My 25 Years of Research on Indian Mind Sciences

A very large but unacknowledged contribution of Indian dharma traditions has been in Mind Sciences. This covers psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, clinical therapies and metaphysics of mind. The lecture is a brief survey of many westerners who are famous as pioneers, but their appropriation from India remains largely unknown. These individuals include: Freud, Jung, Ken Wilber, Stephen Bachelor, Owen Flaganan, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Stephen LaBarge, Francisco Varela, Kevin Thompson, Sam Harris, Herb Benson, Mind-Life Institute, Templeton Foundation, California Institute of Integral Studies, etc.

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शीर्षक: भारतीय मस्तिष्क विज्ञान पर मेरे 25 वर्षों का शोध

विवरण: भारतीय धर्म परंपराओं का एक बहुत बड़ा परन्तु अस्वीकृत योगदान मस्तिष्क विज्ञान के क्षेत्र में रहा है | इसमें मनोविज्ञान, संज्ञानात्मक विज्ञान, तंत्रिका विज्ञान, नैदानिक उपचार और मस्तिष्क का अध्यात्मविज्ञान सम्मिलित है | व्याख्यान कई पश्चिमी विद्वानों का एक संक्षिप्त सर्वेक्षण है जो अग्रदूतों के रूप में प्रसिद्ध हैं, परन्तु भारत से उनकी चोरी मुख्यतः अज्ञात है | इन व्यक्तियों में सम्मिलित हैं: फ्रायड, जुंग, केन विल्बर, स्टीफन बैचलर, ओवेन फ्लैगानन, जॉन कबाट-जिन्न, स्टीफन लाबर्गे, फ्रांसिस्को वरेला, केविन थॉम्पसन, सैम हैरिस, हर्ब बेन्सन, माइंड लाइफ इंस्टीट्यूट, टेम्पलटन फाउंडेशन, कैलिफोर्निया इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ इंटीग्रल स्टडीज, आदि |

[swaminityanandagiri]

I pray for a long life of Shri Rajivjee so that all these works he is doing are completed and new ones are undertaken, and a good team is trained.

[amrtadas]

Pranam sir. Im a western hindu from Brasil, hindutva supporter and student of Indian history and Vedic Hindu knowledge systems as Vedanta Yoga Vedanga Upaveda. Im a big fan of your work. Would love you have videos with subtitles in Portuguese and Spanish so can spread to south America audiences.

[Kapil_Abhi]

Rajiv ji deserves "bharat ratna"🙏❤

[dharamdadhichi]

I have never ever listened to such great intellect. There is no one as intelligent as Mr Rajiv Malhotra. He has gifted intellect. His works are way beyond excellence. His works will become backbone of India's resurgence and re-emergence as vishwaguru.

[albertomartingarcia]

As a Westerner (from Spain) I was well acquainted with many of the names, books, and US institutions, etc that Mr Malhotra has mentioned: Paul Tillich, J. Campbell, Heinrich Zimmer (great and credible Indologist), TM, the Bollinger Series - many of which I have read. Having immersed myself in Advait Vedanta for the past 20 years I consider myself fortunate in having discovered the lucid and important work of RM. Early on I realised the distortions and unclaimed borrowings of Freud and Jung from Indian sources. In my experience, however, things are raìdly changing in the West (at least for the past 10 yrs or more).Apart from Buddhism there is a growing interest in Advaita: new translations and publications, like Advaita.Info in Spain. I congratulate you all for having such a powerful and true teacher in your mist.

[sriramrajagopal]

Video breakdown:

Introduction message(0:00)
Rajiv ji's involvement in Indian Mind Sciences(0:12)
Difference between Appropriation and Digestion(3:25)
Digestion by Saussure(5:44)
Mining of Indian Mind Sciences and Current status of Indian civilizational ecosystem(7:50)
Digestion of Swami Vivekanand's influence on William James(10:03)
About Sigmund Freud(12:43)
Digestion by Jung(14:05)
Digestion of Shri Aurobindo's influence by California Institute of Integral Studies(23:20)
Digestion by Esalen(26:32)
Digetion by Ken Wilber(29:20)
Digestion by Herb Benson(31:03)
Digestion by Stephen LaBerge(36:57)
Digestion by Templeton Foundation(40:00)
Digestion of Buddhism(44:40)
Digestion by Mind Life Institute(50:30)
Digestion by Evan Thompson(52:40)
Digestion by Owen Flanagan(54:00)
Digestion by Stephen Batchelor(55:10)
Digestion by Consciousness Studies(57:53)
U-Turn theory(1:01:40)
Rajiv ji's study Methodology(1:05:24)
Opportunity to work with Rajiv ji(1:06:54)

[sanjoybose]

I am really becoming more confident on my history. No word of thanking Mr.Rajiv Malhotra. I would try my best to translate all those to Bangla to have more access. I don't know how to do it officially. May Isswar give him long life.

