Anil K Rajvanshi

Episode 131: Neurobiological Basis of Eureka Moments

All of us sometime or the other have experienced the Eureka moments or insights where suddenly the solution to a long-vexed problem emerges in a flash. Such eureka moments or sudden insights have been the basis of some of the greatest discoveries of this world.So curiosity arose how the brain produces such moments and insights and what is the neurobiological basis of it.The details with links are given in this article:  https://nariphaltan.org/eureka.pdf

Episode 130: World Needs Spirituality Now More Than Ever

In this podcast Dr. Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) talks about how spirituality gives us wisdom to use technology properly and also help us live sustainably. There is tremendous turmoil in the world.I believe it has to do with the tremendous insecurity that mankind faces. Increased population pressures, stress of daily life, increased expectations fueled by social media together with the need for instant gratification add to this insecurity. This, in turn, fuels the greed impulse and for some who have power and resources, this impulse is enhanced.One of the best ways to reduce greed and insecurity is by practicing spirituality. Greed is an outcome of the desire to possess. It is a part of the evolutionary process, and every human being wants to have resources for distressed times. In the absence of wisdom, this degenerates into hoarding impulse and greed. By practicing spirituality one can get the wisdom to understand that we should use things for our needs and not for our greed as Mahatma Gandhi once said.Read more at: https://nariphaltan.org/worldspirituality.pdf

Episode 129: Deep Science in Patanjali Yoga Sutras

Patanjali Yoga sutras, written almost 2500 years ago, are the earliest treatise on Yoga. In the book Sage Patanjali enunciates in a scientific manner how to control thought – a process which makes the mind powerful enough so that when it focuses on any subject its complete knowledge results.In this broadcast Dr. Rajvanshi shows the deep science of sutras and how they match what has been discovered now by science. It is really uncanny that Patanjali wrote about all these almost 2500 years ago.The URL of this talk is: https://nariphaltan.org/patanjaliscience.pdfAnd a YouTube lecture is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud9bL68TRbI

Episode 128: India and COP26 challenges

This is the broadcast of All India Radio interview given by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi on 13 November 2021. In this broadcast Dr. Rajvanshi discusses the challenges thrown by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in COP26 meeting and possible way we in India can meet them.He feels that the vision shown by Prime Minister is a doable goal provided we set in motion huge program in human resource development, reduction of our energy needs and out of box thinking in developing renewable energy resource technologies based on biomimicry.He also feels that this goal can be met by practicing the mantra of Spirituality + Technology = Happiness (https://nariphaltan.org/spiritech.pdf).

Episode 127: India’s philosophical, spiritual traditions can give a new direction to global sustainable development

In this podcast Dr. Rajvanshi talks about how the great spiritual tradions of India can show the world a new path of development.Thus instead of following the unsustainable growth example of the US and China, which is based on extreme greed and a very materialistic outlook, we should give the world a new direction of development where high technology is guided by spiritualityRead more at: https://www.southasiamonitor.org/spotlight/indias-philosophical-spiritual-traditions-can-give-new-direction-global-sustainable

Episode 126: Science of Patanjali Yoga Sutras - Was Patanjali an Ancient Astronaut?

In this audio Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) talks about how modern science and yoga sutras are similar. He also talks about the experiences of UFO abductees who talk about the supernatural powers exhibited by extraterrestrials which is exactly what Patanjali wrote 2500 years ago. The similarity is really uncanny.Dr. Rajvanshi has written about this issue in many published articles.https://www.southasiamonitor.org/open...https://nariphaltan.org/patanjali.pdfHis writings on spirituality and similar topics are available at: https://nariphaltan.org/writings.htmSHOW LESS

Episode 125: What is Memory? - Its Formation and Removal

In this talk Dr. Rajvanshi describes the possible mechanism of memory formation in the brain and how the time and sequencing is buried in them. He also talks about where it could be stored and what is the mechanism by which unpleasant memories could be removed to make our lives better and happier.This is an interesting talk and makes one think about the underlying processes in the brain. The URL of this talk is at: https://nariphaltan.org/memoryformation.pdf

Episode 124: Dr. Anil Rajvanshi’s interview on All India Radio

This is the interview of Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi on the new Engineering policy laid out by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). This policy states that for engineering college entrance it is not necessary for students to know Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. They can come from any stream and in the college they can take bridge courses.Dr. Rajvanshi states that this policy was dictated more from commercial point of view rather than any solid reasons.

Episode 123: Touched by Light - A conjecture on how thought and gravity maybe related

In late 1977 I was walking through a thick pine-grove in Gainesville, Florida, USA when suddenly a thought came out of blue that gravity and human thought may be related.I was not thinking about this relationship or anything connected to gravity at that time, and hence was taken aback by this thought and felt that it must be true since it came with such a force. The power of this thought was such that I spent next 3-4 months researching it and, in the process, neglected my Ph.D. research. I also felt that pine-grove acted as an antenna for getting such a thought. This event also propelled me to start investigating the area of mind-matter interaction and other aspects of spirituality. In fact, whatever little I have done within this realm in the last 40 years was triggered by this single thought.Though I understood intuitively the import of this thought at that time and even today, somehow the relationship between deep human thought and gravity has remained elusive. Recently it appeared that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel! And this podcast is my humble attempt to show how the human thought and gravity may be related. The article was published in Thrive Global. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/touched-by-light-a-conjecture-on-how-gravity-and-human-thought-maybe-related/

Episode 122: Tribute to One of My Heroes - Albert Einstein

14th March is the birth anniversary of Albert Einstein. He has been one of my heroes and I have been inspired by his work and his life. So I thought of paying my small tribute to him.Millions of words and thousands of books have already been written about him so what I am stating in this essay may not be anything new but for few anecdotes from people whom I knew.I have always considered Einstein to be an extremely evolved human being and in my judgment, he occupies the same stature as Buddha, Christ and other great figures of history who have given mankind a new thought and have helped in its progress and evolution. Such people are few and far between but come to this planet earth to give a quantum jump to mankind’s thought.The article on it was published in Thrive Global. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/one-of-my-heroes-albert-einstein/The URL is at: https://nariphaltan.org/einstein.pdf