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.
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Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi presents a novel and unique description of Consciousness. Since time immemorial mankind has always wondered what is consciousness and where is it located in the brain. Some recent scientific discoveries may provide a possible answer. There are various definition of consciousness but the most accepted definition is “awareness”. Awareness is an outcome of thought.Dr. Rajvanshi presents a unique description of what is thought and where in the brain it is produced. The URL of this podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/whatisconsciousness.pdfAll these ideas of thought and consciousness have been dealt in details in Dr. Rajvanshi's book; "Nature of Human Thought". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBSo5WWW0-4
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
The true power of technology is achieved when it impacts the last mile. Listen to Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talk about how technology can be used to create a difference at the grassroot level and what it take to be the change you want to see in the world. This podcast has been recorded by Suraj Nair - a young researcher from Bangalore.Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anil-k-rajvanshi-580a9323/ Bio: https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/anilrajvanshi
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Throughout the history of human civilization there have been large number of instances where so called “miracles” have been performed. These have included levitation, production of material things from thin air, physical healing, etc. These events have come because of interaction of human thought and material surroundings. This podcast explores the possibilities on how human thought could interact with matter. Thus the nature of human thought, its characteristics and possibility of how it can interact with gravity and matter are explored. Novel concept of thought engine, existence of human thought in higher dimensions and its relationship with space, time and Universal Consciousness are discussed.The URL of this podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/mindmatterconjecture.pdfPlease look at this link for figures and further reading material
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talks about the neurobiological basis of ego and its possible location in the brain. With the knowledge of ancient Indian yoga system he tries to explain how possibly it can be tamed or controlled.The URL of this episode is at: https://nariphaltan.org/egotaming.pdf
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talks about his journey through the modern India and what it means to live in it. He traces his journey from Lucknow to USA and then to rural India and feels that India can again retain its glory if it practises its ancient spirituality together with modern technology. he feels that spirituality with modern technology should be the mantra of development.The URL of this podcast is at: https://www.nariphaltan.org/india@73.pdf
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Throughout the history of human civilization there have been large number of instances where so called “miracles” have been performed. These have included levitation, production of material things from thin air, physical healing, etc. The nature of these miracles is same, irrespective of religion and different civilizations. Some of their accounts have been exaggerated but a large body of information shows remarkable consistency in their nature and reporting. To my mind these events have come because of interaction of human thought and material surroundings. After all, a thought produced by physical brain has to be physical in nature and hence governed by scientific laws. Thus the curiosity arose about which laws of science operate to make these things happen. I have tried to explore these issues in my first book called “Nature of Human Thought” which was published in 2004 and its second edition in 2010. Recently I have written another book “Spirituality + Technology = Happiness” which extends and explores the issues of mind-matter interaction further.Besides I have been writing on these issues quite regularly in Times of India (Speaking Tree section); Huffington Post and recently in Thrive Global. All these essays are also available at one place in my writings.The ideas contained in the books and writings have evolved intermittently over a long period of time and have been written in a diary form and posted on the web. https://nariphaltan.org/thought.pdfI have been writing on these matters since 1977. Most of them are however intuitive and speculative in nature and hence are not exact in the formal sense. It is my hope that some bright reader will help in providing a rigorous formulation to some of them and do further research on these ideas. With this in mind I am doing a podcast on this issue and have included the link to the diary in the description of this podcast.https://nariphaltan.org/thought.pdf The URL of this podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/mindmatterpodcast.pdf
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
In this podcast Dr. Rajvanshi has shown how by simplifying life, so that we take care of our needs and not for our greed, can lead us to happiness. COVID lockdown showed that it is possible to reduce our needs but instead of being forced on us we should practise the reduction of needs through spirituality so that we can continue living in a sustainable lifestyle. This will be good for ourself and for the world.The URL of this episode is at: https://nariphaltan.org/covidspirituality.pdfIt was also published as an article in Thrive Global. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/practicing-spirituality-should-be-the-new-normal-in-post-covid-times/
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
In this podcast Dr Anil Rajvanshi suggests a possible mechanism of how to stop the unpleasant thoughts from affecting us. Basically he tells us how to create spam filter and that can happen when that memory is removed from the brain.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
This is a podcast on eulogy of my dear friend Shri K.C.Pant - the former Defence Minister of India. the URL of this podcast is: https://nariphaltan.org/pant.pdf
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
This is a short podcast about the lessons learned so far from the Corona virus lockdown in India. Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talks about how this gave a golden opportunity to look at better environment since the air and noise pollution was reduced drastically. He also talks about how to use the time of lock down gainfully. The url of the talk is at: https://nariphaltan.org/coronalessons.pdf
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.