[AlgorithmicEchoes]

People interested in Indian psychology can look up 'Jadunath Sinha'. He wrote 3 volumes on Indian psychology in 1930s which are freely available for download today. It's mind blowing work that draws parallels with western psychology at the time and highlights western vs oriental differences in concepts. Sadly, his name is unknown because his thesis on history of Indian philosophy was stolen by his thesis reviewer and published as his own. He even filed a case in Calcutta high court against him but the reviewer went on to become a very powerful political personality. His name :Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.

[sam.aj.]

What Rajiv ji is doing is highly commendable. I fall short of words to appreciate his work, the amount of time, money and energy he has dedicated for this noble cause. To begin with his ideas should at least take off to the extent that people become aware of this trend.
We need to get back what is rightfully ours. And we need to put our backs into it.
God Bless you Rajiv ji 🙏

[bhavnasharma]

Being a psychology student I always felt the Indian connections and as soon as started practicing was sure about it
Ty sir for this brilliant work, let's respect our roots, privileged to be connected to you on this platform waiting for more .

[albertomartingarcia]

Having lived in the West all my life (as an MD and a student of Philosophy) I was fortunate in not having fallen for the water-downed or distorted views of Eastern philosophy and spirituality that Rajiv Ji speaks about. Often I realised that something was wrong, something missing as to the sources (like in the case of Jung, Freud, Joseph Campbell, etc.). Many years ago I wrote a short article ('What do we mean by Health?') in a Canadian Medical journal basing myself chiefly on Aristotle and the Bhagavad Gita. That was the beginning of my interest in India and Hindu philosophy. Would that I had discovered Rajiv's work and publications much earlier!

[utubetruthteller]

If 1% of Indians are familiar and having experienced in Indian philosophy and psychological reality findings then they will not only change India but will change the whole world.

[elderfitnatch]

Thank you for another enlightening talk. I had been aware of the Hindu influences on Jung et al, but your research has brought out the details in sharp relief. You are a great blessing to all who follow the Dharma.

[ashrathore]

I have been studying Rig Veda for quite sometime now...
I don't have the words to describe this feeling of betrayal
It's not just conciousness but cosmology, string theory, Unified field theory etc etc... Every thing originated, developed and matured from the digestion of Vedas .
Sir,
I'm glad that you are doing something to preserve our knowledge.
Your teachings will someday in the future help the Indians who have forsaken their identity, realise that by the virtue of their birth they are part of something greater than all the west combined.
Your lectures will become the guiding light for the next generation of Indians who seek enlightenment and knowledge.

Also, It's my humble request that you publically state how the west copied the principles of unified field theory from Rig Veda.
Michio kaku an eminent scientist in this field second to Stephen Hawking, is also doing the same process of digestion of Rig Veda
And he has indirectly influenced many physicists of this era.
Sir, please make a video on this also

[rajeshpatil-pelb]

Sir I am impressed by your Buddhist Studies. Being a Buddhist follower I appreciate your research and hard work regarding indology and buddhology. Thanks for video sharing.

[TELUGU_BLASTS]

What a greatest effort sir.. your are the icon of Indian intelligence..
Jai Bharat
Jai Hind

[username]

It makes my heart boil to see appropriation and digestion of Indian knowledge by the west. In this era of patent, and IPR, why we haven't been able to make our case?

[abc-def-ghi-ijk]

I am a researcher working on Brain and Mind.... I am so happy seeing your video...I feel sad about some of us who don't value their heritage and blindly believe on westernized concepts ..your videos are so insightful...looking forward to your works and books...

[shwetapannu]

Cannot put into words how important this is for us in India who need to be educated on this Indian contribution. Thank you for this effort and hard work Rajivji!

[Kapil_Abhi]

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