Anil K Rajvanshi

Anil K Rajvanshi

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Anil K Rajvanshi episodes

  • Romance of Innovation - R&D is Fun

    This is the podcast of the talk given by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) at Tata Innovation Center, Pune on 12 August 2026. The URL of slides is at: https://nariphaltan.org/tctalk.pdf

     

    The talk centered around the methodology developed by Irving Langmuir and his team at General Electric to do industrial R&D. That methodology developed in early 1910s and 20s in US is still valid and should provide the guiding principles in all Corporate R&D activities.

     

    Dr. Rajvanshi has written many articles on this theme. https://nariphaltan.org/langmuir.pdf

    And https://www.nariphaltan.org/langmuirrural.pdf 

    40 min
  • Understanding Death: Memory, Pain, and Easing the Fear of the Inevitable

    Death is inevitable, but this episode reframes it as a physical process—rooted in the brain, body, and cellular systems—and explains how fear grows from losing identity, the unknown, and the anticipation of pain. Drawing on neuroscience, near-death reports, cellular memory hints, and dying-brain activity, it shows how understanding physiology can soften terror.

    Practical takeaways: better pain management, emotional resilience, and wisdom in daily life can reduce suffering and help us meet death with more dignity; in short, the best preparation for dying may be learning how to live more fully.

    This is a podcast of Dr. Anil Rajvanshi's (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) article "What is Death and Can we reduce its pain". The url of the article is at: https://nariphaltan.org/fearofdeath.pdf 

    22 min
  • The Body’s Self-Healing Marvel: Homeostasis, Mind, and Inner Shielding

    Explore how the living body is an adaptive, self-regulating system that seeks balance—healing itself through homeostasis and a deep link to its environment. The episode connects modern biology with traditional wisdom to show why maintaining equilibrium is central to health.

    Learn practical steps to support self-healing: embrace natural variation, practice breath and meditation to calm physiology, and build psychological resilience to reduce stress. The takeaway: by tuning our bodies and minds to the world, we can strengthen natural repair and transform our relationship with health.

    This is the podcast from Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) The URL of this podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/healingbody.pdf 

    9 min
  • Ancient Yoga as Engineering: Biophysics, Consciousness, and a Bold Future

    Podcast of the book review. Deep Science in Ancient Indian Philosophical Thought (https://nariphaltan.org/dsbook.pdf) .

    Mechanical engineer Anil K. Rajvanshi reads the Yoga Sutras and other Indian texts as technical documents, proposing that disciplined attention acts as an internal instrument to reveal physical mechanisms of mind, from thermodynamics to quantum ideas.

    He advances provocative hypotheses—biophoton-based holograms, thought-solitons, and pranayama as a fluid-dynamics intervention—framing meditation as entropy reduction and a tool for scientific insight; speculative in parts, the book reframes contemplative practice as actionable engineering for cognition and sustainability.

    19 min
  • Review of Anil Rajvanshi's book Deep Science in Indian Thought

    Episode walkthrough of Deep Science in Ancient Indian Philosophical Thought (https://nariphaltan.org/dsbook.pdf) by Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi: an engineer’s provocative project to translate yogic sutras into neurobiology, thermodynamics and quantum ideas.

    The book frames ancient practices as engineered instruments—Samyama as a laboratory, prana as inhaled nanoparticles, and thought as holographic biophoton patterns—while tying meditation to entropy reduction, vagal regulation and practical mental hygiene.

    Speculative moves—soliton-based telepathy, extraterrestrial seeding and quantum coherence in warm brains—push beyond mainstream evidence, but the episode argues the book’s real value is methodological: a synthesis that treats inner training as a research tool and a social lever for sustainability, offering actionable paradigms for fear of death, attention training, and combining spirituality with technology.

