Some Realistic and Analytically Viable Applications of VedicWisdom in Modern Research Contexts

Abstract

This paper focuses on down-to-earth applications of Vedic wisdom in various research fields rather than on its glorification aspect. The applications of this grand wisdom are demonstrated in various disciplines of knowledge. It is the same stitching thread of wisdom of Srimad Bhagvad-Gita (SMBG) that stitches these apparently different applications. The subject of psychophysics, propounded by psychologist G.T. Fechner about 160 years ago and presently considered as dead, is now investigated in its new incarnation. The patomic (philosophical atom-type) model of human Being so derived is shown to have far reaching consequences with regard to the clarity of this wisdom. With a view to understand human interactions and relations at the most fundamental level, this model is further employed to develop the subject of psychochemistry more on the lines of atomic and molecular chemistry. An explanation of the human tendency, namely “do less and accomplish more” is sought by way of formulating, the so-called ‘the principle of minimum effort’ in analogy with the ‘principle of least action’ in physics. Some possible and plausible modifications in the personality theory of Carl Jung are investigated in detail in the light of patomic model. Several realistic and viable modifications suggested in this theory, in fact, take it now towards perfection in the sense that one can now easily trace the ‘spiritual content’, if exists, in a personality.