Anil K Rajvanshi
This is the podcast of Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf). He is currently the Director and Hon. Secretary of Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) (https://nariphaltan.org). He has more than 43 years of experience in renewable energy R&D and rural development. He did his B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur in 1972 and 1974 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mech. Engg. from University of Florida, Gainesville, USA in 1979. He was also on the faculty of University of Florida (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) for 2.5 years before returning to India in 1981 to work at NARI. Anil Rajvanshi is a spiritual engineer! A mechanical engineering graduate of IIT Kanpur in early 1970s he went to U.S. for higher studies. In a fit of madness and arrogance, he left a very lucrative career in U.S. and came back in 1981 to rural India thinking that he will change India! India did not change but he changed. In the process of developing renewable energy technologies for rural areas he discovered himself and the great spiritual traditions of India. He runs a small rural NGO called Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in Phaltan, Maharashtra and has a passion of writing articles on spirituality and rural development. His articles have been published in Times of India (Speaking Tree); Huffington Post and Thrive Global, South Asia Monitor and syndicated in various other News lines. He has 5 books to his credit and has written more than 250 articles on rural and sustainable development including the interface of spirituality and technology. He is passionate about teaching youngsters and gives inspirational lectures all over India and some abroad. His mantra is Spirituality + Technology = Happiness and lives in a simple and holistic way in rural India.
Episodes
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
This is an audio version of the booklet "Exploring Deep Science in Patanjali Yoga Sutras". https://nariphaltan.org/sutrascience.pdf
The booklet has been written by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) and was published in 2023.
This is a booklet on the deep science embedded in Patanjali Yoga Sutras. According to me Patanjali was a true scientist who gave the first knowledge about the control of thought and mind and about universal laws governing time and space. Unfortunately, till now none of the commentaries on Yoga Sutras have explored them through the lens of science. I feel this booklet will help overcome that lacuna.
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
This is an audio version (Part 2) of the booklet "Exploring Deep Science in Patanjali Yoga Sutras". https://nariphaltan.org/sutrascience.pdf
The booklet has been written by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) and was published in 2023.
This is a booklet on the deep science embedded in Patanjali Yoga Sutras. According to me Patanjali was a true scientist who gave the first knowledge about the control of thought and mind and about universal laws governing time and space. Unfortunately, till now none of the commentaries on Yoga Sutras have explored them through the lens of science. I feel this booklet will help overcome that lacuna.
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
This is an audio version (Part 1) of the booklet "Exploring Deep Science in Patanjali Yoga Sutras". https://nariphaltan.org/sutrascience.pdf
The booklet has been written by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) and was published in 2023.
This is a booklet on the deep science embedded in Patanjali Yoga Sutras. According to me Patanjali was a true scientist who gave the first knowledge about the control of thought and mind and about universal laws governing time and space. Unfortunately, till now none of the commentaries on Yoga Sutras have explored them through the lens of science. I feel this booklet will help overcome that lacuna.
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
My father late Shri. Jagdish Prasad Rajvanshi was a freedom fighter and was in Lucknow jail for 2.5 years during the 1942 freedom movement.
He wrote a book on his experiences in jail during that time. It was titled “Hawalaat” and was written in Hindi and published in 1947. This is an audio version of that book created by the team at Gaatha on Air. I am extremely grateful to them for creating it.
The book is out of print and there have been many requests by quite a number of readers who remembered reading it earlier on. I have digitized the book and put it on the net in 2018. nariphaltan.org/hawalaat.pdf
Shri. Jagdish Rajvanshi was born on 16 November 1918 and died on 4 March 2006. In 2018 November was his birth centenary. Putting this book on the net at that time was a small tribute to this remarkable man and an unsung hero of the freedom movement.
Shri. Jagdish Rajvanshi went to jail at a young age of 25 years. There were large number of such idealist youth who were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and left their careers and future and joined the freedom movement. How I wish such a movement to come back again so that we can get rid of poverty, ignorance and hatred towards our countrymen. That will be a true independence.
I have written quite a bit about my father in my many books. Readers are encouraged to read about him in my autobiography: http://nariphaltan.org/mylife.pdf
I will be delighted to receive a feedback and comments on this book.
Warm regards,
Anil K. Rajvanshi
Phaltan
September 2018
anilrajvanshi50@gmail.com
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
This is the audio book of the paperback published in 2008. The complete printed book is available at: https://nariphaltan.org/usexp.pdf
This is the story of a young idealistic student of IIT Kanpur who in 1974 at the age of 24 went to USA to pursue higher education. He left a very lucrative career in US to come back and work in rural India in 1981 and in the process of developing technologies for rural applications discovered himself.
Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) has written in an engaging and lively style the memoirs of his stay and experiences in America in 1970s. It is an inspiring story and should appeal to all Indians including non-resident Indians (NRIs) and students aspiring to go abroad and who want to come back and make a difference in India, especially the rural India.
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
This is the audio broadcast of the complete booklet entitled "What is Thought". The booklet has been written by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf)
Dr. Rajvanshi presents in this booklet a possible mechanism of neurobiological and physical basis of thought production and memory formation. And furthermore, a possible mechanism on how it is transmitted and its interaction with matter and gravity. I also speculate on the unexplored possibilities which might provide a detailed mathematical foundation of the nature of individual thought.
The full book is available at: https://nariphaltan.org/whatisthought.pdf
It contains links to all the research articles used in the book.
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
This is the audio version of the Preface and first section of the book "What is Thought" by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi.
The full book is available at this site.
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
I am happy to share the second and last part of this booklet in which I discuss the neurobiological basis on how thought can be transmitted and the use of the novel concept of quantum entanglement to describe how we can get knowledge and how thought can interact with gravity and matter. https://nariphaltan.org/thoughtpart2.pdf
Both these sections of the booklet provide an interesting inquiry into the nature of human thought and its interaction with the surroundings. After all, we are what we think! So the inquiry in these matters is fulfilling and interesting.
The first part is at: https://nariphaltan.org/thoughtpart1.pdf
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
In 2004 I wrote my first book entitled “Nature of Human Thought”. In it and in subsequent edition I tried to cover some ideas on how thought is formed and transmitted. The ideas were speculative in nature, but I tried my best, with the knowledge available at that time, to explain the mechanism of how thought could be formed in the brain and transmitted. The basic framework was explained but the details were missing.
Since then, I have thought a little more about the subject and I present in this booklet a possible mechanism on neurobiological basis of thought production and memory formation (Part 1). And furthermore, a mechanism on how it is transmitted and its interaction with matter and gravity (Part 2). I also speculate on the unexplored possibilities which might provide a detailed mathematical foundation of the nature of individual thought.
The full text of this podcast is here.
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Dr. Anil Rajvanshi has tried to show how technology guided by spirituality can lead to sustainability and happiness.
He feels that this is a new paradigm of development not only for India but for the world.
This can only take place if we can curb our greed. The podcast talks about the nature of greed and how through spirituality it can be tamed.
The transcript of talk is here.
Anil Rajvanshi
This is a podcast of Anil Rajvanshi. Most of these will be on the interplay of technology and spirituality. This is the theme of his work.