural Law in daily life.

— Maharishi University of Management, p. 183
 
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Atharva Veda Yajur Veda Sama Veda Atharva Veda Pratishakhya (Chaturadhyayi) Krishna-Yajur-Veda Pratishakhya (Taittiriya) Sama Veda Pratishakhya (Pushpa Sutram) Atharva Veda Pratishakhya Shukl-Yajur-Veda Pratishakhya Rk Veda Pratishakhya Itihas Puran Smriti Brahmana Aranyak Upanishad Vyakaran Kalp Shiksha Jyotish Chhand Nirukt Nyaya Vaisheshik Samkhya Yoga Karma Mimansa Vedant Gandharva Veda Dhanur Veda Sthapatya Veda Harita Samhita Bhel Samhita Kashyap Samhita Charak Samhita Sushrut Samhita Vagbhatt Samhita Bhava-Prakash Samhita Sharngadhar Samhita Madhav Nidan Samhita