    19 min
  • Ancient Yoga as Science? A Critical Look at Rajvanshi’s Deep Science Book

    Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi’s Deep Science in Ancient Indian Philosophical Thought reads sutras like schematics, proposing that texts such as the Yoga Sutras and the Upanishads encode technical insights into neurobiology, thermodynamics, and even quantum phenomena. Trained as an engineer and practical inventor, Rajvanshi reframes practices—like Samyama and pranayama—as instruments and optimization methods, offering testable physiological mappings and bold but speculative ideas (biophoton holograms, thought-solitons, and even extraterrestrial seeding).

    Whether you accept his physics or not, the book’s strongest contributions are practical: a thermodynamic model of meditation, physiology-focused interpretations of yogic techniques, and a development thesis linking inner regulation with sustainable technology. Read with curiosity and a skeptical filter, this provocative synthesis challenges disciplinary boundaries and suggests the inner life might be engineered alongside machines.

    20 min
  • Deep Science in Ancient Indian Philosophical thought

    This is the podcast on Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi's eighth book "Deep Science in Ancient Indian Philosophical Thought". The URL of this book is  at: https://nariphaltan.org/deep-science-indian-thought.pdf

    The book is an attempt to show deep science embedded in ancient Indian Philosophical books. India has produced some of the greatest spiritual thought of mankind. The ancient spiritual thought was very scientific in nature and based on deep inquiry of truth. The Upanishads, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Bhagwat Gita., etc., are part of that great tradition.


    As an engineer I have always looked at the scriptures and ancient Indian philosophical thought from a scientific point of view. The spirit of enquiry and my scientific training have helped me in this pursuit.

    As I have read deeply in some of the scriptures (it is not possible to delve in all of them – one lifetime is not enough for such an exercise), I have found some scientific gems in them and those I have highlighted in the book. The starting point has been Patanjali Yoga Sutras (PYS). The science embedded in them is really remarkable and it has been very enjoyable to study them.

     

    13 min
  • Can we reduce the fear of death?

    Hello. My name is Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) and today I will talk about death and how to reduce fear of death.

    Death is the most certain thing for any living entity and yet we know so little about it.  It may come earlier or later in life but the inevitable always happens. Yet we carry out our actions and behave as if we are immortal and death does not enter our scheme of things. In a way that maybe a good thing because the fear of death may not allow us to be bold enough to do lots of things in life. Nevertheless, if we understand death then we will really understand life, and this will help us to live it fruitfully and happily and not be afraid when the end comes.

     

    Death is a very physical process and is the final shutdown of the life process leading to the exit of the “self” or memory from the body. Hence, I felt that it should be governed by physical, physiological and neurobiological laws. If we understand these laws, then I feel the fear and pain of death could be reduced. This curiosity and thinking has led to this discussion.

     

    The link to the article is here.

    https://nariphaltan.org/fearofdeath.pdf

     

    Will greatly your feedback

    32 min
  • My Vision of India

    I think all thinking Indians who love this great country have a vision for its future.  Most think about it but very few write it down.  Naturally that vision is dictated by their existing circumstances, their history and the forces acting on them at the time when they write the vision document.

     

    Same is with me and what I have given in this podcast is a distillation of all my work and dreams that I have for India. I have written quite a few articles earlier on my vision of India, but they have been on broad general lines. This podcast hopefully presents a road map of India of my dreams.     

     

    This podcast is based on the article " My vision of India". https://nariphaltan.org/indiavision.pdf

    20 min
  • Why we Sleep and Dream?

    Sleep and dream are still the two major mysteries of the brain. Since time immemorial mankind has been intrigued as to why we sleep and what is the nature of dreams.

    Various theories exist about the sleep process. We spend almost one third of our life sleeping. There must be a good reason why nature makes us sleep for this much time. Now slowly but surely scientific investigations are unraveling this puzzle.

    In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) tries to explain the science of sleep and dreams.

    The article on which this podcast is based is at: https://nariphaltan.org/sleepanddream.pdf 

    15 min

About Anil K Rajvanshi

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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.